CLUSTER LYRICS-TERMINAL-DISPLAYS · 15 ENTRIES · EARLIEST ENTRY 2020-10-05
Synced lyrics display apps
This cluster consists of tools that display synchronized lyrics for currently playing music, spanning terminal apps, macOS menu bar utilities, a web app, and a music player. The dated history shows one entry in October 2020, then sparse single entries through 2025, followed by a more regular presence in early-to-mid 2026 with two in March, one in April, one in June, and three in July. Traction is led by soda-lyrics-mac with two stars, while lrc_tty and cmus-auto-lyrics have zero stars.
Entry timeline
ENTRY TIMELINE
Each bar is the month a member carries, which is a creation date where the source published one and a crawl date otherwise. Nothing in the index was found before 11 August 2026, and coverage broadened sharply on 14–15 August, so a bar from then on reports how much we found that month, not how much was built; an earlier bar reports how far back a member's own source dated it — not how long we have been watching.
Members by activity
Activity signals, not revenue.
Build origin · 1 ai-built · 14 unlabelled
Operator · 2 hobby · 13 open source
Two labels per entry, never collapsed into one: how it was built, and who stands behind it. Counted over the 15 listed below. Unlabelled means nothing has decided yet — not that the answer is small.
- 01SpotifastLyrics2★2 days—hobbymacOS menu bar app that shows synced lyrics for the currently playing song from any Now Playing app, with a click for full lyrics.
- 02lrc_tty0★2 moliveopen sourceShows song lyrics in a terminal for MPRIS-compatible players.
- 03cmus-auto-lyrics0★1 moliveopen sourceAdd-on that fetches and displays song lyrics for the cmus terminal music player.
- 04cli-music-player-lrc0★1 moliveopen sourceTerminal music player that plays audio files and displays synchronized LRC lyrics.
- 05lyrics-tool0★2 moliveopen sourceTerminal app that visualizes timed lyrics in sync with music and edits LRC/WLRC lyric files.
- 06termalyr0★3 moliveopen sourceDisplays synchronized song lyrics in the terminal for users to follow along.
- 07lyricspot0★5 moliveopen sourceTerminal application that displays live synced lyrics for songs.
- 08lyrx0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal application that shows pixel-art style lyrics synced to Spotify.
- 09sptlrx0★6 mostaleliveopen sourceTerminal utility that displays synchronized lyrics for the currently playing song.
- 10lyrics-in-terminal0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal app that displays lyrics for the currently playing song from a music player.
- 11Lyrics Grabbr0★2 yrabandonedliveopen sourceMusic utility that displays lyrics for the currently playing song.
- 12lyse0★7 mostaleliveopen sourceReal-time terminal interface for displaying synced song lyrics.
- 13lyricify0★1 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal application that displays synchronized lyrics for the currently playing Spotify track.
- 14lyricstify0★3 yrabandonedliveopen sourceTerminal application that displays synchronized lyrics for Spotify playback.
- 15Lovable App0★unknownliveai-builthobbyWeb app that displays live lyrics for songs, providing real-time text synchronization for listeners.
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