Praised by more than 1,000 users: why Tuneliq is becoming the best personalized song gift you can send

A husband played his song three times in a row before he said anything at all. One father listened to his once and immediately asked his child to make the next one for his wife. Another user made a birthday song for her mother and wrote, "Now I'm officially the favorite daughter."

None of these people set out to make music. They had something to say to one person and could not find the words for it, which is a much more common problem than not being able to sing.

More than 1,000 people have now written a song with Tuneliq, and most of its App Store reviews are five-star. Almost none of those reviews are about the software. They are about the person who heard the song. A mother in a kitchen, pressing play and then asking to hear it again. A brother who did not expect to be undone by a gift that arrived as a link.

Tuneliq is a personalized song gift. You pick the person, then write down the ordinary specifics. What you call each other. The trip that went wrong and became the family joke. Whatever you have been meaning to say for two years and keep not saying. A few minutes later a complete custom song gift comes back, with lyrics, a melody, a backing track and a voice singing it.

The part that makes people trust it is the pause in the middle. Tuneliq writes the lyrics first and then stops, and puts every line in front of you before a single note exists. You can rewrite a line yourself because your mother would never say it that way. You can hand one line back and ask for another try. Nothing gets composed until the words are yours. Most apps in this category write the words and the music in one go and give you whatever came out; their reviews are full of people starting over from nothing because there is no way to fix one sentence. A song works as a gift because of what it says. Getting those words right is the whole job. There is a short film of someone going through the whole thing at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyOXoWaKtzY

After the words are settled, you can record your own voice and put it at the front or the end, so the first thing they hear is you. Then you send a link or a QR code. They open it and it plays, with nothing to install and no account to make, which matters when the person you love is 70 and does not download things. The song can be saved and kept long after the day it was for. It can be written in eight languages, so you can write in theirs.

The occasions repeat, the way they do with any gift. Birthdays come first and by a distance: a custom birthday song for a parent, a personalized birthday song for a friend, a custom happy birthday song for someone turning forty and pretending not to mind. A personalized happy birthday song with name is the one people ask for most, because a birthday song with name in it is the version a five-year-old will actually play twice. Then the marriages: a custom song for wife on an anniversary, a custom song for husband who insists he wants nothing, a personalized song for husband anyway, custom songs for wife and mother in the same week when May gets crowded. A custom love song for no occasion at all. A custom wedding song, or a personalized wedding song for the first dance. Apologies. Goodbyes to colleagues. Songs for people who just had a baby and are too tired to read anything longer than a text.

Making the first one costs nothing. The app is free to download from https://get.tuneliq.com and free to start, so you can find out whether a personal song gift is the right thing for someone before deciding to pay for anything.

Tuneliq is a music brand, and its promise is short: Hear the Heart. The next thing coming is Tuneliq Card, a smart greeting card that plays the song written for whoever opens it, and as far as anyone can tell it will be the world's first AI music greeting card.

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