Strophes For Mac

Listening to music is an every day activity for the most of us and this means that you will also probably want to see your songs’ lyrics. There are lots of applications designed to download lyrics from the web and display them on your desktop and Strophes is one of them.

What makes Strophes special? The fact that it comes with an easy on the eyes skeuomorphic interface, and a minimal look designed to focus on your songs lyrics rather than on flashy looking album covers. Strophes is skeuomorphic because it comes with a leathery themed top panel, giving you access to the app’s three tabs: Lyrics, Search and Artist.

When activating the Lyrics tab you will be able to view the synced lyrics for the currently playing song on your Mac and, as an added bonus, to control it using the built-in playback controller. On this tab you’ll also be able to see the track’s covert art, extracted from the song’s last.fm page and displayed as a discrete and low-key thumbnail right next to the song info.

The Search tab enables you to quickly pinpoint the song you’re listening, in order to effortlessly grab the right lyrics for your song. This way, you won’t have to waste your time crawling to countless search results using your web browser.

On the Artist tab, Strophes will display the artist’s last.fm biography information. This way you won't have to open your web browser to search for the info on Internet; it will already be available right within Strophes’ interface, one mouse click away.

Strophes can also be used to rapidly translate any song’s lyrics to and from English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, or German with just a click of a button. The Strophes app makes it very quick and simple to share the lyrics of your favorite songs with your Facebook or Twitter friends.

To sum it all up, if you like simple user interfaces and you want to view your songs lyrics displayed in sync with your music, give Strophes a try and you won’t be disappointed.