Guide
The complete guide to Glozzer — from signing in, pasting lyrics, and adding symbols to characters, through the annotation list, layers, notes and warm-ups, and sharing. Every action is explained separately for “desktop” and “mobile,” with the actual look and position of each button in the app.
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01 What Glozzer is
Glozzer is a singing-practice tool that lets you mark “how to sing this part” directly on your lyrics — for self-taught singers, students taking lessons, and the vocal teachers who coach them.
- You paste in your own lyrics, and they're split into individual characters you can tap or click.
- Tap any character, then mark it up with a set of symbols designed for singing practice (Breath, Resonance, Dynamics, Caution, Ornament…); you can also add your own note of text next to any symbol.
- A “workspace” holds one song, plus your Notes and Warm-ups; workspaces are then organized into folders.
- Your data lives in the cloud and syncs across devices — jot things down on your phone during a lesson, then review them on your computer at home.
- Sharing means making a copy of the content you choose for someone else — once copied, the two sides are independent and no longer affect each other.
Use a browser on desktop, the app on mobile — the same account's content stays in sync between them.
02 Signing in and your account
When you open the app, the sign-in page gives you three choices: Sign in with Google, Continue with Apple, or Continue as a guest (no account needed — just start using it right away).
The difference: data from a Google/Apple sign-in is kept permanently and works across devices; guest data is cleared after a full year of inactivity, and guests can't use sharing. A guest can later go to Settings and “Upgrade account” to link a Google or Apple account — your data stays exactly as it is.
Account actions (log out, delete account, upgrade account, viewing your email) all live in “Settings” — see §15 for how to get there.
03 Home: folders and workspaces
First, two core terms to know:
- Workspace: one workspace = one song + that song's Notes and Warm-ups — it's the place you open day to day to practice a song. (A workspace holds at most one song.)
- Folder: used to organize workspaces, and can be nested (for example, “This semester's lessons” containing a subfolder per song).
Desktop
- On the left is a sidebar with a tree list of all your folders and workspaces. The Panel button in the top-left corner collapses or expands it.
- Before you open any workspace, the main screen shows “Pick a workspace, or add one on the left.” Click a workspace in the sidebar to open it.
- At the very bottom of the sidebar is the account row (which opens Settings) and the entry to the Symbol library.
Mobile
- The home screen is a full-page list of folders and workspaces (the same tree as the desktop sidebar, laid out full-page). Tap a workspace row to open it.
- Folders have an expand arrow on the left — tap it to expand or collapse.
- At the bottom of the screen is the account row (which opens Settings) and the entry to the Symbol library.
04 Creating a workspace or folder
Desktop
- In the sidebar, add one with ＋ Workspace or ＋ Folder, then type a name and pick an emoji as its icon (or leave the default).
- You can drag and drop workspaces and folders directly to reorder them or move one into a folder.
Mobile
- Add a workspace or folder from the home list (same as above).
- Long-press any row to start dragging it, to reorder or move it into a folder.
Rename / Change icon / Duplicate / Move to… / Delete: on desktop, use the More menu on that row in the sidebar; on mobile, long-press the row to enter edit mode.
05 Adding a song (pasting lyrics)
When a workspace doesn't have a song yet, paste in the lyrics to add one. You always paste in your own lyrics — Glozzer never supplies or fetches lyrics for you.
Desktop
- On the workspace screen, there's a faint hint along the edge of the song column; hover your mouse over it and a sheet with Import lyrics appears → click it.
- Paste your lyrics and click “Import lyrics” — the song column and the annotation list will appear.
Mobile
- When there's no song yet, a floating Import lyrics button appears in the bottom-right corner → tap it to paste your lyrics.
- Once you've added one, this button disappears (a workspace holds only one song).
After pasting, each line is automatically split into individual “characters”: Chinese text is split character by character, English text is split whole word by whole word. To change the lyrics later, use “Edit lyrics” (see the end of §8) — after you save, the text is automatically re-split, and characters you didn't change keep their existing marks.
06 Adding symbols to characters
This is the heart of Glozzer: marking “how to sing it” on a specific character.
Desktop
- Click any character in the lyrics → a capsule menu pops up.
- The capsule shows your Quick symbols, with the last one, “…,” opening “All symbols.”
- Click a symbol → it's placed above that character.
- Picking some symbols automatically pops open a text box for you to fill in (for example, “Memo” does this by default); others are placed directly with no prompt. This “auto-prompt after picking” behavior can be toggled per symbol in Settings (see §15).
Mobile
- Tap any character in the lyrics → the capsule pops up (on mobile, it's arranged in two rows).
- Same as desktop: Quick symbols plus “…” to open All symbols; tap a symbol to place it.
- When you need to add text, the annotation drawer at the bottom pops open automatically and jumps to that row (see §10).
Common rules
- Each character can have at most 2 symbols stacked on it (counted separately per layer). At the limit, the capsule shows “At the limit — remove one first.”
