Hearthloop

Turn a still scene and your songs into a long-form ambient music video.

Crackling fires, falling snow, rain on the window, northern lights, all as a perfectly seamless loop.

Open a background image of any season, drag a few effects onto it, add your songs, and click Create Video. Hearthloop animates the scene as a seamless loop, mixes your music with crossfades and layers of ambience, adds a "Now playing" title as each song starts, and writes a YouTube-ready tracklist with chapters.

It's built for cozy, café, cabin, lofi and jazz channels that publish one- and two-hour videos, and it turns hours of editing into a few clicks.

Try it free first

The free demo is the whole app: every effect, auto-detect, the music and ambience tools and unlimited previews. Finished demo videos stop at 10 minutes, go up to 1080p and carry a small "Made with Hearthloop" watermark. Installing the full version over the demo keeps your projects, settings and song library.

30+ animated effects

• Fire and light: fireplace flames, rising embers, candle flames, flickering lamps, twinkling string lights, sunbeams with drifting dust and a sweeping lighthouse beam
• Sky: northern lights, a starry sky with an optional Milky Way, shooting stars, lightning, drifting clouds and a V of geese
• Weather: falling leaves, snow, rain or petals, blowing leaves and snow, rolling fog, diamond dust, and rain running down a window
• Water: rippling and sparkling reflections, rain rings and bobbing boats
• Life: fireflies, swaying trees, chimney smoke, a spinning record and a waving flag
• Camera drift: a slow push-in with optional film grain and vignette

Auto-detect finds the candles, lamps, string lights and moon in your image and sets up the season's effects for you. For café and cabin windows, Glass panes keep the falling snow and leaves outside, where they belong.

Music and ambience

• Song library: tag every song you make by theme, then fill each new video's music in one click. Never-used songs go first, and recent ones are left out.
• Built-in ambience, with no licences to worry about: fire crackle, rain, thunder, wind, lake waves, harbour water, a foghorn, birds, peepers, owls, crickets, a ticking clock, vinyl crackle and more. Hearthloop can also suggest the sounds that suit your scene.
• Any length: repeat and shuffle your songs to fill 60 or 120 minutes
• Now playing titles and an optional like and subscribe reminder

What you get

For each video, Hearthloop saves the finished MP4, the loop on its own, a timestamped tracklist for YouTube chapters, a ready description and a full-resolution frame to start your thumbnail from. Batch render queues several projects to run overnight.

Full version

• One-time purchase. No subscription, no watermark and no limits on video length.
• Every Hearthloop 1.x update is free, including new effects.
• The videos you make are yours to publish, monetize and sell. The built-in sounds need no credit or royalty.

Installing

Download Hearthloop-Setup-1.1.0.exe (or the demo installer), run it and click through. The first time it runs, Hearthloop offers to download ffmpeg (about 100 MB) for you.

Windows may show "Windows protected your PC" because the installer isn't code-signed yet. Click More info → Run anyway.

System requirements: Windows 10 or 11 (64-bit), 8 GB of RAM or more recommended, about 20 GB of free disk space for a 2-hour 1080p render, and an internet connection the first time it runs.

All sales are final, so please try the free demo and check the requirements first.

Community

Share what you've made, ask questions or suggest the next effect in the Skynr Labs Discord.

Made by Skynr Labs in Ontario, Canada.