# Arooz — Urdu Poetry Meter — Check bahr, taqti and qafiya

> Check bahr, taqti and qafiya (iPhone/iPad app by Arslan Ahmed.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/arooz-urdu-poetry-meter/id6793387156 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Arslan Ahmed](https://appshunter.io/developer/1645686227)
- Category: Education, Reference
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.4 · 102 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2026-09-03
- Data updated: 2026-10-07

## What is Arooz?

Arooz tells you the meter of your Urdu poetry — instantly, entirely on your device.

Type or paste a ghazal and Arooz scans it line by line: it names the bahr, shows the feet (arkaan), writes out the taqti of every word, and flags exactly which word breaks the meter. What took a session with an ustaad now happens as you type.

THE SCANNER
• Names the bahr of your poem — with the classical name (بحر ہزج مثمن سالم) and its arkaan
• Per-line verdict: in meter or out, with the breaking words highlighted
• Taqti (تقطیع) of every word in 1/2 weight digits, plus a suggested correction pattern (اصلاح) for off-meter lines
• Fluency (روانی) score for every line
• Aeraab helpers — add zer, zabar, pesh, tashdeed, jazm or izafat with one tap and see how they change the weight
• Type in Roman and it becomes Urdu as you write — no Urdu keyboard needed

THE QAFIYA FINDER
Stuck on a rhyme? Enter any word and get qafiya lists grouped by ending sound, drawn from a 44,000-word dictionary.

THE GHAZAL LIBRARY
Read 1,277 ghazals — Ghalib, Mir, Iqbal, Dagh, Zafar and more — each one
scanned. Open any ghazal to see its bahr and study how the masters kept the
meter.

LEARN AROOZ
A built-in course on the science of meter: what a bahr is, arkaan, qafiya and radif, matla and maqta, the structure of the ghazal and azad nazm — written for poets, not linguists.

MADE FOR URDU
Beautiful Nastaliq typography, full right-to-left layout, and a light and dark theme designed like a manuscript.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN
Scanning runs offline on your device. Your poetry never leaves it. No ads, no tracking, no analytics. Try the scanner on two poems without an account;
a free email account then keeps it
unlimited. Reading
the ghazals, finding rhymes and the lessons never need an account.

The engine implements the classical rules of taqti with a 44,000-word dictionary, refined against a corpus of classical ghazals. If you write shayari — or want to start writing it in meter — Arooz is the ustaad in your pocket.

## Is Arooz safe?

Not enough ratings yet to assess Arooz.

## Is Arooz legit?

Arooz — Urdu Poetry Meter has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Arooz is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.1.0 — 2026-09-15

• The Poetry tab: every poem on arooz.org — more than 25,000 poems by over
  1,300 poets — on your device and offline. Browse by poet or by bahr, or
  search a first line.
• Poems are set the way a printed divan sets them: every line justified to
  one width and centred.
• Open any poem in the meter checker with one tap.
• Updated credits.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-09-03

No release notes.

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