Spotify Lyrics
A free synced-lyrics overlay for Spotify. It shows your current song and scrolls the lyrics in time, in a small always-on-top mini-player that stays out of your way.
Not affiliated with Spotify. Lyrics by LRCLIB. Requires a Spotify Premium account.
All downloads
Connect your Spotify (one time, ~5 min)
Spotify caps hobby apps at a few users per key, so each person uses their own free key. It takes a few minutes once.
- Download and install Spotify Lyrics using the button above.
- Open the Spotify Developer Dashboard and create an app (any name).
- Add this exact Redirect URI:
http://127.0.0.1:8888/callback
No need to worry:127.0.0.1is your own computer, so this just lets Spotify hand the login back to the app locally. Nothing leaves your machine, and it has to match exactly or Connect won't work. - Copy the app's Client ID (you do not need the secret).
- Launch Spotify Lyrics, open Settings → Spotify account, paste the Client ID, and click Connect.
Reading playback requires a Spotify Premium account (Spotify's rule since Feb 2026). Free accounts can't authorize the API.
Opening it the first time
The app is not code-signed (signing certificates are expensive), so your OS will warn you the first time. This is normal for indie apps. Here's how to get past it.
- Run the installer. If you see "Windows protected your PC", click More info.
- Click Run anyway, then finish the installer.
- Launch Spotify Lyrics from the Start Menu or Desktop shortcut.
- Open the
.dmgand drag Spotify Lyrics into Applications. - In Applications, right-click the app and choose Open, then Open again.
- If macOS still blocks it: System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll down, and click Open Anyway.
- Last resort in Terminal:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine "/Applications/Spotify Lyrics.app"
- AppImage: make it executable (
chmod +x Spotify-Lyrics-x86_64.AppImage) and double-click it, or run it from a terminal. - .deb: install with
sudo dpkg -i Spotify-Lyrics-amd64.deb(or open it with your software installer). - For encrypted token storage, a keyring (gnome-keyring or KWallet) should be installed.
Is it safe? Yes, nothing to worry about.
Windows shows that "unknown publisher" warning only because I haven't bought an EV code-signing certificate, which costs $300 to $600 a year for what is a free hobby app. It is not a sign that anything is wrong with the download.
- It's fully open source. Every line of code is public on GitHub, so you (or anyone) can read exactly what it does, and you're welcome to scan the file with any antivirus before running it.
- It runs entirely on your own computer. There is no account with me and no server of mine in the middle.
- No data is collected, by me or anyone. No analytics, no tracking, no ads, no telemetry. Nothing about you ever reaches me.
- The only things it connects to are Spotify, to read what you're playing through your own login, and a free lyrics database, to look up the words for the current song. That is the entire story.
- Your Spotify login is stored encrypted on your machine using your operating system's built-in secure storage.
In short: it links to your Spotify and shows the lyrics, and that is all it does. If you ever have a doubt, read the code or run the file through a scanner.