- The capsule only shows symbols “that work at this position” (for example, a space or line break can only take Breath, Memo, or Practice).
- Only the symbol icon shows on the lyrics — never the text; any text you've added for a symbol is viewed and edited in the annotation list. On desktop, hovering over a symbol reveals its name; on mobile, the symbol's name is shown directly on the capsule.
07 Symbol overview
One shared symbol language for everyone (not a separate set per song). It splits into two kinds: ones with a clear target (sing it like this) — Breath, Resonance, Dynamics, and Ornament; and ones that tell you to watch out (something's likely to go wrong here) — the Caution family.
08 Editing or removing a symbol
Tap or click a symbol that's already been placed, and you can:
- Swap it for a different symbol: the capsule pops up (with the current one marked); pick another to replace it directly — any text you'd already added is kept.
- Delete it: there's a Delete button next to the symbol. If the symbol already has text attached, you'll be asked to confirm first.
- Add or edit text: type it into the matching row in the annotation list.
Desktop
Moving a symbol: there's a drag handle on the left side of the symbol — drag from the handle.
Mobile
Moving a symbol: long-press the symbol to start dragging. (On mobile, “tap” opens the edit capsule, and “long-press” starts a drag.)
Editing the whole song's lyrics: both platforms have a small Edit lyrics icon in the top-right corner of the song column; on mobile, there's also an entry in the workspace Menu. Tap it to open the full-page edit-lyrics screen.
09 Breath, Memo, and Practice
Three marks that are a bit special:
- Breath: can be placed on a character, or on a space or line break (start or end of a line). To mark “sneaking a breath mid-word,” place it right on that character.
- Memo: use it when you want to jot a note but no symbol quite fits. It's automatically filed under the “Memo” layer, and opens a text box by default once picked.
- Practice: marks a spot in the song that “needs to be pulled out and drilled on its own.” It's automatically filed under the “Practice” layer, and also opens a text box by default once picked.
Two pairs of similar names — but not the same thing
Memo is a symbol (placed on a character in the lyrics); Notes are free-form cards in the workspace that are unrelated to the song (see §11).
Practice is a symbol (placed on a character); Warm-ups are cards in the workspace for logging your vocal warm-ups and scales (see §11).
10 Annotation list
The annotation list is an overview of “every symbol marked on this song” — every symbol you add to the lyrics gets a fixed row here. It's a projection of the song's marks: you can edit or delete the text here, but you can't add a new mark from this list (adding is always done by tapping a character in the lyrics). Rows always stay ordered by where the symbol appears in the lyrics.
Each row has a small dot on the left showing which layer it belongs to; the middle shows which character the symbol is placed on (centered on that character, with a bit of surrounding lyrics fading out on each side); the right side is an editable text field.
The three filter toggles
Next to the “Annotations” section header, there are three toggles controlling what the list shows (all shown by default):
- Textless marks: shows or hides symbol rows that “don't have text yet.”
- Memo: shows or hides marks in the “Memo” category.
- Practice: shows or hides marks in the “Practice” category.
What it's for: a song you've been marking up for a while can get crowded, so use these three toggles to keep only what you want to see right now. For example, to “review only the points where I wrote something,” turn off “Textless marks”; to “see only what needs individual drilling,” turn off Memo first.
One small rule: if the layer a symbol belongs to is hidden (see §12), the matching filter toggle turns gray and can't be tapped (with the hint “This layer is hidden”) — a layer is the master switch, and the filter toggles just refine things further within “the layers you can already see.” Once you show the layer again, the toggle returns to whatever you'd set it to.
Desktop · Two-way jump between the list and the lyrics
This is one of the most useful things about the desktop version — definitely worth learning:
- Click a row in the annotation list → the matching character in the lyrics highlights and automatically scrolls into view.
- Click a symbol in the lyrics → the annotation list scrolls to its row and lets you add or edit its text right there.
- Hovering works the same way in reverse — both sides respond to each other.
A long song is packed with characters top to bottom, so this “click one side, the other jumps automatically” behavior saves you from hunting manually — see a reminder in the list, click it, and you instantly know where it is in the song; see a symbol in the lyrics, click it, and you jump straight to reading its note.
Mobile · Bottom drawer and swiping
On mobile, a workspace is two pages side by side — swipe left or right with your finger to switch, and page dots at the bottom show which page you're on:
- Page one is the song, page two is Notes + Warm-ups. (With no song yet, there's only one page: Notes + Warm-ups.)
- The lyrics never scroll sideways — long lines wrap automatically, so you only ever need to swipe up and down to read them.
On the song page, the annotation list is a bottom drawer:
- When it's closed, there's a “pull up” handle at the bottom; pull it up → the drawer opens and the screen splits top and bottom (song on top, list below), so you can work with both side by side.
- The drawer can rest at a few different heights, or be dragged freely; pull the handle at the top back down to close it. You can still swipe left or right to switch pages while the drawer is open.
- The three filter toggles sit at the top of the drawer.
