Prismatic Music · Visualizers
A music player with a real visualizer
Most "visualizer" apps make videos. Prismatic Music paints your library live: every song you play is analyzed in real time and rendered into visuals that pulse and flow with the actual music.
Music players used to come with visualizers — WinAmp and iTunes made them iconic, then modern streaming apps quietly dropped them. Prismatic Music brings the visualizer back as a first-class feature of an offline music player, built on the same visual engine as Prismatic FM, our live-radio app.
The visuals aren't loops or canned animations. While a track plays, the audio is analyzed on-device — spectrum, frequency bands, and beat detection — and that analysis drives GPU-rendered scenes frame by frame. A kick drum hits, the scene reacts. The song builds, the visuals build with it.
Because Prismatic Music plays files you own, the visualizer works on your entire collection — the FLAC rips, the Bandcamp purchases, the demos nobody else has — with no streaming service, account, or internet connection required.
Why the visuals feel alive
Reacts to the actual audio
Real-time analysis extracts beats, frequency bands, and energy from the track as it plays — the visuals are driven by the music, not by a pre-rendered loop.
Rendered on the GPU
Scenes are drawn natively on-device with GPU rendering for fluid motion, not embedded video files pretending to react.
A collection of scenes
Choose from a growing library of visual styles — from clean spectrum work to full generative scenes. Core scenes are free; the full collection unlocks with Music Pro.
In the player, not a separate mode
Visuals run behind the full player and the mini player, so the app looks alive while you browse your library — or go full-screen and let it take over.
Works fully offline
The analysis happens on your device, on your files. Airplane mode, a basement, a flight — the show goes on.
Same engine as Prismatic FM
The visual stack is shared with our live-radio app, so it's proven on everything from lo-fi streams to club music.
Music Visualizers — FAQ
They react to the actual music. Prismatic Music analyzes the playing track in real time — spectrum, frequency bands, and beat detection — and that data drives the visuals frame by frame. Two different songs produce two visibly different shows.
They mostly disappeared when listening moved to streaming apps, which dropped visualizers as they chased podcasts and playlists. Prismatic Music is built around the idea that the visualizer deserved to survive — it pairs a modern offline player with a real-time visual engine.
Not really — streaming apps don't expose their audio to other apps, so third-party "Spotify visualizers" either guess from metadata or need convoluted workarounds. Prismatic Music plays files you own, which is what lets it analyze the real audio signal and render honest visuals.
Rendering visuals uses more power than a static screen, so Prismatic Music renders on the GPU (the efficient path) and pauses visual work when it's in the background. If you're conserving battery, you can simply play music without the visualizer.
Core scenes are free. The full scene collection unlocks with Music Pro. Playback itself — your library, playlists, and search — doesn't require Pro.
More of Prismatic Music
All features →Import Your Library
Bring in music from your Apple Music library, the Files app, or whole folders on Mac — your collection, one player.
FLAC & Lossless
Plays FLAC, ALAC, WAV, AIFF, MP3, and AAC natively — the lossless formats Apple's Music app won't touch.
Equalizer
A 10-band graphic EQ with 22 presets — from Bass Booster to Spoken Word — so every track sounds the way you want.
See your music, not just hear it.
Prismatic Music launches August 2026 — a free offline player where every song you own gets a live show.
Coming to iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Android — August 2026