# Poetics — user reviews > 91 indexed App Store user reviews of Poetics by Soulincode Inc., rated 4.20/5 from 68 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/poetics/id543995959/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/poetics/id543995959.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 47 · 4★ 9 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 0 · 1★ 10 ## What do users think of Poetics? Overall sentiment: mixed **Pros** - 🎨 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 **Cons** - 💸 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 **Commonly reported bugs** - App crashes constantly - Freezes up with replace option - Saving in messenger is broken - Crashes when tapping text button - Crashes before sending postcard - Crashes on specific photos - App doesn't open - Crashes losing all edits - Only crashes when sending postcard - Reduces photo resolution - Text blurry when using software background images **Most requested features** - More fonts - Ability to type longer phrases - Add return key - Broader selection of type faces - Automatic text wrapping - Resizing text to fit window - More features - Different font or text styles - Control aspect ratio - Control image size - iPad version - Square image support - More text box length and size options - Tint white backgrounds behind words - More fonts or layouts - Suggested text for when word-poor - Ability to string poems together in stanzas for email - Change font types - Use text without the 'label' - Rotate picture ability - Text takes on filter appearance - Make app compatible with iPads - Add more editing features ## Newest reviews (10 of 91) ### 4/5 — Like fridge poetry + picture *2023-04-09, version 2.2.2* 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. ### 3/5 — Great at first, but text functionality is messy *2022-11-18, version 2.2.1* I really like the simplicity of the app, and it is very slick looking. Unfortunately, working with the text is not that easy. Automatic text wrapping and resizing to fit the window would it a lot more user friendly (apologies if this is something that it can do, but if it does, it is unintuitive). Still, I will keep an eye on this; as slick as it is at first, I’m sure the developers will make it a lot better as time goes on. ### 4/5 — Fun *2021-04-30, version 2.1* This is a fun app. For future it could become more entertaining and useful if fonts, colors, and other variabilities were included. Adding a return key or ability to type longer phrases would be really useful. Regardless of these needed additions, it is a very useful app. Thanks for the creation. ### 4/5 — Praying for more features soon 😍 *2019-02-13, version 1.31* Love this app so far! I have such a blast with it, but my only criticism is I think it would be 100x better if they allowed different font or text styles....praying for that to happen soon!! ### 4/5 — Post to Instagram...not really! *2017-11-17, version 1.31* 11-17-17...wish you would update with just the ability to control aspect ration and image size, don’t change anything else :-) Really, it's a great app. However, if your intended final share location is Instagram, you cannot work with a square aspect ratio until after you have made your creation and then you have to zoom and crop out a percentage of your work. But still, a great app but I gave it a low score due to the restricted aspect ratio. ### 4/5 — Surprise feature *2016-04-15, version 1.31* I know that it's not technically what this app is for, but I use it to create iPhone wallpapers with my photos. I crop them and after editing the photos with the app I take a screenshot of it when the photo covers the whole phone. The results are good. It's a decent photo editor and you can move the text around and add it. I'm not much of a text person but this app has a surprising purpose for me. ### 4/5 — Great except one flaw *2016-01-09, version 1.31* I'm really liking Phoetics. To be fair, it's really short on features and options. It uses one font and background color for the text. But you can resize the text and move it and reorient it. So what it does it does well. What I HATE is that to add the "Phoetics" you have to crop it to ONE RATIO of 16x9 and ruin whatever you had it cropped to before, like a square! Makes it very hard for Instagramor anything else. Developers: please just make one change! Remove this crop! Don't force us to crop, just let us add it to the image in whatever shape we want! Thank you. ### 5/5 — Simple And Lovely *2016-01-06, version 1.31* Find the right image and let the words flow. Great little App for applying a feeling or lyrical thought to a photo. This is not about how many fonts this app has, it's about pure thought and splashing it onto a photo, and letting it naturally fall into the pix. Think of refrigerator magnets for your photos. You can position words or sentences in any direction 360 degrees, and also resize them easily. This app has reinvented the photo caption, and no two captions are ever the same! Thumbs up! ### 4/5 — Love it *2015-11-19, version 1.31* I love this visual poetry app. Would like to be able to string a few together in stanzas which all go in one email more easily though. I'm finding this app really useful as an addition to the talking therapy I'm doing with my psychologist. Thank you for creating it! ### 5/5 — Fun play time for adults! *2015-09-28, version 1.25* A very fun app. Wish I could change font types, otherwise all around fun time for playing around with graphics and words. