Calm when idle, tiny when playing, beautiful when you want it.
A ball when idle
Music off, Verse rests as a tiny glass dot — near-zero CPU.
A pill when singing
The capsule hugs each line and stays on top of every app.
A card when you want more
One click unfurls three lines, a scrubber, and transport.
Pick how the line moves.
One theme drives both the pill and the card. All four are live, right here.
Type-on
Words rise in as they're sung.
Word spotlight
One bright word at a time.
Light wipe
Brightness sweeps with the vocal. The default.
Underline tracer
Still text, a gliding dash. The calmest.
Built to disappear into your desktop.
- Always on top, never in the way
- Drag the pill anywhere; it floats over every app and clicks pass through everything around it.
- Lives on any display
- Right-click to send it to another screen — it remembers where it lives, even across unplugs.
- Time-synced, cached offline
- Lyrics from LRCLIB's open catalog, matched to the exact track and saved locally.
- Echoes get their own voice
- Ad-libs and echo lines render soft, small, and italic — the way they sound.
Works with Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube Music, TIDAL, Deezer, Amazon Music, Plexamp, VOX, and Swinsian — plus web players in your browser. No login, no setup.
Get Verse.
Free, open source, MIT licensed. macOS 14 or later, on any Mac.
$ brew install --cask cpt-nem0/tap/verse
$ curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cpt-nem0/verse/main/install.sh | bash
The direct download is ad-hoc signed, so macOS blocks the first launch: open System Settings → Privacy & Security and click Open Anyway. The terminal installs skip that entirely.