How Long Does It Take to Make One?

Tuneliq is a personalized song gift, and making one takes about five minutes. You write down what you want to say to someone, edit the lyrics the app drafts from it, and the app turns your words into a finished song with a sung vocal. The writing is up to you; the song itself comes together in roughly five minutes.

What actually takes five minutes?

The machine part. Once your words are ready, the app drafts lyrics, composes a melody with backing instruments, and adds a sung vocal. That whole build runs about five minutes. You're not sitting through a long wait or holding for a person to get back to you. The AI is doing the work a band and a studio would normally do, and it does it in one short stretch. When it's done, you have a full song to preview and give. You stay in the app while it works, so there's no separate wait for an email or a notification later. When the build finishes, the song is right there to play.

What part takes as long as you want?

The writing. This is the part that's genuinely yours, and it's why two people can spend very different amounts of time on the same gift. You can put down a couple of honest lines, let the app draft lyrics, read them over, and send the song off in a few minutes. Or you can sit with the draft for an evening, swapping "through the years" for "since the night the power went out," until every line reads like you actually talking. Both are fine. The app hands you a draft so you're never starting from a blank page, and how much you shape it is your call. There's no timer on this part, and nobody's waiting on you.

How long is the finished song?

Two to three minutes, and never more than five. That's the length of what the other person hears when they press play, about the length of a song on the radio. Long enough to hold a real message, short enough that they'll actually play it to the end. If you want your own voice in there, you can record a short spoken intro, up to sixty seconds, that plays before the song starts. That part is you talking, not singing, and it's optional. The song itself still runs two to three minutes; the intro just adds a short spoken moment at the front.

How does that compare to other ways to get a custom song?

Custom songs have been around a long time, and most ways of getting one take a while. Hire a songwriter on a site like Fiverr and you're usually waiting days or weeks, with some back-and-forth about what you want. A store-bought card takes no time but says what a stranger wrote. Tuneliq sits in the odd space between them: it's a song written for one specific person, and it's ready the same afternoon you think of it. You trade the weeks of a commission for a draft you steer yourself.

Is it quick enough for something last-minute?

Yes, honestly. If you remember an anniversary the morning of, you can write a few lines, edit the draft, and have a finished song before lunch. The only clock that really matters is your own writing time, and even that can be short. If you want to see how fast it goes, the app's inspiration gallery has real songs that started as someone's message, sorted by occasion, so you can hear a finished one before you write anything. There's a Mother's Day song called "Wrong Words," a Father's Day one called "Windows Down," and an anniversary one called "Two A.M."

The best way to know how long it takes is to write one line and time it yourself. Tuneliq is on the App Store and Google Play.