Does it matter whether you give a Tuneliq song in person or from far away?

Either works. Tuneliq is a personalized song gift — you write down what you want to say to someone, and it turns your words into a one-of-a-kind song with lyrics, a melody, and a sung vocal. In person, you can play it on your phone and watch their face. From far away, you send a share link they tap to hear it. The distance doesn't change the gift.

How do you give it when you're right there in the room?

When you're together, the song is already on your phone, so you just play it. You made it in the app, it lives there, and you hit play when the moment feels right, at dinner or in the car. There's no link to send and nothing for them to open.

What you get by being there is their face. You watch a line land where they didn't expect it, or see them go quiet at the part about the thing only the two of you remember. That reaction is the whole reason to hand someone a song instead of a card, and being in the room is the one way to catch it.

Down the road there'll be a second in-person option: the Tuneliq Card, a physical card that plays the song when it's opened. It isn't on sale yet, so today the in-person version is just playing the song off your phone.

How do you give it when you can't be there?

When you're apart, you share the song as a link or a QR code. You make it in the app the same way, then create a link for that one song and send it however you'd send any link, in a text or an email. The person taps it and the song plays right in their browser. No app to download, no account to sign up for.

This is the case Tuneliq is genuinely useful for. You're deployed, or you moved across the country, or it's your mom's birthday and the flight didn't work out. People already bridge that distance the usual ways, with a phone call or a card in the mail. A song made from your own words does something those don't: it says the specific thing you'd have said if you were standing there, in a form they can replay.

You stay in control of the link. You can stop sharing anytime, and the song comes off the cloud when you do. Until you share it, it stays on your own phone.

Does the song itself change depending on how you send it?

No. It's the same song either way, because the song is written from your words for one person, and how it travels is a separate step. In person you might never make a link at all; you just press play. Far away, you wrap that same song in a link so it can reach them. The gift is the song, and the link is only the envelope.

This matters if you're deciding whether Tuneliq fits your situation. You're not making a "long-distance version" and an "in-person version." You make one song, and you either play it or send it.

What about the Tuneliq Card — where does that fit?

The Card is the future version of the in-person handoff. It's a real card that holds the song and plays it the moment it's opened, with no app, no account, and no internet needed for the person holding it. Nothing to tap, nothing to scan. Recordable greeting cards already exist, but those play a few seconds of your talking voice; the Card holds a full song written for one person.

You could also set it as a keepsake that opens on the day that matters, like an anniversary morning, though we mean that as an experience, not a promise about exact timing. And because a card is a thing you can mail, it blurs the line between in-person and far-away. But it's coming later. You can't buy it today, and it's worth being plain about that.

So which way is better?

Neither, honestly. In person, you get to watch it land. From a distance, you get to be present on a day you couldn't be. Both are real ways to give the same thing, and most people end up doing both over time, playing one across the table and sending the next one across the country.

Next step

Before you decide how you'd give one, it helps to hear what these songs actually sound like. You can listen to real example songs in the app's inspiration gallery or in the Gallery on our site, like the Mother's Day song "Wrong Words" or the anniversary one "Two A.M.," and picture handing that to the person you have in mind.