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Genius: Song Lyrics Finder Negative Reviews

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Genius: Song Lyrics Finder App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2023

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Genius: Song Lyrics Finder for Negative User Reviews

Needs an updateApp asks me to log into my Apple ID every time I open it, makes me more inclined to use the mobile webpage.Version: 5.5.1

No editingYou 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..Version: 6.6.0

APP IS SLOWThis all is so glitchy and slow. Y’all make so much money wanna spend some on your outdated app?.Version: 6.6.0

It’s doesn’t run anymoreUsed to love this app but the lag and performance of it lately is so terrible.Version: 6.10.0

App doesn’t load; only shows a black screenI 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..Version: 6.3.0

Very buggyI love using the website genius for lyrics however the app is unusable on my iPhone, I’ve deleted and reinstalled yet every time I open the app I am met with a black screen, when I search genius on google it redirects me to the genius app and the app freezes, I wish I could use the app I genuinely enjoy using genius when it works.Version: 6.3.0

Buggy and laggyThe app is so filled with ads it made my iPhone run extremely hot and made the entire system to slow to a crawl..Version: 6.2.2

Laggy as hellEvery 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..Version: 6.6.0

Just use the website. App’s ads are obnoxiousGenius 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..Version: 6.2.18

BrokenApp is not currently working, it just comes up with a black screen, I have deleted it and re-downloaded it around 4 times and each time it does the same thing Please fix the app as it is helpful and enjoyable to use but at the minute it does not work at all.Version: 6.3.0

It’s good howeverSome 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.Version: 6.3.2

Great but have to restart constantlyThe 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..Version: 6.8.0

Fall of a KingBeen 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..Version: 6.2.18

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..Version: 6.2.21

Absolutely brokenWhen 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..Version: 6.2.7

Doesn’t workI’m probably stupid but it’s not working and also I can’t search for songs.Version: 5.4.0

Great... if I could read annotationsI’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..Version: 6.2.4

Does not work iPad 11 proDoes not work on iPad 11 Pro (3rd Gen with M1 chip, iOS 15.6). I use Apple Music and when using Genius, the following occurs: When playing an artist song, only able to play it once. When selecting another artist, playbar will show but is frozen. When closing the playbar it will not open until you re-install the app again. Also, clicking on Genius Annotation expand (view more) button will crash and close the app..Version: 6.5.0

DisappointedThe app is great and has a large range of lyrics yet every time i enter the app and go onto a lyric page it freezes (wont let me scroll) for about 30 secs to a minute or completely shuts down the app. Was a great app until this happen. Please update the bugs, Genius :))).Version: 5.1.0

Chews through batteryHaving the app open for 5 minutes uses more than 10% of the battery just for reading lyrics. Runs really slowly as well..Version: 6.3.2

Not workingI downloaded this recently and it doesn’t let me pass the welcome page :( it just freezes/crashes. even after redownloading n stuff.Version: 6.3.0

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.Version: 5.6.0

Wayyyyy too many adsCool it with the ads! I can’t even listen to my music while looking at the lyrics because of the unskippable video ads!.Version: 6.2.17

Awful user experienceWhat 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?.Version: 5.5.0

Great app with the whole point ruined by adsTitle 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.Version: 6.3.0

OffLine lyricsThe option to look at the lyrics offline isn’t working, it used to work fine but now it’s not.Version: 6.2.4

Poorly optimised, slow appSeems to be horrendously optimised - for many years now it frequently experiences slowdowns and freezing to the point that it affects other system functions (music being played)..Version: 6.2.21

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..Version: 5.5.1

Ruined ServiceUsed to love Genius but it’s been swarmed with ads and pop ups for Apple Music and it’s just unbearable- it was bad enough my iTunes library was ruined by the streaming service but now other apps are being invaded with invasive attempts to make you buy a subscription- since then Genius is generally over run by unwanted content and bug issues- really wouldn’t recommend.Version: 5.4.0

So slow and glitchy recentlyWhat has happened to this app? It seems so flooded with ads that it just can’t function properly anymore. Takes ages to search and load with all sorts of bugs..Version: 6.2.9

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..Version: 6.2.14

This App used to be fab butI don’t know if it’s all the ads they cram in or what. It’s just frustrating as it freezes constantly and locks up. Maybe to many changes. If it ain’t broke don’t fix it….. darn shame. I’m running iPhone 13 at home on super Wi-Fi..Version: 6.4.0

