Your music,
made visible.
Photism turns any sound into audio-reactive visuals.
Use the plugin in any DAW, or simply use the browser or standalone versions.Turn your tracks into visuals.
Record an MP4 with your audio included.
Plugin · browser · standalone
NOT A MUSIC PRODUCER? NO DAW NEEDED.
Latest additions
New scenes
Fractal depths, living portraits and objects pulled apart by sound.
Descent
An endless dive into carved fractal chambers.
Visage
Living faces, curling fronds and mushroom crowns.
Chorus
A crowd of carved heads, from a choir to an endless hall.
Limitless 3D
Turn 3D models into chrome, dust, holograms and more.
Included with Photism. Free for existing v1 owners.
Explore every sceneAvailable as a VST, standalone app, and webplayer
Explore the collection
explore →ink
Marbled ink that flows with your mids.
explore →morphogen
An inkblot grown by a reaction-diffusion sim.
explore →signal
FFT analyzer, scope, spectrogram, and goniometer.
explore →relic
A 3D Mandelbulb. Accents regrow it as you fly.
explore →ingot
A slug of molten chrome. Accents reshape it.
explore →anemone
Chains of glowing rings pouring out of one point. Follows your mouse.
explore →idol
A Mandelbox carved into a mandala. Accents re-carve it.
explore →grove
An endless drift through a fractal forest.
explore →wisp
A dust world with one bright wanderer.
explore →spacetime
Neon light rays rushing past. Forward or reverse.
explore →pelt
A field of fur you can brush.
explore →fluid
A fluid simulation. Kicks stir the ink.
explore →citadel
A Mandelbox lattice the camera flies through.
explore →synapse
Every hit adds a node to a growing constellation.
explore →gate
A corridor of metal gates you fall through.
explore →mandala
A fractal folded through a kaleidoscope.
explore →oracle
A near-black chamber lit on its edges.
explore →limitless
Your own image, warped by the music.
explore →forge
A chrome swarm that builds a shape and breaks it apart.
explore →sand
Chladni figures drawn from your spectrum.
more coming
New scenes ship as free updates, for life.
What people are saying
Photism is the first dynamic visualizer that I found that doesn't suck! The quality is crazy good and some of the visuals come close to what I am using for VJ animations for my live shows.
I purchased Photism after having a bit of a play in the trial and absolutely love it. As a smaller artist and dad with a full time job, it’s a great answer to not having the time to learn 3d rendering etc so I can use my time to keep focusing on the music!
The learning curve is much easier than other video generating tools and working in a DAW that I’m already familiar with helps a lot as well !
Dude thank you for being a human regarding pricing and one time payment structure. You are truly an inspiration to developers and musicians who do all their effects, videos, and editing alone. You just saved me so much time you have no idea!
Absolutely love your app tho! And the motivation behind creating it is so relatable, I don’t wanna have to dance like a monkey for views hahahah
dude ive wanted something like this foreverr
This is one of the coolest things I’ve ever come across, thanks for building this.
But pretty speechless with the quality of it
the recent update to even drag 3d models into it is an absolute gamechanger too.
Been meaning to say this again…Photism is genuinely really good. I’ve been using it for quite a while now and I especially loved the recent 3D builds and the Limitless 3D stuff.
This is brilliant ! ive tried many of the visual apps - this just blows them all away
Photism is so sick! Thank you for making it. I've been making music for a long time but was really struggling with visuals
I’ve never bought a plugin before, but I think yours is fire. Can’t wait to try it out, this is my first time ever using one
Hi! Just wanted to tell you almost no visual m4l devices runs well on Windows, but yours runs perfectly!!! It's great
the amount of ‘letting the sound do the visuals’ is absolutely nuts and is exactly what i was looking for.
I'm using your app every single night as I practice in Resolume. The way I'm combining your app with other clips and effects is SO FUN.
This is just out of this world
Really sick. Awesome how you are still adding things as free updates after purchase and thank you so much for providing a wonderful visualizer.
Hello 👋 I purchased photism and i have to say it is a really awesome tool. Ive been using the spout function to go straight in to my visual software resolume. Been getting some amazing results
Your software is evolving to the point where I’m going to be using it a lot for some of my gigs!!
How it works
- 1
Drop the plugin
Photism sits on any audio track like an EQ. Any DAW, VST3 or AU. The master bus works great.
- 2
Open the visuals
The plugin window is the visualizer. Fullscreen it, or throw an output window on any display.
- 3
Play
The full frequency spectrum drives every scene live. Kicks hit, visuals hit.
- 4
Capture
Record a clip straight from the visuals with the track's audio baked in. It downloads as an MP4, ready to post.
Running a VJ rig?
Syphon on Mac, Spout on Windows (beta). Resolume, OBS, VDMX, MadMapper and TouchDesigner take Photism as a source.
Play it in your browser
Try Photism online for free (no download). If you already own Photism, sign in with your email to unlock every scene.
New Plugin: Tactism!
Control any parameter in Ableton with hand gestures.
Who makes Photism
Photism is a solo project by Alec Hollingsworth, aka illoh.
One of the hardest parts of trying to make it as a music creator: promoting yourself on social media. It can feel so greasy and embarrassing. I've seen tons of friends struggle with this and even lose themselves along the way.
The core issue is that music is auditory: short form media is visual first and auditory second. This means music can be fundamentally difficult to share without dancing in front of a camera.
That is why I made Photism. It is not meant to replace VJs, visual artists, or visuals for professional shows. It is not meant to replace amazing software like TouchDesigner either.
It simply exists to give easy, fast, and stunning visuals that anyone can use. Music creators want to make more music, not spend their already limited free time learning complicated visual software.
I hope you enjoy, and there are always new scenes and modes coming!
Pricing
$29
Buy once, yours to keep
- Free updates for life
- True ownership. No subscription bullshit.
- VST, standalone app, and browser access
- Works on Mac, Windows, and every DAW
Instant download
Secure checkout by Stripe
“ive tried many of the visual apps - this just blows them all away”
Loved by 1,000+ users in 82 countries
Your logo in 3D
Drop in a PNG or SVG of your logo and get it back in 3D, in chrome, gold, holo and more. The GLB goes straight onto the limitless 3d turntable, and the same zip carries USDZ, OBJ, STL and transparent renders for covers and merch. $2.99.
Open the 3D logo generator