- When you “add a Memo or Practice mark” or “tap a symbol that already has text,” the drawer automatically pops open and jumps to that row so you can start typing.
The same two-way jump applies here too: tapping a row in the list highlights the matching character in the lyrics, and vice versa.
11 Notes and warm-ups
Besides the symbols marked on the song, a workspace also has two kinds of cards unrelated to the lyrics: Notes (free-text cards you jot down any time — you can have many) and Warm-ups (logging your vocal warm-ups and scales — with fields for the warm-up's name, vowel, lowest/highest note, purpose, and notes).
Desktop
- In the section column, “Notes” and “Warm-ups” are each their own section. Every section has an “Add” row at the very bottom (it only appears on hover): when empty, it reads “Write your first note” or “Log your first warm-up” — click it to start writing.
- For each card: click the text to edit it; hover over it and a drag dot appears on the left (drag to reorder within the section), with delete on the right.
- Next to the section title is a collapse button ; you can also drag the title row to reorder sections up or down.
Mobile
- Found on the workspace's second page (Notes + Warm-ups).
- A card's More and delete controls are always visible on mobile (unlike desktop, where you need to hover to reveal them).
- Long-press a card to drag and reorder it.
12 Layers
Layers let you manage marks in separate groups. The system has three fixed roles: the Memo layer, the Practice layer, and the Other layer (ordinary symbols land in the “Other” layer by default).
- Each layer can be shown or hidden independently — hide a layer, and both its symbols in the lyrics and its matching rows in the annotation list are hidden together.
- There's an “active layer,” which decides where your newly added symbols land (a Memo symbol always lands in the Memo layer, a Practice symbol always lands in the Practice layer, and everything else lands in whichever “Other” layer is currently active).
- You can add and rename “Other” layers; the Memo and Practice layers are fixed — they can't be renamed or deleted, only hidden.
Desktop
Open the Layers panel from the top-right corner of the workspace — a small popover where you toggle visibility, set the active layer, and add new layers.
Mobile
Get to Layers from the workspace Menu, shown as a bottom sheet.
14 Symbol library page: managing quick symbols
The symbol library itself is shared by everyone and can't be changed, but you can customize your “Quick symbols” — the handful that show up first on the capsule when you tap a character.
- How to get there: on desktop, at the very bottom of the sidebar; on mobile, at the bottom of the home screen — both have a Symbol library entry.
- The page shows both “Quick symbols” and “All symbols” at once; drag symbols into or out of the quick area, or drag to reorder them, to decide which ones appear first on the capsule and in what order.
- You can also turn off the quick list entirely (tapping a character then opens “All symbols” directly).
15 Settings
To get to Settings: on both platforms, it's on the account row — at the very bottom of the sidebar on desktop, at the bottom of the home screen on mobile. Tap the row with your avatar (with a on the right) to open Settings.
Inside, you can adjust:
- Auto-prompt for text: set, symbol by symbol, whether picking it automatically opens a text box afterward.
- Lyric highlight: adjust what the character highlighted by the “two-way jump” described earlier looks like — choose the style, “Spotlight” or “Highlighter,” and the color, “Soft amber / Misty blue / Sage,” with a live preview.
- Account: view your email, log out, or delete your account; guests can upgrade their account here (link Google/Apple to keep it permanently).
- Legal: links to the Terms of Service and Privacy Policy.
16 FAQ
Will my lyrics ever be made public or shared?
No. The lyrics you paste in are your private content, used only to store and sync your own work — never made public, never sold, and never given to a third party. Glozzer never supplies or fetches any lyrics — you always paste in your own. (See the Privacy Policy for details.)
If I take notes on my phone, can I see them on my computer?
Yes, as long as it's the same account. Your data lives in the cloud and syncs automatically — jot it down in the mobile app, then open the browser on your computer at home and it's right there. For cross-device access, use Google/Apple sign-in — a guest has no identity to sign back in with, so switching devices can't reconnect to the same data.
What's the difference between “Memo” and “Notes,” or “Practice” and “Warm-ups”?
Memo and Practice are symbols placed on a character in the lyrics; Notes and Warm-ups are standalone cards in the workspace that are unrelated to the song. The names sound similar, but where they live and what they're for are different.
How many songs can one workspace hold?
One. To mark up another song, open a new workspace. Notes and warm-ups, on the other hand, can each hold as many entries as you like.
What if I get stuck on something?
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What if I find a bug or want to suggest something?
Use “Report an issue” inside the app to tell us directly — see §17 below for where to find it and how.
17 Report an issue or share feedback
Run into a bug, have a suggestion, or just want to say hello — you can tell us directly using “Report an issue” inside the app. It's the most direct channel for getting your problems and ideas to us.
Desktop
Report an issue, at the very bottom of the sidebar, next to “Symbol library.”
Mobile
Report an issue at the bottom of the home screen; inside a workspace, you can also tap “Report an issue” from the Menu.
When reporting, you can pick a category (Bug / Idea / Other), write your message, and optionally leave a contact email so we can get back to you.