Your music, visualized.

Groovalizer is a free browser music visualizer and audio reactive video generator: drop a track, pick one of 3,500+ generative presets, and export a video that lands on every beat, up to 4K on Pro, for TikTok, YouTube and Instagram. Nothing uploads and nothing installs.

MP3 · WAV · M4A · OGG · AAC. Free, no account
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Drop your track

Upload any MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, or AAC. Everything runs in your browser, so your audio never leaves your device.

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Pick a style

Browse 3,500+ live presets, open any of them in the built-in editor, and tune color, speed, and audio reactivity in real time.

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Export & share

Render to MP4 or WebM in HD: 9:16 for TikTok, 1:1 for Instagram, or 16:9 for YouTube. Done in seconds.

Why Groovalizer

Way more than a waveform

3,500+ generative presets

Fractals, kaleidoscopes, liquid geometry, and deep-space nebulae come from a full art engine, not a bar graph.

Real-time audio reactive

Bass, mid, and treble are extracted live and mapped to every visual parameter, beat for beat.

Export up to 4K

Crisp MP4 or WebM up to 4K on Pro, in vertical, square, or widescreen aspect ratios.

Tune & customize

Shift hue and saturation, dial in speed and reactivity, and edit any preset in the built-in editor with live reload.

Projector mode (Go Live)

React to your mic in real time and fullscreen it on a projector. Perfect for parties, venues, and DJ sets.

Nothing to install

Runs entirely in Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge at 60fps. No plugins, no upload queue.

AI visuals

A visual system composed for your song

AI-composed visual scene synced to a song section
COMPOSED · for the drop

Groovalizer can listen to your track the way a lighting designer would, find the intro, the build, the drop and the breakdown, and generate an original visual scene for each section. Every scene is composed for your song, tested on the real render engine, and cued to change exactly where the music does.

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Compose visuals for a track
Projector mode

Turn any room into a light show

Go Live reacts to your microphone in real time: a DJ set, a live band, a playlist, even the crowd. Hit fullscreen, point it at a projector, and let the visuals run. No file, no upload, just sound in and visuals out.

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Go live
Groovalizer visuals reacting to live audio in projector mode
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Everything you might be wondering

What is an audio-reactive video generator?

An audio-reactive video generator analyzes your music's frequencies and creates visuals that move with every beat, bass hit, and melody line. Groovalizer does this entirely in your browser using WebGL, so there's nothing to install.

Upload any MP3, WAV, or M4A file. The audio engine extracts bass, mid, and treble in real time and maps them to visual parameters across 3,500+ preset styles. The result is a video that feels like it was hand-synced to your track.

How do I make music visualizer videos for TikTok?

Drop your track into Groovalizer, browse 3,500+ visual presets, and export in 9:16 vertical format ready for TikTok, YouTube Shorts, or Instagram Reels. The whole process takes under a minute.

You can tweak hue and saturation live, and use the timeline editor to assign different visual styles to different parts of your song. Clip mode lets you grab 15 or 30 second segments for short-form content.

Can I make music videos without installing software?

Yes. Groovalizer renders everything client-side in your web browser at 60fps using WebGL. No uploads to a server, no waiting in a queue, no plugins. Open the page, drop a file, and you’re creating.

Works on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge. Your audio never leaves your device. Export to MP4 or WebM at up to 4K on Pro.

Best free online music visualizer in 2026

Groovalizer is a free browser-based music visualizer that turns any song into real-time animated visuals. Unlike simple waveform generators, it uses a full generative art engine with 3,500+ visual styles ranging from fractal geometry to liquid simulations to deep space nebulae.

Play your music and watch the visuals respond to every frequency. Use it as a screensaver, a live performance backdrop, or export the visuals as video on Pro. No sign-up required to start. Just drop a track and hit play.

Groovalizer vs. other music visualizers

Most online music visualizers give you a handful of waveform or particle effects. Groovalizer gives you over 3,500 community-created visual presets, each one a different generative style reacting to your audio in real time.

Where other tools require desktop apps or monthly subscriptions just to preview visuals, Groovalizer lets you watch and customize in your browser for free. Shift colors, adjust speed and audio reactivity. When you want the video file, Pro exports it in any aspect ratio up to 4K, and the first 7 days are free.

Why Groovalizer feels richer than a basic music visualizer

A lot of music visualizer apps stop at a few template styles. Groovalizer gives you a deep visual library with fractals, kaleidoscopic forms, liquid motion, geometry, cosmic textures, and abstract generative scenes that react differently to your music.

Browse by mood, search by name, or open a preset in the editor and make it yours. Under the hood it draws from the classic visualizer tradition, but for most people the important thing is simple: it gives you way more range than a basic bar graph or waveform screen.

Who uses Groovalizer?

Anyone who loves music and wants to see it. Casual listeners who want a visualizer while they work or chill. Musicians promoting releases on social media. DJs sharing live set clips. Podcasters adding visual flair to audio content. Content creators who need beat-synced visuals without learning After Effects.

