# Poems - Poetry in English — Work of the best poets ever

> Offline poetry collection from famous poets with bookmark and share features. (iPhone/iPad app by Mohit Agarwal.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/poems-poetry-in-english/id1249662575 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Mohit Agarwal](https://appshunter.io/developer/1249662574)
- Category: Books, Reference
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.70/5 from 446 App Store ratings · 31 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 9+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 143 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2017-07-17
- Data updated: 2026-08-27
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/poems-poetry-in-english/id1249662575/reviews.md

## What is Poems?

This is the app for Poetry Lovers .
We have picked some really known famous poets for showcasing their poems and poetry work in our app.
The App is fully functional without the internet. The user interface is very fast and responsive and can be used equally well even in flight mode.

• More than 300 of the most respected poets and their poetry work
• More than 37000 of the most popular poems and poetry
• Bookmark your favorite poems
• Fast and responsive user interface
• Share feature to easily send your favorite poems / poetry to your friends
• App fully functional without the internet

All the poets and their poems and poetry work are beautifully organized.

Poets included :
Margaret Atwood
  Matthew Arnold
  Yehuda Amichai
  Anna Akhmatova
  John Ashbery
  Jane Austen
  Dante Alighieri
  Louisa May Alcott
  Richard Aldington
  Delmira Agustini
  William Allingham
  Deborah Ager
  Conrad Aiken
  Catherine Anderson
  Maggie Anderson
  Ralph Angel
  Kingsley Amis
  Kelli Russell Agodon
  Julie Hill Alger
  Alfred Austin
  Elizabeth Bishop
  Charles Bukowski
  Gwendolyn Brooks
  William Blake
  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  Robert Burns
  Robert Browning
  Charles Baudelaire
  Jorge Luis Borges
  John Berryman
  Lord Byron
  Hilaire Belloc
  Matsuo Basho
  Richard Brautigan
  Andre Breton
  Eavan Boland
  Stephen Vincent Benet
  Louise Bogan
  Ambrose Bierce
  Anne Bradstreet
  Wendell Berry
  Yosa Buson
  Rupert Brooke
  William Cullen Bryant
  Bertolt Brecht
  Emily Bronte
  Charlotte Bronte
  Imamu Amiri Baraka
  Joseph Brodsky
  Aleksandr Blok
  Robert Seymour Bridges
  Anne Bronte
  Marvin Bell
  Laurence Binyon
  Erin Belieu
  April Bernard
  Frank Bidart
  Arna Bontemps
  William Bronk
  Ingeborg Bachmann
  John Betjeman
  Yves Bonnefoy
  Edgar Bowers
  William Lisle Bowles
  Carlos Barbarito
  Joel Barlow
  William Rose Benet
  Hugh Henry Brackenridge
  Ros Barber
  Jonathan Bohrn
  Laure-Anne Bosselaar
  Luis Benitez
  Cecilia Borromeo
  Alain Bosquet
  Robert Bly
  Michael Burch
  Graham Burchell
  Billy Collins
  Lucille Clifton
  John Clare
  Lewis Carroll
  Countee Cullen
  Stephen Crane
  Samuel Coleridge
  Robert Creeley
  Leonard Cohen
  Geoffrey Chaucer
  Aleister Crowley
  Gregory Corso
  Hart Crane
  William Cowper
  Raymond Carver
  Thomas Campbell
  Amy Clampitt
  Jean Cocteau
  Jim Carroll
  Hayden Carruth
  Martha Collins
  Geraldine Connolly
  Thomas Carew
  Paul Celan
  Andree Chedid
  Austin Clarke
  Abraham Cowley
  Andrew Crumey
  Eliza Cook
  Peter Conners
  Bliss Carman
  Willa Cather
  Craig Erick Chaffin
  Ivan Donn Carswell
  Anastasia Clark
  Emily Dickinson
  Roald Dahl
  John Donne
  Paul Laurence Dunbar
  Hilda Doolittle
  Rita Dove
  Henry Van Dyke
  John Dryden
  Mark Doty
  Stephen Dunn
  Mahmoud Darwish
  Keith Douglas
  Michael Drayton
  Alan Dugan
  Robert Desnos
  Mark van Doren
  Annie Dillard
  Stephen Dobyns
  Norman Dubie and 250+

Download now for free!

