What Does the Recipient Need to Do?

Right now, almost nothing. When you share a song from the Tuneliq app, the person you send it to taps a link or scans a QR code, and the song plays in their browser. They don't download an app or make an account. The Tuneliq Card, a physical card coming later, will ask even less: they open it and it plays.

That's the honest answer, and it's worth saying plainly. A personalized song gift only works if the person getting it doesn't have to work for it. You did the writing. They just get to listen.

How does someone hear a song you send today?

When you finish a song in the Tuneliq app, you can share that one song as a link or a QR code. You text it, email it, or drop it into a chat. The person taps it, and the song plays right there in their browser.

There's nothing for them to install and no account to set up. Say you send the link to your mom. She taps it and hears the song you wrote for her, on whatever phone she already has. That's the whole thing on her end. There's no rush either; the link is live until you decide otherwise, so she can open it when she's got a quiet minute.

The friction, if there's any, sits on your side while you're making the song, not on hers while she's listening. That's on purpose.

Can you turn the link off after you send it?

Yes. Sharing is something you switch on for a specific song, and you can switch it back off whenever you want. When you stop sharing, that song comes off the cloud.

So the link isn't a permanent public page. It's live because you're choosing to keep it live. Your songs actually live on your own phone; they only go up to the cloud when you share, and they come back down when you stop. If you change your mind a week later, you can pull the link and it stops playing. It's your call, not a switch you can't reach.

What will someone do with a Tuneliq Card?

There's also a physical version in the works: the Tuneliq Card. It isn't for sale yet, so treat this as the plan, not something you can order today.

Recordable greeting cards have been around for years. You record a few seconds of your voice, and it plays back when the card opens. The Tuneliq Card is a different thing. It's a real card with a full song written inside it — lyrics, melody, and a sung vocal, not a clip of someone talking. Your recipient picks it up, opens it, and it plays. No app, no account, no internet, no code to scan.

For someone who doesn't want to fuss with phones or links, like a grandparent or a young kid, that's the whole point. You hand them a card, they open it, they hear the song. You charge it beforehand, about two hours for a full charge, and a full charge plays for hours, so there's nothing on their end to plug in or set up.

What about a card that opens later?

The Card is also meant to hold a moment. You'll be able to lock it as a gift and set it to open on a day that matters: a birthday, an anniversary, the morning someone graduates. Think of it as a keepsake that waits for the right day and then plays. It's built so the song is still there to hear years down the road.

None of that adds anything to the recipient's job. They still just open the card. All the setup and timing stays on the giver's side, which is how a gift should work.

Where to go next

If you want to see how the song itself comes together, before any of this sharing happens, our walkthrough of how Tuneliq works covers that step by step.