If you send a song through Tuneliq today, how does the other person hear it?

They tap a link. You make the song in the Tuneliq app, create a share link or QR code for it, and send that the way you'd send any link. The person taps it and the song plays in their browser, with no app to download and no account to set up. The first thing they get is the song, not a file to deal with.

Are you sending a file or a link?

A link, not a file, and that difference does more work than it sounds like. An audio file lands in someone's downloads and gets buried under screenshots and receipts, and half the time they're not sure what should open it. A link skips all of that. It opens a small page that just plays the song. You send it in a text, an email, or a DM, the same as any other link, and the song is the first thing that happens when they tap.

Tuneliq is a personalized song gift: you write down what you'd say to someone and the app turns your words into a one-of-a-kind song. If you want the mechanics of making one, that lives in How Tuneliq Works.

What does the person actually do to hear it?

Almost nothing, and that's the point. They get your link, they tap it, and the song plays on whatever phone they already carry. There's no "install our app to see your gift" wall, no sign-up, no code to copy out. A lot of digital gifts die right at that wall: you send it, the other person doesn't feel like downloading anything, and the moment fizzles. A link that opens in a browser is built to not do that.

Say you send it to your mom. She taps it and hears the song you wrote for her, in her own browser, wherever she is. There's no rush on her end either, so she can open it when she has a quiet minute.

Isn't this basically texting someone a Spotify link or a music card?

Fair question, and those are real things. People text Spotify and YouTube links every day, and musical cards that play a clip when you open them have been around for years. On the sending side, Tuneliq works the same familiar way: you share a link.

The difference is what's on the other end of it. A Spotify link points to a song that already exists and belongs to everyone. A music card plays a stock tune off the shelf. The Tuneliq link plays a song written for one person from the words you wrote, and it exists nowhere else. Same delivery, a different thing arriving.

Two things worth knowing before you send

You keep control of the link: you can stop sharing whenever you want, and the song comes off the cloud when you do (turning a share on and off is its own straight answer). And a link is today's way to send a song, but there's also a physical Tuneliq Card in the works that just plays when someone opens it, no phone in the way. That one isn't on sale yet.

Next step

If you want to try it, Tuneliq is a free download on the App Store and Google Play. You write down what you'd say to someone, it turns your words into a song, and you send that song as a link.