Genius — Song Lyrics Finder

86.4K reviews
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Rated for 12+
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Rated for 12+
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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.
The world's biggest collection of song lyrics and crowdsourced music knowledge.
Updated on
Nov 3, 2026

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

83.4K reviews
Bri Topp
April 28, 2025
I really like the concept of the platform, however, the app does not work well. I have issues with it crashing frequently. It also almost never actually shows the lyrics for whatever I'm currently listening to. And that is like the only thing that drew me to the app over the browser site in the first place. plus you have to go to the browser site for a lot of edits anyways.
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Adam Tuttle
July 19, 2026
intended to be democratic, but too limited i find a lot of my favorite albums missing tracks, or albums entirely, and though I would love to be able to amend these errors, there's nothing I can do because I wasn't the idiot who got there first.
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Genius Media Group, Inc.
July 20, 2026
Hi! From the app, you can edit lyrics and metadata and comment on other users' annotations. Soon, you'll also be able to add new songs from the app.
denzel
November 3, 2026
You guys have to improve your lyrics search, cuz when I type in "It's getting hot in here, so take off all your clothes", all I find is just some random mashups and remixes, then I manage to find original Nelly's song by usind different platforms and then read lyrics on here and it turns out that it wouldn't show up in Genius search results because of background noises like "(Ayy), (Uh uh uh)" which are hardtyped. Please, this happens with so many popular songs
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What’s new

Improved Identify Music experience
Implemented fixes in Lyrics Editing