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Answers about the Sonic Weaver, Novus Examples, and Novus Striker, and about privacy and pricing. Browse by product, open the help centre for links, or read step-by-step write-ups in Documentation.
Hub & general
What is Novus Stream Solutions?
Novus Stream Solutions builds free apps that rival paid alternatives, removing the paywalls that block exporting or using a feature, and built with modern AI tooling. The current live products are the Sonic Weaver, Novus Examples, and Novus Striker. Each product runs on its own site; this hub explains how they fit together.
Are the Novus tools really free?
Yes. The Sonic Weaver, Novus Examples, and Novus Striker are free to use, with no subscription blocking the core workflow. Advertising helps support the sites rather than forcing users through an upgrade screen.
Do I need an account to use the apps?
No account is required to start using the Sonic Weaver, Novus Examples, or Novus Striker. Optional account features exist only where saving work is useful.
Where do I get support?
Start at the help centre or the contact form for hub-related questions, and the documentation for step-by-step product detail. Each app also has its own help pages on its own site.
Where can I learn how to use the tools?
The tutorials section has step-by-step walkthroughs for every app: every part of Sonic Weaver (layers, beat-sync and multi-band sync, the audio engine, the visual engines, effects, captions, exporting, plus saving projects, albums, the community feed, Creator Studio, the Studio Workstation, and the companion tools), testing with Novus Examples sample files, and a first Novus Striker match. Each app has its own hub, such as /tutorials/visualizers and /tutorials/examples. For a complete map of every tool with a short description, see the tool maps, the documentation for the full technical reference, and search the whole hub at any time. The apps themselves also hold deeper, always-current help.
Sonic Weaver
What is Sonic Weaver?
Sonic Weaver is a free, in-browser music-visualizer app at sonicweaver.com. You upload a track, choose a visual style, customize it, and export a finished video. Full workflow detail is in the Sonic Weaver documentation.
What audio formats can I upload?
You can upload MP3, WAV, OGG, or M4A files. The app analyzes the track in real time using the Web Audio API, a 32-band FFT plus beat, onset, and loudness detection, so the visuals respond to the actual rhythm and energy of your music.
How many visual styles are there?
There are 29 engines, Particles, Trails, Bloom, Character Motion, Radial, Spectrum, Bars, Tunnel, Waveform, Logo, Lattice, Terrain, Stage Lights, Harmonic Constellation, Chladni Resonance Plate, Voronoi Stained Glass, Procedural Night City, Spectral Topography, Fluid Ink Feedback, Arrangement Tunnel, Cover-Art Relief, Kinetic Lyric Typescape, Stereo Phase Garden, Horizon Scenes, Disco, Liquid, Portal, Now Playing, and Sketchbook, each with 6 or 7 modes, for 180 modes in total, that you tune with colors, geometry, direction, and audio bindings. Two editors share one saved document: the Classic Editor for a guided, beginner-friendly setup and the Studio Workstation for direct canvas work with ordered layers, a beat-aware timeline, keyframes, and blend modes.
How tightly do the visuals follow the music?
Closely. On top of real-time 32-band FFT analysis with beat, onset, and loudness detection, multi-band beat sync lets bass, mid, and treble each trigger their own effects, so a heavy element can pulse with the kick while finer details sparkle on the hi-hats, rather than the whole frame strobing on one global beat. The result tracks the arrangement of a track, not just its downbeat.
What can I export, and does rendering happen on a server?
Export runs entirely in the browser using WebCodecs, no upload and no server render queue. You can export MP4 (H.264) or WebM (VP9) up to 4K at 24, 30, or 60 fps, with platform presets for YouTube, TikTok/Reels, Instagram, Spotify Canvas, X, and Discord.
Are the AI captions private?
Yes. The optional AI captions feature uses an on-device Whisper model running through Transformers.js, so your audio never leaves your browser. Transcriptions can be edited per word and styled with preset caption looks.
Who owns the videos I create?
You do. Exports are copyright-free, you can use them commercially or personally without restriction and without attribution. The app is free and ad-supported.
Are there companion tools?
Yes. Alongside the main visualizer, the platform includes an Cover Art Studio, an Audio Effects Generator, a Lyric Video Creator, Stream Overlays, and an Audio Library.
Do I need an account?
No, browsing the community, opening the editor, customizing a visualizer, and exporting all work without signing in. A free account is optional and exists so your work can be saved: it adds the Creator Studio dashboard, durable saved drafts and projects, albums, and the ability to take part in the community feed. Signing up is free.
How are my projects and albums saved?
