FlipSide: Music Cover Widget

Finally, a Now Playing widget built for your flip’s cover screen!

FlipSide shows whatever you’re listening to right on the cover screen: as a spinning cassette, as cover art, or as a clean full-size picture with your controls on top. One widget for all your music, podcast and media.

MADE FOR THE COVER SCREEN
FlipSide was designed from the ground up for the small outer screen of flip phones: sized to fill it, with big controls you can tap with the phone closed. Check what’s playing, skip, pause and seek without ever opening your phone.

THREE LOOKS
Tape: a see-through cassette whose reels turn while you listen and whose spools grow as the song goes, over a brushed-aluminium deck.
Cover Art: the album or episode cover, big, over a soft blurred backdrop.
Clean: the cover itself, sharp and edge to edge, with the title, times and keys right on top.
Tap the widget to switch between looks.

THE RIGHT LOOK FOR EACH APP
FlipSide remembers the look you pick for each app, or you can set each one yourself with one wheel per app in presets.

THE TAPE ACTUALLY WINDS
As your song or episode plays, the tape moves from the left reel to the right, just like a real cassette. The emptier reel even spins faster than the full one. Pause, and everything stops exactly where it is. Skip or jump, and the reels whizz round.

YOUR TRACK, HAND-LABELLED
The title is marker-written on a strip of tape stuck to the cassette, in Hebrew, Arabic and Cyrillic handwriting too.

15-SECOND SKIP, EVEN ON SPOTIFY
Spotify and many music apps don’t have skip-ahead or skip-back buttons of their own. FlipSide adds them anyway: jump 15 seconds forward or back in any song, right from the cover screen.

LIGHT AND PRIVATE
FlipSide goes completely idle when you pause, and runs light while playing: the reels spin with your screen’s own animation, and nothing is redrawn for a screen that’s off. It only looks at what’s playing, never at your messages or other notifications, and your music info never leaves your phone.

Works with Spotify, Pocket Casts, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Audible, SoundCloud, Deezer, Tidal, YouTube, VLC and pretty much any other music or podcast app. Built and tested on a flip phone’s cover screen, and it also works as a regular home screen widget.

TRY IT FREE
FlipSide is free to try for 3 days. After that, a one-time unlock keeps it working for good, with no subscription and no ads.