Worktape

Songwriters live in two apps at once: lyrics in Notes or Google Docs, rough recordings in Voice Memos — a fragmented, messy workflow with no structure and no library. Worktape set out to fix that by pulling the lyric editor and the audio recorder into a single tool built around how songwriters actually work. The name comes from the craft itself: a "worktape" is the rough demo cut at the end of a co-writing session, the thing that gets sent to a publisher or pitched to an artist. They came to us for the whole thing — the name's identity, the brand, and a real, maintainable, multi-platform product.

• Built the Worktape brand from the ground up — logo, the waveform mark, wordmark, and the dark, warm-orange-accented visual language that runs across the app.
• Designed and developed the full-stack app — Next.js, TypeScript, and Firebase for auth, data, and storage — with everything custom-built rather than bolted together from a component library.
• Created a structured lyric editor with named song sections, drag-to-reorder, a toggleable chord overlay, and an alternate-lyrics feature for swapping word and line variants in place.
• Engineered a complete in-app recorder from native browser audio — waveform display, punch-in and punch-in/out re-recording, mic selection, and takes saved straight to each song.
• Added the tools songwriters actually want: a near-rhyme finder, an AI writing assistant with full song context, one-click sharing with real-time co-writing, and export to PDF, Word, Markdown, and more.
• Shipped to mobile through Capacitor, with the iOS build running and the recording core written to plug into native targets without a rewrite.

Worktape launched as one cohesive product — a brand and an app delivered together. Songwriters get a single home for every idea, from first line to finished worktape, with the messy two-app shuffle replaced by one organized library built for the craft.