Wildlights

Free while in beta

Every phone in the room becomes one light.

A stadium, a ballroom, a gym. Everyone scans one code, and every screen in the place lights up together — in time with the song, in the colours you chose. There is nothing to install and nothing to hand out.

No card. No per-guest charge. No limit on the size of the crowd.

A real show, running here in your browser: the same engine a phone in the room runs, on a twenty-four second excerpt. Three groups, left to right, in a stadium's worth of phones. The same song at each of the six levels, changing every few seconds — pick one to hold it there. Press play to hear the song it is built from; the lights follow the music, not a timer. “Rocket” by Kevin MacLeod, CC BY 4.0.

How it goes

Three things happen, and the rest is the song.

1

People scan one code

One QR code for the whole room — on the screen, on a card, in the programme. It opens a web page, so there is no app to download and nothing for anyone to sign up for. A phone that joins late catches up on the next beat.

2

One question splits the crowd

Ask something people already know the answer to — home or visitor, bride or groom, which section are you in — and their answers become the groups the show moves between. Or skip it, and the whole room acts as one.

3

The song becomes the show

Pick the track. Wildlights listens to it — the beat, the sections, the drop, the separate instruments — and writes the show from what it finds. You choose how big it should feel, from a slow wash to the full thing, and watch it back before anyone arrives.

What makes it hold together

The hard part is a thousand phones agreeing on now.

Everyone on the same clock

Phones keep time against the event's own clock rather than their own, so the room lands on the beat together instead of in a ripple. In simulation, 300 phones sat within 50 ms of each other 99.8% of the time.

It follows the DJ, not the other way round

When the music is coming from a PA, a band or a DJ, the host phone can listen through its microphone, work out where in the song the room actually is, and line everyone up with it.

Flashing you can answer for

Three settings, the middle one capped at three flashes a second — the usual public guideline. The limit is measured on what a phone will really show, not on what the show intended. How that works.

Watch it before the night

The preview runs the real show through the real engine on a room of simulated phones. What you see on the laptop is what the room will do.

The music never leaves your device

Your song is analysed in your own browser. What reaches the server is the light show — colours and timings — never the audio.

You are still in charge

Run it live: start the show, light one group, take the room to black. If something is wrong, one button stops everything.

Try it on an empty room first.

Make an event, pick a song, and watch the show back before you show anyone. It takes a few minutes and costs nothing.

Create an event