LiveLyrics

Synced lyrics forAndroid Auto,your phone and Mac.

LiveLyrics puts Android Auto lyrics first, with a companion view on Android and a corner popup on your Mac. Free, open source, no account.

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Android 11 or newer

Mac: macOS 13 or newer, with Spotify desktop. More about the Mac app

The LiveLyrics home screen playing Blinding Lights by The Weeknd. The current lyric line is white and the lines around it are dimmed, over a gradient taken from the album cover, with a seek bar and player controls below.

Tap a line. The song follows.

Lines light up as they are sung. Tap any line, or drag the seek bar, and the song jumps with you. Scroll ahead to read what is coming, then one tap on Sync to song brings you back.

The start of Starboy by The Weeknd, with the first lyric line in white, the seek bar at 0:13 of 3:20 and the player controls.
A Queue sheet listing five songs by The Weeknd, with Blinding Lights marked as playing.

See what is next.

When your player shares its queue, an Up next list appears next to the controls. Tap a song to skip straight to it. If your player does not share a queue, the button stays out of the way.

Keep what you have played.

Every song’s lyrics are saved on your phone, so they are there offline. Search them, read them, share one as an .lrc file, or add your own.

The Library screen listing two saved songs with coloured letter tiles.
A saved song opened as a sheet, with Share .lrc and Delete buttons above its lyrics.
The Settings screen with grouped panels for lyrics sources and playback, an app updates panel reading You are up to date, and a storage panel with a clear saved lyrics action.

Yours to control.

Choose where lyrics come from (LRCLIB, Genius, Musixmatch), turn automatic lookup off, and update the app from inside it. There is nothing to sign in to, and a lookup sends only the song title and artist to the lyrics source.

Also in the app.

  • A live lyric line in the status bar, only while music plays.
  • A home screen widget with the current line.
  • The album cover paints the background, in its own colors.
  • Nothing runs in the background while no music is playing.
  • Works with Spotify, YouTube Music, Apple Music, Tidal and other music apps. Video apps are ignored.
Experimental

Android Auto.

LiveLyrics shows the current lyric line and the next few in Android Auto. It is new and has not been tested in a real car yet, so treat it as a preview. If you try it, tell us how it went.

Share how it went on GitHub

On your Mac.

A small popup in the corner of your screen follows the song playing in Spotify. Hover it for previous, play and next. Scroll to read ahead, then click Sync to catch up. Drag its edges to make it as small as one line.

Download for Mac

macOS 13 or newer, Spotify desktop

The app is not notarized yet. On first launch, open System Settings, Privacy & Security, and click Open Anyway.

The LiveLyrics popup on a Mac playing I Follow Rivers by Lykke Li, with the title and artist on one line and the current lyric line in bold white between dimmed lines.

Get LiveLyrics.

Free, no ads, no account. The Android app needs Android 11 or newer and updates itself from inside the app after the first install. The Mac app needs macOS 13 or newer and Spotify desktop.

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Android 11 or newer

macOS 13 or newer, Spotify desktop

  1. Download the APK and open it. Allow installs from your browser if Android asks.
  2. Open LiveLyrics and turn on notification access, so it can see what is playing.
  3. Play a song. The lyrics appear and follow along.