FreeLyric Video Maker

A lyric video maker with three ways to get the words on the beat.

Open it and a lyric video is already playing: a demo song with its words timed to the music. Swap in your own MP3, paste the lyrics, then time them your way — paste an LRC, tap the spacebar line by line, or let the lines spread across the track. Pick from 24 looks, choose 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1, and download an MP4 with the song in it: 720p free, clean 1080p on any paid plan.

24
Looks
Eight styles in three variants each — a palette, a texture or a prefix, not a recolour.
3
Ways to time it
Paste LRC, tap to sync, or auto spread by line length.
10 min
Longest selection
The clip is the selection you set on the waveform, exported with its audio.
120
Lines per video
Up to 80 characters each; a blank line marks an instrumental break.
  • Tapped lines land within about 10 ms of the key press
  • Pasted LRC times match the file to a hundredth of a second
  • Previews draw in your browser — no render queue
  • No watermark on any paid plan

What it is

A lyric video maker that does the timing, not just the typography.

A lyric video is the words of a song on screen, arriving exactly when they are sung. The typography is the easy half; the timing is the work, and it is the half most tools hand back to you. This lyric video generator gives you three ways through it. Paste an LRC — the synced lyric format you can download for most released songs — and every line is placed to the hundredth of a second, with the enhanced word-level timestamps read too where the file has them. Or press Start tapping and hit the spacebar as each line comes round; the tap is recorded at the frame you pressed it, ← re-takes the line you just missed, Esc stops, and clicking any line in the list carries on from there. Or leave it on Auto spread, which shares the selection out by line length so a draft plays back on the first click. Whichever route you take, the words land inside a real design: eight styles — Bold Center, Karaoke, Typewriter, Handwritten, Neon, Kinetic Stack, Editorial Serif and Glitch — in three variants each, 24 looks in all, drawn live in your browser rather than rendered on a server. The download is an MP4 with your song in it, trimmed to the part you selected, at 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1.

8 styles, 3 variants each — 24 looks Paste an LRC, tap along, or spread the lines 720p free, clean 1080p on any paid plan

How it works

How to make a lyric video in three steps

01

Drop in the song and the words

MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, FLAC or OGG, decoded in your browser with no size limit, then drag the handles to the part you want — up to ten minutes. Type or paste the lyrics on the left, one line per line, with a blank line wherever the music takes over. Up to 120 lines, 80 characters each.

02

Time the lines your way

Paste an LRC and it switches to that mode by itself, offset header and all. Or tap: the song plays from the start of your selection and you press Space at the top of every line, with ← to re-take one and Esc to stop. Or leave Auto spread on and the lines share the selection out by length.

03

Pick a look and download

Click through the eight style cards and their variant dots, set the type size, case and colours, choose a background, switch on Bars if you want a spectrum along the bottom, then pick 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1. Download gives you an MP4 with the audio in it: 720p free with a small LazyKiwi mark, clean 1080p on any paid plan, 4K on Pro.

Three ways to sync

Paste an LRC, tap the spacebar, or let the lines spread themselves

Most songs already have a synced lyric file somewhere — LRC is that format, a timestamp like [00:19.16] in front of every line. Paste one into the lyrics box and the tool recognises it on the spot: lines land to the hundredth of a second, the [offset:] header is applied the way music players apply it, and enhanced files with <00:19.16> word timestamps drive the highlight word by word instead of guessing. No LRC? Tapping takes about as long as the song does, and the times you tap are kept as song time, so trimming the intro afterwards does not slide the words out of place. Copy timing as LRC saves what you tapped, to paste back another day.

  • Pasted lines match the LRC to a hundredth of a second
  • Tapped lines are recorded within about ten milliseconds of the key press
  • Copy timing as LRC keeps the work, with your artist and title in the header

8 styles · 24 looks

Full-frame typography, not a caption bar across the bottom

Bold Center pops the words in one by one, dead centre. Karaoke shows the whole line in grey and lights it up as it is sung, with the next line waiting underneath. Typewriter types in mono behind a blinking block cursor, as a terminal, a dot-grid page or an amber CRT. Handwritten writes itself onto a taped note, kraft paper or a chalkboard, each line tilted a degree or two. Neon flickers tube-light capitals on inside a glowing frame. Kinetic Stack keeps the current line biggest and brightest while the last three stack up above it and fade. Editorial Serif fades slowly between two hairlines with the line number beside it. Glitch tears each line in with RGB ghosts over scanlines. Three variants each — a palette, a texture or a prefix, not a recolour. Click any name to open the maker on that style.