When you are signed in, drafts and projects are saved durably to your account and reopen in the editor with all settings intact, and because they live with your account rather than only in one browser, you can reopen them on another device. Albums group related visualizers (a release, an EP, or a campaign) so they can be managed as a set from the Creator Studio dashboard. The heavy compute (analysis, rendering, and export) still runs locally on your device; only the project data and your community presence are account-backed.
How many exports are free?
All of them. Export is free with no watermark and no monthly quota, you can render as many videos as you like, as many times as you like. Editing, saving projects and albums, and taking part in the community are free too. Because rendering runs entirely on your own device, there is nothing to meter.
What are the community feed and Creator Studio?
The community feed is a public gallery of visualizers made by creators, with Feed, Trending, Following, and Saved views, genre filters, and sorting by Recent, Most Liked, or Most Viewed. Browsing is free; liking, saving, and posting require a signed-in account. Creator Studio is your dashboard for managing your own visualizers and community presence. Every visualizer is copyright-free, so you keep full ownership of your exports, including any you post.
Novus Examples
What is Novus Examples?
Novus Examples is a free library of sample files at examples.novusstreamsolutions.com. Think of it as a Lorem Ipsum for files, 8,584 ready-made sample files across 27 categories that you download to test tools, workflows, and integrations, plus 840 editable visual templates and fifty-two live test targets.
Is Novus Examples free?
Yes. Novus Examples is free to use, with no account and no paid tier blocking any download. It is browser-first, so you pick a file and download it straight away.
What file types and formats are available?
8,584 files across 27 categories and 293 extensions, images, video, documents, audio, archives, 3D models, fonts, security fixtures, and structured text such as JSON, CSV, and TSV. Each sample is a valid file generated to an exact specification, so it ships with a spec sheet describing what is inside it.
Does Novus Examples have video test files?
Yes, 444 of them, making video the second-largest category. They cover fourteen codecs, seven containers stream-copied from one encode so only the wrapper differs, pixel formats, playable HLS and DASH packages, caption files across awkward encodings, chapters and multi-track accessibility fixtures, intentionally-corrupt containers, and ten AI-video suites where each degraded clip is paired with the pristine clip it came from.
Are there free stream overlay templates?
Yes. The visual template library holds 840 editable templates across 42 categories, four of which are broadcast categories, live stream overlays, stream alerts and motion frames, stream scene backgrounds, and avatar state sets. Those 80 templates each ship an OBS-compatible scene collection alongside the image downloads, so importing the JSON gives you a scene with the overlay already placed above a capture placeholder. Novus Stream Solutions is not affiliated with or endorsed by the OBS Project.
What can I test with the sample files?
Anything that takes a file as input, converters, background removers, uploaders, parsers, and editors. Run a sample through the tool you are testing, so you can check it with a known file before using your own.
Do I need an account to use Novus Examples?
No account is required. Novus Examples is browser-first, so you can browse the library and download any sample file immediately without signing up.
Novus Striker
What is Novus Striker?
Novus Striker is a fast arcade soccer game at striker.novusstreamsolutions.com. Play in the browser with no download and no install. It is currently in early access / active development.
Is Novus Striker finished?
No. It is in active development. You can play the early build and send feedback while features and feel continue to change.
Do I need to install anything?
No. Novus Striker runs in the browser. The game streams and caches as you play.
Privacy & data
What data do the apps collect?
The in-browser tools process your files on your device and do not transmit them to any server. With your consent, we collect anonymous page-view counts (via Google Analytics 4, with IP anonymization enabled); without consent, Consent Mode keeps analytics storage denied and nothing consented is collected beyond standard HTTP request headers. Full detail is in the privacy policy.
Do the tools store my files after I close the tab?
The AI models are cached locally so the app can run offline, but your source files are not uploaded anywhere. Any saved projects or history are stored locally in your own browser, not on a Novus server. Nothing you load, image or video, is saved or transmitted off your device.
App security
How do logins and account security work?
Where a feature requires an account, the apps support secure email/password authentication. Passwords are stored as hashes (never plain text), and security controls are enforced at the application level. Some integrations may use a provider authorization flow where the external platform requires it.
Updates & roadmap
Where can I see what changed recently?
Dated ecosystem milestones are on the changelog, and deeper write-ups live on the product blog. Each product also publishes its own release notes on its own site.
How do you decide what to build next?
Our filter is simple: build free apps that rival paid alternatives, removing the paywalls that block exporting or using a feature, all built with modern AI tooling. We ship a focused version, watch real usage (activation, not vanity signups), and let that evidence drive what to improve next. The reasoning is in how we ship and test small apps.
Still stuck?
Send a message through our contact page with which product you use (Sonic Weaver, Examples or Striker) and what you expected versus what happened.
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