The new cassette application transforms your videos into movies at retro and VHS home

The desire for nostalgia to watch movies at home, as in VHS days, but stuck with all your personal videos recorded on an iPhone? Of course, you can broadcast them on television, but the experience is not the same. This struggle inspired the Devin Davies developer to create CassetteA new iOS application that reads videos in a format similar to VHS, which means that your iPhone videos feel more like old home records.

To use the application, you “load” one of the strips presented on the screen by selecting the videos of the year you want to display. The videos are labeled with what looks like handwritten stickers with the year attached to the VHS band cover.

You can then watch your life take place on the screen without any other interaction required on your part.

This Lean Back experience has a new way of consuming the media you have recorded on your device, which is often left without sight after the initial recording.

The idea of Cassette was invited by the friend of Davies and colleague of applications Charlie ChapmanWho is also a principal income defender, a platform that helps developers of mobile applications to manage integrated purchases and subscriptions. Chapman complained in a group group on the way watching movies at home as a family today was simply not the same as before looking at old family video bands.

He said he wanted there to be a way to broadcast video on television and have immediately played them one after the other.

Davies, better known for its prime recipe application CroutonSautéed on the idea, hacking a cassette from a personalized slideshow application he had made for Apple TV. He then shared a test construction with the group cat.

“I am not making fun of you, all the group cat had this deep experience with our partners where we stayed up all night looking at our children grow up before our eyes,” Chapman told Techcrunch. “I have never experienced” made the product market “, or as you want to call it, like that before,” he said.

The application itself offers an intelligent and simple design, where you are presented with rows of VHS bands, in all their retro splendor. You press one to “load it” practically in the TV icon at the top of the iPhone screen to start reading the video. With Airplay, you can also reflect your device on a TV to watch the full experience play on the big screen.

The videos themselves include a location, date and horoding displayed in a retro pixel font that resembles the old walls used on VHS strips. (Even if you are too young to remember VHS cassettes, see old videos in this format draws the strings of the heart. It could be because old homemade films are always regularly referenced in modern films and television shows during moments and sentimental scenes.)

In practice, there were challenges that the application still has to overcome.

If you are used to downloading online videos, such as tiktoks or coils, they will appear among your “home movies”. However, Davies tells Techcrunch that the filter application already the screen recordings, and he is now looking to see if Tiktok videos could also be filtered.

To support its development, Cassette Offers an optional premium subscription (nicknamed “Colorplus”) which allows users to manually select a VHS band instead of asking the application a random video. It costs $ 0.99 per month, or $ 5.99 per year. There is also an affordable unlock for $ 7.99, which can greatly contribute to supporting independent projects like this.

Application is a Free download for iPhone and iPad.