Comparison

Writr vs SongSmith

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Overcome writer's block
  • Vocabulary assistance
  • Songwriting aid
  • Poetry inspiration
  • Free to use
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Writr4 screens
SongSmith4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Writr ships an update every 7 months, SongSmith weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Writr versus SongSmith: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterWritrSongSmith
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (616 ratings)5.0 (22 ratings) — better
Positive reviews67.6% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings616 — better22
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS8.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size19 MB30 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperTSN Consultancy Services Ltdchelsie pasley

Customer experience

Writr

All ratings597 ratings
Positive93.8%
Neutral3.0%
Negative3.2%
Written reviews34 reviews
Positive67.6%
Neutral5.9%
Negative26.5%

SongSmith

All ratings22 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

None

Writr

No in-app purchases

None

SongSmith

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Writr free?
Writr is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SongSmith free?
SongSmith is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Writr or SongSmith?
SongSmith is rated higher. Writr averages 4.8 out of 5 from 616 ratings, while SongSmith averages 5.0 from 22 ratings.
Do Writr or SongSmith have ads?
Neither Writr nor SongSmith shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Writr or SongSmith?
Writr ships an update every 7 months, and SongSmith weekly. Most recently, Writr was updated on October 20, 2026 and SongSmith on October 11, 2026.

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