Backgrounds that react to the music
Every one of the 53 animated backgrounds has a reactivity slider. Turn it up and the background pulses with the bass behind your visualizer. Leave it at zero for a slow drift that keeps the focus on the bars.
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Make a music visualizer video from your song
Upload an MP3 or WAV, pick one of 17 music visualizer styles, and set it over a background that moves with the beat. Add synced lyrics in the same project, then export for YouTube, TikTok or Reels.
Free preview. Full-length exports need a paid plan.
Live previews
All 17 music visualizer styles
Every preview below runs on the same renderer as the editor, over one of the 53 animated backgrounds. Pick a style to see it large in the carousel above.
Thin bars that grow up and down from a centre line. New projects start with this one.
Dense bars with peak caps that hang for a moment and fall, over a faint reflection.
A row of rounded bars, tallest in the middle and tapering to dots at the edges. Easy to read on a phone.
A denser row of thin bars that rise and fall together as one wave.
A line of dots riding up and down, one for each frequency band of the spectrum.
A row of soft orbs that swell with the beat.
A circular audio visualizer. Layered rings bulge outward with the bass, mids and highs.
Bass in the middle, highs fanning out to both sides. Kicks read as a burst from the centre.
One filled ribbon that swells and settles with the music.
Soft overlapping waves, highs at the back and bass in front, drifting slowly.
The waveform itself, like an oscilloscope, drawn as a glowing line with a short afterglow.
Bars around a ring, open in the middle where your cover art can sit.
A smooth ring that sends ripples outward on every hit.
A grid of lights like a hardware equalizer, with up to 40 columns.
The last second of audio stacked into a landscape of lines, newest in front.
A blob that wobbles and swells with the bass, with two soft echoes behind it.
Loudness scrolling past a playhead, the format podcasts use for clips on social.
Three steps
How to make a music visualizer video
- 1
Upload your song
Add an MP3, WAV, M4A or OGG file. Capify measures the audio for every frame of the video, so each bar and ring moves with the real kick, snare and vocal.
- 2
Pick a style and a background
Choose one of 17 visualizer styles and one of 53 animated backgrounds, or use your own photo or video. Set the colour or a gradient, the bar count, and how hard it reacts.
- 3
Preview, then export
Play it back in your browser before anything renders. Export 1080p in 16:9 for YouTube, or 9:16 for TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts. Creator Pro adds 4K.
Add synced lyrics to the visualizer
Capify started as a lyric visualizer. It transcribes your vocals and times each word, so synced lyrics can sit right above the visualizer. If it mishears a line, you fix it in the lyric editor.
Put a visualizer on your own video
Use performance footage, a music video or your cover art as the background. Drag the visualizer anywhere on the frame and resize it. Sunburst and Halo leave space in the middle for artwork. To add words over footage too, see add lyrics to video.
Trusted by 100,000+ artists
Independent artists, labels and producers make their release videos on Capify. Some of those songs end up on the global charts.
- Artists
- 100k+
- Visualizer styles
- 17
- Animated backgrounds
- 53
Your audio drives every frame
Capify does not generate stock footage or guess at your song. The visualizer is drawn from the frequencies in your audio, 30 times a second, and you choose every style, colour and word that ends up in the video.
AI for the slow parts, you for the rest
AI handles the tedious work, like transcribing lyrics and timing each word to the vocal. You can change anything it does before you export.
Who it is for
Who makes music visualizers on Capify
Independent artists
A release-day video for YouTube and a 9:16 cut for TikTok and Reels, made from the same project with the lyrics on screen.
Producers and beatmakers
An instrumental has no lyrics to look at, so the visualizer does the work. Skyline, LED Matrix and Ridgeline suit drum-heavy tracks.
Podcasters
The Audiogram style scrolls a clip past a playhead, the format most shows use to share a moment on social media.
Pricing
Audio visualizer questions
How do I make an audio visualizer video?
Upload your song to Capify, open Visuals, and pick one of the 17 visualizer styles. Choose a background, set the colour, and drag the visualizer where you want it in the frame. Play the preview, then export the video.
Can I make a music visualizer for free?
You can build and preview a visualizer video for free. Exporting the full-length video needs a paid plan. The plans and their prices are listed on this page.
Is Capify an AI music visualizer?
The visualizer is drawn straight from your audio, so it follows the song instead of guessing at it. AI does two jobs around it. It transcribes your vocals and times every word, and Song Assistant can set the visualizer style, colour and position when you describe what you want. Song Assistant needs a free account.
Do I need Premiere Pro or After Effects to make an audio visualizer?
No. Capify runs in your browser, so there is no template or plugin to install. Upload the song, pick a style, and the visualizer is already synced to the audio. To finish the video in Premiere Pro, export it from Capify and import the file.
Is an audio visualizer the same as a music visualizer?
Yes. Both names describe animation drawn from a sound file, usually bars, waves or rings that move with the audio. "Music visualizer" is the more common name when the audio is a song, and "audiogram" when it is a podcast.
Does the visualizer react to my actual song?
Yes. Capify splits your audio into frequency bands for every frame, so the low bars follow the bass and kick and the high ones follow hats and vocals. Nothing is looped or faked, and a quiet intro looks quiet.
Can I add an audio visualizer to an existing video?
Yes. Upload your footage as the background in Visuals, then place and resize the visualizer on top of it. The song you uploaded drives the animation.
Can I add lyrics to a music visualizer?
Yes. Capify transcribes your vocals and times every word, so synced lyrics can sit above or below the visualizer in the same video. You can correct any word or timing in the lyric editor before you export.
What size should a visualizer video be for TikTok, Reels and YouTube?
Use 9:16 at 1080 × 1920 for TikTok, Instagram Reels and YouTube Shorts, and 16:9 at 1920 × 1080 for a regular YouTube upload. Capify lets you switch between the two in the editor.
Can I turn an MP3 into a visualizer video?
Yes. Capify accepts MP3, WAV, M4A and OGG files, and the visualizer follows the file you upload.
Can I change how the visualizer looks?
Each style has its own sliders, such as bar count, ring size or line thickness, plus how strongly it reacts. You can set a single colour or a gradient and turn the drop shadow on or off.
What is an audiogram?
An audiogram is a short clip of audio shown as a moving waveform, often used to share podcast moments on social media. Capify has an Audiogram style that scrolls the loudness of the audio past a playhead.
Make a visualizer for your next release
Upload a song and you will have a preview in about a minute. Comparing tools first? Read Capify vs VEED or Capify vs Premiere Pro.