Comparison

Kronaby vs The Poet's Muse

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Kronaby

This app connects to a smart watch, allowing users to control music, lights, and locate their phone directly from their wrist. It helps users stay focused by filtering notifications and can share step data with Apple Health.

Highlights
  • Control music playback
  • Turn lights on/off
  • Locate your phone
  • Customize watch features
  • Filter notifications
  • Share step data with Apple Health
Features
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Kronaby - Connected watches from Sweden. Stay focused on what really matters. The Kronaby watch lets you choose who or what is allowed to interrupt you. From your Kronaby watch you can control music, turn the lights on, locate your phone and much more. Use the Kronaby app to customize your watch features to suit your lifestyle. This app connects your Kronaby watch. The Kronaby app can share your daily step data with Apple’s Health app.

About

The Poet's Muse

This app provides creative writing prompts for poets, simulating a stranger requesting a custom poem. It offers a distraction-free writing environment with auto-save and export options, helping users practice their craft and build a portfolio.

Highlights
  • Stranger-based poetry prompts
  • Seven distinct moods for prompts
  • Clean monospace writing desk
  • Auto-save functionality
  • Export poems as image cards or PDFs
  • Build a personal poetry portfolio
  • Create PDF chapbooks
Features
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Welcome to Poet's Muse v1.0. "What can I write for you about?" Poet's Muse is a quiet writing desk for poets — especially typewriter poets and street-side scribes — built around a single, beautiful prompt: a stranger walks up and asks you for a custom poem. It's a tool to help aspiring poets practice writing custom poems on the spot! Tap the red key. Someone arrives. A 92-year-old grandmother humming "O Sole Mio" while she cooks. A widower asking for a poem to leave on his wife's bench. A roller-derby grandmother named "Mildred Malice." A bankruptcy survivor planting tomato seeds on a fire escape. A nun who's still not sure about God. A janitor who works nights at a planetarium. Real-feeling people, real-feeling weather, in two or three sentences. Then it's your turn. Write your response right inside the app on a vintage paper card. Your work autosaves as you type. When the poem feels finished, mark it FINISHED — a quiet red stamp lands on the page, your portfolio grows, and you keep your streak alive for one more day. — SEVEN MOODS — Romantic. Grief. Hope. Spiritual. Whimsical. Milestones. Oddly Specific. Each prompt is hand-curated or freshly generated, so no two requests feel the same. — THE DESK — A clean monospace canvas. Live word count. Auto-save. Tap the image icon to export your poem as an Instagram-ready card (4:5 or 1:1). Tap the document icon for a printable A6 PDF postcard. — THE PORTFOLIO — Every finished poem lands in your Completed tab — your portfolio of small letters back. Filter by mood, see how many you've written in each, tap any one to keep editing. — THE CHAPBOOK — Select up to twenty finished poems, give the collection a title, and download it as a real A5 PDF chapbook (cover + one poem per page) or a Word .docx for editing in Pages or Google Docs. Your portfolio can also be exported as a single .zip — every finished poem as a plain-text file ready to back up, print, or hand off to a publisher. — GENTLE PRACTICE — A quiet daily streak counter. Optional once-a-day notification at the hour you choose ("A stranger is waiting"). No social feeds, no likes, no algorithmic shouting. — YOUR SIGNATURE — Add an optional poet handle and commission URL. Toggle a subtle red watermark on your exports — every shared card becomes a tiny business card pointing strangers back to your real-world commissions. — A NOTE ON CRAFT — This is not a poem generator. It will never write a poem for you. It only brings you the request. The poem is yours. Made for street-side typewriter poets, journalers, MFA students, sober writers, grieving writers, joyful writers, and anyone who wants a small daily door to walk through. Cream paper. Charcoal ink. Red stamp. The patient hum of a key being pressed. — Tap the red key for a stranger's request, written in two or three honest sentences. — Seven moods: Romantic, Grief, Hope, Spiritual, Whimsical, Milestones, Oddly Specific. — A clean monospace writing desk with auto-save. — Mark poems FINISHED with a quiet red stamp. — Filter your portfolio by mood. Compile a chapbook as PDF or Word. — Export individual poems as Instagram cards (PNG) or postcard PDFs. — Export your whole portfolio as a .zip backup. — Add a poet signature + optional watermark on every share. — A gentle daily prompt notification at the hour you choose. No feeds. No likes. Just paper, ink, and a stranger waiting.

Screenshots

Kronaby4 screens
The Poet's Muse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Kronaby at Free against The Poet's Muse's $0.99. Kronaby also leads on ratings volume (184 vs 1). The Poet's Muse's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.2). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Kronaby is free to download; The Poet's Muse costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Poet's Muse holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Kronaby has 184 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Kronaby versus The Poet's Muse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterKronabyThe Poet's Muse
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.2 (184 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews58.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings184 — better1
Update frequencyMonthly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size142 MB33 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperFestina Lotus SATina Lambert

Customer experience

Kronaby

All ratings184 ratings
Positive79.3%
Neutral3.8%
Negative16.8%
Written reviews180 reviews
Positive58.9%
Neutral11.7%
Negative29.4%

The Poet's Muse

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Kronaby

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Disconnects from phone after iOS updates
  • Watch time drifts and requires frequent recalibration
  • App fails to detect watch after initial setup
  • Notifications not working reliably

Requested features

6 requests
  • Multiple watch profiles support
  • More notification slots and customization
  • Integrated sleep tracking
  • Improved step tracking accuracy
  • Manual time adjustment option
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  • Battery status indicator

The Poet's Muse

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Kronaby

No in-app purchases

None

The Poet's Muse

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Kronaby free?
Kronaby is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is The Poet's Muse free?
The Poet's Muse costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Kronaby or The Poet's Muse?
The Poet's Muse is rated higher. Kronaby averages 4.2 out of 5 from 184 ratings, while The Poet's Muse averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Kronaby or The Poet's Muse have ads?
Neither Kronaby nor The Poet's Muse shows ads.

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