Genius: Song Lyrics Finder App Reviews

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Needs Work. For what it is, it’s not bad, but it’s nothing to write home about either. Great for quickly looking up the names of songs you can’t remember or using it to identify a song that’s playing. My biggest issue comes with the fact that using it for extended periods of time just isn’t an option. If you want to take the time to read the annotated lyrics to get a better understanding of the song, be ready for frustration. The app becomes unbearably slow and even begins to overheat my phone. How does a lyrics app manage to do that?? You’re better off just using the site in a browser.

Crashes CONSTANTLY. This app is freezing on opening and will pause the music that is playing. This is extremely irritating I wish I could give this a worse review. BROKEN APP. Amazing app for finding out song meanings. It's downfall comes with it's extremely slow load times, frequently freezes and crashes, frequently stops the music you are currently listening to so you have to switch back into the music app to play it again. App takes longer to search for music than the songs are in length. This app is actually almost unusable. I don't understand why it crashes every single time you search for a song. The music stops playing every like five annotations you open up and opens up to ads. This app is useless if they don't fix these problems.

Awesome app, just one bug. To start, I love Genius. I really like the annotations on the lyrics. When you tap a highlighted lyric, it shows what others think that lyric could mean, which is really cool. Sometimes, when it’s green, the artist themself defines the lyric. But the app has only one issue. Sometimes when you tap a lyric, an ad comes up below the annotation, and suddenly, the annotation disappears. This has gotten pretty frustrating, and I’d appreciate if you looked into it more. Thanks for reading!

Completely incompatible with actually listening to music.. While I miss the way the app used to detect the song that was playing on the iOS music app, it’s absence doesn’t make that much of a difference outside of me just being a little lazy. I mean, scrolling through and finding the song myself isn’t that difficult. The absence of this feature becomes a lot more annoying when it seems like the app isn’t designed to work while music is playing AT ALL. I can’t read song bios or lyric annotations because they either have an autoplay ad that overrides the fact I’m listening to music or they’re a clickbait ad that crashes the app. It’s a free app, I fully expect to be inundated with ads while I’m using. There’s a lot that goes into keeping things running and staff deserves to be paid. But when you put out a subpar product that has glaringly obvious features missing (music detection and lyric/song submission functionality being the two biggest), those ads become a nuisance.

Too Buggy to Use. I never leave reviews on apps because I could care less about giving my opinions to the app developers but as someone who really loves Genius it infuriates me on how buggy this app is. Literally any time I go to read lyric descriptions of a song it’ll freeze up or mess up my screen in some way. It doesn’t matter if I have the fastest WiFi or if I’m on LTE it’ll always screw up. Also there’s a 50/50 chance whenever you press on a lyric the description will just not show up? I’m certain it can’t just be me and my phone who get these issues with this app. I use the XR so it’s not like I have old Apple software. You guys seriously need to fix all the bugs of this app because it’s literally unusable.

Please fix overheating issue (iPhone 14). Love the app, but it makes my phone hotter than the sun. I get that it’s a free service and needs to have ads constantly loading in, but if it’s using more memory than a hundred Chrome tabs then something needs to be scaled back or optimized. UI and navigation is otherwise extremely smooth; I would take choppier transitions between links or a full page ad that needs to be closed (and banner ads made static) if it meant I could follow along with an album all the way through without my battery fully melting.

Pretty 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.

Problems. I use genius multiple times a day and I think it’s probably the best app for its purpose. There’s just a couple problems I have with it. First problem and the worst is the Apple ID sign in. Every time I get on the app it pulls up the little box to sign into my Apple ID. I’ll sign in and after about 10 minutes it pops up again and it’s not my phone it’s got to be the app. It’s the only one that makes me do it and I’ve tried different devices and deleting it but nothing has fixed the problem. My second problem isn’t as bad as the first. Now I know there are a lot of artists out there but there are a lot of song lyrics and artist that have around one hundred thousand listeners and are missing music on here. Along with the problem of when you search an artist and go to their page there will be duplicates of songs.

Great but have to restart constantly. The app is great and I love it. The only problem I have with it is, when I first start the app it’s fluent no problems. But once time passes and I’m constantly on it looking at different lyrics the app starts to slow down. Like I’m scrolling down or up and it’s lagging and just slow. I have to close out the app completely, and start it up again for it to go back to normal. But after awhile again it starts to happen. It has been doing this for a long time even with constant updates to the app.

Search is crap. I like to learn the lyrics to the songs I like, just like most people out there. That’s the single reason I have this app but I might try and find something new, reason being I’ll look up specific song names with the artist name too and I’ll get random lyrics that somewhat match bits and pieces of what I put in but it’s always some random f ing song that is completely irrelevant. The search just all around seems nonsensical and it can be pretty frustrating. The strangest part is that I’ll often end up resorting to searching the song on Google and it comes up with a link to Genius for that song that didn’t come up in their own search! Like what? How does this happen? How can it be so terribly broken? The developers need to just get their ish together and fix the search.

More inclusion. I love the app, really it’s something new and unique and in my opinion an essential since today music+phone are in the same place so more than likely you’ll run into a song you like and will want to know what the lyrics meant or why they were written, in comes Genius, its quick and very simple to use. However, the news section is always filled up with rap news, not sure if because thats what most people listen to now but I personally and im sure i can speak for many of my friends; would prefer to be able to select what genres we want to see, i like rock, and Genius doesn’t really help me discover new rock music or see news rock related. These are just my 2¢.

One thing bothering me. For a while, I’ve used this app just to look at lyrics of songs and what the background is of them. That’s where the problem is. When I go to click on lyric, it only works one time. The first time it works, I exist out of it, then the next time I want to know the background of a lyric, it doesn’t show anything. I have to close out of the app then reopen it just for one lyric which is annoying but it works. Other than that, everything seems to be working.

Almost Perfect - The Best of It’s Kind. It serves its purpose flawlessly. Because I only use it for two things: (1.) to search for lyrics of a particular song (2.) to quickly see the lyrics of the song I am listening to I think all the other functions, regardless of how well they work, are useless to me. But I am grateful that the part I care about works very well and almost never fails. I have one complaint, two suggestions: 1.) I wish there was a tab or something within the app when you open it to see a list of the most recent song lyrics you’ve looked at 2.) a tan or something within the app of saved or favorite lyrics, so I wouldn’t have to research or re-listen to a certain song, just to remind myself of the lyrics. I recommend this app, it has served me well.

Amazing concept, ruined by autoplaying ads. I love this app. I use it daily! Learning new things about the music I enjoy is fascinating. The only complaint I have is the ads that auto play audio or otherwise override the media I playing in the background while I browse the app. I have to open control center, tap play, then hope that the next page I load doesn’t have an embedded ad with audio or video. I fully understand and support the use of ads to pay the bills. But don’t let the ads spoil the experience.

Same bugs for years. This app is so bad. I never leave reviews but I have to for this one. I’ve been using the app for years, but I can tell that the developers at Genius don’t because it’s had the same problems the entire time. The search function requires you to type in almost the entire name of the song before giving you the result you’re looking for and it will usually give you some sort of underground song or remix that contains the phrase that you typed in before the correct result. Additionally, navigating through an artist’s page is extremely glitchy and it’s hard to pick back up where you left off if you’re doing some sort of research. This is a bad app. Flat out terrible.

So bad.... I don’t understand how they could mess this one up. With as popular as Genius is, how do they manage to put out an app that can’t even stay loaded in the background? Be prepared to go back-and-forth between your favorite song and the lyrics, only for Genius to re-load to the home screen every. single. time. Then there’s the search bar... God Almighty Even if you search the exact name of a song, their algorithm always prioritizes the most popular song at the moment that MENTIONS those words. Or not even that! If someone MADE A COMMENT that contains the words of the song your searching, but the comment is on a track that’s real popular right now, the top search result is that random “popular” song that wasn’t even on your radar. Overall, the search feature is unusable. And these two “features” just make this app unusable overall, which is just a shame because Genius is by far the best lyric website right now. And maybe because they know that, they feel no need to actually improve this app. Oh well, guess I’ll just keep googling lyrics...

