Genius: Song Lyrics Finder

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Last verified 5 Sep 2026

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Last verified 31 Aug 2026

4.7 75143 ratings · App Store

1. 5/5Review

   I really love this app. It is really good for finding the lyrics to songs you like. and it’s really good to use when you want to know the lyrics to songs but however, I don’t really like how when I close the app I have to re-sign in again. and I have to re-type in my password and email. I wish it wouldn’t do that. They really need to fix this. I feel like if they would fix this the app would work better. and everyone would be much happier. I also don’t like how after 30 seconds of it being in the background of other apps, it just closes and I have to re-open it and re-do everything again when I am trying to search for a song. lyrics I alsothink those things should get fixed at some point and I think that if those things get fixed, it will save me more time and I will have more time to find my favorite lyrics so anyway, if those things would get fixed, I think we would all be much happier about that I don’t really like signing in so many times after I close it and how it just closes after 30 seconds when I open another app, it just closes itself. I don’t like how it closes itself because it kind of wastes my time while I’m trying to look for a song lyrics. and when it closes, I have to open it again and then I have to type my password and I have to do that all over again so if those things would get fixed, I think we would all be happier about it. it’s an amazing app but it’s just those two things that need to get fixed.

   Aleah Cassidy · 5 Sep 2026

2. 5/5Pretty good overall but has some glitches

   I love the app. I love the interface and the way you navigate throughout the app. But a few things that are really irritating and annoying are: 1. When you watch the videos in the app and you try to flip your device sideways the video will stay in the upright position (even with lock rotation on allowing you to freely move your portrait), which is annoying since the picture is already as small as it is. 2. There is a feature in the app where in a song you can take a picture given to you from the artist or your own picture and take lyrics from a particular song and put it over the picture. It makes for a cool background but every time i want to make one right before i save it to my camera roll the app decides to crash. It’s a bummer because i can’t find a way to get around it. 3. When you download the app you can sign into a profile like any other app now but in Genius your profile is almost meaningless. They make it out like you can personalize your profile based on your style of music, which seems cool, but is not really the case. If you sign into google it takes your google account picture and makes it your profile picture without giving you a way to change it later. Overall the profile tab seems worthless now, but could be better in the future. Great app overall tho, 4.5 / 5.

   ksi sob ios never · 5 Sep 2026

3. 4/5Great when it works, which isn’t now (ok now it is)

   After the latest update did nothing to fix Genius’s many issues, i deleted and reinstalled the app, and it’s been working quite well since, so I bumped the rating back up, but I’m going to leave my original review in case said problems come back. Plus it’s a handy guide to the types of issues that in my case at least could be addressed with reinstallation. I looooooove Genius, a treasure trove of hidden insights into songs you already love and thought you knew, as well as a portal for discovering new music you haven’t had a chance to love yet. Problem is, over the last 2 or 3 updates, it’s become a chore to interact with, frequently freezing on the very first screen. Today was the first day in ~two weeks that I’ve even been able to get to the search bar, and only then by popping in Siri and then exiting. The app hung with me as I perused four annotations on one song, but when I tried to follow a link to a different song in the fourth annotation, *CRASH*. Started the app back up, frozen at the home screen, and this time summoning SIRI was no help. For the past two weeks I’ve wanted to see if there are any good annotations for Deerhunter songs. The app in its current state deserves one star, but I gave it two just because Genius is so wonderful...when it actually works.

   Tim Twarkleless · 5 Sep 2026

4. 4/5Missing Great Feature and Minor Bug

   The app is great overall but there’s a feature that used to exist but was removed for some reason. 1. While playing a song on Apple Music you used to be able to open the genius app and a pop up if the song playing would appear at the bottom of the screen but that’s gone now for some reason. It’s a bummer that you have to search the song now. (Maybe this happened after the addition of the “play on Apple Music” bar but it’s annoying when I’m already listening to the song I’m reading the lyrics too. We can still have both features simultaneously though.) 2. The bug is when I’m playing a song and reading the lyrics to it the Genius app stops playing the song once I reach an add. The only way to fix this is to click play on the “play on Apple Music” bar which is aggravating because I was already playing it. This is obviously not a feature but a bug. If I switch to reading a different song then yes I’ll click to play it on the genius app but I’d just prefer if the apps worked together better.

   User_12738 · 5 Sep 2026

5. 1/5Not worth it

   I enjoy using this app when I need to know the lyrics from my favorite songs, but that’s about all this app is good for (which is unfortunate considering there’s a large variety of other things you’re supposed to be able to do with this app) the most helpful feature of the app-The currently listening feature which allows you to immediately view the lyrics for the song you’re currently listening to—No longer works and has not worked in a few weeks now and I have no idea why. I’ve checked all my settings, redownloaded the app several times, etc but nothing is working. I hope this is fixed soon because having to type in the name of the song every time is annoying and unnecessary (and wouldn’t be nearly as much of a hassle if they’d stop suggesting songs that are not even close to being the song you’re listening to because they go by lyrics rather than song titles I guess.) Edit: forgot I reviewed this app already but I’m reviewing it again. I wouldn’t recommend downloading genius if all you want to do is look up lyrics for songs because honestly it’s less of a hassle to pull up google and type in the name of the song and look at the lyrics from there. That’s what I end up doing 95% of the time after I open the genius app and it freezes. It crashes at LEAST three times before actually loading properly and then it takes forever for it to pull up the song you’re looking for so you can see the lyrics. I don’t use the other features so idk about those but just using the app for looking up lyrics isn’t worth it.

   trammmq · 5 Sep 2026

3.8 86386 ratings · Google Play

1. 4/5

   Love the app. Any chance of a home screen widget?

   marts8o · 1 Aug 2026

2. 5/5

   one of the best app ever made for music enthusiasts who wants to know more about the art of music.

   Rohit Mahra · 1 Aug 2026

3. 5/5

   Best for classic country and bluegrass.

   Dave Greene · 1 Aug 2026

4. 2/5

   intended to be democratic, but too limited i find a lot of my favorite albums missing tracks, or albums entirely, and though I would love to be able to amend these errors, there's nothing I can do because I wasn't the idiot who got there first.

   Adam Tuttle · 1 Aug 2026

5. 1/5

   not once has it found the correct artist and given the lyrics.

   Sarah W · 1 Aug 2026

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