Love Genius but App has an annoying problemI love Genius but the app is so frustrating. It keeps asking me to “sign into iTunes Store, log into my apple account”. No matter how many times I do this is keeps popping up. Very annoying. At least let it be thumbprint or Face ID having to type it every time I open or go back to Genius App is horrible.Version: 5.5.1

Bad organisationDisplays everything clearly, except the lyrics? The main reason genius is a thing....Version: 5.5.1

Faulty appFor 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..Version: 6.8.0

DisappointedI 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 🙏🏽.Version: 5.6.0

APP DRAINS BATTERY AS OF RECENT.I noticed my iphone 12 pro was struggling with battery life recently. I normally had to charge my phone once at night but i was charging it multiple times recently and my phone usage is well below average so I checked my battery health to see if there were any problems. In the past 10 days Genius app has 93hours background with 3m on screen. If you’re the average user that is an INSANE statistic because no other app has this much background in 10 days even if you’re glued to your phone. Save your phone and delete the app till they fix this issue..Version: 6.8.0

Can’t read annotations because of advertsWhen the Google ads insert, the annotations disappear so you can’t read them.Version: 6.2.2

Pretty good, but could use some touch-upsThe lyric quote message feature is great, but inconvenient to access. It would be great to be able to make such a photo and save it directly in the app. Furthermore, it was a really bad idea to play ads WITH AUDIO when inspecting your lyric explanations... Has it occurred to you that people might be reading along while listening?.Version: 6.2.18

ChangedWas good and still is good especially for those who don’t understand the word play and metaphors in bars and even the history that comes with them... would have rated it 5 star but now I can’t annotate lyrics when I know I can provide an input to their meaning, especially the UK stuff like grime as Americans don’t quite understand it yet as a lot of it is based around British culture so me as a Brit annotating it would help Americans understand the meaning of the bars especially some of the lingo used, infact it’s got that bad I can’t even up vote or down vote an annotation!! Sort it out genius and the rating will get changed to a 5 star without question.Version: 6.2.0

VIRUS AND LAGGDo not install this app because i pressed on play music and it popped with tons of notifications + virus.Version: 6.2.21

BrutalApp won’t load. iphone 12.Version: 6.5.0

Potential improvement?Thalnks for fixing the crashing issue. I think it would be nice to automatically see annotations you've made though. I want to see if they've been up voted, verified etc but have to scroll through every song I've searched up to try and find them..Version: 5.1.1

Buggy, slow, glitchyAfter all the complaints about the bugs and how slow the app is we still find ourselves in the same boat! Finally deleting the app because it makes me want to break my phone every time I open it..Version: 6.2.19

Too many bugsI love genius and use the app frequently. The bugs are so annoying it’s got to a point where I’m going to look elsewhere even though I don’t want to. Few things I’ve noticed: Lyric explanations don’t even show most of the time. Just blank. Funny how the ads never fail to load. The most frustrating bug by far. Search is extremely slow and is never accurate General sluggish performance. No I don’t have an old iPhone. Using the XR. Saving song offline works half the time.Version: 6.2.1

Crashes. Never opensCrashes.Version: 5.1.3

Apple IDI’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..Version: 5.6.0

Ads are a no goI 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..Version: 6.2.17

SlowWhilst functional and not necessarily as ‘buggy’ as other suggests this app is still rather infuriating to use. Things seem to load and unload. Slow response times. Info seems to collapse when you are trying to use it. The search function is frustrating and general navigation painful. Notifications won’t disappear and no comments/credits info. Etc. Stick to the website version..Version: 6.2.17

Ads galoreKeeps 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..Version: 5.0.1

Opens to black screenStarting the app shows a black screen. Fixed with version 6.3.2.Version: 6.3.2

Embarrassing.This app is humiliatingly broken. ‘See all albums’ doesn’t show you the most iconic releases by a band, but is more than happy to stuff the same song remixed into your face twelve times. Way more attention has been placed into making it look glossy than actually run- for a lyric site to lag this hard is beyond unacceptable. These are years-long issues you just haven’t been bothered to fix, and it’s pathetic..Version: 6.12.0

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....Version: 5.2.0

Please fixI 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..Version: 6.7.0

The ads ruined itCan’t listen to music while using the app anymore because of these intrusive ads. Uninstalling..Version: 6.2.16

Too Buggy to UseI 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..Version: 6.2.6

