OpenKaraoke
Always-on-top karaoke lyrics overlay for macOS that works with any music app
Overview
OpenKaraoke is a tiny Electron app that floats above whatever music player you're using — Tidal, Spotify, Apple Music, anything that surfaces in macOS Now Playing — and shows synced karaoke lyrics in real time. It pulls timed lyrics from LrcLib with a Genius fallback, romanizes Japanese, Korean, and Chinese tracks via Kuroshiro, hangul-romanization, and pinyin-pro, and pulls album art from iTunes Search to theme the overlay with dynamic colors. Click any line to seek; controls drive the host app via system media keys. Lives quietly in the menu bar, hidden from the Dock.
Key Points
- synced lyrics via LrcLib with Genius fallback
- karaoke mode with dynamic album-art color theming
- fullscreen split view with album art and edge-fade lyrics
- click any line to seek to that timestamp
- Japanese, Korean, and Chinese romanization on the fly
- menu bar tray icon — hidden from Dock and Cmd+Tab
- works with anything that shows up in macOS Now Playing
Technologies
ElectronJavaScriptNode.jsLrcLibKuroshiropinyin-prohangul-romanizationMediaRemote