Abra vs tiny poems
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Abra
This app transforms text into a dynamic, interactive experience. Explore and manipulate words with touch gestures, cast spells to alter their form, and create your own poetic compositions. It offers a unique blend of digital art and literature, allowing users to engage with language in a novel way.
- Interactive text manipulation
- Word mutation spells
- Create and add own words
- Digital artist's book
- Analog and digital integration
- Poetry experimentation
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Abra is a magical poetry instrument/spellbook for iOS. Touch words and watch them shift under your fingers. Cast dozens of spells to mutate the text and set it into motion. Write your own words into Abra and see them become part of her vocabulary. Read, write, and experiment to discover Abra's secrets and make her poems your own. * * * This app was created as a born-digital artist’s book, funded in part by an NEA-sponsored Expanded Artists’ Books grant from The Center for Book and Paper Arts at Columbia College Chicago. Available in parallel is a limited-edition clothbound artist’s book that treats the printed page itself as a touch-screen interface. An iPad running the Abra app can be inserted into the book, conjoining the analog and digital into a unified reading experience. Abra was created by Amaranth Borsuk, Kate Durbin, and Ian Hatcher. Available free for iPad and iPhone. Requires iOS 15+. * * * A-B-R-A.com Twitter: @AbraApp
tiny poems
Experience minimal poetry optimized for Apple Watch, iPhone, and iPad. This app features dynamic, short texts that reflect time and vanity, constantly changing with the passing moments.
- Minimalist poetry
- Optimized for Apple Watch
- Dynamic, time-based texts
- Reflects time and vanity
- Supports iPhone and iPad
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For the first time „tiny poems“ brings concrete minimal poetry to mobile devices like Apple Watch, iPhone and iPad. The pieces are optimized for the screen of the Apple Watch and show short and dynamic texts for the wrist. The poems reflect time and vanity and change constantly according to the continuosly passing time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: tiny poems at 5.0 against Abra's 4.0. tiny poems also leads on review sentiment (50% vs 33%) and update cadence (every 6 months vs every 15 months). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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.
tiny poems holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of Abra's written reviews are positive against 50% of tiny poems's.
Abra ships an update every 15 months, tiny poems every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Abra | tiny poems |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 15 months | Every 6 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 8.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ian Hatcher | joerg piringer |
Customer experience
Abra
tiny poems
In-app purchases
Abra
No in-app purchases
tiny poems
No in-app purchases
