Access the complete works of Shakespeare, including plays, sonnets, and poems. Features include a searchable concordance, integrated glossary, note-taking and sharing capabilities, and customizable reading options. Explore character details, historical context, and original spellings.
Reviews of Shakespeare Pro are mostly positive: the Education app is rated 4.8/5 from 1.7K App Store ratings. What users like most: comprehensive Shakespeare collection, helpful features like glossary, character summaries, and search. Top complaints: occasional crashes and bugs, difficulty searching Folio texts. Summarized from real user reviews.
7.4.4
May 13, 2025
We fixed a few small bugs and small improvements to make your Shakespearean life a little better. :) Did you catch the recent update? We made the historical editions (folios, quartos, octavos) the main focus, including: • NEW! Scroll sync: when using compare view to compare two editions, enabling sync now keeps the two views in sync to make comparing lines easier • NEW! Scene markers: most historical editions don't have act/scene divisions, but they now have markers where modern act/scene divisions are to help you navigate • NEW! Updated scene menu: historical editions now have full act/scene list for navigation (see the Help section to understand the format) • NEW! Compare view is now available on iPhone Pro Max (previously only available on iPad) • NEW! Characters are now categorized by major, supporting, etc. • Improved Mac experience • Improved overall legibility of the historical editions • Improvements to the Help section • Improvements to accessibility • Search optimizations for complex queries, new search scenes • Improved TEI compatibility • Small usability improvements and some bug squashing We've compiled some historical milestones for those interested: • October 2007: The Web version was created for the original iPhone which provided the complete works. • July 2008: Shakespeare 1.0 went live, one of only 500 apps on the Apple App Store when it launched. There are over 1.8 million apps available today. • December 2009: Shakespeare Pro features were introduced, including a glossary and advanced search. • April 2010: Shakespeare hits 1 million downloads. • July 2016: Shakespeare Pro for Mac 1.0 released. • May 2023: Shakespeare and Shakespeare Pro apps pass 30 million downloads. • December 2024: We released Shakespeare 9.3.1, our final update in 2024 and the 105th update to the app since 2008. • January 1, 2025: To date, we've supported 46 different models (16 generations) of the iPhone, 30 different models (10 generations) of the iPad, and 238 iOS/iPadOS updates.
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Modern translation: AYLI
Modern translation of As You Like It
4 issues
App crashes on launch after recent update
Glossary feature not working as expected
5 requests
Add ability to take notes and highlight text
Improve search functionality, especially for Folio texts
Shakespeare Pro provides access to the complete works of William Shakespeare, including 41 plays, 154 sonnets, and 6 poems. It features a powerful search function, an integrated glossary based on David & Ben Crystal's 'Shakespeare's Words', and tools for taking and sharing notes.
Key features include high-quality texts, access to First Folios and Quartos in original spelling, an integrated glossary with contextual definitions, the ability to add and share notes, advanced search capabilities, customizable reading options (themes, fonts), bookmarking, scene breakdowns, character descriptions, and historical facts about Shakespeare.
The app is free to download and includes the complete works of Shakespeare. Additional features, such as modern translations and lexicons, may be available as extra add-ons through in-app purchases.
This app is ideal for students, educators, actors, writers, and anyone interested in studying or enjoying the works of William Shakespeare. It provides comprehensive resources for understanding and engaging with his plays and poetry.
Yes, the app offers detailed character descriptions, character arc visualizers for individual or comparative analysis, and advanced search parameters that allow you to filter by genre, language, and more, making it easy to focus on specific aspects of Shakespeare's works.
