Music VU Visualizer Widgets
To find the visualizer widgets go into your apps list “Widgets” section and look for “Music VU”. On some devices long-press an empty part of your home screen to access widgets. To make widgets big, long-press and resize in both directions.
Note: This is an advanced widget app which uses special techniques to update quickly. Due to limitations in the way Android widgets work you should have a fairly fast phone or tablet for good performance. You may still notice irregular or slow updates. Avoid using more than 5 or 6 visualizer widgets at the same time. To minimize CPU and battery usage Music VU is not active unless your screen is on and music is playing.
Note: There's a bug in some Samsung Galaxy and several Nexus models which breaks visualizers, including Music VU. Visualizers may not work with some music players on newer phones due to bugs in their audio firmware. We are working on possible fixes -
- for now a different player may work, try Google Play Music, or connect a Bluetooth speaker/headset. If you have any problems, for example your combination of Android device and music player doesn't work, please email support at [email protected]. We'll try to help resolve your problem.
For more information including descriptions of each meter/visualizer and app preferences see the Music VU help page: http://georgielabs.net/MusicVUHelp.html
User FeedbackPlease rate the app and submit comments on Google Play to let us know what you think of Music VU. If you have a question or bug report send email to [email protected] (include your phone model, music player, and Android version).
Music VU Integration Info for DevelopersMusic VU shows accurate stereo levels when used with supported music players like the SoundWire audio streaming app. If you’re an Android music app developer and would like to have your app send stereo meter data to Music VU only a few lines of code are needed. Please email [email protected] for implementation details.
Category : Music & Audio
Reviews (29)
That app idea is great, there are two main problems I found using this on my Note 10. The first one is the app widgets constantly freeze up and I have to remove them and reapply. The second issue I found is the accuracy of the meters and other tools, I have to turn the volume really high to get any actual activity and if I use the relative volume thing, every meter or sound bar is blasted all the way up and isn't accurate. Please update and if these issues can be fixed/calibrated I give 5 stars.
Lovely! It works beautifully on my Leagoo T5. (4 Gb & 64 Gb, 8-core CPU). Thank you, developers! I am using the vertical, 10 segment led, stereo meter and I have given it a page all to itself. Download music volume levels all differ, so now it is easy to set to optimum on the media player and on the phone itself. I use VLC and play through a Logitech computer amplifier/speakers unit with a sub. That it operates as a wiget rather than within an app makes it excellent. I can find no faults.
"My trial ended " This was working just fine but suddenly it didn't one day and it said my trial ended even though nothing told me anything before about a trial, free or paid version. So it linked me to an app called Sound Wire which is supposedly the free version but when I downloaded it , it said it was supposed to turn my phone into a speaker or something, I don't really care the point is it isn't a music visualizer widget. It didn't even work, said it couldn't connect to any servers. Bogus.
Works fine, except the bars drop all the way to zero for a split second at regular rates, even when playing solid tones, before quickly returning to normal, but only while using bluetooth...for whatever reason. Kinda annoying, but otherwise, great.
It only works for a short time after installation. Afterwards It doesn't show anything on my car stereo android 10 based device. As i like its features, really hope it to be fixed asap.
I love the app but it crashes a lot on my android stereo. Actually it's hit and miss if it works on my s10. (Edit) doesn't work more times than dose. Real shame. Definitely needs fixing. Please update
I love the app but it just doesn't work on my s10 most of the time. When it does work it only lasts maybe 10 minutes before freezing. Please fix this as I want to use it more often but its just unreliable.
Very nice app, absolutely love it. What I would like to see is a customisable-coloured tape deck classic meter. Mine used to have cyan colour all the way so I'd like to set that up. :)
Pretty darn cool I just wish you would make these as a standalone app instead of on your screens. I know the purpose was to make widgets and I love widgets but I wish you could do widgets or as a standalone app! :-) anyhow, cool designs
Doesn't work, always tells me it cant access the mic, and without the mic mode ticked, the app doesn't detect audio from the phone
Using my old Android as a music dedicated device and this vu widget adds a great affect that just kinda fun. It works really well and pretty customizable.
This app delivers more then what they offer but if ya want a wicked visual experience you'll want a more updated phone and on the mid to top end of android I'm using note 9 got my home page dect out 29 visualization running at same time no loss to fps a bit of studded when either updating from any store or when calls come in I'm also using nova prime for their animations speed there out of this world fast and you can use basic nova for that speed up dont need prime this app deserves more then 5*
Worst app here, it's just a wave it in your face then take it all away, you pay for it all, or just keep one very stupid simple widget, although they said you got to keep All the widgets the app came with wether you subscribe or not. A good TRIAL is to NOT WASTE YOUR TIME on these lies!
App does not work sometimes when I play music they aren't moving or just frozen please fix these bugs and update app as soon as possible
One star just to get the word out there. This is a trail version but you won't realize it until after you give app permissions. Perhaps an oversight but scary I immediately uninstalled.
Great idea, love the free old school level meters. Stops working a lot though. Fix bugs and make full app free and I'll give 5 stars.
Newest version crashing / freezing. Used to work great for years. Going back to an older version for now
Must reload widgets every time I want to use them. Making this widget useless... Fix or refund me what I paid. This is ridiculous!
The idea is great but it lags and the visualizers are not fully transparent..
It works perfectly on my s9+ sometimes crashes not very often
Awesome idea but it only works for a second before I have to reinstall the app on my Galaxy S20 FE.
Nice for reasonable price but I hope the devs will make 7 colors for each item not only 3 colors thanks 🧡i love this app so much I'll will purchase but plz devs don't Change the app thanks 🧡
works well. Would love further option to edit rates Of bars but not a deal breaker. Good job
Added the widgets..all of them and it does not animate or work at all..i had in my car head unit android..
Too Bad.It Works But In The Next Music,It stop.Its Almost Awesome But Its Broken😌😒
Love it, works fine, beautiful, but it's paid T-T
Love it .. hope to focus in next version more improvements in android 10 .. works perfect...
The widgets don't accurately show audio at all.
Works great! Professionally-useful visualizations that also look pretty. Very configurable. Can display multiple widgets at once. NOTE: make sure to disable Battery Optimization for this app, or the meters will stop working! Also allow the notification, and set it to "minimize" (this tells Android that you intend to run this as a background service, and it's less likely to kill it). I'm using a Samsung S20 FE.