Horribly optimized. I have an iPhone SE2, which isn't the most powerful phone, but 99% of apps function fine on here. This app is not one of them. My phone has frozen up from me trying to CLOSE the app - let alone USE it. You can't use the app for 5 minutes without everything slowing down and lagging. The search is fine (though I don't know why lyric search is prioritized over song title search). You guys seriously need to fix the app, though. I don't know what it's constantly trying to load that makes it run as slow as it does. It's good for nothing more than a quick lyric search. Wish I could use the other features, but the app is just too slow.

The Music Wiki. I’ve really enjoyed using Genius and have learned a great deal about artists, albums and songs. Listening to an album and simultaneously following along with each song’s bio/lyrics has been quite rewarding. The wiki, open-source style ensures the best interpretation is submitted. Genius makes those ‘aha’ moments possible, even when delving into music you’ve listened to for years through reading insightful comments and thoughts. Everything Genius has to offer is rewarding and has increased my already great appreciation for music that much more. Cheers guys, keep up the good work!

Quite possibly the worst major app on the App Store!. The Genius app has consistently and constantly been one of the worst apps to continually be in the top twenty. After tapping on four or five annotations, the app slows to a crawl until it puts itself out of its misery by crashing. The search function is completely broken. Instead of waiting for me to finish typing the song I’m searing for, it starts guessing and then frequently crashes. All of this (to say nothing about the obtrusive ads and an inability to read my music library) have just been part of the unique joy of using the Genius app for the past seven years (across multiple iPhones, all restored before using) but the final straw is the error reporting. Jostle your iPhone with the genius app running and it’ll spawn a prompt asking to open your email app. Keep jostling your iPhone and it’ll keep spawning those prompts in the background. It’s impossible to exit the app while the prompt is up unless you engage the switcher immediately after closing the prompt. Completely unusable app.

Disgusting. This app is a utterly useless it runs incredibly slow takes a second for whatever is on the home/ recommended page to load then only responds to any other commands after that has finished loaded when I search a song and click on it the lyrics take forever to load basically I think it's a necessity of an app but it needs to be faster and I feel as if genius pays too much mind too the videos and all the supplements of the good stuff it has what most people really use it for are lyrics and their corresponding explanation I still have this app because I am hoping an update will fix it but whenever I need to find lyrics and meanings I Google it on the Google app and it loads instantly no lag no delay if the website loads faster and is more functioning than the company's app then there's a problem

Disappointed. I have had this app for a long time. I used it often. It sometimes wouldn’t load, or it would load the wrong thing, but that was easy to overlook because of the other benefits it provided to me. Recently, for some reason, it has been constantly “downloading”, so I finally just deleted it and tried to redownload it. However, I couldn’t find it anywhere on the App Store. I had to look it up on Google to find it, and I still can’t download it. The little blue arrow and cloud have turned grey and I can’t click them to begin the download. I am very sad that I can’t download this app again. I’m disappointed, it was kinda janky but it did a lot of good for me. It was an easy way to look at lyrics and I love that you can see interpretations of the lyrics. Given the chance, I’d download again. 3/5

Genius is Essential. In terms of understanding the world around us, nothing speaks to the human soul the way the music does. Steve understood this. His fingerprints are everywhere in the ways that our generations piece together the messages of artists past present and future. No music app has been more valuable to me personally, to understanding the culture, la cultura. No other music app followed me onto every other device and platform. Genius is an institution, a host unto itself. I just wish it were more bilingual, como la cultura. Por tambien con eso, 5 Stars. Keep pushing, fam. Pa’lante!

So-so. I understand this app has only been around since 2009; but it really needs to find a better way to pin point lyrics when the user tries to search them. There’s been countless times I’ve typed in a full sentence to a song, and absolutely none of the right references pop up, then I’ll head to Google and the first one is the one I’m referring to. They really need to get this under control because it can be really frustrating trying to find a single song or like just knowing a certain line or too and really trying to figure out which song it is. I understand you can record it to figure out, similar to Shazam, but I’m not always actually listening to it. I’ll just recall a line or two that stood out and I want to know what song it is. Otherwise it is a good app and the lyrics are most often than not accurate.

No editing. You can edit or comment on the app, and when you try to do it on the clunky website, it always forces the app on you. Also, the suggestions are based on lyrics, which gets annoying when I’m looking for certain songs or bands that are common words (i.e. treat her better by mac de Marco, the fall by lovejoy, hey you by Pink Floyd, etc.) for some reason when I type “the fall”, it doesn’t give me the song with that title, but a song by the weekend with that in its lyrics. It’s a small annoyance because I can just type in the artist name, but still. -_-. Also, the search function completely ignores indie stuff.

Barely functional. This app runs very poorly for me and often freezes, crashes, or just straight up refuses to load pages. It’s helpful once in a while if you want to look up lyrics quickly, assuming it loads - but it’s just not a feasible option if you’re browsing the site or trying to add annotations or contribute in any other way. it also feels like the app has some sort of memory leak problem or something too. my iphone 11 gets extremely slow and choppy if i use the app for more than a few minutes, forcing me to restart the app. This issue has been present across multiple app updates.

Genius is fantastic, but the app needs to stop asking for my iTunes password. i love genius. have loved it for years. i think the site/app is a must for anyone who cares about music & lyrics. however every time i open the app it asks me to sign into iTunes again, prompting me to re-enter my password. it’s been doing that for at least several months, on both my new XR and the 6s i had before that. they really need to fix this, as it is very frustrating. Face ID/Touch ID isn’t an option it seems; i have to type out my password manually every time i launch the app, or it becomes unusable. if i decline, then it hounds me incessantly with the password pop-up. (note to devs: FWIW, my iTunes account is different from my iCloud account. i have 2 accounts on my iPhone, one for iCloud and one older account for iTunes. iOS allows and understands this. it’s a normal - although perhaps not a super common - thing. perhaps that’s the issue... however the genius app is showing the correct account/email address - the one i use for iTunes - in the pop-up prompts, and it does accept my password each time. so maybe that’s not the issue. hard to say). anyway if they could fix this, i would be a much happier user. as it is, it can be a chore to use, if i just want to quickly peak at some lyrics on a whim.

Great 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.

Only one issue.. Been using this app for years, huge user. But just recently, today, I was scrolling, while playing music from my phone, and the advertisement was a video that just started playing. Causing the music to stop of course. I understand having to advertise and make money, but if it stops my music, it’s literally contradicting to the whole reason that I’m using the app on the first place. Keep up the awesome work, just fix this one thing. I’ve never posted a review on here before, but this was worth it in my opinion.

Great Idea, Poor Execution. This app is a great idea, I like using Genius to find lyrics to a song and get some information on those lyrics, that is about the only good thing about the app. The functionality of the app is bad, when you search for a song or album you don’t get all of the possible searches you can get, you only get the popular choices. Another thing I wish was different about this app is when you try editing an album or song to adjust it to its correct lyrics it is basically impossible, you are able to modify the lyrics if there is a wrong word in there but can not modify a whole album to add a few songs that were left out of the album. There is no place to edit something that is incorrect or even a place to report a problem to Genius which is frustrating.

Thankful for lyrics, dissapointed with annotations. This is a great app to look up the lyrics of your favorite songs, & initially rap genius did a really good job at providing annotations that helps the listeners further dissect their favorite songs. Unfortunately as of recently they only seem to annotate trendy pop songs & rap song that really don’t require much dissecting. As for the more encrypted & poetic lyrics, they are left untouched. What started off as a spot to discuss rap lyrics has become a lame & trendy blog to promote industry plants. Idk who runs Genius now, but uts a shame that they’ll jump on a miley cyrus song before an Isaiah rashad or earl sweatshirt song. A typical case of forgetting where your roots are from.

what did you guys do to this app?. you guys really seemed to ruin this app. i can’t log in to my Genius account w my email & password. it just doesn’t work. tried deleting & reinstalling the app , nothing. it’s been like this for quite a while now. i’m a verified user & can’t even log in. it has trouble reading my music library & that feature doesn’t work for me either. on top of all of this, i can’t even link my Apple Music account. i tried to play a song, then hit get apple music, then it just says i already have it, but won’t link it & allow me to play full songs. lastly, for the love of music, please allow us to turn off the “Shake for Genius App Feedback” feature that brings up an email every time you accidentally move your phone at all, every other app allows you to turn that off. please bring this app back to the state of greatness it once possessed.

