Sonely
Your Mac sings along: live lyrics for Spotify & Apple Music
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Sonely shows the lyrics of whatever's playing in Spotify or Apple Music on your Mac and lights up each word as it's sung. Pick a look: gig-poster type, karaoke lines, a 3D wall, a typewriter, custom as well. Free, no account. Pro is $5.99 once. Mac today. Windows and CarPlay are next on the setlist.
PH · launched Nov 3, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 64%) · 0 views
Niche: music visualizer software · 37 launches, 7 in the last 7 days · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- B2C
- Not AI
- Commercial product
- Mac
- Productivity
- Music
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Could you build this?
Partial The Mac UI with lyric display and animation is straightforward to vibe-code, but synced lyrics need a licensed or third-party lyrics source, and word-level timing is hard to get reliably.
What it would actually take: Build a native macOS app (Swift/SwiftUI) that reads now-playing metadata from Spotify and Apple Music, then fetches time-synced lyrics from a provider such as LRCLIB or Musixmatch. Word-level highlighting needs either per-word timestamps from a licensed source or forced alignment of the lyrics to the audio, which requires some audio/ML work. Licensing for lyrics and the platform APIs is the main non-coding obstacle.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 750 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #361 of 751 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 344 days after the earliest competitor.
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- Lyrics Overlay · ph · 2026-10-13 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- 9xLyrics · ph · 2026-10-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- BeatAlive · ph · 2026-10-22 · 3 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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- Ambertone · ph · 2026-11-07 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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