Free Spotify Canvas Maker for Seamless 9:16 Loops

Yes. Spotify asks for a vertical 9:16 video or image, 3 to 8 seconds long, as an MP4 or JPG. Its help page says “between 720px and 1080px tall”; in practice that means a 720p or 1080p frame, and 1080×1920 is the size most guides recommend. EzVisualizer exports both 720×1280 and 1080×1920.

Make the file, then upload it yourself. Export the loop here, sign in to Spotify for Artists, open the Music tab, select the track and click Add Canvas. In the mobile app, select the track, tap the edit icon, then Canvas. You need to be the first main artist on the track, or the main artist on both track and release, with an Admin or Editor role.

It is free to try. Every style and both sizes preview free with no sign-up, and your first HD export is free with an account. After that, a pass or plan covers each song; the Release Kit ($9.99) includes the Canvas along with every other format. See pricing. No download carries a watermark, and adding a Canvas in Spotify for Artists is free.

Spotify’s Fan Study says that in Spotify playlists, when the Now Playing view is open, listeners save or playlist tracks with a Canvas over 4X more on average than tracks without one (October 2023 data). It also reports that adding or refreshing a Canvas lifts off-platform shares by more than 10% on average (January to March 2021). Those are Spotify’s figures, not a promise for your track, but the effort is small.

Play the track in the Spotify app, tap the three dots and choose Instagram Stories. The Spotify Canvas plays as the background of the Story with the track attached. Spotify notes that the audio does not play on Instagram, so it works as a visual teaser that sends people to the song.

For artists, any track can have one if you hold the right role. For listeners, Spotify says Canvas plays only in the mobile app (iOS 12 or later, Android 6.0 or later), in the countries it lists, with Canvas switched on and Data Saver off. The desktop app and web player show the cover instead.

Check four things: 9:16 shape, 3 to 8 seconds, at least 720 px and an MP4 or JPG file. Spotify says even a slight miss can fail. If the file is right and the error stays, try the Spotify for Artists mobile app or reinstall it. In the rare browser that cannot make MP4, this tool saves WebM, which Spotify will not take, so open the page in Chrome, Edge or Safari.

Not as a GIF file. Spotify takes MP4 or JPG, so a looping Spotify Canvas GIF has to become an MP4 first. Build the loop here and export it as MP4, or pick a single frame and save it as a JPG for a still Canvas.

Spotify suggests leaving out the song and artist name, since Now Playing already shows them, and its content policy rules out links, calls to follow, other brands and the Spotify logo. That is why Canvas mode has no text fields. Keep any words for the clips you post elsewhere.

No AI is involved. The motion comes from analyzing your song: its frequency bands, kicks and tempo drive each frame, and your cover supplies the picture and colors. Nothing is invented, so the Canvas always looks like your release. Need new artwork? The album cover maker can generate an AI cover.

Nobody outside Spotify can promise that. EzVisualizer gets the size, length and file type right; what is in the picture is up to you. Spotify says it may remove a Canvas that breaks its Platform Rules or is overly promotional, so follow its content policy and use artwork you own.

Spotify’s guidelines point the same way: one idea, no rapid cuts or harsh flashing, nothing important near the edges, a loop that reads as continuous, and a look tied to your cover. Browse Spotify Canvas examples on artists.spotify.com/canvas, then use any style here as your Spotify Canvas template.

Spotify’s app plays Canvases but has no button to save them, and each loop is the artwork of the artist who made it, so ask them for the file. For your own track you never need to download one from Spotify: the MP4 or JPG you export here is already on your device.

Yes. The tool runs in a phone browser, and a loop of a few seconds exports quickly even there. Then upload it with the Spotify for Artists app on the same phone, under the track’s edit icon.

The Spotify Canvas feature belongs to tracks: it is the loop behind a song in Now Playing, so podcasts do not get one. For a podcast clip with a waveform and the show art, use the audiogram generator; for a plain waveform video or image, try the sound wave generator. Every look on this page also lives in the full audio visualizer.