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Not much to do to make it tougher to use *2025-02-18, version 2.2.3* 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. ### 1/5 — BE VERY CAREFUL.. I DONT RECOMMEND THIS *2023-04-20, version 2.2.2* 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 ### 1/5 — This is a joke *2023-02-14, version 2.2.2* 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 ### 1/5 — Can’t paste into the app *2020-10-22, version 2.1* You can’t paste anything into the app. Huge flaw, waste of money on my part. Lucky it was only $3 ### 1/5 — Simple app/lpoor quality *2020-08-12, version 2.1* You Would think for such a simple app there would be more in terms of quality assuranxe. however is that for years now and basis and it was always at least one or two but I would consider showstoppers eg it’s currently has an issue right now with the spelling mistakes, it freezes up if you use rhe replace optoon Prior this saved in messenger is broken for (I just seen screenshots of around it but my point being is a company I will never do business with due to the lack of quality basically yes its free but you get what you pay for. Its obvious they dont even test the code. Also this whole “OOO poetry” makes no sense. Its just an app that has defects. Its not like anyone has split the atom here or anything. ### 1/5 — Dislike *2018-02-20, version 1.31* Dislike that to write an entire poem I have to constantly stop to adjust the words. It would nice to just be able to continue typing. ### 1/5 — Unhappy with my purchase *2018-01-08, version 1.31* I could do anything with this App, other then move words around... I would like a refund... ### 1/5 — Weak *2016-11-02, version 1.31* For skimmers: don't buy. You can only type one word at a time. Instagram would probably make for a better poetry app. No tools. No syllable count, no rhyme tool, no room, no lines, no community, zilch-o. I wish I could get me money back, mateys. ### 1/5 — Want my money back *2016-04-04, version 1.31* This is such a stupid app, doesn't solve any purpose. You can only type 11 words and then you have to type them again and again and then arrange them all in one sequence and align them. Such a headache. Can't see how this works for posting on social media. Apps are meant to help make it easy for you and not make ur work hard. Stay away from it unless u have a dyslexic child and want to teach him how to arrange words and sentences in order. ### 1/5 — Would like to love it but.. *2015-09-30, version 1.25* It crashes every time I tap the text button. I'm on an iPhone 6+ ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Thanks for changing the pricing model *2022-11-17, version 2.2.1* Thanks for changing the pricing model. With Kind Regards~ ### 5/5 — Fun with fonts. *2022-01-15, version 2.2* Adding fonts to your poetic is pretty neat. I just wish there was a broader selection of type faces but this is definitely a neat addition to an already great app. ### 5/5 — Great text-image app *2021-12-25, version 2.2* I love the elegant and unique design of the app. Great !! ### 5/5 — Fun app *2016-09-07, version 1.31* I use this to capture a sentimental mood in my pictures and use as my lock screen. Some might find one block font limiting but I actually find that it makes the app more useful. Instead of fussing around with typeset, I'm looking for precision in word choice. ### 5/5 — Good product - Great fun *2016-06-07, version 1.31* Not only is it a very useful photo editor - in fact, it's better than most photo editors for enhancement purposes alone - it's also great fun to use. And for the wits among you, it's a valuable tool. As apps go, this is one well worth having. ### 5/5 — Gostei muito! *2016-04-14* Filtros bons, colagens legais e um bom jeito de armazenar anotações sem ocupar muito espaço! É prático e útil, e vale totalmente a pena baixá-lo! ### 5/5 — Best new app *2016-03-31, version 1.31* Love this app. So much fun especially because you can send $.99 postcards and they look awesome. ### 5/5 — Pretty cool *2016-01-14, version 1.31* This app is like post secret meets poetry meets photography- taken to the next level. I think it's super cool and a unique way to create things for, let's say, a poetic Instagram account. A+++ ### 5/5 — 舍不得删 *2016-01-13* 怎么说呢，并不是经常用，但是每次打开的时候，背景都感觉很舒服～ 如果能多些字体，或者板式，我指格子不一定全是长方形，多一些proper的板式就好了～ 淡淡的小清新.哦对了，如果能有建议的文字就更好了，有些时候词穷了能有个参考 ### 5/5 — 👍🏻 THUMBS UP 👍🏻 *2016-01-06, version 1.31* Quality user interface and useful app for my iPhone photo toolbox. Recommended for anyone who is searching for a clean minimalist block-text add-on capability for their images. Easily a five star rating. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-09-07.*