Ads galore. Keeps opening the App Store randomly, especially when trying to use the search feature, taking me to some random games or apps that are apparently embedded somewhere in the background of this app. It is unusable when this happens, especially when I switch back to the app and it happens 3 more times instantaneously. I would also appreciate if the lyrics were able to sync to what I’m listening to, like Musixmatch does. Last complaint: the “now playing” or “currently playing” pop up lasts about 2 seconds and after that you are forced to search for the song rather than the app being more intuitive and leaving that information somewhere that could easily be referenced. A minor annoyance, but again when I click on search, I’m redirected to the App Store multiple times as part of an ad.

Please just fix the bugs.... Love the app about half the time, because I think the “behind the lyrics” annotations are great, love going from one song in an album to the next one smoothly, but my god, it’s so broken. VERY frequently crashes, sometimes causing my entire phone to shut off (I also don’t have an older phone or anything, it’s an iPhone 8+ that I got a year ago, and no other apps give me trouble) and often when I tap an annotation, the page will either not load at all, or half of my screen will have the page on it while the other half is black. I truly do like this app, but it has so many bugs that some days it’s completely unusable.

Cons. I’ll just bullet point things: • The song finder takes a while to find songs, and mostly just doesn’t work OR finds different songs • Sometimes ads pop up when I’m listening to a song and reading the lyrics and it interrupts the flow of the music • The search results are equivalent to looking stuff up on the Yahoo search engine- they’re not the same\ideal results you’d get compared to Google, so I guess I consider that’s something to work on too • The things you search usually close when you leave the app, so then you have to start the (fairly inefficient) searching for the genius lyrics\annotations again

pretty good. still better than using the site through safari but theres one thing that bothers me every time I use it: the search feature is WACK. every time i search the name of a song its never even one of the first things that comes up, its always random songs pr artists that dont even have words in common with what i’m searching. other than that its pretty good for its main function (looking at lyrics and annotations) but it does have some other features that seem really unnecessary to me, like the homepage being the news page - that always just feels like a barrier when all i’m trying to do is look up a song and it seems like that shoild be the priority of the app. otherwise love yall! xoxo

I like it but some annoying issues. If you scroll to fast it simply just returns you to the top of the page. Sometimes you click on a line of lyrics to see the annotation and it displays the annotation for a completely different line. In NWA’s “Gangsta Gangsta”, on the last group of lines at the end of the page, it either fails to completely load a line of lyrics or makes them appear out of nowhere when clicking on a completely different line. These issues have been around on the app for a short while and honestly I thought they would have fixed them by now. I hate to say it, but I think they’re just ignoring these problems and bugs because they seem like minor issues that could be fixed. But the problem is that these minor issues make the app frustrating to use sometimes because they happen so often. Other than those bugs, I think it’s a great app.

Awful. One of the glitchiest apps I’ve ever dealt with. Constantly freezes and crashes. And on top of that when it isn’t doing the MOST I’ll be reading along to some lyrics and click on the explanation for a lyric to be given a glimpse of the explanation and in one second it’ll turn completely white. And I wish you could save albums and eps to go back to. I love genius so it hurts to see this app be completely garbage. And why does it close out of you leave the app for more than 30 seconds, there having to look up the song over and over. When I’m looking up lyrics I always just see myself googling the song and when I click on genius it takes me to the app, so that made me delete the app entirely. AZ lyrics been faithful so I’m be there instead Periodt.

Missing 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.

Almost there!. The app is great, but even when putting certain song titles I get something else, and it gets annoying where I also have to put an artist name right after the title to find the right song, also there should be an option when going to search a song’s lyrics to be a quick select option instead of having to search for it, which could work out great if you have Apple Music connected to the app just like when you change songs within the app it lets your quickly select the songs lyrics I would like that but quick and easy when I open the app it shows the option to pull up the song lyrics easily, besides a few search problems which can be done better and quicker access to lyrics on a currently playing song the app is great but those two things hold it back from getting a 5 star rating from me

CONSTANTLY asks to login to my itunes account. ...rendering the app unusable. why do i need to log in to my itunes/app store account?? there’s no special feature. i never purchased anything. yet it asks EVERY SINGLE TIME i open the app. when i open the app, i HAVE TO enter my password for itunes or else i can’t even do a basic lyric search, which is slow and glitchy at best. i’m using an iphone 7 so this really should not be a problem. then if i switch to another app, while leaving genius open in the background, when i switch back to genius (which if aren’t logged into with my password), it will ask AGAIN for my itunes password. even though i had JUST put it in. if my screen locks, i have to enter my password. ITS RIDICULOUS. and if you wanted to remain on the same lyrics page? FORGET IT. you have to start your glitchridden slow search allllll over again. i’m deleting it and using the web version. it’s not worth it anymore.

Song not there. Recently I downloaded this app because it popped up when I was searching for something else I pressed on the add and it took me too the website I searched up the song the skyluar sisters from Hamilton on the website and it popped up first thing so I downloaded the app for better content keep in mind that same exact song that I searched up was at the top the very first song any ways when I searched it in the app search bar I couldn't find it is it just that you don't update the same songs or that I didn't look hard enough and the app also took 20 minutes too load

Searching lyrics. The app is great for when you can only remember a small portion of a song. Just type what you remember into the search bar and every song with those lyrics pops up with a preview of the line and the words you typed in bold. My only suggestion is that when you select a song from the list, the app should take you to that part of the song rather than starting you at the beginning. Scrolling through the entire song looking for one phrase can be annoying. Especially when you already don’t remember what was sad before it. Other than that, the app could improve from a few minor adjustments. But overall 4.5/5. I love how genius has grown over the years.

Was Excellent, Needs to Get Better. I’m not sure if anyone else has experienced the extremely slow lag whenever you open the app while listening to a song? It’s almost as if it doesn’t register tapping within the app, either it takes a couple minutes to register or crashes, and I’ve been waiting for an update to fix this for over a month. Other than this functionality issues, the app should really have lyric editing and metadata editing features that are included on the website. These key components would help add convenience to contributors on the go without needing access to a compute, which quite frankly should’ve been added quite a while ago. Other than the basic speed issue and the added features, still a great app with loads of excellent aspects that just need some rework :^)

One of the glitchiest apps ever used. I love Genius, but I don’t know how they got away with such a poorly designed app for so long. The app is clunky and is full of glitches. You get a random pop up every time you seem to type something showing something about “Issa Rae(sp?)” The pop up is annoying because half the time the “x” to close it doesn’t work and clicks into their own ad. I randomly have my email opened up from time to time to send feedback to their team despite during the setting off numerous times. All in all- don’t waste your time downloading this hunk of junk when you can just mobile version with zero issues.

Ripe with problems. Many problems render most of the features completely unusable. Hate to give it a two star but it’s borderline unusable and has been for a long, long time. The app is incredible on the rare occasion of working properly. It succeeds at its basic function of showing you lyrics of a song you want search, with an abundance of songs you may not have even known existed. Extremely large selection of songs with inputs and corrections from artists and users alike. But beyond this it’s provides almost nothing in regards to helping you understand the lyrics. Whenever you click on a lyric hoping to learn of its meaning, nothing happens. This was my most used feature of the app before it just stopped working many months ago. Often I can’t see the credited artists and other people who have worked on a song as that also does nothing when I click on the credits. Also unable to play any song even though I have Apple Music connected to the app, but this isn’t much of a problem as I never use this feature. Hope that these problems are resolved but they’ve been plaguing the app for many months and updates occasionally help but ultimately end up at the same point as always. I’ve tried updating the app and uninstalling multiple times but to no success. Absolutely love the app when it works but it almost never does.

