PortaPoet

Huge updates to PortaPoet. * Guidance beyond haiku Live guidance as you write for many popular poetry forms: sonnets, limericks, couplets, ballads, quatrains and more. PortaPoet counts your syllables, shows which lines are meant to rhyme and whether they do, and marks the meter so you can see where a line drifts off its beat. * Battles now have topics Every battle now has a topic with two sides (Cake vs Pie, Mountains vs Sea). Pick a side, write your turn, and throw down an open challenge for anyone to take the other side, or call out a poet directly. When the battle ends, readers vote, and you can share a link so your friends can vote for you. * Much improved notifications The home screen now has a What's New feed that alerts you to activity that matters: when a poet you follow publishes, when someone picks up your open challenge on Pirates vs Ninjas, when it is your turn, and when a battle finishes. * Learn a form, then write one The Poetry Glossary is new: every form explained with its rules and its rhythm, each one shown through a classic poem marked up line by line. One tap starts a new poem in that form. * Custom poetry forms Create and validate your own. Want your own variation on a haiku or a limerick? PortaPoet supports that, and checks your poem against your own form as you write. * A library to read PortaPoet now has a library of classic poems organized by topic, form and poet. Enjoy the classics and get inspired by the great works. * Better rhymes The rhyming dictionary was clogged with surnames and obscure proper nouns, which buried the words you would actually use. Those are out of the results now, and everyday words come first. ** Already bought PortaPoet prior to this update? PortaPoet Plus is yours for free, our thanks for being an early supporter. If it does not appear, tap Restore Purchases in Settings. Also new Phoneme spelling under every line, so you can see how it sounds, comments on poems, battles and collaborations, blocking, and a full export of everything you have written.