Genius is the world’s biggest collection of song lyrics, videos and crowdsourced musical knowledge.
SEARCH 1.7 MILLION+ SONGS
Find annotated lyrics for all your favorite songs, or browse what's hot on Genius.
VIEW GENIUS VIDEOS
Watch interviews with your favorite artists about the music you love.
TAP HIGHLIGHTED LINES TO READ ANNOTATIONS
Explore a world of knowledge, crowdsourced from millions of obsessed fans – the Genius community.
GET THE FACTS BEHIND THE TRACKS
With verified content from artists and producers.
FIND LYRICS FOR THE SONGS PLAYING AROUND YOU
Hold your phone up to the music, tap the soundwave button (powered by ACRCloud), and lo, the annotated lyrics appear. You can also easily navigate the lyrics for all the songs in your iTunes library.
ANNOTATE THE WORLD FROM ANYWHERE
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Is Genius free?
Yes, Genius is completely free and it doesn't have any in-app purchases or subscriptions.
Is Genius legit?
🤔 The Genius app's quality is mixed. Some users are satisfied, while others report issues. Consider reading individual reviews for more context.
The notifications are laggy, the ability to edit is awful, much of the browser functionality isn’t available on the app, some of the notifications have to open in the browser because they’re not available in the app… it feels like we’re stuck on a v1.0 that has never been updated. The search functionality could be optimised too (unless you’ve got the exact spelling in the right order, the search won’t work).
Creation of lyric cards
The app is great, no problems, besides the creation of lyric cards. I’m able to select the lyrics I want to use but when I try to press “Next” nothing happens. I’m forced to take a screenshot and crop but I’m sure I don’t need to do that every time
Absolutely nothing works…it’s comical!
Came across this using another music app that gets it lyrics using genius so thought I’d try it. It can pick up a tune and display the lyrics in an outdated way that’s not to pleasing on the eye but it works
All other features have you going round in circles wasting time and battery - plug in if your gonna try.
Unable to save song to Apple Music please try later
Create cards or whatever with quotes from lyrics is also broke,you paste in your quote and pick the album art box or swipe left for your own photos but both won’t work at all,hit next nothing happens. No quote is saved everything remains it’s clearly not working as intended.
Had to sign up for this and give permissions for what? Big waste of time,Shazam does it all and does it with style. It also automatically adds to my Apple Music without any issues. SoundHound works better pfft…🙄
Really great, but the search engine’s awful
PLEASE fix this god-awful search engine
Adverts
The app is ok but the adverts drive me crazy with no way of getting rid of them.
Latest update crashes on launch
Had to delete app and reinstall. Come on!
Embarrassing.
This app is humiliatingly broken. ‘See all albums’ doesn’t show you the most iconic releases by a band, but is more than happy to stuff the same song remixed into your face twelve times. Way more attention has been placed into making it look glossy than actually run- for a lyric site to lag this hard is beyond unacceptable. These are years-long issues you just haven’t been bothered to fix, and it’s pathetic.
Great for GCSE’s
My friend recommended to me the other day as she found that all the literature works we were studying were on it and annotated. It’s been very useful.
APP DRAINS BATTERY AS OF RECENT.
I noticed my iphone 12 pro was struggling with battery life recently. I normally had to charge my phone once at night but i was charging it multiple times recently and my phone usage is well below average so I checked my battery health to see if there were any problems. In the past 10 days Genius app has 93hours background with 3m on screen. If you’re the average user that is an INSANE statistic because no other app has this much background in 10 days even if you’re glued to your phone.
Save your phone and delete the app till they fix this issue.
Nothing works.
what’s the point of signing in if I can’t add lyric annotations or even change my profile picture? There need to be more rigorous standards as to what ramshackle insults corporations can pass off as ‘apps.’