The tool your productivity didn't ask for, but your inner karaoke needs.

Floating, synchronized lyrics for Spotify, YouTube Music & Apple Music

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Skin: Navi

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Free · for Chrome, Edge, Brave & Opera on desktop

What is Navi Lyrics?

Navi Lyrics is a free Chrome extension that shows synchronized, karaoke-style lyrics in a floating Picture-in-Picture window while you listen to Spotify, YouTube Music or Apple Music in your browser. The window stays on top of your other windows and apps, so the lyrics keep scrolling while you work, study or browse.

Lyrics come from LRCLIB, an open lyrics database. Navi highlights each line in real time, translates lyrics into 12 languages, and lets you restyle the window with color themes and retro skins. No account needed.

Works on
Spotify Web · YouTube Music · Apple Music
Browsers
Chrome · Edge · Brave
Price
Free, no account

Specs & Capabilities

Engineered to sit quietly in the corner until the chorus hits.

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Always on Top

Uses native Picture-in-Picture technology to float above your Excel sheets, study notes, or endless browser tabs. Multitask without missing a lyric.

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Perfect Sync

Whether you're hitting high notes or learning a fast rap, Navi syncs perfectly with YouTube Music, Spotify and Apple Music in real-time. Never miss a beat.

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Smart Cache

Lyrics are cached locally with smart LRU eviction. Save bandwidth and keep singing even if your connection drops on your commute.

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Multi-Platform

Works seamlessly on YouTube Music, Spotify and Apple Music. One extension, three platforms, all your lyrics.

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Ad Detection

Detects when ads are playing and shows a friendly fairy animation instead of broken lyrics. Resumes automatically when the music is back.

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Multi-Language UI

Full interface available in English and Spanish. The extension adapts to your browser language automatically.

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Themes & Skins

Seven color themes (Navi Cyan, Spotify, Apple Music, AMOLED, Sunset, Forest, Bubblegum), an Adaptive theme drawn from your album art, and seven retro skins — CRT Amber, Y2K, E-Ink, ASCII, Arcade, Hi-fi 80s and Anime Mecha. Make the window yours.

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Lyric Translation

Translate any lyric in real time into 12 languages — Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi and more — right inside the floating window.

What's Brewing

The master plan for world domination (via karaoke).

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Phase 1: Launch

Core PiP functionality, YouTube Music integration, synced lyrics, smart cache, and playback controls.

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Phase 2: Expansion

Spotify Web support, ad detection with fairy animation, multi-language UI (EN/ES), local fonts, and LRU cache eviction.

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Phase 3: Translation

Real-time lyric translations across 13 languages (Korean, Japanese, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi and more) with smart caching. Shipped in v1.3.0.

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Phase 4: Customization

Seven color themes plus an adaptive theme from your album art, five retro skins (CRT Amber, Y2K, E-Ink, ASCII, Arcade), keyboard shortcuts inside the PiP, and major performance work. Shipped in v1.5.0.

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Phase 5: Beyond

Apple Music support shipped in v1.6.0. Tidal and community-requested features are next.

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Phase 6: More Control

Like, shuffle and repeat from the floating window, a clickable time bar to jump anywhere in the song, a page shortcut (Alt+Shift+L) to open the lyrics, and two new skins: Hi-fi 80s and Anime Mecha. Shipped in v1.7.0.

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Phase 7: Skin Market

A gallery on this site to download only the skins you like and import them into the extension. Later, open to the community so anyone can publish their own.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Does Navi Lyrics work with Spotify?

Yes. Navi Lyrics works with the Spotify web player (open.spotify.com) and shows its synchronized lyrics in a floating window. The Spotify desktop app is not supported, because Chrome extensions only run inside the browser.

Does Navi Lyrics work with YouTube Music?

Yes. Open music.youtube.com in Chrome, play a song and Navi shows its lyrics line by line in the floating window.

Does Navi Lyrics work with Apple Music?

Yes. Since version 1.6.0, Navi Lyrics supports the Apple Music web player at music.apple.com.

Can the lyrics stay on top of other apps?

Yes. Navi opens the lyrics in Chrome's Document Picture-in-Picture window, which floats above your other windows, even outside the browser. You can move and resize it anywhere on your screen.

Which browsers are supported?

Up-to-date Chrome, Microsoft Edge and Brave. Opera works after enabling the flag opera://flags/#new-auto-pip-for-documents. Firefox is not supported yet.

Can Navi Lyrics translate song lyrics?

Yes. Press the translate button and each line shows its translation underneath, in real time. You can translate into 12 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic and Hindi.

Where do the lyrics come from? What if they are wrong?

Lyrics come from LRCLIB, a free, community-built lyrics database. If a song shows the wrong lyrics, press the thumbs-down button and Navi switches to the next available version.

Is Navi Lyrics free? Does it collect my data?

Navi Lyrics is free and needs no account. It does not collect personal data: your settings and cached lyrics are stored locally in your browser.

Step-by-step guides: Spotify · YouTube Music · Apple Music

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