AdsNothing is more annoying than having an ad stop the music while you’re using the app, other than that the app is fine.Version: 5.6.0

Uses a lot of energyGood 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.Version: 6.2.19

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..Version: 6.0.7

Amazing concept, ruined by autoplaying adsI 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..Version: 6.3.0

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..Version: 6.3.2

Thankful for lyrics, dissapointed with annotationsThis 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..Version: 6.2.19

Terrible performanceBarely runs on an iPhone X. Hard to justify this performance in this kind of app.Version: 6.2.9

Moderators are quite rudeSo um i love the app as it helps me learn how to sing songs faster. my complaint is that some of the moderators are quite rude. also the fact that other people who wanna create songs can’t do it because “it’s a duplicate” but yet when we try to add on or correct a song it never gets accepted..Version: 6.2.21

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..Version: 6.7.0

Doesn’t load/work wellThis app keeps crashing and it’s really doing my nerves, it’s also got the option to save the song lyrics you like but when you go to find them they have been deleted or moved so a secret hidden folder, either way I would recommend the music and lyrics App or just use google because this app is super slow and If you can make yourself an app better than this, it isn’t hard by the looks of things.Version: 5.1.0

Please do something about the BUGSFantastic app In general with great information and annotation regarding song lyrics. The layout is good too. But then ah yes the bugs. It’s TOO BUGGY. causes my iPhone 11 Pro Max to crash and act funny. And my iPhone is updated to the latest software version with no crashing bugs or lagging. The problems come from The app. What’s the point in having such a fantastic app when it’s not usable? Is it not possible to get to the root cause of the issues? Maybe there’s too much going on in the app so the hardware is having a tough time to keep up. Too convoluted with so many ads and pop ups with so many moving animations in the gestures and options and side windows the algorithms are too intense. I’m just throwing some ideas out. Maybe you need to strip it down and start over build from the ground up. Simplify the app. Because it’s unusable. Please do something different otherwise it’s deleted forever from my phone. Cmon now..Version: 6.2.0

Really buggyNot sure if it was just my phone or what it was, but its a really annoying app, last time I downloaded it there was a notification icon that wouldn’t go away. The app freezes every time I press some lyrics. It’s very very slow to get going and the search feature seems to disregard what you’re actually looking for in favour of the most popular song with a loose connection to what you put in the search bar. I don’t think it’s my phone that’s the issue since I have an 11 pro max, which definitely isn’t the bottleneck. Really shoddy but there is no alternative, if there was this app would be deleted faster than it’d take to find a song in the horrible search bar….Version: 6.2.17

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..Version: 5.5.1

Try harder. Do better.Don’t understand why some links for Genius needs to be opened in a website and not the app. Lately doesn’t even open in-app notifications or songs or lyrics..Version: 6.3.0

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..Version: 6.2.5

Offline saved songs do not loadBasic feature that doesn’t work.Version: 6.6.0

Good when it worksI’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..Version: 6.2.2

Great, but ....Why on earth can you not look at the lyrics when you’re offline ? If you’re in the park, or traveling abroad, you can’t see your lyrics unless connected to the internet Why ?.Version: 6.1.0

In-App AdsWanna 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..Version: 6.0.2

Crashes CONSTANTLYThis 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..Version: 5.1.0

Search function poorThere 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..Version: 6.7.0

Constantly stops musicWe 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..Version: 6.0.2

Slow asI really like this app, but it is ridiculously slow and freezes when I’m searching up songs.Version: 6.2.4

Music pauses when i launch appThe 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..Version: 5.5.1

Just use the websiteHalf the time the song I search never shows up. I know the song exists because I’ve seen it on the website..Version: 6.7.0

They ruined itThe 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..Version: 6.2.8

Spotify ???Can’t listen to songs via Spotify and youve been enslaved by Apple .... Stop sucking em off.Version: 6.2.3

GeniusThis app barely runs on iPhone XR and drains battery, easier to use web browser.Version: 6.5.0

Too slowIt’s been too slow for years throughout many updates..Version: 6.2.16

Wastes too much timeSometimes when you click on part of a song it does go straight to analysis of the lyric bot overwhelmingly it does not. Instead a whirling circle appears or an advert. Often have to close and go back to the lyrics and try again. Not good enough.Version: 6.2.5

Lyric card bugWhen 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.Version: 6.6.0

Song not thereRecently 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.Version: 5.1.3

