Cut a lyric into projection slides that respect line breaks and sentence ends, with a plain-text version you can paste anywhere.
Projected lyrics fail in a predictable way: someone splits the text at a character count, and the slide ends halfway through a sentence while the room is already singing the second half. The break does not have to be arbitrary. Lines are the natural unit — a singer reads a line, then looks up — and sentence-ending punctuation is the natural place to stop. This splitter fills slides line by line up to a character and line budget you set, refuses to cut a line in half, and then flags every slide that still stops somewhere awkward so you can fix just those.
Bracketed lines like [Chorus] become section labels, not slide text. Blank lines start a new slide.
Paste a lyric and the slides appear here.
Where slides should break
A slide is read in one glance, usually while the room is already making sound. That means the break needs to fall where the singer’s eye naturally resets: at the end of a line, and preferably at the end of a thought. Cutting at a fixed character count ignores both, which is how you end up with a slide that ends on “and” while the verb is on the next one.
The other failure is a slide that is technically within budget but visually crowded. Four lines of eleven words each fits a character limit comfortably and is still unreadable from the back of a room. This tool keeps the two budgets separate for that reason: it stops when it hits either the character ceiling or the line ceiling, whichever comes first.
How to use the result
- Fix the flagged slides first. A slide flagged for ending mid-sentence is the one that will trip people up; the rest are usually fine as they are.
- Keep a couplet together. If two lines rhyme, splitting them across slides throws away the setup and the payoff lands alone.
- Blank lines are deliberate breaks. Use them between sections rather than relying on the character limit to decide for you.
- Check the longest slide against your actual screen. Character count is a proxy for size; a line of twenty short words and a line of twenty long ones are not the same on screen.
- Copy the plain text version into your presentation software. It uses a dash separator between slides and keeps the section labels above them.
Questions people ask
- Why does a slide have fewer lines than my limit?
Because the next line would have pushed it over the character ceiling. The two limits race each other and the smaller one wins, which is what keeps slides roughly even in size rather than even in line count.
- Can it stop a slide from splitting a rhyming couplet?
It flags slides that end on a line with no terminal punctuation, which catches most mid-thought breaks. It does not detect rhyme, so if a couplet matters to you, put a blank line after it and the splitter will respect that.
- What counts as a section header?
Any line wrapped in square brackets. They become the label above a slide and are not counted as slide text, so [Chorus] repeated four times costs you nothing.
- Does it work for a lyric with no sections marked?
Yes. Everything becomes slides in order with no labels, and the line and character limits still apply.
What this tool does not do. Everything runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded, nothing is stored, and it works with the internet switched off. It counts characters as a stand-in for on-screen size, which is a rough proxy: typeface, letter spacing and screen distance all matter more than the raw count. It has no idea what your slides look like, so treat the numbers as a starting point and look at the result on the actual screen. See the site disclaimer. Written by Nico, who builds these tools and writes about writing at WrittenTone.