Free music visualizer and audio visualizer

Every style in the Wave panel is drawn from your song as it plays, but they listen to different things. Picking the right one is mostly about the music.

• Bars split the sound into frequencies, from bass to treble, and give each its own bar: a classic spectrum. Busy, layered music looks best here.
• Ring wraps the movement around round artwork. It is what the Visualiser and Halo templates use.
• Mirror and Wave are soft, symmetrical shapes that swell with the loudness. They suit ambient, acoustic and spoken tracks.
• Scope draws the actual waveform, like an oscilloscope. It looks lively on synths and electronic music.
• Seek bar shows the whole clip’s waveform filling up as it plays: calm, and useful when listeners want to know how long is left.
• Dots and Pulse are simple, playful shapes; None removes the movement for a plain cover video.

Size, Sensitivity and Detail

Size makes the shape bigger or smaller in the frame. Sensitivity sets how strongly it reacts: lower it for a loud, heavily mastered track that keeps everything at the top, raise it for a quiet piano piece. Detail sets how many bars, dots or points make up the shape. Fewer, wider bars read better on a phone screen.

Open Templates to try other looks with your own artwork and title already in place. Each thumbnail is drawn with your song’s details, so you see the real result before you choose.

• Visualiser: round album art in the centre with movement all around it, over a dark, blurred copy of the cover.
• Vinyl: your cover becomes the label of a spinning record. Popular for singles, lo-fi and anything with a warm, analogue feel.
• Player: a floating now-playing card over the blurred cover, with the time running.
• Halo and Pulse: rings that breathe with the sound; Pulse uses bright, clean colours instead of the artwork.
• Split: artwork on one half of the frame, bars and words on the other. Good for a lyric line or two in captions.

Under Style, Match cover art pulls the colours back from the artwork if you have changed them, and Cover art moves with the voice makes the cover pulse gently with the music.

• YouTube: keep Landscape at 1080p. A full song of up to 10 minutes fits in one video. The upload guide walks through YouTube Studio and Content ID.
• Shorts, Reels and TikTok: switch the format to Vertical in Templates and use the best 30 to 60 seconds, usually the hook or chorus. Press G to see where the apps place their buttons.
• Instagram feed: Portrait (4:5) takes up more of the screen than square.

Leave a finished master alone

The Audio panel’s Even out the volume is designed to lift quiet speech. A mastered song is already at the level you chose, so switch it off for music. While you are there, set Fade in to 0 if the song starts on a hit, and keep a short Fade out only if you are cutting the song before its real ending. Working from a WAV or FLAC rather than an MP3? The WAV to MP4 page has more on keeping the quality.

If you already edit in a desktop program, you can build a visualiser yourself with more control over every shape, at the cost of time. There are guides for audio visualizers in DaVinci Resolve and in Premiere Pro and After Effects. For a voice recording rather than a song, the audio waveform visualizer page shows the styles that suit speech.