Must Have. Genius has proven to me that it has the most accurate lyrics along with a lot of insight into the tracks. It gives an insight into the tracks as a whole and the meaning of its verses. It has a huge library of lyrics, even some songs that seemed to be not as famous or popular. Genius also is great for songs of other countries and languages such as Mexico and latin america with the spanish lyrics. A must have simple to use amd search app. Theres no singing and guessing in my car or wherever i go anymore!

Worst search function ever. Seriously, no matter how exactly I type in the name of a song, almost without fail one or more of the top hits is an Eminem song, and that song rarely includes whatever I just searched for — but whatever does show up almost always includes some very NSFW stuff that I’d rather not have to see when I’m looking for songs with my kids - or just myself for that matter. The other top hits hardly ever include a song with the title I just typed in, much less the actual song I wanted - just some random songs that might match a word or two. And I’m not looking for some obscure song no one’s ever heard of. Sheesh - web searches 20 years ago did better than this. Uninstalled.

Has a few annoyances.... Overall the app is great, but here are a few of the issues I have with it. • When viewing a song, there are a few videos the app recommends at the top and they don’t have anything to do with the song you’re actually viewing. I wish there was a setting that just disabled them because I’ll literally never watch one. • When searching for songs, I often search for the title of a song I already know, because I want to read the lyrics. The app seemingly prioritizes lyrics as keywords before song titles. I wish there was a setting to choose priority of search results because sometimes I’ll type the exact title of a song and it won’t find it unless I also add the artist name. So there’s my long-winded short list of issues I have with the app. Hopefully the developers see this. 😘

Love it but it closes itself in the background too quick. Love the app. Overall it is fantastic and super helpful. One major annoyance for me is the fact that the app closes fully when put on the background within maybe 30 seconds. This means I have to tap the search bar and find the song I had up each time I switch apps. Hardly any other apps close fully this quickly so I wish there was a setting for this as it's pretty annoying (as often I switch between apps while using) Also- the search feature should customize based on the genres you listen to most or based off songs you have looked up in your history. Often I type in a rock song and pop or rap songs come up in the first slots which means I have to type more info in. I understand some songs or more popular and should show up first but I think a "smart" search option that learns from its user would be a fantastic addition for those who don't like mainstream music

Great app with the whole point ruined by ads. Title sounds dramatic, I know. But the recent change to add full screen unskippable video ads defeats the purpose of this app. When people are reading lyrics, they probably have the song playing too. When you click a lyric to expand it, there’s a good chance your music will stop and a loud advertisement will take its place. You can’t skip it, so you sit for 30 seconds until it stops and you can play your music again. Click on another lyric and your music stops again to play another ad. You’d probably listen to more ads than the runtime of the song itself if you expanded every lyric

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Apple ID. I’ve always loved Genius, but really hate having to enter in my Apple ID EVERY SINGLE TIME I USE THE APP. I wish I could disassociate my Apple Music library with the Genius app just to stop it asking for my Apple ID but that’s not a problem.

Radio. Imagine that you in the car, and you don’t know the song and, you have to wait for it, for the person to tell you. Lol or sometime there don’t tell you at all. This app good at that point. Thank you for reading. Enjoy

App often freezes and crashes. App often freezes and crashes to the point where I can’t even look up a song. If it does work then it takes a long time time to load lyrics. Needs a fix.

constantly stops music. we get on genius to read the lyrics of the music we listen to, often as we are listening. every time i get on a lyrics page, random videos or ads end up pausing the music.

Ads stop music from playing 😐. These stupid ads for free ad filled games constantly and consistently pause my music when I’m reading lyrics, can we just change the ad?

Some lyrics don’t load. Hi, I love this app and learning about the songs but there’s issues with some songs, the lyrics won’t load and sometimes it takes ages for something to load. I’ve checked online to see if genius did have lyrics for those songs and there is but it won’t load on the app, please fix! I have an iPhone 6s Plus with the latest update

Awesome. Great app live singing along to my favourite songs with the right words 😂😂

So buggy. Literally just trying to browse and create an annotation screenshot thing and it wont let me select the lyrics to be made into an annotation. Super frustrating

Can’t read annotations because of adverts. When the Google ads insert, the annotations disappear so you can’t read them

Genius. I love the website but this app is so slow that I always have to use my safari browser to view it instead. Please make it faster.

Only issue is ads. I love this app when looking up lyrics for stuff. It’s the best thing I’ve used in a while. The only issue is the ads that are shown while I’m reading the lyrics. I often play music while reading the lyrics, especially if I’m trying to learn it, and I had a bit of trouble with my music pausing because there was a video ad -with no sound btw- which kept stopping music, and it was a hassle to get it going again. Otherwise, it’s great!

Awesome!. I love this app, that’s it, I just love it Perfect for singing my favourite songs and you can write your own lyrics as well to your songs if you want too This app is great Thank you Genius

Was an awesome app. This used to be the best app but due to the recent update it doesn’t automatically load song lyrics when they’re playing in the background which really pisses me off, PLEASE FIX ASAP!!! Then it’ll be the best app again.

Great... if I could read annotations. I’m not looking for anything super special, mostly just having lyrics easily accessible if I’m listening to something. I like genius for its annotations and clean layout, but frequently having the annotations in the side drawer load for a second then bug out and disappear, leaving me looking at a google ad makes for an annoying experience.

Disappointed. I don’t usually write reviews but I’m doing it now because I loooove Genius. I use the app on a daily basis because I’m big on understanding the lyrics completely (English is not my first language), and get insights into the artist’s mind as well as seeing the credits for songs and the app does a great job at that. What ANNOYS me to the core, is the apps inability to save the state you were in when you leave the app. If I happen to minimize the app for a second to reply a text message, less than a minute after when I get back, the app brings me back to the homepage so I need to go again and search for whatever lyrics I was looking before I minimized the app. This has been going on since forever, it’s time to fix it guys 🙏🏽

Love this app, but. there are many issues with loading songs or lyric annotations. One of my favourite things to do it read the lyrics to songs and what people make of them while I listen to the song. With the app it is very difficult to do this, it’s a silly complaint but if you were to just fix some of these problems this it would be so much better.

Glitchy & slow. So many apps work flawlessly, it’s 2018, it’s very rare to find a mainstream app with issues; Genius is an exception, and it doesn’t seem to be getting fixed. The search has recently improved a little bit but the (great) feature where you could make lyric cards is now broken...

In-App Ads. Wanna listen to your music and read the lyrics at the same time? Very impossible to do when the in-app ads causes your music to pause. Every. Single. Time.

They ruined it. The search function was always terrible, bringing up some Rhianna song or something even if you type the title of the song you want word for word, and the app was always awfully slow, but you can deal with that. What broke the app was the ads. First it was an ad for some genius video every time you click on a line, but now it’s unskippable video ads that pause your music even though they themselves have no sound... on a music app. Who’s idea was this? It’s unusable now.

Chews through battery. Having the app open for 5 minutes uses more than 10% of the battery just for reading lyrics. Runs really slowly as well.

Please let us save the full album!. If you could save the whole album for offline instead of having to do it song by song would be soooOOooO good thank youu!

Genius Lyrics. 100% accurate

It’s always broken.. Practically every time I use this app something goes wrong. Always a random mixed bag of the following issues: doesn’t load lyrics, doesn’t load annotations, doesn’t load comments, doesn’t load search results, doesn’t load the song when opening from Safari, refreshes randomly when using it, etc.

REEEEAAALLY BUGGY AND SLOW. Crashes all the time and takes ages to work properly. Even on latest ios iPhone 7!

OffLine lyrics. The option to look at the lyrics offline isn’t working, it used to work fine but now it’s not

Needs an update. App asks me to log into my Apple ID every time I open it, makes me more inclined to use the mobile webpage

Really annoying user experience!!. The app doesn’t persist page history, so every time I’d have to navigate to the page I want again. Most annoyingly, the ads on the lyrics page stop my music even though the ad itself is muted!!! Horrible to use

Glitchy. The app glitches, and the website, is it my device, or everyone’s?

app is very glitchy. search doesn’t work, my keyboard won’t even come up when i try to type in something.

