Creative media generation and editing
Music practice and creation tools
Browser, mobile and plugin tools that help musicians practice (tuners, metronomes, loopers, ear and fretboard trainers), make music (drum machines, synths, MIDI editors) and watch audio-reactive visualizations.
Built for: Hobbyist musicians, learners and producers
Projects since May 04
254
Different builders
246
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+1%
AI is the core
7.5%
Projects per week
Mostly web app (45%), mobile app (25%), desktop app (13%) · from r/SideProject, r/vibecoding, r/IMadeThis, r/chrome_extensions
Latest
- Beat Pad — Records audio samples and plays them back from a 15-pad grid as a musical instrument.“I made Beat Pad, a 15-pad live sampler for iPhone and iPad. Record anything and play it as an instrument”
- Hypnogram — Generates looping music visuals where each kick advances the structure one step, so loops repeat seamlessly.“I make music and wanted visuals that hit on the kick, so I built an app for it”
- classican — Plays public domain classical pieces on shuffle with a pixel painting and a rotating fact about each piece.“made a tiny site that plays public domain classical music with a pixel painting for each piece”
- Piano Scales Lab — Displays piano scales and fingerings and plays them back with sampled piano tones that can be edited.“Piano Scales Lab - Apps on Google Play”
- Lets users control a Max app with plain-language commands.“I build a Max app you control with plain words. Trying to get 100 people to try it and tell me what breaks”
- morse.covelly.com — Teaches Morse code through visible and audible practice using the Web Audio API.“I created an web app where you can learn morse code.”
- Melody Mountain — Lets users play with sound waves, scales, chords and harmony and hear and see the results immediately.“I created a "musical playground" where you can hear and see different musical ideas, from the most basic sound waves to scales, chords, harmony and more”
- PianoSprout — Lights up piano keys in sequence so kids can tap along to songs, with the app handling rhythm and optional sheet music display.“I built a magic piano app for kids where the keys light up — just shipped 2.2 with real sheet music above the keyboard”
- Generates ambient music in real time as the player flies a ship between stars, with each star sounding a note or chord.“An app that generates ambient music as you fly through space”
- Piano — Listens to piano playing through a microphone or MIDI keyboard and checks each note or chord against step-by-step song lessons.“🎹 Free beta: a piano app that listens to you play and tells you if you hit the right note (and I'm looking for a musician partner to write MusicXML scores)”
- Converts Synthesia-style falling-bar piano videos into sheet music.“Hello all piano players!!!”
- GuitarTunings.app — Provides a free web-based guitar tuner with presets for alternate tunings, custom tunings, transposition, and a searchable song database listing each song's tuning.“I built a free, ad-free guitar tuner after getting annoyed with existing ones”
- Cineviz — Generates particle-based fight scenes choreographed to music, with a procedural camera and visual effects.“I made a procedurally generated cinematic anime fight music visualizer because I am bored and unemployed!”
- Simulates the acoustics of a priest walking through an Egyptian pyramid while sounding resonance tuning forks.“Vibed a Sound Bath Simulation of the Priest who walks in the Egyptian Pyramid with Resonance Tuning Forks. Just to hear what it would sound like.”
- SheetVideo — Syncs sheet music notation to a recording of a performance and exports it as a video.“I made a tool that adds cool visualizations of sheet music over your recording of the piece”
- PitchDrops — Drills ear training exercises for intervals, chords, scales, and progressions with offline-capable audio playback and local progress saving.“PitchDrops, a free, offline-first ear training PWA built with React and Web Audio”
- ORP — Organizes and searches local audio sample libraries by instrument, BPM, key, and acoustic similarity without moving files.“I kept using the same familiar samples while thousands sat forgotten, so I built ORP - Sample Manager for who makes music”
- Piano Simulator 1000 — Turns a YouTube piano performance into sheet music and an animated keyboard with suggested hand assignments, with slow playback and looping.“Built a piano practice app—looking for feedback”
- PadLoop — Lets users tap beats on velocity pads, sample sounds, and record and loop multi-track patterns on an Android phone.“I built a full pad sampler + 16-track looper for Android — no ads, no subscription, works offline”
- Crosspad — Turns a touch surface or MIDI pad controller into a drum instrument for playing fingerdrumming beats in the browser.“Fingerdrumming Web App with MIDI support!”
Most discussed
- gesture.live — Turns hand gestures tracked by camera into chords, melodies, drums and effects for electronic music.“I made a website that turns hand movements into electronic music”
- KNOCK-KNOCK — Lets users throw together beats from samples in the browser and share what they make.“Fable 5.1 is crazy. Started this 8 hours ago.”
- beatsee — Turns uploaded music into beat-reactive 3D visuals in the browser and exports them as video.“72 € MRR, ask me anything (mom, im rich)”
- Choreoto — Lets choreographers build dance formations and transitions and send each dancer an individual view, with motion capture for importing moves.“App for choreographers / dance studios”
- enikq — Plays ambient music matched to selectable scenes such as a café, camping trip, or late bus ride.“Made a small ambient music website”
- ChordViz — Visualizes piano and audio input with customizable widgets for audio metering and MIDI/chord analysis, and records video and audio clips.“Piano and Audio Visualization tool for creators and teachers”
- Sequences local music tracks on an Android phone by choosing each next song based on BPM and harmonic key compatibility.“Building an Android music player that uses a local K-NN algorithm to sequence tracks like a DJ. Anyone want to beta test?”
- Lets users record and layer looping sounds in a browser-based loop machine prototype.“I had GPT-6 design a loop machine with a working prototype on the website (turn sound on)”
- Song Key Finder — Detects the musical key of audio from local files or from websites like YouTube and Spotify, and shows it on a piano keyboard.“Made my second extension and now afraid of marketing it”
- jambrew — Lets users improvise music by pressing keys that move step by step along a chosen scale, with a backing band and sampled instruments.“My daughter needed a school presentation about musical scales. Somehow that ended with me releasing an app.”