Listen to what you choose
Use all system audio, one application, or a wired or USB microphone and line-in.
Sonoluma listens to whatever is playing on your computer and turns it into moving light — a modern take on Cthugha, the visualizer that set 1990s screens on fire.
Audio is processed on your computer.
Choose all system audio or a single app such as Spotify, Apple Music or a browser. Sonoluma follows the sound in real time without recording a track or sending it away.
Change the palette, motion and intensity while it runs. Keep the visualizer beside your music player, or switch to full screen and leave the controls out of sight.
The controls are quick, local and available from the keyboard or menu bar.
Use all system audio, one application, or a wired or USB microphone and line-in.
The space bar steps through flame, swirl, ripple and tunnel motion, P and the arrow keys cycle fire, ice and other palettes, V changes the drawing style.
A normal window while you work; F or a double-click fills the display, Esc brings the window back.
An optional overlay shows the current Spotify or Apple Music track without launching either app.
Nothing to sign in to, no advertising, no tracking code. H shows every keyboard shortcut.
“An oscilloscope on acid”
That is how Cthugha described itself in the 1990s, when it made a generation of computers pulse with music. Its feedback buffer smeared an oscilloscope trace into colour and flame.
Sonoluma keeps that restless character, rebuilt as a native app for modern audio sources and graphics hardware.
The Mac edition is at version 1.2.0 and needs macOS 26 or later. The Windows edition is in the Microsoft Store.
The Mac download opens shortly. Write to support@bosch.fyi if you would like to hear when it does.
Sonoluma processes audio in memory to draw the visual and does not record or upload it. macOS asks for Screen & System Audio Recording permission; microphone access is used only when you choose a microphone or line-in.