ReadSound vs Genius Plus
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ReadSound
Manage your personal music library with this app. It allows you to create playlists, view album art, and display lyrics for a karaoke-like experience.
- Add and manage music playlists
- Display album cover art
- Show song lyrics
- Karaoke-style lyric display
- Filter music library
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Music Player. Add, manage and filter your own music playlist. Displays the cover and the lyrics of your song library. Read the song lyric as a Karaoke.
Genius Plus
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Genius Plus brings smart music discovery to your local library. It analyzes tempo (BPM), key & chroma, spectral centroid, and energy to create a compact feature vector for each track. Using a high‑performance approximate nearest neighbor index (HNSW), it finds sonically similar songs and builds seamless playlists and radio stations; on your device, privately. Tune the “feel” of your playlists in Settings. Emphasize chroma/key, tempo, or energy; enable dimensionality reduction (PCA) and optional quantization to reduce storage. Batch‑process your library, browse song details, and start a radio stream from any seed track.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ReadSound at none against Genius Plus's 2. On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Genius Plus sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per year. ReadSound asks for nothing beyond the download.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 12, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ReadSound | Genius Plus |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.0 (2 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.2 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 421 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Pavel Lezama | Darryl Reed |
In-app purchases
ReadSound
No in-app purchases
Genius Plus
- Genius Plus Annual$1.991 Year
- Lifetime Purchase$4.99
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