If you have audio and want something beautiful happening on screen, Groovalizer is the simplest way to get there. The free tier plays every preset with your music, live, as long as you like. Pro ($14.99/month) exports unlimited full-length videos up to 4K with no watermark.

Guides

One page per question

What is a music visualizer, and how does it work?

The three kinds (spectrum, template, generative) and what actually reacts to the music.

How do you make a music visualizer video?

Five steps in the browser, which aspect ratio for which platform, free vs Pro.

What is the best free music visualizer in 2026?

Nine tools compared honestly on watermarks, export limits, and resolution.

What is the best music visualizer for YouTube?

Full-length, 16:9, up to 4K, no per-video quota, plus how the template tools compare.

How do I make a music visualizer for TikTok?

Vertical 9:16 clips of the hook, cut and exported in the browser.

Is there an AI music visualizer?

Describe a look in plain language and get a working preset. Three ways, from free to hands-off.

How do you run a live visualizer on a projector?

Mic in, fullscreen out, presets cycling every 15–60 seconds. No install, no account.

Can I use MilkDrop in my browser?

Real .milk presets on projectM in WebAssembly, with the export button Winamp never had.

Which free music visualizers have no watermark?

Nine tools sorted into clean, watermarked and no-export, including where Groovalizer sits.

How do I turn a song into an Instagram Reel?

Vertical 9:16, the hook, and the 3-minute rule Instagram applies to new audiences.

Can I make a Spotify Canvas from my song?

An 8-second vertical loop rendered from the track itself, sized to Spotify’s guidelines.

Is there a fractal music visualizer that runs in the browser?

Fractal presets that react to bass, mids and treble, four rival tools compared, and how to put your own photo inside one.

Can I put my own photo inside a fractal?

Fractalize folds a picture or a camera snapshot through a hundred-plus patterns that move with your song. Free to play, Pro to export.

Under the hood

What it's actually built on

Groovalizer is a browser application, not a render farm with a web page in front of it. It reads five audio formats (MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, AAC), analyses them with the Web Audio API, renders through a WebAssembly build of the projectM engine at 60fps, and encodes video locally at 9:16, 16:9 or 1:1, in HD. Your track is never uploaded.

projectM

The rendering engine: an open-source reimplementation of MilkDrop, licensed LGPL-2.1, compiled to WebAssembly and fetched at runtime. Groovalizer ships it unmodified.

MilkDrop preset format

Every visual is a .milk preset, the format Ryan Geiss originally created for Winamp. Two decades of community presets run unchanged, which is why the library runs to 3,500+ styles rather than a dozen templates.

Web Audio API

An AnalyserNode reads the frequency spectrum of your track every frame. Bass, mid and treble are extracted from that and mapped onto preset parameters. That is what makes the visuals track the music instead of looping.

WebGL 2.0

Rendering happens on your GPU at 60fps, in the browser. Nothing is queued on a server, and your audio file never leaves your device.

WebCodecs

MP4 export encodes frame-by-frame through VideoEncoder and mp4-muxer, up to 4K. Browsers without WebCodecs (Safari, and Firefox before 155) fall back to MediaRecorder and WebM.

Pricing

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FAQ

Frequently asked questions

MP3, WAV, M4A, OGG, and AAC. Upload any of these and the audio engine extracts bass, mid, and treble frequencies to drive the visualizer in real time.

Groovalizer is a free browser-based music visualizer with 3,500+ generative art presets. Unlike simple waveform generators, it creates complex fractal, geometric, liquid, and cosmic effects that react to your music in real time. No download or account needed to start.

A video where the visuals respond to music in real time. Bass hits cause visual pulses, melody lines shift colors, and rhythmic patterns drive geometric motion. Groovalizer analyzes your audio's frequency spectrum and maps it to visual parameters across 3,500+ preset styles.

Upload any song (MP3, WAV, M4A), choose from 3,500+ visual presets, and export in 9:16 vertical format. The visuals react to bass, mids, and treble in real time. Nothing to install, and free to start.

Most basic music visualizers offer a few waveform or particle templates. Groovalizer includes over 3,500 visual presets with fractal, geometric, liquid, cosmic, and abstract generative styles that respond to your music in real time. It also runs in the browser and exports directly to MP4 or WebM in vertical, square, or widescreen formats.

Yes. Groovalizer runs entirely in your web browser using WebGL. There is nothing to download or install. Upload your audio file, pick a visual style, and export your video. It works on Chrome, Firefox, Safari, and Edge on desktop and laptop computers.

Watching is free, with the full preset library and no account. Exporting video is part of Pro: $14.99/month or $144/year for unlimited full-length videos, export up to 4K, no watermark, and 1,500 AI credits per month. New subscribers get the first 7 days free.

No. You can upload audio and preview visuals without signing up. You need an account to save projects, and Pro to export video.

Export to MP4 or WebM in 9:16 (TikTok, Reels, Shorts), 16:9 (YouTube, widescreen), or 1:1 (Instagram feed). Resolution goes up to 4K on the Pro plan.

Ready to see your sound?

No account needed. Drop a song and watch it come alive.