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Everything you need to know about LyricalWriter — from your first song to mastering the video studios.
Quick start
Four ways to begin.
Just Ask the Assistant
The fastest way to do anything: open the Assistant from the corner button on any page and ask by chat or voice. It brainstorms, writes and edits songs, makes cover art, writes captions, and plans releases — saving to your library as it goes.
Open AssistantBrainstorm Song Ideas
Tap genre, vibe, theme, and era chips — or type a seed — and get up to 10 distinct song ideas in one click. Save, search, and send any idea straight to the AI Writer.
Open IdeasCreate Your First Song
Head to the dashboard and click "New Lyric" to start with a blank canvas or let AI generate lyrics from a theme.
New LyricSet Up a Persona
Define an artist identity with a unique vocal style, genre, and influences to guide the AI's creative direction.
PersonasOrganize into Collections
Group your songs into release containers — albums, EPs, and mixtapes. Add cover art, download distribution-ready artwork, and reorder tracks to build your catalog.
CollectionsBuild & share Playlists
Mix your own songs with other writers' public tracks, play them anywhere in the app with a persistent mini-player, and publish a public playlist link anyone can listen to and save.
PlaylistsExport for Suno
Use the Suno prompt optimizer in the editor to generate production-ready prompts with genre tags and vocal styles.
DashboardMake a Lyric Video
Upload audio to a finished lyric, then open the overflow menu → Lyric Video to launch the studio. Auto-aligns words to the audio; pick a template, add a beat-synced visualizer and cinematic effects, then export MP4 for TikTok, Reels, Shorts, or YouTube.
DashboardGenerate a Music Video
Pick a section of your song — usually the chorus, up to 30 seconds — and let AI direct a cinematic music video where your artist sings the real vocal, lip-synced. Review the shot list before you generate, then export a social-ready MP4 for TikTok, Reels, Shorts, or YouTube.
Music VideosGenerate Social Captions
Open any lyric and scroll to the Social Captions panel. One click writes captions and reach-tuned hashtag sets for Instagram, TikTok, X, and YouTube — copy each in a single tap.
DashboardPlan Your Release
Open the Releases page to see every song as a pipeline from draft to live. Finished steps check themselves off; open a release to copy distributor-form metadata, check your distributor's requirements, download store-ready assets, and log submitted / live with your platform links.
ReleasesConnect an AI Agent
Paste https://lyricalwriter.com/api/mcp into Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, or any MCP-capable client and sign in when the browser opens — no keys to copy. Your agent can then write and edit songs, make videos, manage releases and playlists, and play music on your devices. Prefer a key for scripts? Create one in Settings → API Keys.
Agent setup guideTips & tricks
Small moves, better songs.
Brainstorm with Chips
On the Ideas page, tap chips like Hip Hop, Viral, or Late-Night Drive — no typing required. Run out? Hit ‘✨ Get more’ for AI-generated chips unique to the ones you already see.
Switch AI Models
Pick from 32 models across Gemini, ChatGPT, and Claude — including Gemini 3.8 Flash, GPT-6 Astra, Claude Fable 5.1 — in the editor sidebar. Each has a unique creative voice.
Talk or Type to the Assistant
The in-app Assistant runs the whole workflow by chat or voice — “write a song about…”, “rewrite Verse 1”, “make cover art”, “plan the release.” Tap the corner button on any page, or press ⌘J for hands-free voice. It remembers the conversation as you move around the app.
Tab to Take the Ghostwriter's Line
Turn on Ghostwriter in the editor toolbar and pause at the end of a line — a gray suggestion appears at your cursor, matched to your section's meter and rhymes. Tab accepts, Esc dismisses, typing ignores it.
Cover Art & Downloads
Generate artwork with AI, then download distribution-ready files at 3000×3000 (or custom sizes) in JPG/PNG. Enable AI Enhance for sharper results.
Dark & Light Themes
Toggle between dark and light mode using the theme switch in the navigation bar.
Keyboard Shortcuts
Use Ctrl/Cmd + Z to undo, Ctrl/Cmd + Shift + Z to redo, and drag sections to reorder your song structure.
Section Types
Structure your songs with verse, chorus, bridge, pre-chorus, outro, and custom section types.
Lyric Video — Stay on the Tab
When exporting a video on Safari or older browsers, the WebM path renders in real time — switching tabs can pause the render. Keep the studio tab visible until the progress bar finishes.
Hashtags Tuned for Reach
The Social Captions panel blends broad, niche, and long-tail hashtags per platform — IG gets 18–25 with three tiers, TikTok stays under 5, X under 3, YouTube includes searchable phrases. Banned tags are filtered automatically.
Synced Lyrics in One Click
After alignment runs in the Lyric Video Studio, the Export dialog offers .lrc downloads — line-synced and word-synced. Submit via your distributor or Musixmatch and your lyrics light up in time inside Spotify and Apple Music.
Ask Your Agent First
Connected via MCP? Tell your agent to call the whoami tool first — it confirms which LyricalWriter account it's acting on, whether the plan is active, and how much of today's AI quota is left, before any songwriting starts.
Questions
Everything you'd ask first.
Getting Started
AI Assistant (Chat & Voice)
Idea Brainstorming
AI Features
Lyric Video Studio
Music Video Studio
Social Captions
Release Command Center
Personas & Collections
Subscription & Billing
Account & Settings
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