Good when it works but slows my phone downUseful app but when i have it open my phone is significantly slower to the point where it’ll crash occasionally when i’m just opening another app, i have a fairly new iphone and fully updated. Seems to me that there’s no real reason to use this over the website..Version: 6.2.4

CrashesI can't even use the app, everytime I open the app it crashes.Version: 6.6.0

Bugs bugs and more bugsThis app is SO buggy, you have to click on each annotation like two or three times before you can finally see it, as it disappears the first and sometimes second time, usually because it’s covered up by ad pages that don’t go away. Over time, when you’re going through lengthy poems etc this becomes incredibly tedious and frustrating, as it just eats up time. It’s also incredibly slow, mo matter the WiFi’s connection I have (school home etc) and I don’t think the problem can be blamed on my IPad I’m using as it’s the 2019 one, so god knows why this app is so slow..Version: 6.2.3

Gets worse and worse— why can’t i contribute?Every time y’all update this app, it gets buggier and buggier and worse and worse. i can’t annotate nor contribute to genius pages. i can’t leave comments on lyrics or anything anymore. it’s an absolute mess. also accessing notifications is still messy and buggy as hell..Version: 6.0.6

Barely functionalThis 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..Version: 6.9.0

Crash test dummyEasiest the best lyrics app ever, this new iteration however is prone to crashes every 10 minutes and sometimes doesn’t even load in properly.Version: 5.0.1

LaggyBrand new 13 pro max , this app is so laggy and has crashed twice, this is my second install. Scrolling through lyrics can sometimes just stop, I’ll just use the website….Version: 6.3.0

Lyrics are cut off for annotationsVery frustrating.Version: 6.3.2

Good but Overheats phoneOverall design is nice but the fact that my phone (iPhone X) heats up to the max just looking at lyrics makes the app unusable..Version: 6.2.8

Search is crapI 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..Version: 6.2.19

Can’t find songsGenius is better off browsed through a search engine.Version: 6.2.19

Glitchy & slowSo 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....Version: 5.2.0

Good, but has some annoying features and crashes a lotThe lyrics are great and comprehensive and the collaborative interpretation aspect is great. But unskippable 30-90 second ads that silence your music? Everyone using the genius app is listening to music at the same time, so this is really frustrating. There’s not even an option to pay to turn off ads. Also, the app will sometimes (for periods of time) just not open—the screen will go black and then it will crash. This is happening to me recently, not sure if it’s due to an update or something else but I can no longer open the app..Version: 6.2.19

Buggy trashInsane amount of bugs that have been there for ages and not being fixed. Also impressive how the biggest lyrics source still manages to have wrong lyrics to major artists songs even when that artist released official lyrics. Honestly just google the song lyrics, will save your sanity..Version: 6.2.1

App literally does not workOn 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..Version: 6.3.0

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..Version: 6.2.4

Ads are driving me madGreat 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..Version: 6.3.0

So-soI 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..Version: 5.1.3

REEEEAAALLY BUGGY AND SLOWCrashes all the time and takes ages to work properly. Even on latest ios iPhone 7!.Version: 5.1.0

Ripe with problemsMany 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..Version: 6.2.14

Some lyrics don’t loadHi, 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.Version: 5.1.0

I want to listen to music when I’m on this app, not adsWhy on a lyric app are there ads that pause my music for a candy crush advert is beyond me. Banners are okay, but full screen unskippable ads are not it….Version: 6.3.2

Worse than browserPop up ads that pause your music, and it doesn’t happen if you just use your browser. Genius design right there.Version: 6.5.0

Crashes every time I open the app.Are used to use this app all the time however once I changed over to my new iPhone I can’t even install the app to work properly every time I open it, it crashes. All I see is a black screen and I have to force the app closed. Very disappointed.Version: 6.3.0

Bombarded with adsWhat’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..Version: 6.2.16

Rubbish nowUsed to be one of my favourite apps until they took away the “now playing” when using Apple Music. Instead they added in a push notification thing that only works when you go into the settings, turn it off then back on again. This works for about an hour then happens again..Version: 5.6.0

Genius is fantastic, but the app needs to stop asking for my iTunes passwordI 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..Version: 5.5.1

Great Idea, Poor ExecutionThis 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..Version: 5.5.1

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!.Version: 6.0.1

I love this app but...It's been loading really slow lately. Hope the next update will fix that 😊.Version: 3.10.1

DisappointedI 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.Version: 6.0.2

