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Turn music into moving art on Mac, iPhone and iPad. Explore 40 scenes across 8 styles, from quiet lines to liquid metal. On Mac, put visuals behind your desktop icons or connect a projector for listening to records. Mac supports system audio and microphone input; iPhone and iPad use the microphone. Available on the App Store, with a direct Mac download too. Wave plus one scene of your choice are free forever. Unlock all scenes for $19.99 once. No subscription.
PH · launched Sep 19, 2026 · 2 upvotes (top 26%) · 0 views
Niche: music visualizer software · 39 launches, 2 in the last 7 days ▼ -71% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Content generation
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Music
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More like this: all 39 launches in music visualizer software →
Could you build this?
Partial Building low-latency macOS system audio capture and custom DSP filtering alongside 40 high-performance, real-time 60fps Metal/GLSL generative shader scenes requires specialized graphics and audio engineering.
What it would actually take: The architecture requires a native Swift macOS/iOS application interfacing with ScreenCaptureKit and CoreAudio HAL for system audio loopback, passing buffers through an Accelerate/vDSP pipeline for real-time FFT frequency binning. The rendering layer needs a custom Metal/MetalKit engine executing complex fragment and compute shaders (such as raymarching and fluid dynamics) that react to audio bands without dropping frames. The hard parts are writing dozens of aesthetically sophisticated shaders and maintaining zero-latency audio analysis without high CPU/GPU battery drain.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 1277 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #420 of 1278 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 325 days after the earliest competitor.
- BeatAlive · ph · 2026-10-22 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.60
- Music Visualizer · ph · 2026-11-12 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- Sonic Weaver · ph · 2026-10-03 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- SoundBloom: Music Visualiser · ph · 2026-10-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.56
- Flowsona · ph · 2026-11-11 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.55
- Filmstro PRO for Mac · ph · 2026-10-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Ambertone · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.54
- Vinyl · hn · 2026-08-03 · 8 upvotes · similarity 0.54
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