Poetry for the Day
Daily Poems, Widgets & AI
$2.99 · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Make room for a poem each day. Discover 218 offline poems, including contemporary voices, plus home screen widgets. One purchase. No ads or subscriptions.
Find a poem for your day. Read classic and contemporary poetry, keep favorite verses close with home screen widgets, and build a daily reading habit. One purchase, with no ads or subscriptions.
A WIDER WORLD OF POETRY
Discover poetry through a daily rotation that combines PoetryDB with a library of 218 poems included in the app. Read works by Claude McKay, Sara Teasdale, and Amy Lowell alongside contemporary poems by Jatan Mehta and Dave Bonta.
READ OFFLINE
The included 218-poem collection is available without an internet connection. Browse the contemporary collection from Settings, with complete poems, author credits, original sources, and license details.
POETRY ON YOUR HOME SCREEN
Bring your daily poem to your iPhone or iPad with widgets in multiple sizes.
KEEP THE WORDS THAT STAY WITH YOU
Save favorites, revisit your reading history, track your reading streak, and share poems with their source credits.
CREATE SOMETHING PERSONAL
Describe a topic or feeling and generate an original AI poem on your device using Apple Intelligence. AI generation requires iOS or iPadOS 26 or later, a compatible device, and Apple Intelligence enabled with its model available.
Whether you have a minute in the morning or want a quiet moment at the end of the day, Poetry for the Day gives you a reason to return to poetry.
Sources and credits: PoetryDB; historical texts from Project Gutenberg; contemporary works by Jatan Mehta and Dave Bonta under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0. Individual source links, attribution, and license details are available in the app.
Open source: https://github.com/ssk42/Poem-of-the-Day
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Discover more poetry, from enduring classics to contemporary voices.
• Explore 218 poems available offline, including 12 contemporary works.
• Browse contemporary poems from Settings.
• Find poet attribution, original sources, and license details alongside each poem.
• Save and share your discoveries, with source credits included.
• Enjoy a broader daily rotation in the app and widget.
The developer, Stephen Reitz, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Stephen Reitz
- Size
- 3.2 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
- Age Rating
18+
- 18+
- Infrequent
Mature or Suggestive Themes
Horror/Fear Themes
- Copyright
- © No copyright
