How to Show Spotify Lyrics on PC or Mac

This wikiHow teaches you how to use a free app called Musixmatch to display lyrics on Spotify.

Table of Contents

On Windows

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Open the Windows Store store. You can download Musixmatch for free from the Windows Store. To open a store, type store in the search bar and click Microsoft Store from within the results that appear.

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Type musixmatch in the search bar. A list of matches will appear.

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Click on Musixmatch Lyrics & Music Player . The app is red with overlapping triangles inside.

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Click Get . Or if you’ve already downloaded the app, click Install . The application will begin to install on your computer.

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Open Musixmatch. The app will be in the All Apps section of the Start menu. The main Musixmatch screen will open, which is where the lyrics on Spotify will appear.

If you haven’t closed the Windows Store window yet, you can click Launch .

On macOS

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Go to https://about.musixmatch.com/apps using a web browser. You can download the free Musixmatch app to view the lyrics of your favorite Spotify songs.

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Click Download the Desktop app . The application will begin downloading to your Mac.

If you’re using an ad blocker, you may need to disable it first to download the app. Don’t worry because this file is safe.

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Double-click the installation file located in the Downloads folder. This is the file you just downloaded. The filename will start with “Musixmatch” and end with “.dmg.”

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Confirm the installation. Depending on your version of macOS, you may need to confirm the installation first by:

Click menu

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Click System Preferences .
Click Security & Privacy .
Click the padlock icon and enter your admin password.
Click Allow for “Musixmatch”.

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Drag the Musixmatch icon and drop it into the Applications folder. Wait a few seconds for the app to be copied to the folder.

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Open Musixmatch. Double-click the Musixmatch icon in the Applications folder to open the application immediately. The Musixmatch window – where the lyrics are displayed – will open.

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Open Spotify. The application is green with three black curves located in the Applications folder.

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Play the song on Spotify. A few seconds after the song starts playing, the lyrics will also appear in the Musixmatch window.

Steps

On Windows

On macOS

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