Live, synced light show — from any laptop

Your crowd is the light show

Free and open source. No wristbands to buy, no app to install — the lights are already in the crowd's hands. They scan a QR; you drive the whole room by hand or from your VJ rig, in time with the music.

✓ No app, no wristbands ✓ VJ-grade live control ✓ Epilepsy-safe (≤3 flashes/s) ✓ Free & self-hostable

Who it's for

Built for anyone who fills a room

From an intimate first dance to a packed stadium — if you have a crowd and a song, you have a light show.

Event & party organizers

Give every guest a glowing role in the night.

Concert & festival promoters

Turn the whole field into your stage lighting.

Clubs & DJs

Drop the beat and the whole floor flashes with it.

Wedding & celebration planners

A shimmer of light wrapped around the first dance.

Corporate events & conferences

Light the room in your brand colors on cue.

Sports arenas & stadiums

Erupt the stands in color on every goal.

Churches & worship events

Unite the congregation in one moving moment.

Schools, universities & proms

The whole hall lights up for the big night.

Why it works

Stadium-grade moments, zero hardware

No wristbands to buy, ship, charge or collect. The lights are already in the crowd's hands.

Unforgettable shared moment

One synchronized wave of light the whole crowd creates together — the kind of moment people film and remember.

Zero hardware

No wristbands or LEDs to buy. It uses the phones people are already holding.

No app install

Guests just scan a QR and join in their browser. Nothing to download, nothing to sign up for.

Works on any phone

Screen light works everywhere; on Android the real flashlight fires too — for an extra-bright wave.

Synced to your playlist

Build the show around your music. Every flash lands exactly on the beat, in perfect sync.

Set up in minutes

Run the whole thing from a laptop. Build the playlist, project the QR, press GO.

Safe by design

Flash-rate limited with a photosensitivity warning and consent, so the show stays fun for everyone.

The control room

You drive it. The crowd is the light.

One laptop or tablet runs the whole show — from a single “GO” to VJ-grade live control, all in the browser.

The VJ pult: faders for saturation, colour, brightness and flash, plus a colour wheel and flag palettes

The VJ pult — play the crowd by hand

Grab saturation, colour, brightness and flash and ride them under the music — like a VJ console, right in the browser. Open it fullscreen and mix with your fingers on a tablet.

  • Four touch layouts: faders, colour wheel, XY pad, big momentary pads
  • Intervene in a running preset, or go fully manual
  • Map a USB MIDI controller with WebMIDI
Music-reactive presets, a separate flash channel, one-tap firework effects and a scrolling marquee

Presets, flash & big moments

Upload a track and the lights follow the music. Layer a separate camera-flash channel, fire one-tap synchronized fireworks, scroll a message across every phone, or hit BLACKOUT — the music keeps playing.

  • Pulse · Colour Waves · Rainbow Chase · Ocean, plus a wave that reads across the crowd
  • Five one-tap firework bursts, then the show resumes
  • Scrolling marquee, global mute, seek, blackout
A colour wheel used to lock the show to chosen colours

Lock it to your colours

Restrict the whole crowd to a flag’s or a brand’s palette — pick colours on the wheel and everything snaps to the nearest one. Perfect for a product launch, a club night, or a team’s colours.

  • One-tap flag & brand palettes, or build your own on the wheel
  • Works with the presets or under full manual control
An audience phone turned into one glowing light

Plug into your VJ rig

Already run Resolume, TouchOSC or Bitfocus Companion? Drive the crowd’s phones from the console you already use, over OSC — a tiny bridge runs on your own laptop, no cloud lock-in.

  • OSC address map for presets, colour, flash, fireworks and blackout
  • Optional WebMIDI for a hardware fader/pad box

Read the VJ & OSC guide →

Use cases

Picture the moment

A few ways people turn a crowd's phones into something unforgettable.

The chorus drop

500 phones flash gold on the beat

The chorus hits, you press GO, and in an instant five hundred phones flash gold in perfect unison — a single golden pulse rolling across the whole crowd, right on the downbeat.

Weddings

A first-dance shimmer

As the couple steps onto the floor, every guest's phone breathes a soft warm shimmer around them — a glow that wraps the room without a single spotlight rig.

Countdown

A countdown finale

Three… two… one — the whole venue strobes brighter with every number, then explodes into a full-color burst as the clock hits zero.

Sports arenas

A goal celebration

The ball hits the net and the stands ignite — thousands of phones flashing your team's colors in a wave that circles the whole arena.

Product launch

A brand-color moment

At the reveal, the entire room turns your exact brand color on cue — a launch image that lands in every attendee's camera roll.

How it works

Three steps to a synced crowd

No rigging, no installs, no rehearsal. From laptop to lit-up room in minutes.

1

Upload & project

You upload your playlist on a laptop and project a QR code on screen — or print it on the tickets.

2

The crowd scans & joins

People point their phone camera at the QR and join in seconds — straight in the browser, no app needed.

3

You press GO

Hit GO and every phone flashes to the music, perfectly in sync — one light show across the whole room.

Pricing

Free to run yourself. Done-for-you if you'd rather not.

The app is free and open-source (Apache-2.0) — self-host it with no limits, or try the hosted demo. The paid tiers are an optional managed service: we plan, set up, operate and tune your show on the night. Final scope is confirmed on a quick call.

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Free

self-host or demo

€0forever

Run the full app yourself with no limits — Docker, open source. Or try the hosted demo here. No per-person fee, no wristbands, no app for your crowd.

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Spark

up to 100 phones

from€1 900

Parties, weddings, small venues — one operator, on good Wi-Fi.

Discuss my event

Surge

up to 1,000 phones

from€9 900

Clubs, mid-size concerts, conferences — soundcheck + on-site operation.

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Stadium

up to 10,000 phones

from€50 000

Large events — subject to infrastructure provisioning for the crowd size.

Discuss my event

Beyond

Need more?

Let’s talk

Bigger or bespoke? Let’s talk it through and scope it to your event.

Discuss my event

Prices are starting points and depend on venue, audience size and network conditions — confirmed on a consult call. No payment here; every tier starts with a conversation.

See it yourself in 10 seconds

Open the live demo, scan the QR with your phone, and watch your own screen join the show. Grab a few phones for the full effect.

Open the live demo →

Seen in the wild

Crowds already light up with their phones

It's a real moment people create — a wave of phone light across a stadium or a concert. Crowd Light Show turns it into a show you actually control: one operator drives every colour, flash and effect live, and the music plays in sync on every phone.

Interested? Let’s talk about your event

Tell us a little about your event and we’ll get you set up — or get you a quote for managed work.

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