Cavalier

About

Graphical Linux audio visualiser for GNOME, built on the cava engine.

Cavalier is a desktop app that turns cava's audio analysis into a graphical window, built with GTK4 and libadwaita for the GNOME desktop. It offers 11 drawing modes, including wave, bars, spine, levels and circle layouts.

Foreground and background can be a single colour, a gradient or an image, and smoothing and noise reduction can be adjusted. It is distributed on Flathub, the Snap Store and the AUR, and is MIT licensed.

Features & Use Cases

• 11 drawing modes including wave, bars, levels and circle
• Colour, gradient or image backgrounds
• Smoothing and noise reduction settings
• Available on Flathub and Snap
• MIT licensed

Pricing

Free and open source.

Sources

• github.com

Pricing checked 3 October 2026.