Projection lyrics have one job: be readable from the worst seat in the room, by someone who has never heard the song. That is it. And yet the usual way of getting there is a presentation program, a template fight, and twenty minutes of nudging text boxes around on a Sunday morning that is already running late.
This skips all of it. Paste the words, pick a shape and a colour, and every slide is drawn on a canvas at the size it will actually be exported — sixteen by nine for a projector or TV, four by three for the old one at the back of the hall, nine by sixteen for a phone rig. What you see on this page is the file. There is no second rendering step to get wrong.
It runs entirely in your browser. No upload, no account, no queue: the lyrics stay in a textarea, the images are generated on your own machine, and you get plain PNG files you can drop into anything. I cannot see what you paste.
A blank line always starts a new slide group.
Nothing to show yet.
Every slide has its own PNG button. The text is placed by the same code that draws the export, so the preview is not an approximation — it is the file.
Files are named slides-01.png, slides-02.png and so on, in slide order. If your browser asks permission to download several files, allow it — browsers rate-limit multiple downloads to stop malicious sites, which is fair.
Your lyrics never leave the browser. There is no upload anywhere in the code on this page, and no server receives your text or the images it produces.
There is no save button, because there is no account. That also means no autosave — export your PNGs before you close the tab or you will be pasting it all again.
Slides people can actually read from the back
Six rules that beat any template.
- Fewer words per slide, always. Two lines is comfortable, four is a compromise, six is a hymn sheet. If a slide needs a second look, it has already lost the room.
- Break at a phrase, not at a line count. The blank line starts a new slide box is there so you can decide where the breath is, and the tool respects it instead of fighting you.
- Check contrast, not colour taste. Dark text on a light background reads better in a bright room; light on dark survives a dim one. Squint at your screen from arm’s length — if the words blur together, the projector will be worse.
- Sans, bold, and not too clever. Decorative type costs legibility at distance and the back row is paying that cost, not you.
- Leave the footer short. A CCLI number and a church name is plenty; anything longer is competing with the lyric for the same attention.
- Name your files before you download them, not after. slides-01.png in the right folder beats a desktop full of image (7).png when you are plugging in under time pressure.
Why canvas instead of a slide editor
The honest reasoning, including the trade-off.
Because the failure mode of a slide editor is that what you see is not what the projector gets. Fonts substitute, text boxes reflow, and the line that fitted on your laptop overflows on the church machine. Drawing the slide on a canvas at the final pixel size removes that entire class of problem: the preview and the PNG are produced by the same code path, so nothing can drift between them.
The trade-off is honest: these are flat images, not editable slides. There is no animation, no transition, and no way to change a word without coming back to this page and re-exporting. For lyrics — which change rarely and get shown often — flat images are usually the better trade. For a talk with twenty revisions, use a real editor.
Common questions
Are my lyrics uploaded anywhere?
No. The whole tool runs in your browser. Your text stays in a textarea, the images are drawn on your own machine, and nothing is sent to a server at any point. The site still runs analytics and cookies like any other site — those are described in the privacy policy — but your words are not part of them.
What size are the exported PNGs?
16:9 exports at 1920×1080, 4:3 at 1440×1080, and 9:16 at 1080×1920. Those are larger than almost every projector needs, which is deliberate — a slightly oversized image survives being scaled by whoever is running the screen. The previews on this page are drawn smaller so the page stays fast; the download is full size.
How does it decide how big the text should be?
It starts large and steps down until the whole slide fits inside the safe margins, keeping your lines-per-slide setting as the cap. Long lines wrap rather than shrink past the point of legibility. You never set a font size by hand, because the answer depends on the words and the shape.
Can I change one slide without redoing the rest?
Yes. Edit the words in the box and every slide redraws immediately, then press the PNG button on the one slide you need. Nothing is batch-locked and nothing is regenerated that you did not ask for.
Do the PNGs work in PowerPoint, ProPresenter and the rest?
They are ordinary images, so anything that can show a picture can show them — full screen, in order, as a slideshow background, or burned into a video. What they are not is editable slide files, which is the trade described above.
Is this a lyrics database?
No. SongTextAI does not store, search or display existing song lyrics, and this tool does not fetch any. You supply the words. If you do not have permission to use a lyric, do not paste it here.
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