This application is subject to Apple's standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Key features

- Over 300 respected poets
- More than 37,000 poems
- Offline functionality
- Bookmark favorite poems
- Fast and responsive UI
- Share poems with friends

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Premium Plan - Remove Ads | $9.99 | per 6 months |
| Premium Plan - Remove Ads | $14.99 | per year |
| Premium Plan - Remove Ads | $1.99 | per month |


## What do users think of Poems?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 📚 Excellent poem collection
- 🌟 Great free app
- 👍 Simple interface
- 💡 Stimulating start to the day
- 💯 Lovely app
- ✨ Great experience
- 💯 Awesome app
- 👍 Well-arranged poems
- 👍 Good English poetry
- 👍 Nice push notifications
- 👍 Daily poem feature

**Cons**

- 😠 Intrusive ads
- 💸 No ad-free purchase option
- 😩 Ads are too frequent
- ⏳ Ads last too long
- 🚫 Ads difficult to escape
- 😵 Poets listed by first name
- 📉 Some iconic poems missing
- 🎮 Prompts to purchase game
- 🗑️ Ads destroy the app
- ❌ Ads impossible to tolerate
- 👎 Ads are very intrusive
- 😤 Too much advertising
- 😔 Ads are constantly intrusive
- 💔 Ads ruin enjoyment
- ⚠️ Ads are highly intrusive
- ❓ Copyright concerns for newer poets
- 📜 Poems poorly laid out
- ❌ Some poems not poems
- 📉 Daily poem doesn't change
- 🐛 Glitching where poems vanish
- 🐌 App stalls a lot
- 🚫 Refuses to load poems
- 🗑️ Update wiped favorite poems
- 🤔 Mismanagement of user expectations

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Severe recent glitching where poems vanish
- App stalls a lot
- Refuses to load all poems
- Update wiped out all favorite poems
- Daily poem doesn't change

**Most requested features**

- One-time payment to remove ads
- Search and sorting features
- Search for authors or lines
- Sort by date written
- Sort by author's birthdate
- Sort by length, type, prose vs verse
- Search bar
- Search poems
- Option to pay to remove ads
- Search functionality
- Poets arranged by last name
- Alphabet slider to get to poets
- Poems within poet arranged
- Paid version without ads

## Recent user reviews (10 of 31)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/poems-poetry-in-english/id1249662575/reviews.md

### 1/5 — Incredibly obnoxious ads

*2026-07-23*

I tried the free version of this app, and have never deleted an app so fast in my life. Maybe this is great for poetry, but I’ll never know. 

The ads are blasting, garish video game and casino ads that you cannot get rid of. I even had to shut my phone off once because the ad would not let me proceed unless I downloaded their gambling app.

What a shame.

### 3/5 — ‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️Severe Recent Glitching Where Poems Vanish off App.

*2025-02-12*

‼️‼️‼️‼️‼️Severe Recent Glitching Where Poems Vanish off App. Tried twice both shutting off the app and deleting and reinstalling and still stalls a lot and refuses to load all the poems that were given for some poets.

**Developer response:** Sorry for the inconvenience caused, could you please share the details of such Poems with us on support@banaka.in ? we will look into it at the earliest

### 1/5 — Adds added!

*2024-12-22*

I will not update this, because they added ads (actual NO ads shown). Plus the option to pay for removing these mentioned ads. How convinient.

### 2/5 — Promoting game instead of poetry

*2024-11-03, version 1.9.0*

Collection is excellent. Every time I open the app, it prompts me to purchase an ad free game. I would have been happier, had it been a paid app instead of prompting me to purchase gaming app.

### 4/5 — Great app, but could use a few improvements

*2024-09-19*

Great app, especially for being free, I just wish it had the following:
- a ONE TIME payment option to get rid of ads. The ads it has are very intrusive. Please do not add a subscription option, I will not pay for it. But I would pay $10 or $15 dollars once
- searching and sorting features - be able to search for authors or lines. sort by date written, or just different sorting options in general. Sort by authors birthdate, date written/published, length, type, prose vs verse, etc

### 2/5 — App needs improvement

*2024-08-21*

Great to have so many poets included but there are a few very irritating features. First: the adds are impossible to tolerate. They are too frequent, last for a long time and often difficult to escape. There is no option to pay your way out! Second: poets are listed alphabetically based on first name, which is odd. Third: some iconic poems are not included. Fourth: no search facility. What a pity!

