Verso Poetry vs Anthologized
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Verso Poetry
Find poems that resonate with your current emotions. Select your mood and discover classic works from renowned poets. Save your favorites and enjoy a beautiful, distraction-free reading experience.
- Mood-based poem discovery
- Save and build a poetry library
- Daily poetry reminders
- Distraction-free reading experience
- Dark mode support
- Sign in with Apple for syncing
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Discover poetry that speaks to how you feel. Verso Poetry matches you with a poem based on your mood — whether you're feeling joyful, reflective, melancholic, or hopeful. HOW IT WORKS Pick your mood from an intuitive mood selector, and Verso Poetry finds a poem that resonates with your emotions. Each poem is drawn from a curated collection of classic works by renowned poets including Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and many more. FEATURES • Mood-Based Discovery — Select your mood and receive a poem tailored to how you feel • Build Your Library — Save poems you love and revisit them anytime • Daily Reminders — Set a gentle notification to pause and enjoy poetry each day • Beautiful Reading Experience — Clean, distraction-free design that lets the words shine • Dark Mode — Read comfortably in any lighting with Light, Dark, or System themes • Sign in with Apple — Securely sync your saved poems TIMELESS POETRY Explore hundreds of public domain poems from the world's most celebrated poets. Every poem in Verso Poetry is a classic work that has stood the test of time. FREE & AD-FREE Verso Poetry is completely free with no ads, no subscriptions, and no paywalls. Just poetry.
Anthologized
This app helps readers of short-form literature track, rate, and remember individual stories, poems, essays, and plays within their anthology collections. Easily add new books by scanning barcodes or searching, and organize your reading with custom lists and wishlists.
- Track individual stories, poems, essays, and plays
- Rate and write notes on literary works
- Mark reading status (read, want to read, abandoned)
- Add new books via barcode scan or search
- Organize reading with custom lists and wishlists
- Track magazines and journals
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Anthologized You've read hundreds of stories across dozens of anthologies. But ask yourself which book "The Lottery" was in, or which collection had that perfect essay about grief, and the answer is gone. Anthologized fixes that. Anthologized is the only app built for readers of short-form literature. Track, rate, and remember every story, poem, essay, and play inside your anthology collections — not just the books themselves. What you can do: Track every story inside every anthology you own. Rate them individually. Write notes on the ones that stayed with you. Mark what you've read, what you want to read, and what you abandoned halfway through. If we don't have the book or story you're reading it is easy to add new books by scanning the barcode or searching by title. Anthologized pulls in the cover, publication details, and lets you build out the table of contents at your own pace. Organize your reading with custom lists. Keep a wishlist for anthologies you want to pick up next. Track magazines and journals alongside your books. Built for anthology lovers: The Best American series. The Norton anthologies. Year's Best collections. Prize anthologies. Themed collections. These books don't fit neatly into apps built around novels — Anthologized was designed specifically for them. No more losing track of who wrote that story about the lighthouse. No more buying an anthology only to realize you've already read half of it elsewhere. No more forgetting that haunting tale from page 47. Your reading, your way: Keep your library private or share it publicly. Follow other readers and see what they're discovering. Earn badges as your collection grows. Anthologized is free to download.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Anthologized at 5.0 against Verso Poetry's 1.0. On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Anthologized holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 1.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
| Parameter | Verso Poetry | Anthologized |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 38 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Mridul Vinay Garg | Tim Peysar |
In-app purchases
Verso Poetry
No in-app purchases
Anthologized
No in-app purchases
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