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Larry HsiaoMobile App Developer · Android & Flutter
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Never tab away again.

Iris is a lightweight always-on-top HUD for macOS — live system vitals and synced song lyrics in a single draggable overlay. Stay in the flow without losing track of what's playing or what your machine is doing.

Iris overlay showing lyrics and system ring gauges

Status: work in progress.


✨ Features

  • 🎵 Synced lyrics — follows Spotify's current track and streams time-synced lyrics from lrclib.net, scrolling in real time
  • 💿 Album artwork — shows the current track's cover art alongside the lyric line
  • 📊 Playback progress bar — a thin bar at the bottom tracks position within the current track
  • 🧠 System ring gauges — CPU and memory as compact rings; disk shows free space as text
  • 🪟 Draggable overlay — float it anywhere; position is saved across launches
  • 📌 Menu-bar control — toggle visibility or quit via the ʟ status item

🛣️ Planned

  • Additional media sources (Apple Music, system-wide Now Playing)
  • User-configurable layout and themes
  • Per-display positioning