Good when it works. I’m quite annoyed. A few months ago, genius’ offline mode stopped working for me. The songs wouldn’t load even if they were saved to my library. It worked perfectly before. Now after updating my software, all my saved genius songs disappeared and I had well over 300. Extremely disappointed. The dev team must step up their game.

App is alright, but still needs tweaking.. Overall the app is well... meh, but on couple of occasions I’ve had a selection of song lyrics saved for offline reading only for the app to delete them on it’s own.

Crashes. Never opens. Crashes

My go to app!. Great app! However, on latest iOS update genius just doesn’t work and shows a black screen

ads. nothing is more annoying than having an ad stop the music while you’re using the app, other than that the app is fine

Awful user experience. What could be a great app just ends up being a frustrating experience. When switching between apps, the song lyrics that you’re viewing frequently get removed and you end up back on the home screen. Sometime you select a song from the search results and a completely different song is loaded. Why not have the ability to download lyrics to your device?

It’s good however. Some reason my app is glitching like crazy after 10 minutes. It makes the touch-screen stutter around aggressively. It takes 2 seconds extra to register my movement and quite a problematic issue. All my other apps work fine. This is a isolated problem sadly. Hope a patch comes through

Great app but. This is one of the most apps I’ve used to search lyrics. I’ve been able to use it on the way to school to sing my favorite songs. My only problem is I can’t save annotations because it always crashes the app on my phone without saving the annotation image!

Please fix. Lyrics don’t load automatically anymore when playing a song.

The app is gun. It has new music news from a variety of genres and provides a platform that is very comfortable like peanut butter chocolate cake 🦒

Really Disappointed!. After updating my phone, I was forced to updated all my apps. After doing so I soon came to realise that there was no ‘currently playing’ tab. This function made the app very useful, and without it, it is a pain to use. The ‘what’s playing’ notification which I presume is to replace the ‘currently playing’ tab is utterly useless, it never sends a notification when the song changes! And even if it was working, to design is so dumb, if I want to see the lyrics, I’ll open the app. Also, every time I open the app, it always requests my Apple ID, EVERY TIME. I don’t know what for anymore. Because I’m of these reasons, I’m deleting this app until it is fixed and useful. Please bring the old version back!

Doesn’t work. I’m probably stupid but it’s not working and also I can’t search for songs

Keeps crashing and making my phone lag. Whenever I use this app it slows my phone down, makes my music lag, and eventually crashes. I love reading lyrics while listening to music but using the app makes it impossible :(

New update’s terrible. What was once an iconic app, is currently failing. Pauses music randomly while in app and won’t resume. Video ads pop up inconvenient. Like why?!

Absolutely broken. When ever i use it, my phone completely dies, taking 10 seconds to recognise that i am: •touching it •pressing the home button •pressing the power button I dont know why but it is the only app onpen when i do this, and i have a completely functional iphone 8plus.

None of my songs are loading. Most of my songs used to pop up and I’d just have to click, now it doesn’t do it at all. Will uninstall if not fixed.

Ads are driving me mad. Great content. The ads have caused me to stop using this app though. They are in your face and no way to get rid of it. I would gladly pay to be rid of them but its just maddening when your listening to some pink Floyd and you get ads all over the place… please provide an ad free paid option.

Slow as. I really like this app, but it is ridiculously slow and freezes when I’m searching up songs

saving songs. I saved at least 50 songs then the next time I log in I have none other then that great app

Love it. This app really comes in handy and is very useful and easy to use 🔥🔥

What happened?. I am only able to read a certain number of annotations on a song. After a while, the app is just endlessly loading when I click on an annotation which is really annoying because it means I need to close the app and reopen it. Not to mention every time I leave the app for a split second, it fails to remember what page I was on and returns to the homepage. Really disappointing and frustrating. I hope this issue is fixed soon and is not swept aside due to no other app matching the services that genius provides.

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Just use the website. Half the time the song I search never shows up. I know the song exists because I’ve seen it on the website.

Just use the website. App’s ads are obnoxious. Genius as a whole gets an easy five stars, but their app deserves one. When there used to be ads at the end of the lyrics or between verses, I was totally fine with it - they’ve gotta make money somehow, and the app had more features than the website. They had a convenient feature that listed your recently played songs, so you could easily get lyrics for the current song without searching. That feature wasn’t working reliably in my case, and they’ve also added pop up video ads when you click individual lyrics. I used to go through songs line by line in case there was a reference I missed, but the new ad experience is so obnoxious I have to consider whether or not seeing the explanation for one line is worth wasting five seconds of my life outwaiting some annoying ad. It’s ruined genius for me to the point I stopped looking up lyrics unless I was really curious about one specific thing. I’ve deleted the app and started using the website again (with an adblocker), and it’s been much better and easier overall. I’d highly recommend doing the same - allow unobtrusive ads, if you wanna support genius, but don’t teach companies that holding everything hostage behind video ads is acceptable.

Bombarded with ads. What’s up with all the ads? Whenever I click on an annotation a fifteen second app pops up in addition to all the other eyesore ads on the app. I understand that Genius has to keep the lights on but surely there’s a better way of showcasing ads on the app.

Genius. This app barely runs on iPhone XR and drains battery, easier to use web browser

Garbage ads now. June 16 2023- zero out of 5 I saw ads were added 4 days ago in verision history. Litellaty cannot open the app without a google ad. Press the microphone? Google ad. Try again? Google ad. Hey maybe one more time. Oh wow, a Chinese ad. Garbage. Someone bought this app from when it was good and just threw a bunch of google and Chinese ads in its you literally cannot click on anything without an add. Saw it again? YOU CANNOT CLICK ONE THING IN THIS APP WITHOUT AN AD

Bonne application. Excellent

lyric card bug. when i try to make a lyric card, the panel that opens to choose the lyric wont scroll down and i cant even see the whole lyrics. basically the only reason i use this app is to leave comments occasionally and make lyric cards.. :( pls fix

Opens to black screen. Starting the app shows a black screen. Fixed with version 6.3.2

Pop up ads. They added pop up ads now which are extremely annoying honestly disgusting

Awesome. Great app, very informative!!

ads. the video ads are incredibly unnecessary people don’t have enough of an attention span to wait 30 seconds to see what a singular lyric means. really disappointing

Please fix!. Every time I open the app I have to always type my iTunes password. Fix this bug it’s so annoying. FIX it! I’m sure I’m not the only one with this problem

Great app but extremely buggy and lags. Lags way too much. Fix this pls.

Lyrics are cut off for annotations. Very frustrating

it’s doesn’t run anymore. used to love this app but the lag and performance of it lately is so terrible

Search function poor. There are no filter capabilities for searching music, such as genre, year. So I search using lyrics, and i get some random list that is all rap songs. I don’t get it.

Takes up too much RAM. It’s a useful app to have, it just causes everything to lag so much whenever I use it. Plz fix

APP IS SLOW. This all is so glitchy and slow. Y’all make so much money wanna spend some on your outdated app?

Fall of a King. Been a long time user of Genius both on web and phone, and I used to love how they had the most accurate lyrics + annotations, but this app has now become fully unusable. Every single feature takes far too long to load, it pauses your music when you enter the app, and the biggest slap in the face is that the ads load in before the lyrics do. It’s clear that this app is hungry for those clicks rather than the music—which is fine for them, get your bag, but I’m going to hop on google and go to azlyrics for what I’m actually looking for. It’s not worth the extra 2 minutes to click on an annotation and wait for it to load, meanwhile I’m already on the next song (if it even played properly to begin with). Sad to see.

Ads are a no go. I was happy to use the app until I came across an unskippable ad when trying to view a lyric. I uninstalled it, the website will work just fine from now on.

brutal. app won’t load. iphone 12

lyric images won’t work. great app, but I can’t create lyric images anymore for some reason. after you choose a picture, the lines won’t show up. this didn’t use to be a problem, don’t know what happened, but hope it gets fixed soon!

