CypherText vs Poet Tree Poetry
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CypherText
Simulate a rap cypher using text messages over peer-to-peer WiFi or Bluetooth. Features include rhyme detection, manual rhyme marking, a point system, and the ability to save raps. Users can also suggest content and use a turn timer.
- Peer-to-peer WiFi/Bluetooth connectivity
- End rhyme detection and color labeling
- Manual rhyme marking
- Point system
- Save and archive cypher raps
- Content suggestion via photos/words
- Turn timer
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A Rap Cypher is defined as "...an informal gathering of rappers, beatboxers, and/or break-dancers in a circle, in order to jam musically together ...These groups also serve as a way for messages about hip hop styles and knowledge to be spread, through word-of-mouth and encouraging trends in other battles." (Wikipedia). This app is meant to simulate a rap cypher via text transmitted on Peer-to-Peer Wifi or Bluetooth. Features - Peer-to-peer connectivity via WiFi and/or Bluetooth - End Rhyme detection and color labeling - touch drag manual rhyme marking - Point system - Save and Archive Cypher Raps - Send Photos and words to session peers for content suggestion - Turn Timer
Poet Tree Poetry
Create, share, and collaborate on poetry with a unique tree-like structure. Features word tools, pattern matching, and moderated discussion groups for a rich poetic experience.
- Poetic social network
- Tree-structured verse arrangement
- Word and pattern analysis tools
- Rhyme and synonym suggestions
- Collaborative poetry creation
- Moderated discussion groups
- Multilingual and anonymous options
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Introducing Poet Tree Poetry, a poetic social network and toolset to create and share poetry. The poetry is structured as a tree with verses as branches that can be arranged into different versions of poetry for collaboration or just yourself. The word and pattern tools include pattern matching statistics, rhyme and synonym word swap, rhymetionary word creation and many communication tools to aid your style in choosing best words. * Aid creation with many word tools * Share so others may join * Compete for best and most contribution * Team up with experienced poets * Create poetry on personal topics with family and friends * Create parodies by changing verses and keeping patterns * Participate in scholastic type poetry so learning is more interesting and fun * Engage in moderated and poetic discussion groups that aim to benefit society There’s interactive poetry that constantly evolves, traditional poetry that remains unchanged and everything between while being anonymous, multilingual or even hieroglyphical for free verse or rhyme patterns. To aid your style, syllables and rhymes are displayed as numbers and colors and used to calculate % Match of verses compared to other verses so patterns can easily be repeated or avoided. In addition to the freedom of creating any type of poetry, you can explore poetic discussions focused on specific topics with rules and moderation that are aimed to have positive impact on society. These featured trees can be discovered on the PoetTreePoetry site, may require specific actions to join and offer limited edition merchandise that benefit related charities.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: CypherText at 5.0 against Poet Tree Poetry's 4.3. CypherText also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 7) and update cadence (monthly vs every 5 months). Poet Tree Poetry's advantage is ratings volume (6 vs 1). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
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Both are free to download. Poet Tree Poetry sells 7 one-off in-app purchases. CypherText asks for nothing beyond the download.
CypherText holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Poet Tree Poetry has 6 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
CypherText ships an update monthly, Poet Tree Poetry every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CypherText | Poet Tree Poetry |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.3 (6 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 6 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 7.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 223 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Skyler Tidd | Tree Poetry LLC |
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CypherText
Poet Tree Poetry
In-app purchases
CypherText
No in-app purchases
Poet Tree Poetry
- 1 Seed$0.99
- 5 Seeds$3.99
- 10 Seeds$6.99
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- Change PoetID and color$9.99
- 25 Seeds$16.99
- 50 Seeds$32.99
- 100 Seeds$54.99
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