About Spiralyst Lab
Sound, made visible.
Spiralyst Lab started from a simple idea — that the math behind fractals and the math behind music belong on the same screen.
Spiralyst Lab grew out of a fascination with two things that turn out to be the same thing: fractals and sound. Both are built from simple rules repeating at every scale. Both reward you for looking — or listening — closer.
The goal was a tool that doesn't just play a loop next to your music, but actually listens to it and draws from it, frame by frame. Point it at your DJ set, a mic or audio interface, or anything playing on your Mac, and the fractals bend, bloom, and pulse with the exact sound in the room. Nothing pre-rendered. Nothing that repeats.
It's built natively for macOS, with a fast audio core so the picture keeps up with the beat, and it's made for real situations — a club projector, a conference LED wall, a gallery, a livestream.
Sound paints itself. Ten seconds. Spiralyst Lab.
What we believe
Your work and your sound stay yours
No account. No telemetry. No analytics. Spiralyst Lab never phones home, and your audio is analyzed in the moment and discarded — never recorded, never uploaded. The only time any data is exchanged is when you buy, and that's handled by PayPal.
Built to last, built in the open
Spiralyst Lab is assembled from permissively licensed, open technologies — no restrictive components under the hood. We tell you what it's made of, and we credit the open-source work it stands on.
A current build, on purpose
Your license runs for a year. That's deliberate: it keeps everyone on a current, code-signed, notarized version that's secure and supported — instead of decade-old copies running unpatched code in the wild. When the year is up, renew at the same honest price and keep going.
No surprises
We sell software directly, like the prosumer Mac apps we admire. If anything about how Spiralyst Lab is owned or operated ever changes, we'll say so plainly in the release notes — before it affects you.
One simple price
$24.99 for a year. No subscription mazes, no feature held hostage behind a higher tier, no upsells.
The maker
Spiralyst Lab is made by David D. Karnowski, an independent developer building creative tools for macOS, based on the West Coast, USA.