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Poetics

Poetics

A visual poetry app

68 ratings
92 reviews
#66 in paid Graphics & Design
📚 Education
🎨 Graphics & Design
$2.99
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Details

Released
July 9, 2013
Updated
October 4, 2026

Features

Developer

Soulincode Inc.
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About

Create and explore unique visual poetry with mutable text, chance operations, and gestural controls. This app allows for nonlinear compositions, custom filters, and physics-based interactions, supporting multiple languages and voice input.

✓Mutable text
✓Chance operations
✓Gestural semiotics
✓Physics-based interactions
✓Custom photo filters
✓Voice input
✓Multiple languages
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What users say about Poetics

Reviews of Poetics are mixed: the Graphics & Design app is rated 4.2/5 from 68 App Store ratings. What users like most: creative expression outlet, elegant and unique design. Top complaints: expensive in-app purchases, don't waste money. Summarized from real user reviews.

Positive things

  • 🎨Creative expression outlet
  • 🖼️Elegant and unique design
  • 👍Simple and easy to use
  • 💡Innovative concept
  • ✨Great for visual poetry
  • 🖼️Good for creating wallpapers
  • 💌Ability to send postcards
  • 🤩Fun to use
  • 🎨Encourages creativity
  • 👍User-friendly interface
  • 🌟Good for short blogging
  • 💯High quality user interface
  • 🖼️Great for adding text to photos
  • ✨Makes ordinary extraordinary
  • 💡Unique way to create
  • 🎨Artsy and easy to use
  • 👍Good product
  • 🖼️Slick looking
  • 💖Lovely, easy to use
  • ✨Beautiful app

Negative things

  • 💸Expensive in-app purchases
  • 💰Don't waste money
  • 👎Poor quality
  • 🐛Text functionality messy
  • 😩Hard to position text
  • 🚫Can't paste into app
  • 🔠Limited font options
  • ✍️Word limit per screen
  • 😩Difficult to adjust text
  • 💸Waste of money
  • 🚫No community features
  • 😩Headache to arrange words
  • 👎Weak app
  • 🚫No tools for poets
  • 😩Restricted aspect ratio
  • 🐛Text font not customizable
  • 🐛Cropping is odd
  • 🐛Reduces photo resolution
  • 😩Hard to put words where you want
  • 🚫Not much flexibility
  • 🐛Text is too big and chunky
  • 🐛Text stands out too much
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What's New in Poetics

2.3.0

October 4, 2026

Poetics has a new Edit mode! Tap Edit to select one or more words, then move, resize, or delete them together. New alignment and straightening tools make it easy to line words up, space them evenly, or turn a whole group horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. There’s also a new alignment grid for more precise placement. You can choose when it appears in Settings. These tools make arranging poetics faster and more precise, while staying playful. We’d love to see what you make; come share it with the Poetics community on Discord!

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Subscriptions & In-App Purchases

$0.99

Whitman

A custom image filter for your poetics

Charts

Top Paid

📊 66

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The app has maintained its position at 66 recently.

Last updated on October 20, 2026.

User reviews

Most RecentHighest RatedLowest Rated

I love this app

Have used this app for several years. Easy to use. Encourages me to be creative. I can share with other people. Highly recommend!! 😍
CCandiozz

Not much to do to make it tougher to use

Not easy to use. Found that it zooms in and once you try to adjust to position the text, then it is hard to re-edit the text.
OOpnik

BE VERY CAREFUL.. I DONT RECOMMEND THIS

I downloaded this apps based on a written reviewed in an article that I get from google search. Within seconds, I feel disappointed for downloading this apps at the first place.
Don’t make the same mistake like me.

Here’s my experience with this Apps: Just by downloading this apps, I already have to pay IDR 49.000, then after downloaded, just when I want to start and try it, it keeps asking me to pay another extra payment for whatever that I click in this apps. I have tried to choose picture, text, filter, all will only make the apps stops with a notification to unlocked it with extra payment.. Can’t imagine, just for 1 basic font (avenir) I have to pay extra IDR 16.000????? How many fonts would you expect me to pay !!?

I have deleted this apps and my reco is final: DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS TO YOUR PHONE
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WWienky

Like fridge poetry + picture

I love this simple app. I thought it was gone because for some reason it wasn’t amongst my apps. Just by chance someone in our digital artist group used it and I said “what???” Love having it back and it remembered I had already downloaded the in-app purchase! Thanks for keeping this up.
GGhostmoth

This is a joke

Don’t waste your money. You can only write 3 words on a single screen. Scammers. Should be taken down from the App Store. Jerks scamming poets are the lowest humans
TTimmy.Viola
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User experience

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Reported Bugs

11 issues

App crashes constantly

Bug

Freezes up with replace option

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Saving in messenger is broken

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Crashes when tapping text button

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Crashes before sending postcard

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Crashes on specific photos

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App doesn't open

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Crashes losing all edits

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Only crashes when sending postcard

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Reduces photo resolution

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Text blurry when using software background images

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Requested Features

23 requests

More fonts

Feature

Ability to type longer phrases

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Add return key

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Broader selection of type faces

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Automatic text wrapping

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Resizing text to fit window

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More features

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Different font or text styles

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Control aspect ratio

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Control image size

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iPad version

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Square image support

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More text box length and size options

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Tint white backgrounds behind words

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More fonts or layouts

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Suggested text for when word-poor

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Ability to string poems together in stanzas for email

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Change font types

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Use text without the 'label'

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Rotate picture ability

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Text takes on filter appearance

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Make app compatible with iPads

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Add more editing features

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FAQ

What is Poetics?

Poetics is a visual poetry app designed for creating and exploring mutable, semiotic poetry and decentralized art. It offers features like mutable text, chance operations, and gestural controls to facilitate nonlinear compositions.

What are the key features of Poetics?

Key features include mutable text, chance operations, gestural semiotics, physics-based interactions, custom photo filters, and the ability to write in multiple languages or speak words into the app. It also supports portrait and landscape compositions and offers a curated set of font choices.

Is Poetics free to use?

The app is free to download and use, but it does offer in-app purchases. Specific details about what these purchases entail are not provided in the description, but they likely relate to unlocking additional features or content.

What devices is Poetics compatible with?

Poetics works on all iOS devices. It supports both portrait and landscape orientations, allowing for flexible composition on various screen sizes.

Who is Poetics for?

This app is for artists, poets, and anyone interested in experimenting with visual poetry and digital art. Its unique features cater to those looking to explore new forms of creative expression beyond traditional writing.