Music has always been personal.
A melody you hum. A line you can’t shake. A feeling with no sound yet.
Now say it in your own words, and hear it.
For creators. For hobbyists.
For professionals.
What you make stays on your Mac.
No one trains on it.
Welcome to the era of
vibe music production.
Introducing Layrs.
Layrs
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Say what you want in a chat. The assistant writes the recipe and your Mac makes the track. Then take the controls in Studio.
For Apple Silicon. macOS 27 or later.
Play around. Songs sung from typed lyrics, every kind of genre, solo instruments, the sound of a place: all made on a Mac. Open any one to see the words it was made from.
The recipe this take was made from, exactly as Layrs used it.
Prompt
Lyrics
Seed
Headphones encouraged. Nothing loads until you press play.
Songs
Genres
Instruments
Ambience
No cloud GPU. Every track above was made on a Mac: the music models run inside the app, on Apple silicon.
Swift
The music models are rewritten in Swift and run on your Mac’s own GPU. No Python, no server.
macOS 27
Unified memory lets the GPU read the model directly, and Layrs keeps one engine loaded at a time.
Offline
The models are installed with the app. Your audio is made on your disk and stays there.
0 credits
No queue and no cost per track. Make another take as often as you like.
From the first sentence to the last stem, in one Mac app. Every picture here is a capture of Layrs itself.
Say what you want in your own words. The assistant answers with a recipe you can read and change.
Every recipe is checked before your Mac spends a minute on it. If it won’t work, Fix it rewrites it.
Make it renders the recipe on your Mac. Another take tries again; Keep saves the one you like.
Type or paste your lyrics. They are kept word for word, and your Mac sings them as a full song. Hear Turn It Up Tonight.
Risers, impacts, rain and whooshes, a few seconds long, for a video cut or a drop.
Send takes and your own recordings to lanes on a timeline. Trim, split, cut, duplicate and fade.
Each lane has its own volume, pan and three-band EQ. The Mixer (⌘4) shows them all at once, with meters.
Drop markers on the ruler and loop a region. Play the whole session, or one take on its own.
One WAV of exactly what you hear, or a WAV per lane with its own volume, pan and EQ.
Every take you keep, with its prompt or lyrics, seed and length. Import your own audio too.
A guide to describing a sound, plus prompts and style-and-lyrics pairs. Use puts one in the chat.
Layrs follows your Mac’s appearance, or stays light or dark. Choose in Settings.
Drums, bass and lead of Night Drive, a track made in Layrs, exported from its Studio as stems. Turn each one on, set its level, and keep what you hear as a WAV.
Five bars of the drop, 10 seconds at 120 BPM. Try each stem on its own or mix them together.
Try a workflow with real audio. Play, trim and balance a recording here, then say your own brief in the Layrs chat on your Mac.
Reels & TikTok
Short-form edits need energy immediately and nothing you have to cut around. Ask for exactly that, then keep the bars that fit.
Endings will not land on your last frame by themselves; trim them so they do. Each take is different, so press Another take a few times and keep the one that moves with your footage.
YouTube & podcasts
Import the voiceover you already recorded, generate the music to sit under it, and balance the two on one timeline.
Layrs does not record your microphone or duck the music for you. You set the levels by ear, which is also how you keep them.
Sound design
Describe the ambience or the effect your scene needs instead of auditioning a hundred stock files. Keep what works, and your own shelf grows.
Loop a region in Studio to check that an ambience sits well under picture before you export it.
Music production
Generate the piece you are missing, lay it beside your own takes, and leave with stems that line up.
Snap in time-based increments as fine as 0.1 seconds. There is no automatic beat matching, time-stretch or repitch. Place parts by ear, and treat the stems as your arranged lanes rather than separated instruments.
Vocal hook
Write a short line, repeat it, and say the style you hear. The assistant keeps your words, writes the song’s style, and Sing it makes it on your Mac. Then trim the part that sticks.
The Prompt Book has 81 style-and-lyrics pairs to start from. They are recipes to adapt, not a trend feed, and nothing here promises reach.
Make the sound for the brief, instead of settling for the nearest stock file.
Keep the takes you like. Your Library becomes a shelf of your own sounds.
No generation credits in the app. Another take costs your Mac some time, not a top-up.
Editing a starter prepares your brief; paste it into the chat in the Mac app and the music is made there. You can also explore the genre previews in the listening room.
Your unreleased music belongs on your Mac.
The music is made on your Mac. Your audio, your Library and your Studio sessions stay on your own disk. The chat is the one part that goes online: your messages go to the assistant, a cloud AI service, and its recipes come back.
Read the privacy policyThree brothers with a deep love for music. We always had the ideas, but the tools to make them felt too hard to learn, so we never started. Layrs is what we wish we had: a way for anyone to become their own producer and composer, and make the music they love.
Surya Vikram Singh
Co-founder
MS in Computer Science, California State University, Fullerton
Chandra Vikram
Co-founder
MS in Informatics, Indiana University
Awahan Sapkota
Co-founder
BS in Chemical Engineering and BA in Physics, University of Pennsylvania
One studio on your Mac, paid month by month. It begins with an email to the makers, who confirm availability and the right build for your Mac.
Your own local music studio, paid for one month at a time.
Ordering is by email for now, and nothing is paid until the makers have confirmed availability and compatibility with your Mac. The plan includes the chat, songs, instrumentals and sound effects, and Studio. See the purchase terms.
When your build arrives, three steps take you from the download to your first track.
Drag Layrs into Applications.
If macOS asks for approval, use System Settings → Privacy & Security → Open Anyway.
Start a new session (⌘N) and say what you want. The chat needs an internet connection; making the music doesn’t.
An Apple Silicon Mac running macOS 27 or later.
Partly. The music is made on your Mac, so rendering, another take of a recipe you already have, Studio, the Library and export all work offline. The chat assistant runs online, so a new recipe from the chat needs an internet connection.
Only the chat. Each message sends the conversation so far, with the assistant’s instructions, to a cloud AI service, which answers with a recipe. Your audio, your Library, imported files and Studio sessions stay on your Mac. The privacy policy names the service and what it receives.
No. Ask for a song and the assistant writes the style and the lyrics, or paste your own words and they are kept word for word. A song takes several minutes to make on your Mac.
Import WAV, AIFF, MP3, M4A, FLAC or CAF files into the Library, then add them to Studio alongside your generated tracks.
A WAV mix or a separate, processed WAV stem for each audible Studio lane. Stems are your arranged timeline lanes, rather than automatic vocal or instrument separation.
Not directly. The three demo layers are 10-second loops. Your browser mixes them and writes the WAV. What you ask for in the Mac app is made new, and it will sound different.
Layrs writes plain WAV audio without an embedded audio watermark or a generator tag in the file.
An instrumental or a sound effect can be 1 second to 6:20, set with the length chip under the chat. Ask for roughly what your cut needs, then trim the take in Studio; a 30-second request will not end exactly on your last frame by itself. A song can run up to 6:00.
Studio places clips freely or snaps in time-based increments as fine as 0.1 seconds. It does not beat-match, time-stretch or repitch. Name the tempo and feel in your message, then place and trim by ear. The production brief walks through it.
By email, for now. Contact the makers to confirm availability and compatibility with your Mac before anything is ordered. Layrs is $29 per month; there is no self-serve checkout yet.
