Lyricus is a minimalist lyric reader/editor for Mac OS X "Leopard" and later. I started developing in part out of boredom, but also in part because I was missing something small to read lyrics in. Before Lyricus, I used Firefox, but with the lyrics in one tab, you have to switch back and forth a lot. I could have used a new, sized down window, but I wanted to practice Cocoa as well!

Update: Version 0.85 is out (November 30 2009). This is a minor release, with one major anti-feature: Lyricwiki support has been removed, due to legal trouble on their side. :-( The only other change from 0.83 is the added ability to customize the text and background colors.

See LyricusFeatures for a list of features.

Two old, but mostly relevant pictures (please note that the toolbar can be hidden): The main lyric window (0.70), The preferences window (0.76)

The download is up for grabs (10.5+, Universal Binary). Please, please, please report all and any bugs and/or feature requests, either using the issue tracker on this site, or via email (serenity@exscape.org). I'm the only dev, and I'm also the QA team. ;) If you don't tell me about a problem, I may well never find it nor fix it!

BTW, note that it is, and will stay, Leopard and later only. Apple weren't lying when they said that there were many things for the programmers in Leopard.

SVN note: I've previously relied on Xcode's snapshots feature to take backups in between svn commits, to make sure that the trunk always works. Well, not anymore, because that feature is bugged bigtime. The trunk may contain all kinds of stuff now, including features that will never make in into a release. Get the latest tag if you want to look at working source.