Turn your track into a looping Spotify Canvas: a short 3–8 second vertical video in the exact 9:16 format Spotify wants. Free, no login, no watermark — and everything is rendered in your browser, so your audio never leaves your device.
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A Canvas is the short looping video that plays behind your song in the Spotify app instead of the static cover. Artists use it because it makes a track feel alive — and Spotify has said Canvas can lift streams and saves. To upload one in Spotify for Artists it has to match a strict spec:
| Aspect ratio | 9:16 (vertical) |
| Length | 3–8 seconds, loops seamlessly |
| Resolution | 720×1280 or higher |
| File | MP4, no sound |
SLOVO's Canvas mode exports exactly this — you don't have to worry about the numbers.
Free & no watermark. No subscription, no login, no logo slapped on your video.
Private. Your song and video are processed in the browser — they never touch a server.
Reacts to the beat. Presets pulse, punch and glow with your music; you can even make your own video loop physically react to the sound.
Lyrics built in. Auto-generate subtitles in English, Ukrainian, Russian or Polish and burn them into the loop.
A Canvas is three to eight seconds long and repeats forever while somebody listens, which makes it a very different object from a music video. Two rules follow from that. It has to loop without a visible seam, because the join is the thing a repeated clip trains the eye to find. And it has to survive being watched a hundred times, which means slow, hypnotic motion beats a fast cut every time — anything frantic becomes irritating by the third play.
The loop carries no audio: the listener already has the song playing. That is why the export here is built as a silent file rather than a video with the sound stripped out afterwards. It also means the visual has to carry the mood alone, which is a good argument for using your own artwork or a photograph rather than a generic template.
Cover art works, but a still photograph with depth separation often works better: the subject stays put while the background drifts behind it, and the loop reads as filmed rather than generated. Add subtle grain or a slow light sweep and a single image becomes something worth looping.
SLOVO produces the file; uploading it is done in Spotify for Artists, where Canvas is attached per track. Requirements are set by Spotify and change from time to time, so check their current guidance before uploading — the export here targets the standard vertical format and the three-to-eight-second window.
The same project also gives you the other pieces of a release: a 9:16 clip for TikTok, Reels and Shorts, a 16:9 upload for YouTube, and a lyric video if the song leans on its words. Building them together keeps one visual identity across every place the track appears.