Lyricist

Lyricist is a program that allows you to have dynamically generated lyrics overlays for your live-streamed music events or karaoke. It was originally built to spice up my Starting Soon screen, but I realised it could be so much more, and it grew to focus on allowing more visually impressive, interactive music-focused live events.

What does it do?

Lyricist makes it easy to drop in animated, word-level synced lyrics into OBS for your streams, karaoke nights or live music events. Works out of the box with Spotify or local audio files. Lyrics are automatically grabbed from online sources, or you can create and time your own.

💫 HUGE TECH REVEAL TIME 💫 i mentioned earlier this week i was debuting new tech - here it is! FOR ALL YOUR VTUBER CONCERT NEEDS: A live, dynamic, mid 2010's lyric video style overlay w/ environmental particle effects 🎊 pic.twitter.com/xDj5wTxlqw
— Amo Aster 💫🃏アモ・アスター (@janedoeluvr44) September 4, 2025

Features

For initial release, Lyricist includes:

• Spotify and local MP3/MP4 file support.
• Automatic timed lyrics grabbing from either Genius or LRCLib.
• Creation of custom timed lyrics.
• Lyrics-only or Lyrics + basic environment overlays.
• Reactive, smart semantic word emphasis and particles.
• 6+ dynamic environments with automatic selection based on song content.
• Easy OBS Browser Source integration.
• Lyrics caching for fast loading and offline use.
• GPU-accelerated rendering for smooth performance.

How to use

1. Launch Lyricist and connect your Spotify account via the OAuth flow (or upload local files via the Local Files tab)
2. Add a Browser Source to your OBS and paste in the url of the type of overlay you'd like (Found in the Settings tab)
3. Play a song - lyrics fetch and sync automatically

You can customize everything from the Settings tab.

Pricing

Lyricist is $15 - because it is quite difficult to maintain despite my love of this silly project. No subscriptions, no watermarks, free updates.

For extra help, feature requests, private ticket support and more please join my discord: https://discord.gg/3hQf275Fez

Created by Amo Aster
Clown, Developer, Professional Fool™️

Made with love for musicians, vocalists and streamers.