Melisma: Lyrics & Melody
by Songdeed
$4.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
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Type your lyric over your melody and see where a word is accented on the wrong syllable. Rhyme, syllable counts, notation and export. Offline, and it collects nothing.
Type the words. See where they fight the beat.
Every songwriting book teaches prosody — putting the stressed syllable of a word where the music is strong — and no tool has ever checked it for you. Melisma does.
HOW IT WORKS
• Bring a melody in from MIDI or MusicXML — any DAW or notation app — or tap the rhythm of the line with your finger. You don't need pitches; prosody is about where the notes fall, not what they are.
• Type your lyric. Each syllable is placed under the note it lands on, with a dot above for the stress and a coloured line below for how badly it clashes.
• Where a word is accented on the wrong syllable, Melisma says which word, which syllable, and why — in plain English, on the line itself.
• Press Play and it sings the line back, building each syllable from its actual vowels and consonants, with the playhead lighting each syllable in time.
WHAT'S INSIDE
• Pronunciations from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary — 126,000 words with the stress marked on every syllable. A word it doesn't know is flagged rather than guessed at quietly; set the stress once and it remembers, in every song after.
• Rhyme graded from sound, not spelling: perfect, family, additive, assonance and consonance. Rhyme from any word in any line, not just the last one you typed.
• Syllable counts, rhyme scheme, and melisma marks for one syllable held across several notes.
• An engraved score with the words underneath.
• Export MusicXML for NoteFlight, MuseScore, Sibelius, Dorico or Finale; MIDI with the syllables as lyric events; the plain words; or the whole project, losslessly.
• A multi-song library that saves as you type, keeps the last five versions of every song, and keeps a second copy outside app storage so your work survives a full phone and reaches a new one.
• Finalize marks a song done and offers to lock the split with your co-writers — carrying the title, the names and the date. Never the lyric.
• Fully offline. No account, no sign-in, no ads, no in-app purchases, no subscription.
• Melisma collects nothing. Your lyric never leaves your device.
WHAT IT WILL NOT DO
It won't flag syncopation. Putting a stressed syllable on an offbeat is normal and good and most of popular music. What Melisma flags is the music accenting the wrong syllable of a word — the thing that makes a singer stumble.
Melisma is by Songdeed. Pairs with Filigree for the melody, Mediant for the chords, and Continuo for the bassline.
Ratings & Reviews
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Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Songdeed LLC
- Size
- 5.4 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Songdeed LLC
