Genius — Song Lyrics Finder

3.9
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
Apr 25, 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

3.9
82.9K reviews
VJ Therence
January 26, 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.
January 26, 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.
A Google user
January 13, 2019
I like Genius as a platform, but I think the Android app is very buggy. It regularly freezes while performing normal tasks, like viewing an annotation and returning back to the lyrics, or it just doesn't load in the page content at all, even though my internet connection is fine. I also don't like that the app has way less functionality than the desktop web version, especially for people that transcribe and annotate. Opening a notification from an email link is not possible for instance.
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Kief Chief
December 25, 2024
Not picking up lyrics for songs playing anymore. It was working fantastically about 2 ish weeks ago and now no matter what it never updates/syncs lyrics for the songs I listen to anymore. Already went through settings and disabled and then turned back on sync lyrics again, allowed permissions, still did not fix the issue.
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What’s new

Album and Artist page redesigned!