MuVis - Music Visualizer vs WizzJ - Music Visualizer Usage & Stats
MuVis is an open-source macOS & iOS app for music visualization. It renders informative (and musically useful) graphical displays in real time from music files being played - or from the device's microphone. Real-time music visualization is an exciting endeavor - providing the user with dynamic visual and aural stimulation and edification.
When the MuVis app first opens, the on-screen display should look somewhat like the first screenshot shown above and the computer's speakers should be playing music from a pre-loaded royalty-free music file. (Currently, the song file is "The Elevator Bossa Nova" from Bensound.com.) The on-screen display shows a real-time dynamic visual representation of the audio that you are hearing.
The top and bottom toolbars contains buttons and sliders to allow you to control what you see. Triple-tap your screen to show/hide these toolbars.
At the bottom left are two buttons labelled by left- and right-chevrons. Clicking the left one changes the display to the previous visualization, and clicking the right one changes the display to the next visualization - which allows you to cycle through the twenty-four visualizations currently provided by the app. Also, you can simply swipe left or right to change the visualization.
Adjacent to these Visualization chevrons are two Option chevrons. When programming these visualization algorithms, there are numerous variations and options available to the developer. These buttons allows the user to select to see any of four variations. The particular variation rendered is different for each visualization. Also, you can simply swipe up or down to change the option rendered.
Adjacent to these Option chevrons is a “Pause” button. When clicked, it stops the music playback and freezes the visualization display. The button label changes to “Play” which, when clicked, causes the music playback and the visualization display to continue.
The adjacent button has a "Microphone" icon. When pressed it stops playing the audio from the selected song file (and also stops it's visualization), and starts playing the live audio from the microphone (and starts it's visualization). The label then becomes a slashed microphone - which, when pressed, performs the reverse actions and changes the icon back to "Microphone".
The next button has a "Music List" icon. It allows you to select whatever songs you want from your own iCloudDrive folder. Selecting a song causes that song to play - and the visualization to render its dynamic attributes.
The adjacent button has a “Waveform” icon with a minus sign. When clicked, it passes the audio signal through a “spectral enhancer” filter which reduces the display of noise (usually percussive effects which smear spectral energy over a large frequency range), and enhances the display of spectral lines (usually the harmonics of musical notes).
Finally, at the right end of the bottom toolbar are two buttons labelled UserG (for User Guide) and VisG (for Visualization Guide). Clicking either button activates a “Quick Look” popup window to display the app's documentation.
The top toolbar contains two sliders - one controlling "Visualization Gain" and the other controlling "Visualization Treble Boost". As their names imply, sliding them adjusts the gain and slope of the visual data representation.
The source code for this app is posted at www.github.com/Keith-43
- Apple App Store
- Free
- Music
Store Rank
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WizzJ is a cutting-edge music visualizer for high-end iOS devices. It fully exploits the latest advances in graphic processors to create a flow of animated generative art. The animations are synced with the beat and texture of the music being played from your music library. If no music is playing, WizzJ can capture input from the microphone.
WizzJ represents a new generation in the art of music visualization!
Download WizzJ for free and enjoy a fully functional preview of the available 36 styles, each providing a unique and immersive experience:
A Flower of Life, Alien Speak, Ancient Glyphs, Beat Tunnel, Beat'n Chaos, Blossoming, Breeze of Oil, Brick Islands, Color Wand, Cricumpunct, Crystal's World, Dancing Blobs, Disco Sun, Entwined, Girl's Best Friend, Holes of Color, LP's Revenge, Matrix, Neon Ice, Ocean, OneHundredEiiigghtyyyy, Phoenix, Polar Texture, Pop Art Dive, Puzzled, Rainbow's Birth, Sandworms, SpeedBeat, T-Rex's Skin, Tentacles, The Beauty Within, Threads of Light, Threesome, Wanna Kiss?, Wave Dance, Wheel of Color.
WizzJ uses Apple's built-in media player and can thus access your existing songs and playlists.
In contrast to most other visualizers, WizzJ analyzes the sound of played songs without using the microphone; hence you can enjoy WizzJ even with headsets.
Note: Apple does not allow to analyze streamed music. Thus, only music saved on your device and played through the internal iOS audio player is supported. Unfortunately, Apple Music, Spotify et al can therefore not be supported.
WizzJ can support the device's native display resolution for a detailed and crystal clear presentation. Activate this feature in the Settings App if you have a powerful device.
You can easily create your own music videos by capturing WizzJ's animations with QuickTime and your Mac.
Videos and more info can be found on the "Developer Website".
Customer comments:
***** Unbelievable Music App
"Best music app so far in iTunes Store. Can't go wrong with this one."
***** Beyond beautiful
"I just downloaded WizzJ on my iPhone 6 Plus, and I really wanted to express my gratitude for this app. The graphics are beyond beautiful and amazing."
***** 5 stars for sure!
"I am delighted to look at the magnific moving designs while listening to my own music. Very Impressed by the various choice of fascinating designs available too. Thank you very much for creating such a beautiful app. It is worth to see it, I am sure that you will enjoy !!!"
***** Unique to iOS, beautiful visualizer
"Beautifully crafted automata to match your music. Few apps are made in iOS for generative visualizations and this is by far the best quality; maybe the only app with a very select choices of algorithms/colorizations!"
***** Finally a real visualizer!
"Been looking exactly for this! Now if only it had the nice equalizer functions of a couple other apps - and if it would just play my playlists! Other than that! Six stars. You heard me six stars. Love it!"
***** Love it
"I'm in love with this app!"
Supported Gestures:
- one finger double-tap: show/hide player
- two finger single-tap: show/hide styles list
- two finger swipe right/left: next/previous style
- two finger swite down: pause/resume animation
- three finger single-tap: screenshot
System requirements:
- iPhone 8 or higher
- iPad 5th generation or higher
- iPad Air 3rd generation or higher
- iPad mini 5th generation or higher
To enable devices without microphone for AirPlay or Bluetooth headphones disable the microphone input by tapping the microphone icon.
- Apple App Store
- Free
- Music
Store Rank
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MuVis - Music Visualizer VS. 
WizzJ - Music VisualizerJanuary 8, 2025