Genius — Song Lyrics Finder

Genius Media Group, Inc.

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About this app

Genius is the world’s biggest collection of song lyrics and crowdsourced music knowledge.

SEARCH MILLIONS OF SONGS
Explore trending songs on the Genius charts and find annotated lyrics for your favorite tracks.

DISCOVER THE MEANING BEHIND YOUR FAVORITE SONG LYRICS
Tap highlighted lyrics to read annotations written by verified artists and millions of music fans in the Genius community.

QUICKLY FIND LYRICS FOR THE MUSIC YOU’RE STREAMING
Get notifications to easily access the lyrics for songs currently playing on your favorite music streaming services.*

IDENTIFY LYRICS FOR SONGS PLAYING AROUND YOU
Discover new songs and their lyrics by holding your phone up to the music and tapping the soundwave button.

JOIN THE GENIUS COMMUNITY
Sign up and contribute your music knowledge to your favorite songs, artists, and albums.


*Genius requests the "Notification access" permission only to listen for music. We'll never access, read, or save your notifications.

Ratings and reviews

My experience with this app has been both fun and annoying. The recent addition of annotation on the app feels half-baked because you can't type out anything too long, otherwise, it fades out into nothing. Annotating even three sentences together also causes the issue of the text box being placed far below your keyboard, preventing you from even seeing what you're typing. Another thing of note is the app's seeming incompatibility with Samsung Music. Causing it to not display lyrics or history.

As much as I appreciate this app, in order to have the Lyric Suggestions, you have to give the app WAY too many permissions, including, but not limited to: "contact names and text of messages you receive," "dismiss notifications or take action on buttons in notifications, including answering phone calls" and more. I'm not giving an app all of this just to not have to look up song names

My initial experience with this app was weird with a barrage of notifications, and I un-installed. But after trying some other apps, I decided to give it another chance. It seems to be working now, and I plan to continue to use it. My wish would be that it could highlight the current line and follow along like karaoke, but I'm pretty happy that it identifies my currently streaming song and loads the lyrics quickly. But why do I need a username???

What’s new

Bug fixes