You always want to sing along — but flipping to a lyrics tab in Spotify or Apple Music breaks your flow while you're working or studying. Lyrabar tucks perfectly-synced lyrics right into your MacBook's notch, so the words are there as the song plays.
7-day free trial · one-time $7.99 · macOS 14+
// lyrics scroll in real time — tinted to the album that's playing
Everything happens in the notch — hover for controls, skip without leaving your work, and pick a look that fits your desktop. Here's each piece, live.
Lyrabar pulls a color straight from the album art and washes the lyric, the karaoke sweep, and the notch glow in it — a fresh shade for every song, so each one looks like itself.
A 60fps engine pins each line to the millisecond and re-anchors the instant you seek, skip, or pause.
Works with both and follows whatever's playing. No Spotify account or Premium required.
Lives in the menu bar and reads now-playing locally. No account, no tracking — only a lyric lookup leaves your Mac.
Drag Lyrabar to Applications and open it. It tucks into the menu bar — no Dock icon, no window to manage.
One tap lets Lyrabar see what's playing. That permission is the entire setup.
Start a song in Spotify or Apple Music and the words appear in your notch, perfectly in time.
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Lyrabar is built by one person. I spent months sweating the small things — the way a lyric hugs the notch, the millisecond it lands on the beat, the color it borrows from your album art — because I wanted the app I wished already existed.
The $7.99 isn't really about the money. It's a small, one-time thank-you that lets me keep building. Pay once and Lyrabar is yours for good — no subscription, no ads, no upsells, and every future update included, free, forever.
If it makes your music feel a little more alive, that's the whole point. Thank you for supporting a tiny indie app.
— Sudarshan, maker of Lyrabar
No. Lyrabar reads what's playing from the Spotify or Apple Music app already on your Mac — it never signs in or uses a paid API. A free Spotify account, or just Apple Music, is plenty.
Lyrabar still works. On a notch-less Mac or an external display, the lyric bar sits neatly at the top-center of the screen instead of wrapping a notch.
Lyrabar reads the current track locally and never collects or transmits your listening data. To show the words it looks up synced lyrics from public community databases — only the song title and artist are sent for that lookup.
macOS 14 Sonoma and later, on both Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
One purchase unlocks Lyrabar on up to 2 of your Macs. You'll get a license key by email — paste it into Settings → License to activate, and deactivate a Mac anytime to free a slot.
Lyrabar shows the title and artist for tracks where timed lyrics aren't available yet. Coverage grows as community databases expand.