  • 24 looks from 8 styles, each card drawn from your own first lines
  • Type size from 60 to 150 percent, uppercase or as typed, your own text and accent colours
  • Karaoke, Neon and Kinetic Stack are premium; the other five export on the free plan

The song is in the file

Exports carry the audio, trimmed to the part you chose

The video is exactly the selection you set on the waveform — no looping to fill, no silent clip to marry up with the track afterwards. The download is an H.264 MP4 at 30 fps with an AAC audio track, named after the style, the ratio and the length. Everything is encoded in the browser tab, so a ten-minute song is a long export rather than a queue position, and nothing is uploaded to render it. Two things do reach our servers: cloud render, if you pick it, and — when you are signed in — the project that a finished export saves, which carries a cover frame and an uploaded song under 8 MB (a larger file is left out and the tool tells you). Switch the ratio and the layout is rebuilt for that frame: 16:9 for YouTube, 9:16 for Shorts, Reels and TikTok, 1:1 for the feed.

  • Selections up to 10 minutes; the clip is the selection, not a loop
  • 16:9, 9:16 and 1:1, each laid out for its own frame
  • Cloud render is optional, for selections up to 60 seconds, at 5 credits per 20 seconds

Around the words

A background that suits the song, and a title card to open on

Each style brings its own backdrop, and you can replace it: a solid colour, a two-stop gradient, one of five animated shaders — Aurora, Ambient, Mesh, Caustics or Glass — your cover art blurred behind the words, or a photo, with six to choose from and your own on Starter and above. Darken and vignette sliders keep the type readable over any of them. Bars adds a thin 42-band spectrum along the bottom, analysed from your song and off by default. Add the artist and song title and the video opens on a title card of up to three seconds before the first line; leave them out and it starts on the lyrics.

  • Six background kinds, five animated shaders, cover blur and photos
  • Bars: a 42-band spectrum read from your own song, off by default
  • Optional title card with artist and title, up to three seconds

Inside the tool

Song and words on the left, the video in the middle, timing on the right

There is no project to set up. The left rail holds the song, the selection handles and the lyrics box, plus artist, title and cover art; the stage in the middle plays the video above a timeline ticked with every line; the right rail holds the eight style cards, the three timing modes, the numbered lyric list, the type and background controls, the ratio and the download button.

LazyKiwi · Lyric Video Maker
The Lyric Video Maker on its demo song: the pasted LRC on the left, Karaoke · Night paused mid-line on the stage, the eight style cards redrawn with those same lyrics, and every line numbered with the second it starts.
  • The lyric list is the timeline

    Every line is numbered with the second it starts. Click one to jump the preview there — or, if you are tapping, to carry on from that line instead of starting again.

  • Three timing chips, one of them tapping

    Auto spread, Paste LRC and Tap to sync sit under the style cards, and pasting lyrics with timestamps switches to LRC by itself. Each mode says in a line what it is about to do.

  • Style cards use your own words

    The eight thumbnails are real frames of each style with your first lines in them, redrawn a moment after you edit the lyrics. The dots under each card are its three variants.

All eight

Eight ways to put a line on screen

Each tile is one style playing the same three lines of the demo song at 9:16: Bold Center · Ink, Karaoke · Night, Typewriter · Terminal, Handwritten · Blush note, Neon · Cyan, Kinetic Stack · Royal, Editorial Serif · Midnight and Glitch · Cyan. Your lyrics, your song and your timing stay put while you click between them.

Open the lyric video maker

Bold Center

Big grotesk lines dead centre, every word popping in on its beat.

Karaoke

The line waits in grey and lights up word by word, next line underneath.

Typewriter

Mono letters type out one by one behind a blinking block cursor.

Handwritten

Script writing itself onto a taped note, each line tilted a degree or two.

Neon

Tube-light capitals flickering on inside a glowing frame.

