How to make a lyric video with your own song

A lyric video puts the words on screen in time with the music: line by line, word by word like karaoke, or a whole verse with the sung line lit up. Here's how to make one from your own song, for free, without uploading it anywhere.

Before you start: use music you have rights to

Use music you own or have rights to, such as your own songs, music you've licensed, or tracks whose licence allows this use. Platforms may mute or remove videos with unlicensed songs. Saynetic never searches for, downloads or suggests lyrics: they always come from you.

Step 1: Add your song

Open Lyric video and choose your song. An audio file (MP3, M4A, WAV…) or a video works. A lyric video can be up to 3 minutes: for a longer song, set Start at to the part you want (the chorus is usually the best clip for short-form).

Step 2: Get the lyrics in time

There are three ways, and you can mix them:

Paste & auto-align (most accurate): paste your lyrics, one line per line, and press Auto-align. Your device listens to the song and matches each word to what it hears, even when a few words are misheard. Lines it isn't sure about are marked Check.
Tap to sync: paste the lyrics, press Start, and tap the big button (or press Space) as each line begins. Great for songs where the vocals are hard to hear.
Transcribe: let your device write down what it hears. Speech recognition is made for talking, so with singing many words come out wrong. Use it as a starting point and check every line.

Step 3: Fine-tune the timing

Every line has a start and an end time. Nudge them by 0.1 seconds with the − and + buttons, press play on a line to hear it, or drag a line's edges on the timeline above the list. Edit the text of any line, add or delete lines, and undo anything.

Step 4: Pick a look

Display: Line by line shows each line as it's sung, Karaoke fills each word as it's sung, and Full verse shows several lines with the current one highlighted.
Looks: Karaoke Glow, Big Bold Center, Typewriter Lines, Soft Fade and Scrolling Verse. Each starts from a caption style you can keep adjusting under Styles (font, colours, size, position).
Background: an audio visualizer that moves with the music (bars, waveform or circle), a gradient or solid colour, or your own image or video.
Title card: add the song title and artist for the first few seconds.

Step 5: Export

Press Export for a 9:16 MP4 with your song, at 30 fps, ready for TikTok, Reels or Shorts (1:1 and 16:9 are available too). It's made on your device: your song never leaves it.