Comparison

Liven 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

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.

Highlights
  • Track daily habits
  • Personalized or custom routines
  • Guided journaling
  • Self-improvement challenges
  • Unlimited habit tracking (Premium)
  • Full access to guided journals (Premium)
Features
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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

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

Liven3 screens
The Poet's Muse4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Liven versus The Poet's Muse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLivenThe Poet's Muse
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.5 (200 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews20.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings200 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 9 days—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationSubscriptionPaid — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS14.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size144 MB33 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developer7Logic LLCTina Lambert

Customer experience

Liven

All ratings200 ratings
Positive87.5%
Neutral2.0%
Negative10.5%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive20.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative80.0%

The Poet's Muse

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

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Liven

Subscriptions3
  • Monthly$12.991 Month
  • Quarterly$29.993 Months
  • Yearly + 7-day Trial7 Days trial$59.991 Year
None

The Poet's Muse

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Liven free?
Liven is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Poet's Muse free?
The Poet's Muse costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Liven or The Poet's Muse?
The Poet's Muse is rated higher. Liven averages 4.5 out of 5 from 200 ratings, while The Poet's Muse averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Liven or The Poet's Muse have ads?
Neither Liven nor The Poet's Muse shows ads.

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