Lyrique
Lyrics that sing along
Lyrique is a free app for Mac, now in beta on Windows, that shows time-synced lyrics for whatever you play in Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube Music, word by word, in a window, a floating mini bar, the menu bar, or full screen on your biggest display.
Free · macOS on Apple Silicon and Intel · Windows 10 and 11 in beta · Spotify, Apple Music and YouTube Music
Made to be watched
The lyrics are the show. Everything else fades away until you move the mouse.
Word by word
Each word fills in as it's sung, from word-timed lyrics where they exist and carefully estimated timing where they don't.
Lines up by itself
Lyrique listens to when the singing starts and nudges lyrics into place. Headphones like AirPods get their own delay setting.
Spotify and Apple Music, no setup
Lyrique follows both apps on your Mac by itself. YouTube Music works through a small browser extension.
Big-screen mode
Send it to any display and press F. Click the artwork for cover view. Play, pause and skip from Lyrique.
Lyrics from everywhere
YouTube Music's own lyrics, LRCLIB and QQ Music. Wrong version? Pick another in a click. Still nothing? Sync it yourself by tapping along.
Speaks your language
English, Español, Français, Português, မြန်မာ, ไทย, 日本語, 한국어, 简体中文 and 繁體中文, following your Mac. Change it any time in Settings.
Easy on the eyes
Text size and fonts, a calmer view with Reduce Motion, and a short tour of what's new after every update.
Free, no strings
No account, no ads, no tracking. Your settings and lyrics stay on your Mac.
Karaoke for the whole room
Press K and Lyrique goes full screen with nothing but the lyrics, big and centred, so everyone can sing from the sofa. Plug in a TV and it's a party.
Duets, side by side
When the lyrics say who sings what, the second voice takes the right side and the lines you sing together sit in the middle, like a conversation.
Sing along in any language
Press T for a second line under each lyric: romanization for Korean, Japanese, Chinese and other scripts, or a translation into your language.
A mini bar that floats over everything
Working on something else? Press M or ⌥⌘L for a slim strip with just the current line, above every window and Space. Or put the line in the menu bar.
Share the line that got you
Right-click any line, or press S, for a lyric card with the song's artwork, ready to paste into a message or a story.
Install in a minute
Spotify and Apple Music work straight away. YouTube Music needs a small browser extension that tells Lyrique what's playing.
- Download Lyrique from the latest release: the arm64 file for Apple Silicon Macs (M1 and later), x64 for Intel Macs. Drag it into Applications.
- First launch only: this early version isn't notarized by Apple yet. Open it once, then go to System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway.
- Play a song in Spotify or Apple Music, and click Allow when macOS asks to let Lyrique see it. The lyrics appear right away.
- For YouTube Music, add the Lyrique Bridge extension. The Chrome Web Store listing is in review; until then Lyrique's Setup Guide walks you through loading it. It works in Chrome, Edge, Brave, Arc and other Chromium browsers.
- On Windows (beta): download x64 (most PCs) or arm64 (Windows on Arm) from the Windows beta release and run it. If SmartScreen says "Windows protected your PC", click More info → Run anyway. Spotify and Apple Music work with nothing to set up.
Private by design
No accounts, analytics or ads. The extension talks only to the app on your own Mac. Song titles go to lyrics services to find lyrics, and lyric text goes to Google Translate only while romanization or translation is switched on. Privacy policy.