Lyrabar slips perfectly-synced lyrics into your MacBook's notch — following Spotify and Apple Music in real time, tinted to the album art.
7-day free trial · one-time $7.99 · macOS 14+
// lyrics scroll in real time — tinted to the album that's playing
Lyrabar pulls a color from the album art and washes the lyric, the karaoke sweep, and the notch glow in it — so every song 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.
Play, pause and skip right from the notch — with a progress ring traced around its edge.
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.
or download the free trial first
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.