Kinetic Stack

The current line biggest and brightest, the last three stacked above it.

Editorial Serif

Slow serif fades between two hairlines, numbered like a poem.

Glitch

Each line tears in with RGB ghosts and settles over scanlines.

Why LazyKiwi

Why make your lyric video here

It opens as a finished video

A thirty-second demo song is loaded with its lyrics already timed, so the first thing you see is the output, not an empty project. Click through all eight styles on it before you decide whether to bring your own song over.

Timing you can actually correct

Every route leaves you something to hold: an LRC you can edit, taps you can re-take one line at a time, and Copy timing as LRC to save what you did. Nothing is locked inside an automatic pass you have to unpick.

No render queue

The preview and the style cards are drawn in your browser tab, so a new style shows up at once and a download starts straight away. A 120-line lyric sheet rebuilds in under a tenth of a second when you switch styles.

Your song is decoded on your machine

The audio is decoded and played locally — nothing is uploaded to preview it, and there is no file-size limit because of that. It reaches our servers only if a signed-in export saves the project, or you choose cloud render.

Ready for a release

Any paid plan exports clean 1080p cleared for commercial use — a monetised channel, a label upload, a client's single. Pro adds 4K and 60 fps.

Nothing to learn

No timeline, no keyframes, no caption track to restyle. Words on the left, the video in the middle, styles and timing on the right.

Lyric video maker, auto-caption editor or blank timeline

Three ways to get lyrics onto a song, and what changes when the timing is something you drive instead of something you correct. The other two columns describe VEED, FlexClip and Kapwing's own lyric-video pages and editors as we found them in September 2026.

LazyKiwi Lyric Video Maker

What you get here

  • Opens on a finished lyric video — a demo song with its words already timed — so you see the output before typing anything
  • Three ways to sync: paste an LRC, tap the spacebar line by line, or spread the lines by length
  • Full-frame typography: 8 styles, 24 looks, redrawn live with your own lyrics
  • The export carries your song, trimmed to your selection, at 16:9, 9:16 or 1:1
  • Unlimited 720p exports free with a small mark for personal use; clean 1080p and commercial use on any paid plan

Editors with auto-captions

VEED, FlexClip

  • The flow starts with a media upload and an automatic transcription; there is no box to paste lyrics or an LRC into
  • The styling on offer is subtitle styling — a caption bar over a video, in a list of preset looks
  • The transcript is the timing: where it hears a word wrong or early, you fix it in a caption track
  • Both editors open without an account, and both warn that the export will carry their watermark until you upgrade

A blank timeline editor

Kapwing

  • A general-purpose studio that opens on an empty project at the ratio you pick
  • Uploading your song asks you to sign in first, and files past its free size limit prompt an upgrade
  • The lyrics are text layers you place and time yourself, or another automatic caption pass
  • Powerful once you are in it, and a lot of editor for putting one song's words on screen

Pricing & limits

A free lyric video maker, and what paying unlocks

Every style plays in the live preview with your own song and lyrics, and the free plan gives you unlimited 720p exports with a small LazyKiwi mark, for personal use. Paying unlocks the rest: a one-time credit pack removes the mark and lets you export the three premium styles; any paid plan adds 1080p and commercial use, so the video can go up on a monetised channel or with a release; Pro adds 4K and 60 fps. Cloud render is optional, for selections up to 60 seconds, at 5 credits per 20 seconds.

Unlimited exports

Free · 720p

  • 720p MP4 with a small LazyKiwi mark, for personal use
  • Any plan or credit pack removes the mark
  • All 3 aspect ratios — 16:9, 9:16, 1:1
  • No card required to open, edit or preview
  • Every style in the live preview — Karaoke, Neon and Kinetic Stack need a credit pack or plan to export

1080p on any paid plan

1080p · 4K

  • Same clip, same edit, rendered clean at 1080p — commercial use included
  • 4K, 60 fps and transparent ProRes on Pro and above

No credits to export

Renders in your browser

  • Timing the lines, switching styles and previewing with your own song re-render locally and spend no credits
  • No upload queue and no render wait to pay for
  • Optional cloud render, every frame stable: 5 credits per 20 seconds
See what credits cost

FAQ

Lyric video questions, answered

Is this lyric video maker free?+

Yes, to use and for personal use. Load your song, type the lyrics, time them and try all 24 looks in the live preview without an account; a free account then gets unlimited 720p exports with a small LazyKiwi mark in the corner. Three premium styles — Karaoke, Neon and Kinetic Stack — export only with a one-time credit pack or a paid plan, and the credit pack also removes the mark. A lyric video on a monetised channel, released with a single or made for a client is commercial use and needs a paid plan: any paid plan exports clean 1080p cleared for commercial use, and Pro and above add 4K and 60 fps.