Needs to be improvedThe app was way better before it got updated, now it’s harder to find songs by searching the lyrics. I’d rather use google now :( this app used to be my favourite but now it’s unhelpful and hard to find songs by searching the lyrics..Version: 6.0.6

Adverts make it impossible.Genius app has been full of bugs & extremely slow & terrible search engine for years but the nail in the coffin is the new implementation of advertisement that are not only full screen intrusive but also take over your audio stream from whatever you’re listening to which is nothing short of ironic when it’s supposed to accompany that very media! Disgraceful & if not reverted I will be uninstalling, others will follow suit..Version: 6.3.0

Saving songsI saved at least 50 songs then the next time I log in I have none other then that great app.Version: 6.2.16

Needs WorkFor 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..Version: 6.3.0

Good app just loads of bugsThe app is great… when it works. After like 10 mins it’ll crash, make your phone go slow.. just bug tf out. Sometimes it won’t let you go on the app at all it’ll bug out and go back to the Home Screen. This is extremely frustrating. You’re better off on the Genius site on safari tbh.Version: 6.2.21

Was an awesome appThis 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..Version: 5.3.1

None of my songs are loadingMost 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..Version: 5.1.3

Worst search function everSeriously, 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..Version: 6.7.0

Why is this app so terrible, honestlyWhen 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.Version: 6.2.17

Won’t loadWas working perfectly fine until today where I’ve had to uninstall and reinstall about 5 times and it won’t get past the welcome screen and then proceeds to crash. Decided to not even bother trying again. Very disappointed and frustrated with this turn out as I now can’t read lyrics easily when I listen to music which I have to do..Version: 6.3.0

One of the glitchiest apps ever usedI 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..Version: 6.3.0

Please fixLyrics don’t load automatically anymore when playing a song..Version: 5.1.3

ConsI’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.Version: 6.0.6

Unsteady as anythingMy phone completely lags while using this app. The app also misses essential functions such as being able to search words when looking at a lyric page. Also, side-swiping capabilities are not utilised. It would be great to swipe to the next/previous song when swiping left/right. Also, please add the track listing above and below lyric pages. It is very annoying to scroll all the way down to navigate throughout albums especially when this side swiping capability is not utilised..Version: 6.2.0

Good idea, poorly executedLove the idea of the app, and have been using its website rapgenius for years. The app often redirects from the app to a betting app on the App Store. This coupled with the applications slow reaction time and frequent crashing of the application makes it near unusable. Edit: reoccurring instances where the application doesn't initialise and crashes on startup make the app useless..Version: 5.0.1

Slow, buggy and crashes a lotI like the genius app but it is incredibly slow and makes my phone act lag whenever i use it. the app also doesn’t properly load the comments whenever you want to see more of them, so you end up only being able to read a couple sentences of a comment that is a paragraph long. if this app had an update then i would definitely use it more often but i only have it because the safari version is annoying to use aswell..Version: 6.3.2

When it wants to work it’s greatAs I said, it’ll either do it’s job Or it’ll constantly, and I mean it doesn’t let me click off of the ‘genius wants to open gmail’ text box. To the extent I need to force restart my phone just to get rid of it.Version: 6.2.21

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..Version: 6.2.8

I like it but some annoying issuesIf 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..Version: 5.5.1

Pop up adsThey added pop up ads now which are extremely annoying honestly disgusting.Version: 6.5.0

Video adsI use this app to look at while I listen to music but they recently introduced video ads which interrupt song playback..Version: 6.2.18

GeniusI 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..Version: 6.1.1

Takes up too much RAMIt’s a useful app to have, it just causes everything to lag so much whenever I use it. Plz fix.Version: 6.7.0

New update glitchEverytime 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..Version: 5.5.1

App is very glitchySearch doesn’t work, my keyboard won’t even come up when i try to type in something..Version: 5.5.0

AwfulOne 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..Version: 6.2.10

AdsThe 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.Version: 6.3.0

Ads playing for lyrics aint itMans 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..Version: 6.2.11

Literal vomitThis app had a good design before with the black theme and was easy to navigate but this new design is just yuck and the colours are all out of whack not to mention the app icon is nasty and looks like crust scraped off the bottom of an oil vat pls change it back man.Version: 2.0.0

Horribly optimizedI 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..Version: 6.9.0

Keeps crashing and making my phone lagWhenever 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 :(.Version: 6.2.9


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