Verci

Verci puts the lyrics of whatever you are playing over your Mac lock screen and lights each word at the moment it is sung. It runs from the menu bar and reads real per-word timings, so the words land with the singer rather than scrolling a line at a time.

Spotify and Apple Music.

Neither. Verci lives in the menu bar. Everything — the display style, the colours, where the words show — is set from there.

Yes. Verci holds the display awake while a track is playing so the lyrics stay lit, and lets the Mac sleep normally once the music stops.

Yes. One toggle switches between showing the words only on the lock screen and keeping them visible the whole time.

Verci works across a wide range of music, and about 90% of the tracks we tested have word-level lyrics available. A song without them simply shows no lyric animation — in practice that tends to be very niche or obscure releases. Lyric data comes from a third-party source, so coverage is not something Verci controls.

Ship stacks the words into a drifting three-dimensional wall. Fisheye curves the stack under a real Metal lens shader. Fisheye Visual adds icons to that lens. Visual pairs each word with a matched SF Symbol or emoji — around 770 words are mapped.