I’m unable to use lyric messages through iMessage anymore. I’ve been trying everything from restarting my phone to deleting the app and re-downloading it and nothing has changed, overall the app is great but I hope this issue gets resolved soon, one of my favourite features.

Terrible performance. Barely runs on an iPhone X. Hard to justify this performance in this kind of app

A very slow app. I’m not too sure why, but whenever I have the genius app open it slows my phone down incredibly. I’ve tried to remedy the problem many ways, closing every other app, getting a new phone, always trying to refresh. But to no avail nothing has seemed to help. I also find it annoying how many ads there are for this app. I understand they need to make money some how but when I’m trying to follow the lyrics to a song it can be annoying and take me out of what I would find a better experience.

VIRUS AND LAGG. do not install this app because i pressed on play music and it popped with tons of notifications + virus

Worse than browser. Pop up ads that pause your music, and it doesn’t happen if you just use your browser. Genius design right there

App doesn’t load; only shows a black screen. I have never had problems using Genius for years until the recent updates. Please fix. It has been like this for a few weeks. Thank you.

Ads playing for lyrics aint it. Mans trying to look up some text for a slapper but some new chevy commercial tryna grill my eyes with some sweet succulent capitalism. I understand trying to stack up some guap- all fair play. But for a lyric app? Id rather decode the lyrics with urban dictionary and an english course on inferring text. Grew up loving Genius but now they flipped over to the Youtube “just go play outside” format. COVID got us all in a headlock but if I gotta purchase another 6$ remove ads button I might just have to go get rich selling lemonade.

Disappointing.. Honestly I loved this app but the fact that customer service is this horrible is just disappointing. I’ve reported a bug which doesn’t let me use the app in my reviews and even to Genius themselves and months after I don’t even get a single reply.

To the developers.. Guys, what happened? This app used to be so simple. So crisp! Now it’s just ad after ad. The search feature is garbage, the app is super slow overall and the advertisements are THE WORST part. One thing I used to love doing is following lyrics while playing my apple music in the background. Now when I click an annotated lyric, a video pops up and immediately shows me an unskipable ad that cuts out the music in the back. Ugh. I get that you guys need to make money and the simplest way to do that is running hella ads. But I’ve been rockin with Genius for a really long time (I remember back when it was called Rap Genius back around 2012 or so) and it just sucks to see you guys sell out. At this point it’s quicker/easier to just google the lyrics without going through Genius. Anyways, would love to hear back from you guys with any insight.

Wayyyyy too many ads. Cool it with the ads! I can’t even listen to my music while looking at the lyrics because of the unskippable video ads!

Awesome app!. Love the app, my only reproach is that I wish we could see the comments in the mobile version as well but that is it.

The ads ruined it. Can’t listen to music while using the app anymore because of these intrusive ads. Uninstalling.

Can’t find songs. Genius is better off browsed through a search engine

Uses a lot of energy. Good app but it makes my phone overheat and slows every function on my phone down until I close the app, and drains battery life like a fiend, not sure why it makes my phone work so hard

New update glitch. Everytime I open this app it asks to login using my Apple ID. And the lyrics search don’t work, the microphone is also bugged. Please update.

Video ads. I use this app to look at while I listen to music but they recently introduced video ads which interrupt song playback.

Faulty app. For all that’s it’s worth most people who are going to download are most likely looking for that offline viewing of lyrics but no matter what you do there’s just no way that feature of theirs actually works. As a consumer save your time and just use the website. There’s nothing here on the app that you won’t find on the website.

Why is this app so terrible, honestly. When I try to search “u” by Kendrick Lamar it will bring me every single result it has that contains a u first. App always pauses your music and doenst let you play it while you read. Kinda take you out of it huh

Yup, this app is totally a genius. There’s so many meanings behind lyrics on this app... it’s amazing! The layout and the design is pretty great too. Also, it’s perfect for looking up poetry annotations (which is VERY helpful for my English class rn)

please fix. I really don’t think it’s that hard to make an app that isn’t horribly slow and doesn’t crash your phone every minute. The ads, overheating, crashes, lag, bugs, etc. make this app almost unusable, which is a shame, please fix it.

Laggy as hell. Every time I tap a lyric annotation it starts skipping. As well as scrolling down the lyrics in the song it starts skipping (lagging). So please fix it.

Music pauses when i launch app. The fact that my spotify pauses when i use this app makes it completely useless. Might as well just use the web. I know you want to play your ads but they’ve screwed up the experience, and I can’t even see where the ad is playing on the view.

Offline saved songs do not load. Basic feature that doesn’t work

Spotify ???. Can’t listen to songs via Spotify and youve been enslaved by Apple .... Stop sucking em off

slay app. im so slay rn i luv this app😜😜

Good but Overheats phone. Overall design is nice but the fact that my phone (iPhone X) heats up to the max just looking at lyrics makes the app unusable.

app literally does not work. on first download, it opens and almost works for about 30 seconds, then crashes. every time i open it i get a black screen. this has been happening for about 2-3 months.

Crashes. I can't even use the app, everytime I open the app it crashes

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One of the best ways to really learn about music. Some people might use this app just to see the lyrics to certain songs, but Genius does much more than that. By reading into to the words of music, a huge group of people work hard to analyze the story behind and inside the songs. This really lets you get to know the artist, and understand what really makes each piece unique.

Its great but.... Its great and all, i can see the lyrics of songs, the producers of the songs, but whenever i open this app, its like i open a bunch of apps and leave them running. It crashes after about 2 minutes of using. Makes my phone very slow even though i have an iPhone 11. It just makes other app laggy and slow if its in the background.

i love this app. it always has the lyrics to the song i’m looking for, it’s never disappointed me. i’m someone who doesn’t like unsolved problems and having a song stuck in your head and not knowing the lyrics is one of those that I cannot stand the most and this app always comes through. i’d recommend it to everyone.

A must for every music lover. I tried Shazam for a long time. It’s full of glut and hard to just search for a song. This app works awesome—not only from r lyrics but for some Nghia’s discussion as well. I was pleasantly surprised to see one of my favorite artists, Propaganda, co-signed several annotations in his songs. This a great tool to give insight into artists music—granted, it necessitates music that you may need to think more deeply about. Good stuff!

A little frustrating now.... I loved the Genius app and used it all the time. I loved the way it synced to my music and would show what I’m listening to currently to make looking up the lyrics easier. Up until recently it was a great app, but now I can barely use it. EVERY time I open the app I’m rerouted to the App Store to download some game. I close the App Store and go back to the app just to be rerouted again. I’m trying to listen to music not play a game. So frustrating.

Videos. The app is fine but the when I watch the music videos like Lights it just freezes for a few seconds and then exits out of app and it’s super annoying. Sometimes it only gets to the beginning of the video before the music starts and other times it’s good until the middle or right when it’s getting good. If they fixed this one thing they would be getting five stars

Great but not good. I love genius! I've been using it for a year now and I would love to give 5 stars but the problem is that anytime I try to watch a music video and I scroll up so I can see the lyrics, It stops and then crashes. Another problem is that when there is no internet and I want to sing a song but I forgot the lyrics, The lyrics for songs are gone! Before it used to be good but now I can’t even read the lyrics! As that’s not all. Everytime I have lots of songs saved up and I open the app, sometimes it just logs me out of my account and all my saved songs are gone. Please help fix it. Edit: Now I can't even open the app! Every time I try to open it, it just gives me a blank screen and suddenly I'm back to my Home Screen! I'm starting to hate genius

Mobile App Is Lame. I love Genius, don’t get me wrong. The computer application is amazing! But the mobile app just underperforms in nearly every way. From something as simple as marking a message read to as fundamental as actually using the app to add or edit information, the app proves itself useless to the serious contributor. I wish they would create a full featured version of the app and then call this one “Genius Light” or maybe “B Student,” because it really doesn’t qualify for the top grade.

