Ondalume: Lyrics & Song Finder
Sing along to vinyl & cassette
Free
Drop the needle, tap Listen, and sing along. Ondalume names the song spinning on your turntable, playing from a cassette deck or a CD, or coming over the radio, then lights up each lyric line as it's sung. Live, synced lyrics for music that never came with a screen.
MADE FOR RECORDS, TAPES, AND CDs
- Built for the music playing in the room: vinyl, cassette, CD, the radio, or anything on the stereo
- Follows a turntable running a touch fast or slow, so the words never drift ahead of the record
- Flip to side B or let the next track start: Ondalume hears the gap and names the new song within seconds
- Lift the needle back to the chorus or skip ahead, and the highlight catches up on its own
NAME THE SONG OUT OF THE AIR
- One tap finds the song, the artist, and the album cover
- Knows a remaster, a single, and the album cut are the same song, so the lyrics stay on screen when the pressing changes
- Copes with a noisy room or a quiet passage, and keeps the song on screen if one listen comes up empty
LYRICS THAT FOLLOW THE MUSIC, LINE BY LINE
- The current line glows in time with the singer, like karaoke for your record collection
- Stays on the right line even when two verses sound the same, by listening for the words being sung
- Radio edit, single, or extended mix? Ondalume checks the lyric timing against what it hears and follows the version that's actually playing
MADE FOR SINGING ALONG
- The screen stays awake while you listen, so the words never go dark mid-chorus
- Big lyric text on a quiet card, with the current line always in view
- Four themes in Settings, each in light and dark: Hearth (candlelight and warm paper), Stone (soft greys), Harbor (sea fog and slate blue), and Rock (bright stage red)
PRIVATE BY DESIGN
- Listening starts only when you tap Listen and stops the moment you leave the app
- Your audio never leaves your device and is never recorded or stored; only an anonymous audio fingerprint is sent to identify the song
- Lyrics and covers are held in memory and gone when you stop
- No account, no sign-up, no ads, no tracking, no analytics
GOOD TO KNOW
- Song recognition and lyrics need an internet connection
- Lyrics come from LRCLIB, a free community lyrics library, and are always shown with attribution. Most popular songs have timed lyrics; some tracks have plain lyrics only, or none yet
- The first time you listen, Ondalume downloads its on-device speech model (a one-time download of about 145 MB), which helps it tell lyric passages apart. It runs entirely on your device
- Ondalume listens only while it's open on screen; there's no background listening
Drop the needle. Sing every line.
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New:
- A new app icon: five lines of lyrics on bright teal, with the line being sung lit up.
- Four new themes to pick from in Settings: Lagoon, Ember, Frost, and Encore, each in light and dark.
- Hands full with a record? Say "Listen with Ondalume" and it starts listening.
- Contact Us in Settings opens an email to the team, ready to write.
Improved
- Your theme carries over: Rock becomes Encore, and the other themes move to Lagoon.
Fixed
- On iPhone Duo's folded screen, the lyrics sit centred on the screen.
The developer, Alexandru Firtulescu, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Alexandru Firtulescu
- Size
- 8.2 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 2 more
- English, German, Spanish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Alexandru Firtulescu