Liven vs The Poet's Muse
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Liven
Cultivate a healthier lifestyle and prioritize mental well-being by creating meaningful routines, tracking daily habits, and reflecting on your growth through guided journaling. Engage in self-improvement challenges to stay motivated on your journey to a better self.
- Track daily habits
- Personalized or custom routines
- Guided journaling
- Self-improvement challenges
- Unlimited habit tracking (Premium)
- Full access to guided journals (Premium)
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Welcome to Liven: Your Path to a Better Self Rediscover balance in your life with Liven. This app is your companion for cultivating a healthier lifestyle and prioritizing your mental and emotional well-being. Liven is designed to help you create meaningful routines, reflect on your growth, and stay mindful of what truly matters. FEATURES ◉ Track your daily habits effortlessly ◉ Get a personalized routine or create your own ◉ Reflect on your journey with guided journaling ◉ Stay motivated with self-improvement challenges GO PREMIUM Take your habits and journaling to the next level with Liven Premium: ◉ Unlimited habit tracking to stay on top of your goals ◉ Full access to guided journals ◉ Customizable routines and engaging challenges to keep you motivated Pricing Enjoy full access with our Premium Subscription: - 1-year subscription: $59.99 Or equivalent to the App Store’s localized pricing. Terms & Conditions - Payment is charged to your iTunes Account upon confirmation of purchase. - Subscriptions automatically renew unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. - Renewal charges are processed within 24 hours of the subscription’s end. - Manage your subscription or disable auto-renewal in your Account Settings. - Unused portions of free trials (if applicable) are forfeited upon subscription purchase. Privacy Policy https://pinevalley.us/privacy
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Liven at Free against The Poet's Muse's $0.99. Liven also leads on ratings volume (200 vs 1). The Poet's Muse's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and rating (5.0 vs 4.5). On ads, 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
Liven is free to download; The Poet's Muse costs $0.99 up front. Liven sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. The Poet's Muse asks for nothing beyond the download.
The Poet's Muse holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Liven has 200 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Liven | The Poet's Muse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.5 (200 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 20.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 200 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Subscription | Paid — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 144 MB | 33 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 7Logic LLC | Tina Lambert |
Customer experience
Liven
The Poet's Muse
In-app purchases
Liven
- Monthly$12.991 Month
- Quarterly$29.993 Months
- Yearly + 7-day Trial7 Days trial$59.991 Year
The Poet's Muse
No in-app purchases