Contributions are popularity based. The way this app is set up for contributions is a popularity contest. If you haven’t earned many points than anyone with more points than you can delete your annotations or suggestions with no explanation or reason. Most of the annotations are off the wall, but don’t bother trying to make suggestions if you’re new to the app. People delete what they don’t like to hear or because they’re jealous that you have more clarity or knowledge about the lyrics. Sometimes I get a little bit of understanding regarding a song that is complex, but typically it’s comedy.

This app would be great if it actually worked. I like the Genius service, and I thought having the app would really improve on this service. It does not. I’ve had the app for over 2 years now and I’ve still not seen any major improvements. It’s slow. It crashes frequently. It randomly won’t allow you to click on some annotations. It also will cut into your audio because of the ads, so a major functionality (that should be free) of following along with the lyrics is broken. There’s so much potential here to be a great app, but it’s not. Don’t waste your time, the 3.7 rating this app currently has is not accurate at all, should be much lower.

Genius rip. The sales stuff says you can get lyrics to songs on your play list. First, the app doesn’t do that. You must login to the Genius web page to do that. I didn’t want to do that. I just wanted to use the app. Second, it’s like a gossip page. First “article” was about some singer hating West. There is so much to hate about West, I guess it’s “Ye” now (eye roll), we don’t need to know more. Then there’s more gossip. Third, it’s a lost leader for iTunes. I’m guessing you can only see the lyrics, not for song you bought, to streaming song. For a monthly feel to “borrow” song you can’t keep.

1 specific annoying detail... Overall great app, interesting insight and backstory on great songs but it has slowly been taken over by some idiotic songs that I feel like don’t even deserve an explanation. My BIGGEST pet peeve about this is app is that every single time I open up the app, it asks me for my iTunes password. Every time! And if I don’t put my password I can’t get to any video or song because I’m constantly being bombarded with the little pop up that I have to put in my password. So annoying!

Pretty annoying glitch. The past few times I used the app, whenever I would click on lyric annotations, they would show up for less than a second then there would just be a blank box where the annotations should be. Then when I would exit the annotation and click them again it would be fine. I have an iPhone 11 on the most recent update

Love the concept!. This is an amazing app, and I thoroughly enjoy every little aspect of it. However, it needs a lot of optimization. The app can be a bit difficult to navigate due to crashes, random freezes, and glitches that can hard to explain. Although, like the title of my little TED talk states, I love the app’s mission. Wanting to gain a better knowledge of music artists works is something I fully and continually support. Just, the bugs can make it a tad bothersome to do so.

Mobile Annotating please?! 🥺. I have used Genius since it was RapGenius, I love learning and exploring the history and context behind lyrics and appreciate the function of this app in that respect. HOWEVER it would be awesome if there was a way to make (even very basic) comments or annotations on son lyrics within the app. I’ve heard this is possible on Safari, but haven’t had any luck. Please, please let folks make annotations on IOS like we can on desktop. That’s all, that’s the tweet. 🤘🏼🎵

Keeps asking me to Sign In with Apple ID on launch. Not sure why this is necessary? If I cancel it once, it keeps prompting me until I give in and fill in my password. If this is necessary for Apple Music playback or similar, can’t you just get it from my system settings? Or just let me decide to actually dismiss it and lose out on some functionality that this is supposed to activate. Just ask me again once I’m about to use this functionality and we’re good.

Almost Perfect - The Best of It’s Kind. It serves its purpose flawlessly. Because I only use it for two things: (1.) to search for lyrics of a particular song (2.) to quickly see the lyrics of the song I am listening to I think all the other functions, regardless of how well they work, are useless to me. But I am grateful that the part I care about works very well and almost never fails. I have one complaint, two suggestions: 1.) I wish there was a tab or something within the app when you open it to see a list of the most recent song lyrics you’ve looked at 2.) a tan or something within the app of saved or favorite lyrics, so I wouldn’t have to research or re-listen to a certain song, just to remind myself of the lyrics. I recommend this app, it has served me well.

Great app, but.... I give it 4 stars. I love the app and I enjoy using when looking for the lyrics for songs. But the reason why it is 4 and not 5 stars is because, for example if the app is already deleted because there is no more space than I would want the songs that I’ve saved previously to be there. That is however not fulfilled and I have to go search up the songs all over again and it honestly gets tiring. Does anybody else not like that or is it just me?

Great App. Great app for giving you all the lyrics and reference for almost any song. Love the library import and now playing features. A little slow at times. Favorite thing is the quote share where you create an image for line(s) from a song but it needs to incorporate attribution from featured artists so I can quote the other artists on the track.

Practically unusable. The app constantly lags and force quits. It has been like this for years and has nothing to do with data speeds as other apps on my phone will work completely fine and this one will not. Particularly if I’m reading lyrics/annotations for several songs in a row, after a few songs, the app will get so laggy that it’s basically unusable. Like someone else said, you have to click the annotation and close out of it multiple times to get it to load (barring ads that will pop up as well.) I used to love genius back when it was just rapgenius but it’s like the developers have just given up.

Almost 5 Star. It’s so hard to find songs or albums because the search bar is outdated. For example, I tried to look up a specific album that’s popular and couldn’t find it on the search bar so I had to look up the artist which also took a while to find, then go to the album from there. Please fix the search bar

Just a suggestion. Great app overall, surprisingly more songs on here than expected. Would be nice if there was a feature added which enables you to save songs which you’ve looked up, to a list; as opposed to just a few being on your recent search history. I’d like to go back and look at old ones I’ve researched from time to time.

Signing In. There must be a bug with this update because the app is not letting me sign in. After the previous update came, the app signed me out and now I can’t get back in. Doesn’t matter which way I try signing in, whether it’s with gmail, twitter or Apple Music, it’s not signing me in. I like upvoting annotations and making annotations myself but I cannot because of this issue. Thank you for your time.

REALLY laggy at times. Last night, I bought a few songs from Eminem’s new album, and was trying to pull up the meaning behind one of the lyrics. Unfortunately, the app (and my phone as a whole) started freezing to the point where I almost couldn’t restart my phone. This happens every so often, no matter if I’m using cellular data or wifi. Please fix this as soon as possible. Other than that, this app is superb!

Love the app mostly.... The app is great, except for search, which is the most important part of this app. The search is terrible!! Just typed in “Name” and got a bunch of Young Thug songs without “Name” in the title?? It’s horrible and never recommends the actual right song. Get it together. Please. It’s a great app update: still a great app but the search is STILL genuinely awful. never shows what you want until you type near the whole thing. unreal and confusing considering it’s 2020...?

Always been good till now. I’ve never had a problem with the app only when lyrics aren’t shown up or the song that’s playing from my Apple Music. That’s fine though. The real problem is recently I haven’t been able to get into my genius app it always crashes and I can’t even get in the main screen before it crashes. This isn’t cool. I jus want to read lyrics on break and free time and it’s not working I’ve deleted the app and re downloaded three times already and each time it does it. Two stars for this for sure.

WE NEED COMMENTS BACK!. I love this app it really makes me appreciate music more, and i love that i can get to know the artists jntentions behind the meaning of a song. the interface is easy to use and i love that i can even find songs from mixtapes on the app. BUT AND ITS A BIT BUT WHY CAN YOU COMMENT IN SONGS ANYMORE?! i definitely remember doing it in the past but now i can’t? what gives? great conversations would happen in the comments section and i really this this app benefits from that. please bring back comments EVERYONE will thank you later!🙏🏾

Great overall. Just one problem, I'll listen to a song from my library then I'll go on genius, then when I click on certain lyrics and the description pops up, a 30 second video ad will start playing and I have to go back to my music app to resume playing the song. I even tried using the "watch music video feature" and it continued to do this. Love the app besides this issue and I use it all the time but this is a little annoying.

Pretty Good. My main complaint is that every single time I open up a song, it gives me an Apple Music prompt at the bottom that I have to close. Another complaint is that I still do not know how to add an annotation or if there even is an option to do that. Everything else about the app is excellent though. Good interface.

