Feature
Animated VFX backgrounds for your link in bio
Most link in bio pages are a list of buttons on a flat colour. An XBio profile can sit on top of a live, GPU-rendered background: 16 effects including a deep-sea liquid, aurora, lava lamp, lightning storm, vaporwave, starfield, bokeh and a digital matrix rain.
They are not looping videos or GIFs. Each one is a fragment shader running in the visitor's browser, so it stays sharp at any screen size and can react to sound.
What you can do with them
- Pick a background and tune its intensity, down to zero if you want the page calm.
- Layer the effect over a background image: the VFX renders as an overlay, so the two blend.
- Attach an audio track and the shader reacts to it in real time through the Web Audio API, so the background pulses with your music.
- Add particle overlays, custom cursors, fonts and per-element animations on top.
What is free and what is not
4 of the 16 backgrounds are free for everyone: Deep Sea, Neon Pulse, Plasma Wave, Mesh Gradient. Every new account also starts with 300 credits, enough to unlock one premium background.
The rest can be bought one at a time in the effect shop, or all unlocked at once with Pro ($5/month). One effect, Grid, is also unlocked for free when your profile reaches level 10.
Performance on phones
Shaders are GPU work, so on mobile the intensity is reduced automatically. Visitors on a slow device still get the links first: the page content is ordinary server-rendered HTML, and the background loads separately behind it.
All 16 backgrounds
Neon Pulse
FreeRhythmic glowing waves that react to the beat. Free for everyone.
Hyperspace
450 creditsTravel through the stars at the speed of sound.
Deep Sea Edition
FreeImmersive abyssal fluid motion with bioluminescent accents. Free for everyone.
Digital Matrix
350 creditsDigital rain columns with cascading characters.
Northern Aurora
400 creditsFlowing northern lights with layered gradients.
Fireflies
250 creditsSoft glowing dots fading in and out of the dark.
Plasma Wave
FreeClassic plasma with overlapping sin/cos color blending. Free for everyone.
Cyber Grid
400 creditsTron-inspired cyberpunk aesthetic with perspective grids, data streams, and digital noise.
Lightning Storm
400 creditsElectric storm with branching arcs and strobing flashes.
Lava Lamp
350 creditsSlow-moving molten blobs with warm orange and red tones.
Vaporwave
450 creditsRetro synthwave aesthetic with gradient sky and perspective grid.
Mesh Gradient
FreeSoft, slowly morphing multi-point gradient - the cleanest backdrop in the catalogue. Free for everyone.
Starfield
350 creditsParallax star layers with slow drift and the occasional shooting star.
Bokeh
300 creditsSoft out-of-focus light circles drifting past at different depths.
Glitch Effect
300 creditsRGB channel splits and scan-line glitches for a corrupted digital aesthetic.
Retro Grid
250 creditsNeon perspective grid scrolling into infinity - pure synthwave nostalgia.
Questions
- Are the backgrounds videos?
- No. Each is a real-time GLSL fragment shader rendered on the visitor's GPU, which is why it can react to audio and stays crisp at any resolution.
- Which VFX backgrounds are free?
- Deep Sea, Neon Pulse, Plasma Wave, Mesh Gradient. The other 12 are premium: buy them individually with credits, or unlock them all with Pro.
- Will it slow my page down?
- The links and text load as normal HTML first. The effect loads behind them, and its intensity drops automatically on mobile. You can also set the intensity to zero.