How do I make a lyric video?+

Drop your song in on the left — MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, FLAC or OGG — and drag the handles to the part you want. Paste the lyrics underneath, one line per line, with a blank line wherever the music takes over. Then time them: paste an LRC if you have one, or press Start tapping and hit the spacebar at the top of every line, or leave Auto spread on for a rough pass. Click a style card, set the ratio, and press Download video. Downloading asks you to sign in with a free account.

Is there an AI lyric video generator here?+

Not in the sense of a prompt that writes a video for you — and that is deliberate. The part of a lyric video that takes an evening is getting each line to land on the beat and exporting the result with the song in it, and that is what this tool does: three ways to time the lines, 24 finished looks and an MP4 with your audio, all in the browser. What it does not do is transcribe lyrics out of the audio by itself. You bring the words — from an LRC, from the lyric sheet, or typed out — and the tool does the timing, the typesetting and the render.

What is an LRC file and where do I get one?+

An LRC is a plain text file of lyrics with a timestamp in front of every line, like [00:19.16] When you were here before. Most released songs have one: lrclib.net and similar lyric libraries let you copy the synced lyrics straight out, and many music players export them. Paste the contents into the lyrics box and the tool switches to LRC mode by itself — it reads [mm:ss.xx] and [mm:ss.xxx], applies an [offset:] header the way music players do, skips the [ti:] and [ar:] metadata lines, and reads the enhanced <00:19.16> word timestamps where a file has them.

What if my song has no LRC — how does tap to sync work?+

Press Start tapping and the song plays from the top of your selection; press Space, or hit the big button, the moment each line is sung. The line you are on is highlighted and the next one waits underneath. Press ← to re-take the line you just tapped, Esc to stop, and click any line in the list to carry on from there rather than starting over. Lines you never reach are spread evenly to the end. It takes about as long as the song does, and Copy timing as LRC saves the result as a file you can paste back in later.

How accurate is the timing?+

Taps are recorded against the playback clock rather than a repainted frame, and in our tests they landed within about ten milliseconds of the key press. Pasted LRC lines match the file to a hundredth of a second. Both are kept as song time, not clip time, so if you trim the intro afterwards the words stay where they belong. Auto spread is the exception — it shares the selection out by line length, which is a sensible draft rather than a sync.

Can I use my own song, and how long can it be?+

Yes. MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, FLAC and OGG are all read, decoded in your browser, with no file-size limit because nothing is uploaded to play it. One video covers a selection of up to ten minutes — drag the handles across the waveform to pick it — which is longer than almost any single. The export is exactly that selection, with its audio.

Is there a watermark on free lyric videos?+

Yes — a small LazyKiwi mark in the corner of the 720p export, and it cannot be switched off on the free plan. Paying removes it: a one-time credit pack exports without the mark, and any paid plan exports the same video clean at 1080p, cleared for commercial use.

Can I make a karaoke video?+

Yes — the Karaoke style is built for it: the whole line waits in grey and lights up as it is sung, with the next line previewed underneath. With an ordinary LRC the highlight moves across the words evenly inside each line; with an enhanced LRC that carries <mm:ss.xx> word timestamps, each word lights at its own moment. Karaoke is one of the three premium styles, so exporting it needs a credit pack or a paid plan, though you can preview it on your own song for free.

Which sizes can I export — YouTube, Shorts, TikTok, Instagram?+

16:9, 9:16 and 1:1, and the layout is rebuilt for each frame rather than cropped out of a widescreen render — type size, line breaks and the spectrum bars all follow the shape. 16:9 suits a YouTube upload, 9:16 suits Shorts, Reels and TikTok, 1:1 suits a feed post. The file is an H.264 MP4 at 30 fps with an AAC audio track, which all of them accept as it is.

