YouTube Music · Chrome extension
Floating lyrics for YouTube Music
Navi Lyrics is a free Chrome extension that takes the lyrics of the song playing on music.youtube.com out of the tab and into a floating Picture-in-Picture window. It stays on top of your other windows, so the lyrics keep scrolling while you do something else.
How to get floating lyrics on YouTube Music
- Install Navi Lyrics from the Chrome Web Store. It's free and needs no account.
- Open music.youtube.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 YouTube Music
Full song details
YouTube Music shows the artist, album and year of each song, so the floating window displays all of them next to the album art.
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 YouTube Music 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
Listening to K-pop, J-pop or music in another language? 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.
Themes and retro skins
Seven color themes, an adaptive theme that takes its color from the album art, and five retro skins: CRT Amber, Y2K, E-Ink, ASCII and Arcade.
Good to know
- Navi works on music.youtube.com. Regular videos on youtube.com are not supported, and neither are the YouTube Music mobile apps.
- YouTube Music has its own Lyrics tab, but it lives inside the YouTube Music page. Navi puts the lyrics in a separate window you can keep on top of other apps.
- Lyrics come from LRCLIB, not from YouTube Music, so availability can differ from the Lyrics tab.
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 YouTube Music
Does Navi Lyrics work on regular YouTube (youtube.com)?
No. Navi works on YouTube Music (music.youtube.com), where songs have proper title, artist and duration information to find the right lyrics.
Do I need YouTube Premium?
No. Navi works with or without Premium. Without Premium, it detects YouTube Music ads, pauses the lyrics and resumes when the song starts.
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.