Songs that keep their order
The editor's single list is the running order — drag a section to move it, repeat it or drop it. A chorus sung three times stays one piece of text in three places.
Free · open source · offline
Lyrics and scripture,
Lyrics and scripture,
on every screen in the room.
LyricVerse projects song lyrics and Bible passages onto any number of displays at once — each with its own independent layout, including a chroma-key lower third for the live stream. Built for the person running the desk on a Sunday morning, not for a demo.
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Search 1 555 songs…
102How Great Thou Art
147Amazing Grace
212Silent Night
288Nearer, My God, to Thee
341Rock of Ages
409And Can It Be
512Be Thou My Vision
Everything a service needs on screen
Songs, scripture, slide decks, video and timers all compile to the same deck of slides — so the transport bar, the keyboard shortcuts and the preview behave identically wherever you are.
Scripture in a keystroke
Type jn 3:16-18, 1 co 13:4-7 or
мт 10 10. Ranked full-text search across the whole
translation, verse ranges as one slide, and abbreviations that
actually match how people type.
Every screen, its own look
Each monitor picks a preset: full-screen text over a background, or a lower-third band on a chroma-key fill for the stream. All geometry is a percentage of the screen, so a layout survives a different projector.
Drag-and-drop layout editor
Move and resize the title, number, section label, reference and body on a live example screen, with snapping to edges, centres and thirds. There is no font-size setting — the box is the size control, and text is always drawn as large as it allows.
Slides, video and timers
PDF decks are rasterised once at import, so a deck that imported cleanly can never render differently mid-service. Add clips or a YouTube link, image or video backgrounds, and a countdown overlaid on any screen.
Screens without a cable
Not every screen in a hall is wired to the desk. LyricVerse serves the projection page over the local network — a tablet, a TV browser or a phone opens it and gets your layout exactly, down to the fitted type.
Preview is the real thing
The console previews each enabled screen with the same component the projector renders. Settings never have to be checked by pushing them out mid-service — and the selected slide is tracked separately from the live one, so browsing never projects.
Updates that wait their turn
It checks on startup, downloads quietly in the background and applies the update when you quit — an update can never interrupt a service. Your songbooks, translations and settings live outside the app and are never touched.
Yours, and offline
Bilingual UI (Ukrainian / English), standard MyBible modules, v1 songbooks opened unchanged, and nothing phoning home — the only part that needs the network is a YouTube item, and the UI marks those.
Download LyricVerse
Free, with no account and no licence key. Pick the file for your machine — the latest release is on GitHub.
macOS will refuse to open it the first time
The builds are not yet signed with an Apple Developer ID, so Gatekeeper blocks them: "Apple could not verify LyricVerse is free of malware…", offering only Done and Move to Trash. Alarming, and misleading — nothing is wrong with the app; macOS simply has no signature telling it who built it.
Drag LyricVerse to Applications, then run this once:
xattr -dr com.apple.quarantine /Applications/LyricVerse.appThen open it normally — it is not needed again, including after updates. Without the terminal: press Done, open System Settings → Privacy & Security, scroll to Security and click Open Anyway.
It starts empty — that is deliberate
No songbooks and no Bible translations ship with the app: they belong to
your congregation, not to the program, and much of that text may not be
redistributed. Add your own from Settings → Songbooks and
translations, which reads MyBible .SQLite3 modules and
v1 .db songbooks, or import songs from files with
Song → Import Songs….
The .tar.gz files on the releases page are for the built-in
updater, not for installing by hand — ignore them.
Support the project
LyricVerse is free and always will be. It is built and maintained in evenings and weekends — if it saved your team a Sunday morning, you can help keep it going.
Free ways that help just as much
- Star the repository — it is how other churches find it.
- Report a bug you hit in a real service. Those are the reports worth the most.
- Tell the person running the desk at the church down the road.
- Translate the interface, or send a pull request.
Tymofii Matviiv
Developer of LyricVerse · 0xt1m
Cybersecurity student at Montreat College, working in threat detection, network security and far too much Python. LyricVerse started as a PyQt5 app for one church's projector and was rewritten from scratch in Rust, Tauri and React — because the people running it on a Sunday deserved software that could not lose their songbook mid-service.
Notes, projects and everything else live on my site.