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Chorus

Chorus is a music player, available on Linux: lyrics display.

  • Completely free
  • Linux
  • Open source
  • No account

Overview

Chorus is a music player, available on Linux.

Features described in its Flathub listing and in its GitHub repository: lyrics display.

Overview written by LicitPro from the documentation published by the authors and the cited sources; we have not tried the resource ourselves.

Excerpts that establish this information
  • “GTK4/Libadwaita app to view the lyrics for your currently playing music” — GitHub, 10 November 2026
  • “Chorus watches whatever media player is running on your system and shows synced or plain lyrics for the current track, no matter which app you're using. • Follows any music player automatically, or lets you pick one…” — GitHub, 10 November 2026

At a glance

All of Chorus is free: no feature is locked behind a paid plan, and its code is open.

Its licence (MIT) is a permissive open source licence: use, modification and redistribution are allowed, including in commercial projects.

Strengths

  • Open source code
  • No account needed
  • Commercial use allowed

About

Chorus watches whatever music player is running on your system and shows synced or plain lyrics for the current track. Features: Follows any music player automatically, or lets you pick one manually Synced lyrics scroll and highlight the current line as the song plays Click any line to seek directly to it Blurred cover art as a live background

Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

Sources and checks

  • Facts collected from Flathub (credit card, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use, version) —
  • Facts collected from GitHub (credit card, account, source code, publisher, licence, free status, platforms, commercial use) —
  • Last technical check: 7 November 2026
  • Description from Flathub — AppStream (Flathub)

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