About Navi Lyrics

Navi Lyrics is an independent Chrome extension made by Ivan Delfin in Tijuana, Mexico. It does one thing: it keeps the lyrics of the song you are listening to visible in a small floating window, while you do something else.

What it does

Navi works with the web players of Spotify, YouTube Music and Apple Music. It detects the song that is playing, finds its synchronized lyrics and shows them line by line in a Picture-in-Picture window that stays on top of your other windows and apps.

On top of that it can translate lyrics into 12 languages, lets you jump to any line with a click, adjust the sync, pick color themes and retro skins, and control playback from the keyboard.

How it works

Picture-in-Picture: the floating window uses Chrome’s Document Picture-in-Picture API, the same technology that keeps a video on top of other apps.
Lyrics: they come from LRCLIB, a free, community-built lyrics database.
Translation: only when you press the translate button, the lyric text is sent to Google Translate.
No servers, no accounts: Navi has no backend. Preferences and cached lyrics stay in your browser. Details in the privacy policy.

A short history

March 2026 · v1.2.0: YouTube Music and Spotify, synchronized lyrics in a floating window, ad detection and an English/Spanish interface.
April 2026 · v1.3.0: real-time lyric translation.
June 2026 · v1.4.0: color themes, adaptive theme and keyboard shortcuts.
June 2026 · v1.5.0: retro skins: CRT Amber, Y2K, E-Ink, ASCII and Arcade.
June 2026 · v1.6.0: Apple Music support.

Every change is in the changelog.

Links and contact

Navi Lyrics is free. If it keeps you company while you work, you can support it with a coffee.

Navi Lyrics is not affiliated with Spotify, YouTube, Google, Apple or LRCLIB.