Great app for music lovers. Genius can know what song you are listening to and give info about the origins of a song who wrote it sometimes exactly where and the meaning of the lyrics animations on the app (normal use) is very smooth and well done only problem is it’s done by the public and not all song have stuff written but usually not a problem

**USED** to be great. I used to love the fact that I could listen to music in my music library (that I’ve purchased through iTunes) and read the lyrics at the same time. It was so convenient, especially after new music releases. Apparently, now you can no longer do that. If you’d like to read lyrics while listening, you need Apple Music. And if you don’t have Apple Music, an extremely annoying and loud ad will just keep playing over and over. It’s disappointing, to say the least, that I now need a paid monthly service to utilize this app the way I used to.

Frequently used.... I could do without people’s “interpretations“ of the meanings of the song lyrics. I don’t particularly care to know what some random schmo thinks Marcus Mumford is trying to convey in his music. Having said that, this app has by far the most accurate lyrics I’ve found. I like the capability to recognize what is currently playing, or to search if the app doesn’t recognize the song automatically. I also like the meme generator.

Video ads are annoying. I've always loved this app and have had it for years. But recently it has started opening video ads automatically that will stop any other audio that's playing (usually the song I'm reading the lyrics for) which is really annoying. And this happens for every song you look up and even when you tap to read the annotations. Without the constant ads, it's easily a five star app. Unfortunately, these ads make me not want to use it while I'm listening to music.

Just wish the annotations would load.... This app is an essential for me since I really enjoy the way it allows you to get a deeper look into the meanings of certain songs and information on their instrumentation. Sadly, for a while now I’ve run into the issue of not being able to load the annotations when clicking on the highlighted text of a song lyric. This completely renders the app useless to me since I mostly value it for it’s lyric annotations. I considered giving it two stars since when it works it’s a great app, but I find that occurs so rarely now that I often find myself frustrated by the app more than anything. PLEASE FIX THIS!

please fix save song for offline. the save song function lo longer works, if I save a song I can only see it offline up until the app gets closed all the way ( like when you double tap the home button and slide the app up) then when you open the app offline and you tap a song, the lyrics are just empty

Auto playing video ads ruin this app. Yes, this is a big thing for me which is why 4 stars were taken off. If I decide to look up lyrics for a song I’m listening to on my phone, the song gets cut off for an ad about GoT or a new preview popular movie. I get the company wants to make money but why have ads that take over the screen to play a video, or that cut off your music (which you paid for) when most people are likely listening to the song they’re looking up? It’s irritating to be following along and then get your device covered by some ad that cuts off your music. This needs to change.

Love genius but app is annoying!. Oh man. I still remember when I found the genius website. I was in love. I am a huge music junkie so this was a big deal for me. But, this review is on the app. I have to say. The app is great. Unless you decide to exit it and come back to what you were looking at. Not only does it reset to the home screen but it ask you to login with you Apple ID every single time. Man, I am so close just getting rid of the app but I’m staying hopeful that they’ll soon be an update to fix this. Please, soon. I can’t imagine how secure this app needs to be that you have to add your password every time to use it.

App has been crashing for the last 2 weeks. I love love love genius and love the app but over the last 2 weeks the app immediately crashes when opening and I haven’t been able to use it… I tried using the web browser which automatically takes me to the app and crashes..

web version supremacy. as of late, the app crashes the moment i try to open it nine times out of ten. when the app was regularly working for me, the search function would rarely display the results most relevant to the exact phrase i was typing. if i knew the exact title of a song, and i searched it, i'd need to scroll past several results that hardly contained the phrase i searched (unless the song i searched was immensely popular). in addition, the app cannot handle deviating from the search page by clicking through the songs—if i viewed several songs from the same album without going all the way back to the search function, the app severely slowed down. i really do enjoy the content within the app and the annotated lyric format in general. the web version does not give me most of these issues, which is why this wasn't a one-star review. tl;dr: fire your app programmers

Service is amazing, implementation is less so. Genius is awesome as it provides a platform for people to discuss and use their collective knowledge to uncover the meaning behind lyrics. However, the app itself has a myriad of technical glitches. Sometimes the keyboard will randomly appear at the top of the screen. There’s a persistent notification under the “Me” tab even after I tap the bell and no notification is there. Genius is my go-to for the in-depth analysis of lyrics and I hope the developers will keep squashing the bugs to create a more usable app.

Secret Subscription. I have used Genius for a long time without problems, it’s a great way to see lyrics and credits for songs. But recently, they have made it a paid service that cost money to even open the app. There was no warning of the switch to this paid usage, and I was unaware at the time I was throwing away my credit every time I opened the app.

No Commenting. I just switched to apple and downloaded this app cause I use it whenever I listen to music. The only problem I have with the IPhone’s version is that you can’t comment or suggest things on songs. It was probably my favorite feature since it was nice to interact with people and share views and thoughts of songs. I’m not sure if I just haven’t noticed it or what but a little disappointing. Overall it is a great app and I use it all the time.

Absolutely Melts Your Battery. I love the app, I mean I’m a music nerd and one of my favorite pastimes is to look through the lyrics of my favorite songs and find the true meanings behind them, and genius makes that easier than ever. The issue is, I can’t use the app for more than 5 seconds without it starting to overheat my battery, and it gets to the point where my battery burns my hand whilst holding my phone and I lose percentage like crazy. I’m not sure what causes it, but it makes the app virtually unusable for more than 20-30 seconds.

Can’t even search songs. Second I click on a song or find it from the app listening it will glitch out and i can’t do anything. I have to shut down the app completely multiple times for it even go back to the main screen. Somehow when it freezes it’ll literally just be like a picture of my phone when it was on that screen. If I had WiFi on and turn it off, WiFi will be over lapping my LTE symbol when I go back to the frozen app even though I don’t have WiFi on. lyrics won’t load, description won’t load, name of song and album art won’t load half the time. I love genius as a site but fix your app because it’s broken.

Love the concept but poor performance hinders it.. I love the fact that genius helps breakdown lyrics and even give you history into the songs. The annotations are awesome. Sadly the app uses a LOT of processing power and runs extremely poorly. My phone gets physically hot using genius. Sometimes I have to re-load the lyrics several times before they’ll display because an ad is blocking it or covering the lyrics. If I could pay for the app to not have ads, I’d totally do it. Hopefully these issues can be fixed because it’s a one of the best lyric services out there.

more than a few issues but great. The whole genius is great. but both the app and the website are a severe headache to use. both are super heavy to load and the iOS app has a few annoying bugs or whatever. most of the time when i switch to another app the lyrics is gone and i have to search again. it's super hard to press the greyed lines to see the explanation (i mean it sometimes doesn't trigger). and it's not smooth even a tiny bit.

Needs update. This isn’t just on my phone but on a past phone and my iPad. It’s super slow. Sometimes too slow where if you click on the song you’ve been looking for while the song is playing, the next song will start playing before the lyrics load. Just the home screen takes forever to load. It’s quite frustrating. I’ve since started using google for my lyrics because that’s 80x faster. I’m not even exaggerating.

From last update:. I had previously rated the app with 2 stars due to some bugs and add usage, but since the last update it has run perfectly; no more automatically closing when you leave the app; no more video adds that stop the music (at least not yet). Overall, working perfectly so far. Thanks for te update!

Please fix... When I first got the Genius app I used to listen to music and read the lyrics at the same time all the time with no problem, but when I do it now my music will play for like 30 seconds and then pause for no reason. At first I thought it was the “Music Bar” at the bottom of the lyrics. So I would exit that out, turn my music back on but it would do it again. This problem wasn’t there when I first got the app so if you could please try to fix it.

Bad app just use the website instead. Even the mobile website is big improvement , the app is incredibly slow to load anything, whenever you click on an annotation an annoying ad pops up that takes forever to load, reading the lyrics to an album is nearly impossible because the more songs you view in a row the laggier it gets. It also is missing the comments section for songs that the website has, sometimes it doesn’t show you an artists full discography on their profile page even though you can view the songs on their website.