Overlyric detects the song playing on your PC — Spotify, YouTube, anything — and shows time-synced lyrics on top of your game or any other app. Click-through, always on top, completely free.
Reads the Windows now-playing session, so Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, Tidal and local players all work with no setup.
Lines advance with the music. Choose single line, current plus next, three lines, or a scrolling view.
A separate click-through window that never injects into the game process, so your input passes straight through.
Different layout and position per game, switched automatically when you tab in.
The overlay recolours itself to match whatever's playing, pulled straight from the cover art.
Show and hide, nudge the sync, peek, or copy the current line, all from global shortcuts.
Overlyric is a small desktop application for Windows that shows the lyrics of whatever song is currently playing on your computer. It watches the same now-playing information Windows itself uses — the one behind the media popup that appears when you change the volume — so it doesn't matter which app the music is coming from. When it identifies a track, it fetches the matching time-synced lyrics and displays them in a floating overlay window that sits above everything else on screen.
Because the overlay is click-through, your mouse and keyboard go straight to whatever is underneath it. You can leave it running over a game, a browser, or your desktop and keep working or playing normally. It draws its own separate window and never modifies or injects into any other running program.
Install Overlyric and press play in Spotify. It picks the track up automatically from Windows' media session, finds the synced lyrics, and starts displaying them. There's no Spotify login, API key, or account connection involved.
Yes. The overlay window is always on top and click-through, so it doesn't block input to your game. It works with borderless and windowed games. For exclusive fullscreen titles, switch the game to borderless mode so an overlay can be drawn over it at all.
Anything that reports to the Windows media session, which covers most players: Spotify, YouTube in a browser, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, foobar2000, VLC and others. There is no per-app setup.
Yes — Windows 10 (build 19041 or newer) and Windows 11 are both supported.
Completely free. No paid tier, no subscription, no account. You download it and it works.
There's a sync adjustment you can nudge forwards or backwards with a hotkey, and the offset is remembered per track, so a song you've corrected once stays correct next time.