Escape the Player. Read between the lines.
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VLyrics adapting to your workspace: Notch mode, Expanded view, Floating widget, and Player Sync.
Streaming platforms lock your lyrics inside clunky interfaces, artificially limiting API calls and forcing you to keep their bulky windows open just to sing along.
VLyrics breaks the glass. It extracts the lyrics from the constraints of the player and places them natively on your macOS desktop. Whether it acts as a Dynamic Island, a menu bar notch, or a free-floating widget, VLyrics stays out of your way and exactly where you need it. Because you already pay for the stream—you shouldn't have to pay for the words.
VLyrics taps directly into macOS's native media controllers. If your Mac knows what's playing, so do we. Out of the box, we fully support:
- Apple Music: Full integration with the native macOS desktop app.
- Spotify: Flawless syncing with the official Mac client.
- YouTube Music: Seamless detection via the browser's "Now Playing" broadcast (works with Safari, Chrome, Arc, and unofficial desktop wrappers).
(Note: As long as your browser or app broadcasts its current track to the macOS Control Center, VLyrics can catch it and display the lyrics!)
| Feature | Description |
|---|---|
| 🏝️ Spatial UI | Choose your vibe: a sleek top-notch, a hovering dynamic island, or a floating window. |
| 🎯 Always On Top | Never lose your lyrics beneath Xcode, Figma, or your browser. It floats seamlessly above your workflow. |
| ⚡ Player Agnostic | Pulls lyrics independently. It doesn't rely on the restricted APIs of your music player to find what you're listening to. |
| 🍎 Native macOS | Written entirely in Swift and AppKit/SwiftUI. It's incredibly lightweight, fast, and feels like it ships with macOS. |
| 💸 Zero Subscriptions | No premium tiers. No paywalls. 100% open and free forever. |
- Download the latest Here.
- Open the file and drag VLyrics into your
Applicationsfolder. - Launch the app and grant the necessary macOS permissions (Accessibility/Media).
- Try to open the app — you'll see a security warning.
- Click OK to dismiss it.
- Open System Settings > Privacy & Security.
- Scroll to the bottom and click Open Anyway next to the VLyrics warning.
- Confirm if prompted.
- Make sure you already move the VLyrics inside the Applications folder.
- Open Terminal
- Paste this command :
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/VLyrics.app- Then try open the app.
- LyricsX => since this project doesn't not have development recently, i try to make this project.