Voice memos too basic
Captures the idea. Loses it the moment you want a harmony, a beat, a tweaked vocal.
Instant Demo Builder
Capture N’ Collaborate
We're not a DAW.
We're a music-content-creation flywheel.
Between the voice memo and Logic Pro, there's a gap. We built a desktop app for the rest of us — the bedroom songwriters, the 2am ideas, the cover-with-a-friend crowd.
The Gap
Three tools, none of them quite right.
Logic Pro too complex
Powerful. Also a tutorial-marathon. You'll quit before you finish your demo.
Splice only samples
Great library. Not a place to record, layer, mix, or share what you actually made.
You sit somewhere in the middle. We built Capture & Collaborate for you.
What it does
Four things, one app, zero tutorial.
Drop a backing track. Hit R. Sing. Demo in 15 seconds.
- Drag-and-drop backing tracks — auto-detect BPM + key
- 7 lane types: Vocal, Electric Gtr, Acoustic, Bass, Keys, Drums, Wind/Brass
- Multi-track recording (mic + acoustic at the same time) — Free, never gated
- One-take. No setup. No project-template menu.
Four sliders. They mean different things per instrument. Same UI, instant feel.
- On vocal: Tuning · Punch · Air · Space
- On electric guitar: Drive · Body · Bite · Space
- Every preset is a recipe — click, hear the difference, keep the one you love
- Save your own tweaks in the Full Suite
Don't play piano? Our chord pad knows your key. Plug in MIDI? It just works.
- On-screen piano + scale-aware chord pad (I / IV / V / vi)
- Drum library — Boom Bap + Modern Pop free, TR-808 / 909 / LinnDrum in Full Suite
- Real piano samples — Splendid Grand, Rhodes, Wurli
- USB MIDI input + sustain pedal — out-of-the-box
One URL. Refresh = latest version. No more WeTransfer chaos.
- Listen-link for friends — web player, no signup, no app
- Collab-link for co-writers — full app access, real edits
- Async with version history — sketch tonight, finish next week
- Built for the way songwriters actually work — video call on the side, project state in sync
The Showpiece
Content Studio
One click → social-ready video. Audio bounce + visual + auto-transcribed lyrics. Built into the app.
Most music apps stop at MP3 export. Capture & Collaborate turns every song you make into ready-to-share content — TikTok-native video, audio bounce, auto lyrics, custom vibe visualizer.
- 15-second intro window
- 9:16 vertical (TikTok / Reels native)
- 4 visualizer styles (Editorial · Cinematic · Vinyl · Brutalist)
- Subtle bottom watermark — captureandcollaborate.com/p/{slug}
- MP3 192k audio embedded
- 30 sec — pick any window (intro, drop, outro, bridge)
- No watermark — custom outro frame instead
- All free styles + style packs: Lo-Fi Bedroom · Trap Night · Indie Folk Loft · Worship Sanctuary · Punk Garage
- "Type the Vibe" AI generator — describe a mood, get a visualizer
- Auto lyrics transcribe + karaoke-style overlay (Whisper)
- All aspect ratios: 9:16 · 1:1 · 16:9 · 4:5
- Custom backgrounds + MP3 320 / WAV embed
Every Capture & Collaborate user is a creator. Every creator becomes a marketer. That's how this thing grows.
Who it's for
You, probably.
0:00 idea in your car → 5 minutes later, cleaned-up demo, sent to your collaborator.
Backing track + your vocal + your friend's harmony — uploaded as one video.
Thirty students hand in demos in Capture & Collaborate. No more WeTransfer hell.
Record stems, send to the band, get parts back, mix it all in one app.
Make something that sounds good without becoming a mixing engineer first.
This is for you.
Who built this
Real people. Real music. Real frustrations.
No VC-funded team trying to gamify your creativity. Just a working artist who got fed up with the gap between voice memos and pro DAWs — and built the tool he wished existed.
Thomas Geelens
Musician · Builder · Blue-Eyed Afropop
Dutch independent artist with 75+ releases since 2018. Sat behind a drum kit before he could pick it himself. Picked up guitar through Slash and Knopfler, found his voice through John Mayer, found his sound through Peter Fox.
Has spent 13 years writing, producing and recording everything alone — every Voice memo, every Logic session, every WeTransfer link to a collaborator. Knew exactly where the workflow broke down.
So he built Capture & Collaborate. The thing he wished existed at 2am in Central Park, 2010, when melodies were falling out of his head faster than he could write them down.
Through Lifthill Studio
- 75+ music releases
- HearYouLater · DreamAM
- Cynical Sally suite
- Right to Timelessness — creative-rights movement
Pricing
Free to start. Cheap to go pro.
Free
€0 forever
Enough to make real music with a friend.
- Unlimited local recording
- Multi-track recording (mic + acoustic, simultaneously)
- 4 tracks per project
- 2 preset packs per instrument
- 2 drum kits (Boom Bap + Modern Pop)
- 3 cloud projects + unlimited invited collab
- 500 MB cloud storage
- MP3 192k share-link
- Content Studio — 15s intro, with watermark
Full Suite
€10 / month
or €99 / year — 2 months free
Everything unlocked. The way you'd build it.
- Everything in Free, plus —
- Unlimited tracks per project
- All preset packs + Save your own tweaks
- All drum kits & sound packs
- All themes (Cinematic / Vinyl / Brutalist)
- Unlimited cloud projects + storage + version history
- Full Content Studio: 30s any-window, no watermark, Type-the-Vibe AI, auto lyrics, all aspect ratios
- MP3 320 + WAV + stems export
- Custom share slug: captureandcollaborate.com/p/mysong
You spend €10/mo on Spotify to listen. Capture & Collaborate is €10/mo to MAKE.