Party visuals for your TV that move to the music

A lot of party visuals are a video on a loop: an hour of lasers with no idea which song is on — and on YouTube, an ad can cut in at any moment. Dancy Ants listens to your playlist and moves with it — on the TV you already have, or a projector on a wall.

In short: open dancyants.com on a laptop, send the picture to the TV or projector, and put your playlist on. The visuals follow the music by themselves. No download, no ads, free to use.

A drawn living room; the picture on the TV is the app.

Why not just play a YouTube loop?

A loop is free and takes ten seconds, and for a quiet evening that can be enough. It starts to show at a party: the picture doesn't know what's playing, it repeats, and unless you pay for YouTube Premium an ad will cut in at some point.

	A YouTube loop	Dancy Ants
Follows your music	No — it plays its own video	Yes — kick, bass, highs, the build
Changes on the drop	Only by luck	Yes, with Autopilot on
Ads	Unless you have Premium	None
Your music	Plays on its own; your playlist is separate	Any source — Spotify, vinyl, a DJ
Cost	Free	Free with our mark on the picture; $39 once without it

One for every kind of night

There are 40 scenes, and every one of them reacts to the music. Some are slow and soft, some are built for a full room. A few that suit the shape of a night:

Dinner: a cool, slow scene on the TV while two ants sit at a table — Dinner (Aurora), pre-drinks (Kaleido), peak time (Thermal), after hours (Event Horizon). The rooms and ants are drawn; the pictures on the TVs are real frames from the app. The pairings are only a suggestion.

Pre-drinks: a kaleidoscope scene on the TV while three ants dance — Dinner (Aurora), pre-drinks (Kaleido), peak time (Thermal), after hours (Event Horizon). The rooms and ants are drawn; the pictures on the TVs are real frames from the app. The pairings are only a suggestion.

Set it up in a minute

Open dancyants.com on a laptop in Chrome, Edge or Brave. No account needed.
Send the picture to the TV. Plug in an HDMI cable and press Send to Screen 2, or AirPlay to the TV from a Mac. The TV guide has every route, brand by brand.
Play your music wherever it normally plays. The laptop's microphone hears it. If the music is on the laptop itself, use Listen to this computer.
Switch on Autopilot and walk away. It picks the scenes, holds through the build and changes on the drop, so nobody has to stand at the laptop.

TV tonight, wall later

A projector turns a blank wall into the biggest screen in the house, and it connects the same way a TV does. A few things make it look right:

Dark room, pale wall. A white wall or a bedsheet works. The darker the room, the richer the colours.
Pick deep scenes. On a projector, scenes with black in them look best — the black becomes the room.
Keep it out of people's eyes. Put the projector high, or behind the crowd.

A projector throwing a white-and-violet scene onto a wall while three ants dance — The picture on the wall is a real frame from the app; the room is drawn.

Put a name on the wall

The Type layer puts your own words over the visuals — a name, an age, the date. The Logo layer takes an image, if you'd rather use one. The Type layer can pulse with the beat; the logo sits over the moving picture.

An illustration of the Type layer: your own words over a scene.

A word on flashing light

Some scenes and effects flash. The strobe is held to three flashes a second — the usual limit for people sensitive to flashing light — unless you switch that off, and you can leave the strobe out entirely. If you're showing visuals to a room, let people know there will be flashing lights.

Questions

Is it free?

Yes. Everything works for free; the picture carries the Dancy Ants mark. $39, once, removes it. There's no subscription.

Does it work with Spotify?

Yes — and with anything else that makes sound. See Spotify visualizer on your TV.

Do I need internet at the party?

Only to open it. Once it has loaded, it keeps working offline.

Can I run it from my phone?

It's built for a laptop or desktop, which has the graphics and the screen outputs for the job.

Can I use it at an event I'm being paid for?

That's what the Commercial licence is for: $99 once, three machines at a time.

Party visuals that move to your music