**Developer response:** Thank you for your feedback! We’re happy to share that the latest version of the app includes a search feature, making it much easier to find specific poets or poems. Additionally, we’ve introduced an option to remove ads for a more seamless experience. We hope these updates enhance your experience, and we’d love to hear your thoughts on the latest version!

### 5/5 — Lovely start to the day

*2024-08-11, version 1.9.0*

Great poems and a stimulating way to start the day.

### 2/5 — Old friend has gotten too hard to use

*2024-08-03*

I used this app-or at least a close cousin-I suspect the same developer- years ago when I was just a tiny middle schooler. It’s simple interface and great selection opened my eyes as a kid to poetry in a way nothing else had. I poured over them, memorized a fair portion of favorites as well, and had an extensive starred list. (Even made a cringy middler school poetry-focused Instagram account. This app- the source of most my “content”.)

Then for a long while, it wouldn’t open. Imagine my delight when I found, myself now an adult, my old friend re-emerged on the App Store. 

Unfortunately, the hyper-long ads for just a few clicks make the beauty of this app- casual scrolling and exploration- impossible. Unfortunate as I miss the curation of this selection. If developer had a one-time payment in return for no ads, even without search functionality, I’d happily pay it and return to using this app.

### 2/5 — Seriously flawed

*2024-07-24*

This is a brilliant and diverse collection, but the poets are not listed in alphabetical order. The major problem though is the advertisements. Constantly intrusive and hard to remove. I would gladly pay for an ad-free version please!

### 1/5 — A potentially great app ruined by ads

*2024-06-02, version 1.9.0*

As others have noted this app has far too many ads, which are really intrusive and which ruin any enjoyment which might otherwise have been obtained. 

I note, however, that people have been asking for the option to pay to remove ads for 6 years now, so this is not a developer that listens.

## Frequently asked questions about Poems

### What is this app about?

This app is a digital collection of poems from some of the most famous poets throughout history. It allows users to browse, read, and save their favorite poetry works. The app is designed for poetry lovers and provides a comprehensive library of literary pieces.

### Can I use this app without an internet connection?

Yes, the app is fully functional without an internet connection. You can access all the poems and features even when you are offline, making it convenient for use during travel or in areas with no connectivity.

### How many poems and poets are included?

The app features works from over 300 respected poets, encompassing more than 37,000 popular poems and poetry collections. This extensive library ensures a wide variety of styles and eras for users to explore.

### What are the key features of this poetry app?

Key features include access to over 300 poets and 37,000 poems, the ability to bookmark favorite poems, a fast and responsive user interface, and a share feature to easily send poems to friends. It also offers full offline functionality.

### Is this app free to download and use?

The application is free to download and use, offering a substantial collection of poems without initial cost. However, as indicated by the presence of in-app purchases, there may be optional content or features available for acquisition within the app.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.3.0 — 2026-07-20

Cloud Backup — sign in with Apple to back up your saved poems and
highlights, then restore them on any device.

### 2.2.1 — 2025-09-28

* Bug fixes and improvements

### 2.2.0 — 2025-07-12

* Bug fixes and improvements

### 2.1.0 — 2025-03-31

- Added the ability to sort poets by First Name or Date of Birth for easier browsing.
- Poets are now displayed by Last Name by default for a more intuitive experience.

- Introduced a powerful search feature to find poets and poems quickly.
- Enhanced the reading experience with tools for annotating poems, including highlights, underlines, and notes.
- Added an option to remove ads, enabling a distraction-free reading experience.
- Bug Fixes and Improvements.

### 2.0.3 — 2025-01-24

Introduced a powerful search feature to find poets and poems quickly.
Enhanced the reading experience with tools for annotating poems, including highlights, underlines, and notes.
Added an option to remove ads, enabling a distraction-free reading experience.
Bug Fixes and Improvements

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