Matyan: Armenian Poetry
Classic poems, read aloud
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Charents, Tumanyan, Terian, Tourian, Varoujan and six more poets: 92 classic poems read aloud in the original Armenian as each page paints itself. Three are free.
Matyan is a book of classic Armenian poetry that reads itself aloud.
Ninety-two poems by eleven great Armenian poets, in the original Armenian and in each poet's own words: Yeghishe Charents, Hovhannes Tumanyan, Vahan Terian, Bedros Tourian, Misak Metsarents, Daniel Varoujan, Ruben Sevak, Mikael Nalbandian, Raphael Patkanian, Smbat Shahaziz and Shushanik Kurghinian. Each poem is read aloud while its pages paint themselves around the verse, with music and sounds made for it. More poems will follow in updates.
Among them are Charents's I Love My Sweet Armenia and Spring Will Come Again, Nalbandian's Freedom and The Song of the Italian Girl (the poem behind Armenia's anthem), Tumanyan's With My Homeland, Terian's Autumn Melody, Tourian's The Little Lake and My Death, Metsarents's Love Song, Varoujan's Seas of Wheat and Ruben Sevak's The Last Call, read in Western Armenian.
• Read aloud by a male or a female narrator
• Each word inks in as it is read; touch a word to hear its line again
• A painting for every page, drawing itself with the words, and many of them answer a touch
• The pages turn by themselves, or wait for you
• Keep listening with the screen locked: the Lock Screen and headphones turn the pages
• Choose the typeface, size and ink of the text, and the volume of the voice, the music and the sounds
• Find a poem by its title, poet or first line, in Armenian or typed in Latin letters
• Menus in English or Armenian; the poems are always in Armenian
• Every text checked word by word against a scan of its first printing or of the poet's collected works, with each poem's source in the app
• No ads, no accounts, no tracking
FREE POEMS AND PLANS
Three poems are free: I Love My Sweet Armenia, Freedom and The Little Lake. The other 89, and every poem added later, open with any one of three plans:
• Matyan Monthly, a subscription that renews every month
• Matyan Yearly, a subscription that renews every year
• Matyan Forever, a single payment that never renews
Paid poems download the first time you open them (an internet connection is needed) and stay on your device until you remove them in the app's Settings.
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79 new poems: Matyan now has 92 classic Armenian poems by eleven poets. New among them are Misak Metsarents, Daniel Varoujan and Ruben Sevak, read in Western Armenian, and more poems by Terian, Charents, Tumanyan, Shahaziz and the others.
Every poem's text has been checked again against its first printing, and the music of the Western Armenian poems now plays without wavering.
The developer, Vahram Gevorgyan, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
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The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Vahram Gevorgyan
- Size
- Up to 153.2 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English and Armenian
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Matyan Forever $19.99
- Matyan Yearly $9.99
- Matyan Monthly $1.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Markael Studio
