Writr vs SongSmith
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Writr
This free application is designed to help songwriters and poets overcome writer's block. It provides vocabulary assistance and inspiration to enhance creative writing for musical and poetic endeavors.
- Overcome writer's block
- Vocabulary assistance
- Songwriting aid
- Poetry inspiration
- Free to use
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Let's keep this simple, if you're a songwriter or poet, you need this app. It's free, try it, thank us later. "Love the app.. as a songwriter, this comes in handy for those days I get writer's block or need an extra bonus in vocabulary when writing my songs." - Christina Also available for iPad.
SongSmith
This app helps songwriters visualize and organize their lyrics. It tracks rhyming patterns and poetic meter, and offers a powerful search for rhymes, synonyms, and definitions. Easily restructure your songs by moving or deleting verses.
- Visualize rhyming patterns with color-coding
- Track rhyming schemes
- Visualize poetic meter and syllable counts
- Search for rhymes, synonyms, and definitions
- Organize and restructure song verses
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SongSmith is the only notepad for writing lyrics that lets you visually see your patterns and easily restructure your lyrics. You can track your rhyming patterns, poetic meter, organize/move verses in a song, and look up new rhymes, synonyms, and more with its easy-to-use and intuitive interface. EASILY VISUALIZE RHYMING PATTERNS SongSmith finds rhyming words in real-time and color-codes them so you can easily see which words rhyme and visualize complicated rhyming patterns. It also keeps track of your rhyming scheme based on the last word of each line in the right-hand column. EASILY VISUALIZE POETIC METER SongSmith also tells you the syllable stresses and number of syllables for each word and updates this in real-time as you type so you can see how the words flow easily. It even keeps track of the number of syllables for each line in the left-hand column too. EASILY FIND POWERFUL WORD COMBINATIONS SongSmith's search feature is extremely powerful. Enter any word and SongSmith will show you all the exact rhymes, all the near rhymes, all the synonyms, and all the definitions for that word. Allowing you to find new creative wording for your lyrics. EASILY RESTRUCTURE YOUR LYRICS SongSmith gives you the option to create your lyrics one verse at a time. Those verses can then be moved or deleted to allow the user to tinker with their overall structure or experiment with new ideas and scrap ones they no longer need.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: SongSmith at 100% against Writr's 68%. SongSmith also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 7 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Writr's advantage is ratings volume (616 vs 22) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 15.1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
SongSmith holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Writr has 616 ratings behind it against 22, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Writr's written reviews are positive against 100% of SongSmith's.
Writr ships an update every 7 months, SongSmith weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Writr | SongSmith |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (616 ratings) | 5.0 (22 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 616 — better | 22 |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 30 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | TSN Consultancy Services Ltd | chelsie pasley |
Customer experience
Writr
SongSmith
Bugs and requests
Writr
Reported bugs
4 issues- App not allowing text input
- Feather icon does nothing
- App crashes or fails to work
- Support website unavailable
Requested features
6 requests- Landscape orientation support for iPad users
- Clickable words with definitions
- Copy word functionality within app
- Favorites/saved ideas log
- Two-word rhyme suggestions
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- Delay initial rating prompt until after use
SongSmith
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Writr
No in-app purchases
SongSmith
No in-app purchases









