Word-synced macOS lyrics that pick the right version
Word-synced desktop lyrics for Apple Music, Spotify, QQ Music, NetEase, Kugou, and for YouTube Music or Spotify Web in a browser. Nine lyric providers are queried at once and every candidate is scored on one scale — title, artist, album, duration fit, word-level timing — so live takes, Cantonese versions and radio edits get the words that actually match. Shows up as a floating overlay, a Dynamic Island capsule, an Apple-Music-style window, or in the menu bar. Free and open source, no account.
Maker here. I built this because the lyrics app most of us used on macOS (LyricsX) hasn't shipped a release since April 2022 — but the real reason was a different annoyance: lyrics that don't match the version of the track playing. The live recording gets studio lyrics, the Cantonese version gets Mandarin lyrics, a radio edit gets the album cut's timeline.
Most lyrics apps ask a few providers in order and take the first usable answer. Lyrimuse instead queries nine of them concurrently and scores every candidate on one scale — title/artist/album fit, how well the reported duration matches the actual track, whether there's word-level timing, whether the text is corroborated by other providers. Version qualifiers like Live / Remix / (Edit) / (Cantonese) are judged separately, so a mismatch there is heavily penalised. Each track keeps a panel showing what every candidate scored and why the winner won, and anything you pick by hand is locked from later re-matching.
It shows lyrics in four places, in any combination: a desktop overlay, a Dynamic Island capsule, an Apple-Music-style lyrics window, or the menu bar itself (with an optional second row for the next line, the translation, or romanization). Apple Music, Spotify, QQ Music, NetEase and Kugou all work, as do YouTube Music and Spotify Web in a browser. Translation comes from the provider's own community translation when there is one, otherwise Apple's on-device Translation framework; Cantonese songs get word-aware Jyutping, Japanese gets furigana.
Free, GPL-3.0, no account, no telemetry. Happy to answer anything.
About Lyrimuse on Product Hunt
“Word-synced macOS lyrics that pick the right version”
Lyrimuse launched on Product Hunt on September 8th, 2026 and earned 96 upvotes and 7 comments, placing #15 on the daily leaderboard. Word-synced desktop lyrics for Apple Music, Spotify, QQ Music, NetEase, Kugou, and for YouTube Music or Spotify Web in a browser. Nine lyric providers are queried at once and every candidate is scored on one scale — title, artist, album, duration fit, word-level timing — so live takes, Cantonese versions and radio edits get the words that actually match. Shows up as a floating overlay, a Dynamic Island capsule, an Apple-Music-style window, or in the menu bar. Free and open source, no account.
On the analytics side, Lyrimuse competes within Productivity, Music, GitHub and Menu Bar Apps — topics that collectively have 767.4k followers on Product Hunt. The dashboard above tracks how Lyrimuse performed against the three products that launched closest to it on the same day.
Who hunted Lyrimuse?
Lyrimuse was hunted by Khalil. A “hunter” on Product Hunt is the community member who submits a product to the platform — uploading the images, the link, and tagging the makers behind it. Hunters typically write the first comment explaining why a product is worth attention, and their followers are notified the moment they post. Around 79% of featured launches on Product Hunt are self-hunted by their makers, but a well-known hunter still acts as a signal of quality to the rest of the community. See the full all-time top hunters leaderboard to discover who is shaping the Product Hunt ecosystem.
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