Lyrist

Lyrist started from a very practical complaint: songwriters were bouncing between a notes app, a YouTube tab and an online rhyming dictionary, losing ideas in the process. The app collapses that workflow into one window — a beat player streaming from YouTube or SoundCloud sits alongside a lyric editor, with rhyme, phrase and thesaurus lookups a click away.

Its features are aimed at keeping momentum rather than generating finished songs. There is a rhyming dictionary and smart suggestions, a timed writing challenge for when inspiration stalls, folders and unlimited pages for organizing drafts, and voice memo or custom-beat uploads on the roadmap. Lyric lines can be timestamped to moments in a track, and you can take notes while a video plays.

Lyrist runs on iOS, Android and the web, and the creators keep an active public roadmap and FAQ. There is a free starting point with no account required, and a paid subscription that removes ads and adds unlimited pages, smart suggestions, folders and cross-device sync.