Spotify Web · Chrome extension
Floating lyrics for Spotify Web
Navi Lyrics is a free Chrome extension that shows the lyrics of the song playing on open.spotify.com in a small Picture-in-Picture window. The window stays on top of your other apps, so you can follow the song line by line while you work, study or browse.
How to get floating lyrics on Spotify Web
- Install Navi Lyrics from the Chrome Web Store. It's free and needs no account.
- Open open.spotify.com in Chrome, Edge or Brave and play a song.
- Click the Show lyrics button that appears on the page, or click the Navi icon in the toolbar and press Float Lyrics.
- Drag the floating window wherever you want and resize it. It stays on top of your other windows, even outside the browser.
What Navi Lyrics does on Spotify Web
Synchronized line by line
Navi reads the playback position from the Spotify player and highlights the current line, scrolling smoothly between seconds.
Click a line to jump there
Click any line of the lyrics and the song jumps to that moment. Handy to repeat a verse or skip to the chorus.
Controls and shortcuts
Play/pause, previous and next from the floating window, or with the keyboard: Space, ← →. ↑ ↓ change the font size, , . adjust the sync.
Ad detection
When Spotify Free plays an ad, Navi pauses the lyrics and shows a small fairy animation instead of searching for lyrics that don't exist. The lyrics come back as soon as the music does.
Lyric translation
Press the translate button (or the T key) to see each line translated underneath, in 12 languages: English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian, Russian, Japanese, Korean, Chinese, Arabic and Hindi.
A Spotify-green theme
Pick the Spotify color theme to match the player, or any of the other themes, the adaptive theme that takes its color from the album art, and five retro skins.
Good to know
- Navi works with the Spotify web player. The Spotify desktop and mobile apps are not supported, because Chrome extensions only run inside the browser.
- The Spotify web player does not show the album name or release year in its player bar, so for Spotify songs the floating window shows the title, artist and album art. Lyrics are matched by title, artist and duration.
- Navi does not use Spotify’s own lyrics: it gets them from LRCLIB, so the catalog can differ from what you see inside Spotify.
Troubleshooting
The lyrics are a little early or late
Use the sync buttons (⏪ ⏩) or the , and . keys. Each press moves the lyrics 0.5 seconds, up to 30 seconds either way, and the adjustment applies to the current song only.
The lyrics belong to another version of the song
Press the thumbs-down button (or D). Navi hides that version and loads the next one it found; the counter (for example 2/5) shows which version you are on.
The floating window does not open
Use an up-to-date Chrome, Edge or Brave. In Opera, enable the flag opera://flags/#new-auto-pip-for-documents first. Some "cleaner" extensions (such as Click&Clean) close new windows automatically; disable them for the music site if the window keeps closing.
No lyrics were found
Lyrics come from LRCLIB, a community database. Very new or niche songs may not be there yet. Navi also tries a broader search, shows plain (unsynchronized) lyrics when that is all that exists, and offers a Try again button.
Questions about Spotify Web
Does Navi Lyrics work with the Spotify desktop app?
No. Navi is a Chrome extension, so it works with the Spotify web player at open.spotify.com. Playback in the desktop app is not visible to browser extensions.
Do I need Spotify Premium?
No. Navi works on the web player with free and Premium accounts. On Spotify Free it detects ads and pauses the lyrics until the music comes back.
Where do the lyrics come from?
From LRCLIB, a free, community-built database of synchronized lyrics. Navi searches it by song title, artist and duration.