# Dwell Poetically — Turn a photo into a keepsake

> Turn a photo into a keepsake (iPhone/iPad app by 明 李.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dwell-poetically/id6813821543 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [明 李](https://appshunter.io/developer/6790610317)
- Category: Photo & Video, Graphics & Design
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 7 MB
- Languages: American English, Chinese (Simplified, China)
- Released: 2026-09-22
- Data updated: 2026-09-27
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/dwell-poetically/id6813821543/reviews.md

## What is Dwell Poetically?

Choose a photo. Dwell reads the scene on this device — the hour, the pentad, the colours it already carries — finds a fitting line among 226 poems checked against their sources, and sets it on one of five objects.

Photographs, with the day around them.

A photograph remembers what you saw and forgets the rest — that the day was the second pentad of Qingming, that the hour was wei, that the colour you kept looking at has a name six hundred years old.

Colophon · vertical text, a poem, three seals
Ticket · a stub, the lightest of them
Letter · mostly paper, a little picture
Instant print · a white border and the line beneath it
Glass · the photograph full-bleed, under a band of colour

It does not touch your photograph. No filters, no grain, no grading; the original in your library is left exactly as it is.

It writes nothing it has not looked up: 384 traditional colour names, 226 poems checked against their sources, a Yuan-dynasty almanac of the seventy-two pentads.

Your photos are never uploaded. No account, no analytics, no server. The one network request is optional city-name lookup — off by default, and it sends only a location already rounded to about 10 km.

Free, and staying free: Colophon and Ticket, every colour name, every poem, export with no watermark.

One purchase unlocks the other three objects and Live Photo export from still images. A work you have already made is never taken back.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Unlock three more objects | $5.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 1 release)

### 1.0.0 — 2026-09-22

No release notes.

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All apps by 明 李: https://appshunter.io/developer/6790610317

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