Lyric Tools

The generators on this site deal in words. These deal in everything around the words — getting them onto a screen in time with a song, onto a page a guitarist can read at a glance, into a file a video editor will accept, or into a split sheet everybody signs before an argument starts. Different job, same principle: small, specific, and free.

Every tool here runs in your browser. There is no upload step, no account and no queue — the file you load is read off your own disk, the work happens in the page, and the result comes back as a plain file you own: .lrc, .srt, .pdf, .png, .txt. Nothing proprietary, nothing that stops working if you stop visiting.

I am building these in the order people ask for them, so a few of the cards below are still marked soon and do not go anywhere yet. The ones marked live work now. If you need one of the others, tell me which — that is genuinely how the order gets decided.

Timing & caption files

For the moment the words have to line up with something — a song, a video, a screen at the back of a room.

LRC Lyric Timing EditorlivePlay your own audio file, hit space as each line starts, download a timed .lrc. It also converts to and from SRT and shifts a whole file in one go.Short-Video Caption SplitterliveChops a lyric into caption screens using the two-line, thirty-two-character rule, then hands you a duration for each one so you can drop them straight onto a timeline.Lyric Video Line PreviewsoonRenders your lines the way a lyric video will actually show them — size, weight, safe area — before you commit to exporting anything.Batch Offset & Drift FixersoonFor when a finished file runs late. Shifts every cue by the same amount, or corrects a file that slowly slides out of sync over the length of a set.

Formatting & printable output

Turning a block of text into something you can hand to a person, project on a wall, or stick on a music stand.

Chord Sheet FormatterlivePaste chords scraped above the words and get a clean, aligned chart back. It transposes, rewrites the chart for a capo, and it prints without collapsing the columns you just fixed.Lyric Slide BuilderliveTurns a set of lyrics into projection slides: sixteen by nine, one thought per screen, and type big enough to read from the back row. Exports each slide as a PNG.Large-Print Lyric SheetssoonReformats lyrics at a print size people can actually read — older choirs, low-vision singers, classrooms, and anyone performing without a stand.Bilingual Lyric LayoutsoonSets two languages side by side, or line by line, so you can learn a song in a language you are still learning without losing your place.

Craft & editing

The fussy, technical part of writing that comes after the draft exists.

Prosody ScannerliveCounts syllables and marks stress on every line, so you can see which phrase will not fit your melody and which stressed word lands on the wrong beat.Rhyme Scheme MapperliveReads a finished lyric and labels the scheme section by section — AABB, ABAB, or the messy honest one — then highlights the lines that rhyme with nothing at all.Rap Flow Density CalculatorliveSyllables per bar, syllables per second, and where the gaps fall. Useful when a verse feels crowded and you cannot hear why.Song Structure Timing CalculatorsoonBars, tempo and section lengths in; real seconds out. It tells you when the first chorus lands and how long the song actually runs.Cliché & Repetition DetectorsoonFlags the words you lean on too hard and the phrases you have already used twice, with counts rather than opinions, so you can argue with it.

Practice & memory

For learning the words well enough that you can stop looking at them.

Lyric MemorizersoonBlanks words out a few at a time until you can recite the song, and keeps the ones you keep getting wrong coming back around.Scrolling TelepromptersoonA clean auto-scrolling lyric view with speed, size and dark mode. For buskers, streamers, and anyone singing without a music stand.Singable Translation WorkspacesoonLines a translation up against the original syllable for syllable, so the new words still fit the melody they were written for.

Business & legal odds and ends

The paperwork nobody warns you about until the song is finished.

Split Sheet GeneratorsoonFill in who wrote what plus their performing-rights details, and get a proper one-page split sheet everyone can sign before the song goes out.Royalty & Split CalculatorsoonWorks out what each writer’s percentage is actually worth at realistic stream rates, including the mechanical side of releasing a cover.ISRC & ISWC Metadata CheckersoonValidates the identifiers and metadata you are about to send a distributor, and catches the format errors that get releases bounced back.Clean-Version CheckersoonMarks the words a platform or a radio edit will want changed and suggests replacements, so you know what you are recording before you record it.

Teaching & narrower uses

Smaller audiences, but they are the ones who write and tell me when something is broken.

ESL Gap-Fill Worksheet MakersoonTurns any song into a listening exercise: choose how many words to blank, and export the worksheet and the answer key together.Readability & Grade Level CheckersoonScores a lyric for reading age. Handy for children’s songs, classroom material, and anything a congregation has to read at speed.Setlist BuildersoonOrders songs by tempo and key so the transitions do not jar, warns you when the set runs long, and prints the running order.Section Word Budget PlannersoonBefore you write: how many lines a verse wants, how many syllables a chorus can carry, and where the bridge should sit.

How all of these behave

Five things that are true of every tool on this page, including the ones I have not built yet.

  1. Nothing is uploaded. Audio, lyrics and files are read by your browser and processed there. There is no server-side step to leak anything from.
  2. There is no save button, because there is no account. That also means no autosave — export your result before you close the tab, or you will be doing it again.
  3. You bring the material. SongTextAI is not a lyrics database and none of these tools fetches, stores or reproduces existing song lyrics. You paste what you are allowed to paste.
  4. The output is a plain file in a format other programs already understand. No exports that only work inside this website.
  5. Nothing here imitates a named artist. These are formatting, timing and paperwork tools; they do not generate style or voice, and they are not a back door to one.
Two honest caveats

Some of the cards above are labelled soon and currently link nowhere. I would rather show you the whole plan than pretend the finished set is bigger than it is.

These are tools, not advice. A split sheet is a useful record, not a contract; a royalty estimate is arithmetic on assumptions, not a prediction. For anything with money or rights attached, talk to a professional.

Common questions

Do these cost anything?

No. No account, no email, no trial, no export limit. They run in the browser and there is nothing to meter. If that ever changes for one of them, the change will be written on that tool’s own page rather than buried in a terms update.

Is my work really not uploaded?

Really. Your audio is read through a local blob URL and played by your own browser; your lyrics stay in a textarea; the exported file is generated on your machine. The site still runs analytics and cookies like any other site — those are described in the privacy policy — but your song and your words are not part of them.

Why do some links do nothing?

Because that tool is not built yet. I am publishing the plan so it is visible, and building in the order people ask. If one of them is the thing you actually need, say so and it moves up the list.

Which one should I try first?

The LRC Lyric Timing Editor. It is the one with the widest use — karaoke, lyric videos, subtitles, projection — and it is the one where doing it by hand hurts the most. If your destination is a phone rather than a screen, start with the Short-Video Caption Splitter instead; the two hand off to each other.

Do I need to read music or know theory?

No. None of these ask you to. Where music comes in, it comes in as numbers you already have — tempo, key, how many lines — rather than as notation.

Can I use what a tool produces commercially?

The files are yours. What you put into them has to be yours too: do not paste copyrighted lyrics you do not have permission to use, and note that purely AI-generated text sits outside copyright protection in most places. The disclaimer page covers this properly.

Or go back to writing

If you landed here without any lyrics yet, start with the generators instead — these are the eleven sections.

You can also browse the generators I use most, or the most recent batch I built.