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title: "Music Visualizer & Audio Visualizer, Free | audiogram.video"
description: "Make a music visualizer video from any song: spectrum bars, a ring around your album art or a spinning record, exported as a 1080p MP4. Free, no watermark."
url: https://audiogram.video/music-visualizer
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Free · no watermark · in your browser

# Free music visualizer and audio visualizer

Add a song and its artwork, choose how the sound moves on screen and export an MP4 for YouTube, Shorts or Reels. It all runs in your browser.

A music visualizer turns a song into moving pictures: bars, rings or lines that rise and fall with the sound, usually around the track’s artwork. Open a song above and the studio draws one straight away on the **Visualiser** template, with your album art in the middle and a ring of movement around it.

This is a visualiser you save, not one that only plays on your screen. Press **Export** and you get an MP4 with the song inside, ready for YouTube, an artist page or a Reel. The song and artwork are processed in your browser, and the video has no watermark. If you are wondering whether a visualiser is the right thing to post at all, [what a visualizer is, and how it differs from a music video](https://audiogram.video/what-is-a-visualizer) covers that first.

## How to make a music visualizer

1. ### Open the song
**Landscape** (16:9) is selected for YouTube. Press **Choose a song** (Ctrl+O or ⌘+O) and pick an MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A or other audio file. A music video file works too; only its sound is used.
2. ### Choose how the sound moves
The **Wave** panel opens first. **Bars** follow the frequencies in the music, **Ring** circles the artwork, **Mirror** and **Wave** are smooth shapes, and **Scope** draws the real waveform. Adjust **Size**, **Sensitivity** and **Detail** until it feels right.
3. ### Add the artwork and names
In **Text**, press **Cover art** and pick the single or album cover; the colours change to match it. Put the song name in **Title** and the artist in **Show or speaker**.
4. ### Cover the whole song
Songs longer than 75 seconds open on their liveliest 30 seconds. Drag **Clip start** to the beginning and **Clip end** to the finish on the timeline (up to 10 minutes), then press **Space** to play it through.
5. ### Export the video
Press **Export**, choose **1080p** and **60 fps** for the smoothest movement, then **Export video** and **Download video**.

## The visualiser styles, and what each one reacts to

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.

## Templates built for songs

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.

## Getting a song ready for YouTube, Shorts and Reels

* **YouTube:** keep **Landscape** at **1080p**. A full song of up to 10 minutes fits in one video. The [upload guide](https://audiogram.video/upload-mp3-to-youtube) 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](https://audiogram.video/wav-to-mp4) has more on keeping the quality.

## Making a visualiser by hand instead

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](https://audiogram.video/audio-visualizer-davinci-resolve) and [in Premiere Pro and After Effects](https://audiogram.video/audio-visualizer-premiere-pro). For a voice recording rather than a song, the [audio waveform visualizer](https://audiogram.video/audio-waveform-visualizer) page shows the styles that suit speech.

## Music visualizer: frequently asked questions

### How do I make a music visualizer for YouTube?

Open the song with **Landscape** selected, add the artwork under **Text**, pick a style in **Wave**, drag the timeline handles to cover the whole track, then export at **1080p**. Upload the MP4 in YouTube Studio like any other video.

### Is this audio visualizer free, and is there a watermark?

It is free, with no watermark, no sign-up and no limit on how many videos you make. The only limit is 10 minutes per video.

### Can it play a visualiser live while I listen?

No. It makes a video file to post or share. You can preview it in the studio with sound, but it doesn’t attach to Spotify, a media player or a live stream.

### Does the visualizer react to the beat?

It reacts to the sound itself. **Bars** follow the frequencies, so bass hits and bright cymbals light up different bars, while the smoother styles follow the overall loudness. **Sensitivity** controls how strongly they move.

### Which audio files can I use?

MP3, WAV, FLAC, M4A, AAC, OGG and Opus open directly, and AIFF and WMA are converted on your device first. You can also open a video file and use its sound.

### Is my song uploaded anywhere?

No. The song and the artwork stay on your device while the visualiser is drawn and encoded. Captions are off for music, and the only feature that ever sends sound away, **Make captions**, does so only when you press it.

### Can I make a vertical visualizer for Reels or TikTok?

Yes. Choose **Vertical** on the start card or in **Templates**, and keep the clip to the best part of the song. The [podcast clips page](https://audiogram.video/podcast-clips) has more on vertical safe areas.

## More ways to turn sound into video

* [ Free audiogram maker Turn a recording into a video with a moving wave, cover art and captions. ](https://audiogram.video/)
* [ Audio waveform visualizer Nine sound wave styles for speech, from a smooth line to an oscilloscope. ](https://audiogram.video/audio-waveform-visualizer)
* [ What a visualizer is (and isn’t) Visualizers versus music videos, official visualizers, and when artists use each. ](https://audiogram.video/what-is-a-visualizer)
* [ Convert WAV to MP4 Song masters and mixes to MP4, with your levels left alone. ](https://audiogram.video/wav-to-mp4)
* [ Audio visualizer in DaVinci Resolve Beat-synced pulses, Fusion fuses and templates, or importing a ready-made visualiser. ](https://audiogram.video/audio-visualizer-davinci-resolve)
* [ Audio visualizer in Premiere Pro and After Effects After Effects’ Audio Spectrum and Waveform, templates, and when to import instead. ](https://audiogram.video/audio-visualizer-premiere-pro)