Features & guides

Now Playing, hung from your Mac's notch.

A Dynamic Island-style Now Playing island for your MacBook's notch: Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube, with the cover and controls. Free with LIQUIDWAVE for Mac.

Your music, behind your desktop icons.

A live wallpaper that reacts to music: Desktop Mode plays LIQUIDWAVE's visualizer behind your Mac's desktop icons, on every screen you choose. Free download.

A music visualizer for when you're away.

When you're away turns LIQUIDWAVE into a music visualizer screensaver for Mac: every screen fills with your music and clears on the next key. Free download.

A music visualizer that hears your Mac's system audio.

LIQUIDWAVE is a Mac music visualizer that hears system audio through Core Audio Taps: one permission, no virtual audio driver, everything you play. Free.

How a music visualizer works, from sound to surface.

How music visualizers work, as built in LIQUIDWAVE for Mac: an FFT, seven bands, onsets, beat and drum detection, and motion that never jumps. Free download.

A visualizer that keeps moving without music.

Ambient Auto keeps LIQUIDWAVE, a free Mac music visualizer, moving without music: a generated score plays while no source runs, and live audio always wins.

A visualizer for Spotify on your Mac.

Spotify has no visualizer of its own. LIQUIDWAVE hears Spotify on your Mac, desktop app or web player, and draws it live in forty scenes. Free, no login.

A visualizer for Apple Music on your Mac.

LIQUIDWAVE hears the Music app on your Mac and draws it live in forty scenes, with Listen Mode for DRM-protected streams. A free Apple Music visualizer for Mac.

A visualizer for the record on your turntable.

Listen Mode turns your Mac into a record player visualizer: a turntable, cassette deck, radio or live instruments, heard through the mic and drawn live. Free.

The iTunes visualizer, on a Mac today.

Looking for the iTunes visualizer on a Mac? The Music app has its own under Window → Visualizer, and LIQUIDWAVE is a free one for everything your Mac plays.

A visualizer for Tidal, SoundCloud and YouTube on your Mac.

A free Tidal visualizer for Mac that draws SoundCloud and YouTube too: LIQUIDWAVE hears any app or browser tab and plays it full screen, in forty scenes.