Genius — Song Lyrics Finder

3,6
86K reviews
10M+
Downloads
Content rating
Parental guidance
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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.
Updated on
25 Apr 2025

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age. The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info, App activity and 2 others
This app may collect these data types
Personal info, Messages and 3 others
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3,6
82,9K reviews
VJ Therence
26 January 2025
Great app for finding lyrics & learning the meanings behind them. I do have a small issue with the Suggest Genius Lyrics feature. For example, Taylor Swift has rerecorded some of her albums, & these are labeled as Taylor's Version. When I play a song like Style (Taylor's Version), the app suggests lyrics from the older, original version instead. It seems like the app doesn’t fully recognize songs with parentheses in the title. I hope this gets improved because the rest of the app is excellent.
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Genius Media Group, Inc.
26 January 2025
Thanks for your review! We did it like this because on platforms like YouTube, songs frequently have suffixes like "(Official Music Video)", which causes issues when trying to match with a Genius song page. To prevent this, we try to strip out anything in parenthesis. It's a trade-off, but in most cases it makes the end result more accurate.
Chris Fleet
22 November 2020
Is it possible to get a paid subscription to remove the ads & allow us to open the links in our own external browser? The constant ad privacy warning that pops up every time I open a story is just annoying. I have to click OK then the X on the pop up. The ads in the pop up are blocked anyway. It's just a bad user experience. I'm happy to pay but not by bombarding me with ads. This is the only app I use with any sort of ads cause the lyrics part is that good.Thanks in advance & hope.
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Nick Sant
24 January 2024
When this app works, it's great. Unfortunately it rarely works properly. I want it to send a notification when the song I'm playing is one that it recognises, so that I can touch the notification and see the lyrics - simple, eh? I have tested this by playing a song, and asking Genius to identify the song - it returns the lyrics as it should do. But if I play the same song, without asking Genius to identify then there's no notification. Please fix!!
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Genius Media Group, Inc.
04 December 2024
Dear user. Can you please install the latest version and check if the lyrics suggestions are working properly? I hope we have solved your problem. Best regards.

What's new

Album and Artist page redesigned!