What Do You Actually Do in the Tuneliq App?

Tuneliq is a personalized song gift, and making one takes four steps. You write down what you want to say to someone. The app drafts lyrics from your words, and you edit them. It composes the music and sings your words. Then you preview the finished song. Start to finish runs about five minutes.

Step one: what do you write down?

You write a message to a specific person. That's the first thing the app asks for. You tell it who the song is for and what the occasion is, say a sister's wedding or a dad you never call, and then you write down what you'd actually say to them. You're not writing a song here, and you're not writing a poem. You're writing the plain thing you mean. If you'd text your mom "you stayed up every night I had a fever," that's exactly the kind of line to put down. The music comes later; knowing the person is the one part the app can't do for you.

Step two: how do the lyrics get written?

The app drafts them from what you wrote. A blank page is the hard part, so Tuneliq's AI reads your message and writes a full set of lyrics for you to react to. Then you edit. Every line is yours to change. If the draft says "through the years we grew," you can swap it for "since the blue house on Miller Street," because that's the detail that's actually yours. You can also hand the whole draft back with a note, like "make it less formal," and let it rewrite. Most people spend their time here, editing, until the words read like something they'd really say.

Step three: where do the music and the voice come from?

Tuneliq makes both. Once the words are set, it composes a main melody, the backing music, and a sung vocal that carries your lyrics. Here's the honest part: the AI is the band. You bring the words, it brings the players and the singer. That voice is AI-sung. It isn't you, and it isn't a copy of anyone's real voice, so you never have to sing and the app never clones a person. A finished song usually runs two to three minutes, and it won't go past five.

Step four: what does previewing look like?

You listen to the whole thing before it becomes a gift. The app plays back the finished song so you can hear how your words landed, and if something's off, you go back and edit. There's one optional add here: a spoken intro. You can record up to 60 seconds in your own voice that plays before the song starts, a plain "I made this for you." The song can also come out in any of eight languages, so you can write to someone in their first language and have it sung that way.

What else is on the screen while you do this?

Two things worth knowing. There's an inspiration gallery of real example songs, actual ones that came from people's words, sorted by occasion and relationship, so you can hear a Mother's Day song or an anniversary one before you write your own. And your finished songs live on your own phone. They stay there and don't go to the cloud unless you choose to share one. If you do share, it's a link the person taps to listen, with no app or account on their end, and you can stop sharing whenever you want.

The clearest way to see the steps is to run through them once with a single line to someone. Tuneliq is on the App Store and Google Play.