Poemhunter vs Poet Assistant
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Poemhunter
Access a vast digital library of over 1.4 million poems from more than 100,000 poets worldwide. Discover new verses, search for specific works or authors, and share your favorite poems with ease. This app offers a continuous stream of literary treasures for poetry enthusiasts.
- Vast archive of poems and poets
- Random poem generator
- Search for poems and poets
- Add favorites
- Share poems via screenshot
- Daily updates with new content
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Poemhunter app is the poetry library in your phone with a huge archive of poems and poets of the world literature. Whenever you feel like reading a poem, tap on Random Poem or swipe right, and see what this brings you. You will find the best poems for your mother or for your valentine. Poemhunter has over 1.4 million poems from over 100,000 professional and amateur poets. We also keep adding a lot of new poems and poets to our archive every day. Continue to discover new poems and poets with Poemhunter app forever. Poemhunter treasures are waiting for poem hunters. - Read an endless list of random poems. Find the very best (and maybe the very worst?) of our archive - Discover new poems and poets - Add poems or poets to your favorites list - Search for poems or poets - Share poems whit a beautiful screenshot image in everywhere Poemhunter apps library has more than 100,000 poets including Maya Angelou, Roberts Frost, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Pablo Neruda, Edgar Allan Poe, Walt Whitman, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Langston Hughes, Khalil Gibran, T. S. Eliot etc.
Poet Assistant
This app provides offline tools for English poetry writing, including a rhyming dictionary, thesaurus, and word/character counter. It also features text-to-speech for reading poems aloud. Dictionaries are built-in, requiring no internet connection.
- Rhyming dictionary
- Thesaurus
- Built-in dictionaries
- Text-to-speech poem reading
- Word and character count
- Offline functionality
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A set of offline tools to help with writing poems (currently only English is supported): * a rhyming dictionary, using the Carnegie Mellon University pronunciation dictionary. * a thesaurus, using the WordNet thesaurus. * a dictionary, using the WordNet dictionary. * a screen where you can enter your poem text, have it read aloud back to you by the device's text-to-speech engine, and see the word/character count. The dictionaries are built in the app. No internet connection is required to use them. This app is open source: https://github.com/caarmen/poet-assistant-ios
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Verdict
Poemhunter and Poet Assistant both sit at 4.6 stars, but that hides the real split: 82% of Poet Assistant's written reviews are positive against 40% of Poemhunter's. Poet Assistant also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). Poemhunter's advantage is ratings volume (8.6K vs 8). On price and rating 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. Poemhunter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Poet Assistant asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Poemhunter against 4.6 for Poet Assistant. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Poemhunter has 8.6K ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 40% of Poemhunter's written reviews are positive against 82% of Poet Assistant's.
Poemhunter ships an update every 5 weeks, Poet Assistant every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Poemhunter | Poet Assistant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (8.6K ratings) | 4.6 (8 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.3% of reviews | 81.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8.6K — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brokoli | Carmen Alvarez |
Customer experience
Poemhunter
Poet Assistant
Bugs and requests
Poemhunter
Reported bugs
3 issues- Broken widget and loading issues
- Inconsistent formatting and layout problems
- Incompatibility with newer devices
Requested features
4 requests- Ability to submit and share own poems
- Categorization and filtering options for poems
- Offline access and poem saving capabilities
- Narration or audio playback of poems
Poet Assistant
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Poemhunter
- Remove ads$2.99
Poet Assistant
No in-app purchases
