LyricStu

A free alternative to RhymeFlux

You came looking for what RhymeFlux does without the monthly bill. Fair enough.

RhymeFlux Pro is $14.99 a month. Pay yearly and it's $99.99, or $249.99 once for lifetime. There's a free tier to get you started, which is where the phrase "free to start" comes from. Start being the operative word.

LyricStu is free. Not free for 12 bars, not free until you want the good part, not free for 30 days. Free. Every feature, every verse, no card on file and no upgrade screen waiting at the bottom of the page. You open it and the cursor is already blinking. That's the entire onboarding.

See it on a real line

Type the way I'm rockin', got the block watchin', clock tickin' and the app colours rockin', block, clock and tickin' by their stressed vowel, so the internal run jumps out while you're still typing. Keep writing for 200 more bars and the colouring keeps up. Nothing taps you on the shoulder asking for a card.

No account, no AI

You don't sign up. No email, no password. And there's no AI anywhere in it. LyricStu will not write your bar or finish your verse. It counts your syllables and shows your rhymes so you can hear what you're doing. Then you do the writing. A tool, not a ghostwriter.

That's not the same as no help. A rhyme dictionary on the desk never made a verse less yours, and one on the screen doesn't either. Knowing the word exists is what the tool is for. Choosing it is still on you.

What you actually get

Live highlighting on perfect rhymes and the slant rhymes most modern rap actually rides on, coloured by sound family. A syllable count on every line, so you can match a nine-syllable bar to the next one instead of counting on your fingers. A freestyle mode with beats and a metronome for when you want to practice to a tempo. Sync is there if you want your songs on your phone and your laptop, off unless you turn it on.

Nothing to move across

Switching usually means an export, an import, and a format that mangles your line breaks on the way in. None of that here. Open a new song, paste the verse you already had, and the highlighting runs over it straight away. Bars you wrote two years ago colour up the same as anything you write tonight. Everything stays on your device unless you turn sync on, and sync is free too.

It lives on your phone

Add LyricStu to your home screen and it opens like a normal app and runs offline, so a hook written on the train with no reception still saves.

Free in the browser. Add it to your home screen and it works offline.