# A Lover's Complaint: — Confounded

> Confounded (iPhone/iPad app by Christopher Gross.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/a-lovers-complaint/id873636936 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Christopher Gross](https://appshunter.io/developer/873636939)
- Category: Books, Education
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 8.0 · 1 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2014-06-26
- Data updated: 2026-05-19
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/a-lovers-complaint/id873636936/reviews.md

## What is A Lover's Complaint?

This is the Confounded version of Shakespeare’s “A Lover’s Complaint”, originally published as a companion to his sonnets.

Confounded shuffles up the words, and it’s up to you to put them right. It shows them to you in order—you just have to remember briefly and touch the words in sequence. Which is not always as easy as it seems.

But if it does seem too easy for you, the words can appear all at once, so you have to work out the sequence yourself. Still, it’s simply a matter of thinking like Shakespeare. Or memorizing the poem beforehand. (Or, perhaps, reading along with a book, though that would make it easier than ever.)

There are other variations too: change the display speed, have the words appear beat by beat instead of a whole word at a time, even not shuffle the words at all. And if you sometimes just want to watch the words go by, you can do that too.


## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.0 — 2019-05-22

A bit kinder now about resuming where you left off, renamed some buttons.

### 1.8 — 2018-10-23

dealing differently with dashes
tidied the variations screens

### 1.7 — 2017-11-08

Screenshots for iPhone X.

### 1.6 — 2017-09-30

Better support for the iPad Pro
Small fixes in the settings display.
Some name changes to make things clearer.

### 1.5 — 2015-07-08

Added a switch to unconfuse the words, and another to restore the despair.

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## More apps by Christopher Gross

- [Shakespeare's Sonnets:](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/shakespeares-sonnets/id873647981)
- [The Raven: Confounded](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/the-raven-confounded/id908071669)
- [Jabberwocky: Confounded](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/jabberwocky-confounded/id942355557)
- [noumena](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/noumena/id1300929824)
- [To Be: Confounded](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/to-be-confounded/id1409410499)

All apps by Christopher Gross: https://appshunter.io/developer/873636939

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