LyricGlow - Lyrics on your lockscreen
A while back I was heading to the office listening to a song, and the singer did that thing where they drop their voice so low you can't make out a single word.
I thought it'd be great to just glance at the lyrics now and then while a song plays, without any fuss.
Problem was, every lyrics app I tried either ran in the foreground (so I'd have to unlock my phone) or chewed through battery. So I started building LyricGlow: it shows the lyrics of whatever's currently playing right on your lock screen, like an always-on display. If you've got an AMOLED screen, the dark background actually saves battery — and at this point it basically looks and feels like a proper AOD plugin. I'm not great at explaining it in words, honestly — just give it a try and it'll click.
It started as that one simple idea, but beta testers kept asking for more. So now it also has clock, weather and photo widgets, plus music controls, right there on the AOD — most of which came straight from their feedback.
It's live on the Play Store now. As a thank-you, everyone who signs up early gets all features free, for good. This is my first app, and I genuinely just want the early folks who believed in it to have everything, free.
On privacy: no ads, no tracking, no analytics. Lyrics are only fetched for the song that's playing (and cached, so it works offline afterwards). The one thing it stores is your Google sign-in — and only so I can keep a list of early users and make sure you keep getting every future feature free too.
Would genuinely love your feedback — and feature ideas. That's how half of this got built.
Link: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.exodus.lyricglow
Oh and for cat lovers out there, there's an easter egg which comes when you click on a "certain" text 10 times