Can I use the lyric video commercially?+

Yes, on any paid plan: those exports are 1080p with no watermark and cleared for commercial use — a monetised channel, a release, an ad, a client's single. Free exports, and clean exports from a credit pack alone, are for personal use. The music and the lyrics are yours to clear, though: the tool does not check who owns the song, so use a track and words you have the rights to publish.

Use cases

Who makes their lyric video here

Independent artists

A new single needs something to look at on YouTube. Paste the LRC you uploaded with the release, or tap the words once, and the same timing exports at 16:9 for the upload and 9:16 for the teaser — with the track already in the file.

Covers, remixes and demos

Nothing you cover has an LRC for your version, and that is what tapping is for: play it through once, hit Space at the top of each line, and fix the one you fluffed with ←. A three-minute cover is timed in about three minutes.

Karaoke and sing-along screens

The Karaoke style keeps the whole line in view and lights it word by word, with the next line waiting underneath — the look people expect on a sing-along screen. Export it at 16:9 and play it from a laptop or a TV.

Shorts, Reels and TikTok

Trim to the hook, pick 9:16, and the words are typeset for a phone rather than cropped out of a widescreen render. Kinetic Stack and Bold Center hold up at arm's length; the export keeps the audio, so the clip is ready to post.

Editors and labels

Time the lines once and switch styles as often as the artist asks — the song, the lyrics and the timing stay put while the look changes. Client work is commercial use, so export it on a paid plan: clean 1080p, no watermark.

More answers

More about timing and styling

Does it transcribe the lyrics from the audio?+

No — there is no speech recognition in this tool, and singing is the hardest thing to transcribe well anyway. You bring the words, which for a released song usually means copying a synced LRC (already timed, so there is nothing left to do) and for your own material means typing the lyric sheet and tapping once through the song. The trade is deliberate: nothing to proofread, no caption track to unpick, and a sync that is right because you set it.

How exact is the word-by-word highlight?+

It depends on what the timing came from. A normal LRC and tapping both give line times, so within a line the highlight moves across the words evenly — close on most songs, half a beat out on a fast line with long words. An enhanced LRC with <mm:ss.xx> word timestamps is exact: each word becomes its own layer, measured and placed, and lights at its own moment. Those files are rarer than line-level ones, so expect the even split most of the time.

One line is a fraction late — can I nudge just that one?+

There is no per-line drag yet. While you are tapping, ← re-takes the line you just did, and you can stop, click any line in the list and carry on from there. Afterwards, the reliable fix is Copy timing as LRC, edit that one timestamp in any text editor, and paste it back — the tool switches to LRC mode and takes your corrected times. It is on the list to make direct.

What can I change about the picture behind the words?+

Each style comes with its own background, and you can swap it for a solid colour, a two-stop gradient, one of five animated shaders — Aurora, Ambient, Mesh, Caustics or Glass — your cover art blurred, or a photo, with six supplied and your own on Starter and above. Darken and vignette sliders keep the type legible over any of them. Bars adds a thin 42-band spectrum along the bottom, read from your own song, off by default. Type size, uppercase or as typed, text colour and accent colour are yours too.

Does it handle languages other than English?+

Yes. The lyrics box takes any text your keyboard produces, and the styles that animate word by word fall back to character by character for Chinese, Japanese and Korean, where there are no spaces to split on. The fonts that ship with the tool cover Latin script; other writing systems fall back to what your system provides, so check the preview before you export a long one.

Do I need an account, and what is cloud render for?+

Not to use the tool: load a song, time the lines, try every style and watch the whole video without signing in. Downloading needs a free account. Cloud render is the optional alternative to encoding in your tab — useful on a slow laptop or if you want to close the page — and it takes selections up to 60 seconds at 5 credits per 20 seconds. Anything longer downloads from your browser, at any length.

Put the words where they belong — on the beat.

Open the lyric video maker on its demo song, then swap in your own. Paste an LRC or tap it out, pick from 24 looks, and export 720p free or clean 1080p on any paid plan.

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