Glint
Stack
One word per row down the middle. The current word gets a box in the song colour and the stack scrolls with it.
Glint
Lyrics that light up one word at a time, with a light that travels around your screen.
Try the preview
Windows · coming soon
Try the preview
Your song. Inside the preview.
Choose a song for an official Spotify preview, or explore Glint's silent lyric styles. These are two separate modes: song audio is not synced to the visual demo.
Official Spotify preview
Up to 15 seconds
0:00 / 0:15
No Spotify player loaded. Choose a song, then allow the player.
Lyrics are not available in this Spotify preview. The lyric-style demo is separate and silent.
Spotify supplies the available clip and playback controls; clips can be shorter than 15 seconds. Use your device's volume controls, or open Spotify, to change the volume.
Silent lyric-style demo with original sample text, not actual song lyrics. No Spotify audio plays in this mode.
Original sample text only, not the selected song's lyrics. This animation is silent and is not synced to Spotify. The Windows app finds lyrics for what you play on your PC.
Three display styles
One song, three ways to read it.
The timings underneath never change, only how the words arrive. Press S while lyrics are open to switch. Glint asks two lyric sources at once and shows the first good match. When a song has word timing, each word lights as it is sung. When it only has line timing, Glint estimates the words. Some songs have no lyrics at all.
Scatter
Each line lands somewhere new on the black screen, with the words zig-zagging down.
Constellation
Words spread out like stars and join up in the order they are sung. The current word glows.
Word icons
Words that draw a picture.
Words like see, heart, night and fire get a small solid icon in the song colour beside them in Stack and Scatter. Press E to turn them off.
see
light
night
heart
fire
run
phone
ball
wind
time
crown
fly
Edge light
A light that moves with the music.
In Glint, coloured ribbons travel around the edge of the lyrics window, clockwise through all four corners. They speed up and brighten with bass hits. Try the silent visual demo below.
Visual demo only. The bars and light use a simulated beat, not your music. Reduced motion keeps this preview still unless you press Play.
Travels the whole edge
Thin ribbons run around the window with a short glow inward. The middle stays black.
Pushed by the beat
Glint listens to your PC's sound output, never the microphone, and keeps only loudness and beat numbers. Nothing is saved or sent.
Your colours or the album's
Pull the palette from the cover art of whatever is playing, or pick two colours yourself.
Follows Windows motion
By default the light stays still when Windows animations are off. One switch lets just the light move.
Controls
Everything is on the keyboard.
Open Glint from anywhere with one shortcut. Skip, seek and change the volume without leaving the lyrics.
- CtrlAltL
- Open or close lyrics from anywhere. You can change it.
- Space
- Play or pause
- ←→
- Previous or next song
- AD
- Back or forward 5 seconds
- ↑↓
- Windows volume
- SE
- Next style, word icons on or off
- LEsc
- Player or lyrics, close
Four steps
Set up in a minute.
No account and no sign-in. Glint lives in the tray, next to the clock.
Install Glint when released
The private preview is not available to download. Windows Defender currently blocks the unsigned test build; a Microsoft review is needed before release.
Open it from the tray
Press Ctrl Alt G to bring up its window and pick your colours.
Press play
Start any song in Spotify or Apple Music.
Press Ctrl+Alt+L
The lyrics fill the screen. Press Esc to close them.
FAQ
Good questions.
What does Glint do?
It reads what Spotify or Apple Music is playing from the Windows media controls, finds the lyrics, and shows them full screen one word at a time. A coloured light moves around the edge of the lyrics window with the music.
Which music apps work?
Spotify and Apple Music. Other apps that report to the Windows media controls, such as browsers, can be switched on in Settings but are off by default because they may show videos that are not songs.
Does every song have lyrics?
No. Glint looks them up from third-party sources, so coverage is not something it controls. Availability and timing quality vary by song. A song without lyrics shows the player and says so.
Does it listen to my microphone?
No. To move the light with the beat it analyses your PC's sound output, only while lyrics mode is open and music is playing. It keeps loudness and beat numbers and nothing else. No audio is saved or sent.
What does it send over the internet?
Only the song title, artist, album and length, to two lyric services (LRCLIB and NetEase), so they can find the lyrics. There is no account and no tracking. Read the privacy notes for details.
Does it change my volume?
Only when you use its volume slider or the up and down keys. That changes the Windows volume for the whole output, not just one app.
Does it run all the time?
It lives in the tray. Starting at sign-in is an option and is off by default. You can quit it from the tray or from Settings.
Is there a Mac or Linux version?
Not yet. Glint is Windows only for now. Reading what is playing needs its own code on each system.