Play any song in any app. IKANDY turns the music into a moving picture — colors, light and shapes that dance with every beat. Like a music video, but for whatever you’re already listening to.
Anything that publishes to Windows Media Controls works through the Now Playing source — no setup, no auth.
1. Open Spotify, YouTube, or any other music app. → 2. Open IKANDY and pick how it should listen. → 3. Hit play. Watch your screen come alive.
No editing. No syncing. IKANDY listens to the music you’re already playing and paints it across your screen in real time — 350+ classic MilkDrop visuals, custom audio-reactive scenes, and cinematic FX overlays. Free, offline, no subscription.
▶ Watch The Demo
A walkthrough of what IKANDY actually does — visuals, scenes, FX, lyrics, all in motion.
01 — Visualizer
Powered by Butterchurn — the WebGL port of Winamp's legendary MilkDrop engine. Every preset reacts to your music in real time. Auto-cycle switches them per track automatically.
02 — Control Panel
Speed, Reactivity, Smoothness, FX strength — all in a clean collapsible sidebar. Pick your theme from 6 accent colours. Upload a background image or cycle a whole folder.
03 — FX Shaders
Layer cinematic FX over your background image. Adjust strength on the fly. Combine with grain and scanlines for maximum vibe.
04 — Custom Scenes
Five custom audio-reactive scenes, built from scratch. Real-time FFT analysis drives every pixel — bass hits, frequency bands, beat intensity — no presets, no templates, just sound shaping form.
05 — Audio Sources
Connect whatever you’re playing. Each source offers a different feature set — richer integrations on top, simpler ones below.
Full Spotify integration with PKCE OAuth. Track info, album art, synced lyrics, playlist browser with search, and full playback control. Premium account required for transport — Free accounts get track info only.
Connects via the foo_beefweb component for the full experience — playlist browse with search, every shuffle mode foobar supports, transport, album art, lyrics. The audiophile’s player, fully integrated.
Connect to VLC’s web interface for transport — play, pause, skip, shuffle on/off — with album art and synced lyrics. No library browse.
Reads whatever app is currently playing music on Windows — Spotify desktop, YouTube Music, Apple Music, browser tabs, anything that publishes to Windows Media Controls. Transport works (subject to what each source app supports). No browse, no shuffle, no album art.
06 — Smart Auto
Smart Auto watches every audio-producing process on your PC and the metadata coming from connected backends, then picks the right source without you having to touch anything. Switch from Spotify to YouTube — IKANDY follows.
WASAPI loopback isolates the audio of a single app — no system mix bleed, no mic bleed. Spotify, YouTube, VLC, anything.
Amplitude and metadata signals are combined to determine which process is the active music source at any moment.
When multiple backends are connected, the metadata arbiter resolves conflicts and hands visualisation control to the correct source.
07 — Lyrics
IKANDY fetches synced lyrics from LRCLIB automatically. Display them as a clean one-line overlay, or unleash Physics mode and watch the words float and bounce around the screen to the beat.
One line at a time, centred on screen. Clean, karaoke-style. Perfect for recording or just reading along.
Words explode onto the screen and float in zero-gravity. Collide, bounce, and drift. Totally chaotic, totally beautiful.
08 — Word On The Street
Real reactions from real humans who fired it up and let it rip.
Ohh man this app is making me happy!!! In a world that demands constant attention, this just lets me chill and vibe out! Love it — take me to your leader!
Okay, this thing is f*^&ing awesome. 49 inch curved monitor, just damn.
Windows 10/11 · No Subscription
↓ Download for Windows
~75MB · Currently in BETA — the code-signing certificate is in verification, so Windows SmartScreen will warn on first run. Click More info → Run anyway. Once the certificate is issued the warning will go away. IKANDY is open source — you can read every line on GitHub.
You’ll need your own free Spotify Client ID for Spotify features.