Verse & Prose vs Langston
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Verse & Prose
A minimalist writing app for crafting and sharing poetry, stories, and personal reflections. Enhance your text with custom typography, themes, and integrated photos to create visually stunning pieces.
- Elegant typography and themes
- Textured backgrounds and layout styles
- Seamlessly weave photos into writing
- Save and share creations as rendered images
- Capture time and location of inspiration
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Verse & Prose is a beautifully simple space for writing and sharing poetry, stories, and moments that matter. With Verse & Prose, you can craft your own poems and bring them to life with elegant typography, thoughtfully designed themes, textured backgrounds, and a variety of layout styles that make every piece uniquely yours. But Verse & Prose is more than a poetry editor. It’s also a place for essays, travel journals, personal reflections, or those unexpected sparks of inspiration that arrive without warning. You can seamlessly weave photos you’ve just taken into your writing, placing them anywhere within the text. Each time you revisit your work, those images become vivid reminders of the people, places, and emotions captured in that moment. When your creation is ready, you can save or share it as a beautifully rendered image, signed with your name and marked with the time and place where inspiration found you. Whenever inspiration strikes, wherever life takes you, open Verse & Prose and start creating. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Langston
A minimalist writing application designed for focus and simplicity. It provides a distraction-free environment to draft your thoughts and save them as portable Markdown files.
- Distraction-free writing environment
- Simple document creation
- Portable Markdown file format
- Focus on first sentence and continuation
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Langston is a quiet, distraction-free place to write. Open a document, put down your first sentence, and keep going. Your words stay yours in simple, portable Markdown files.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Verse & Prose at 5.0 against Langston's 4.0. Verse & Prose also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks). Langston's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 3) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, ratings volume and ads 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. Verse & Prose sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Langston asks for nothing beyond the download.
Verse & Prose holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
Verse & Prose ships an update every 2 days, Langston every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Verse & Prose | Langston |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 帅 翟 | Marciano Sordam |
In-app purchases
Verse & Prose
- Monthly Subscription3 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Annual Subscription7 Days trial$6.991 Year
- Lifetime Access$19.99
Langston
No in-app purchases
