Poetry Magazine App
How much does Poetry Magazine App cost?
Prices are current as of 29 Sept 2026.
1 subscription from $29.99
In the United States, Poetry Magazine App has 1 subscription priced $29.99.
| Subscription | Period | Price |
|---|---|---|
| Poetry Magazine Annual Subscription | Annual | $29.99 |
9 one-time purchases from $2.99
In the United States, Poetry Magazine App has 9 one-time purchases priced $2.99.
| Product | Price |
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| December 2018 | $2.99 |
| February 2019 | $2.99 |
| July/August 2018 | $2.99 |
| July/August 2020 | $2.99 |
| June 2018 | $2.99 |
| June 2020 | $2.99 |
| May 2018 | $2.99 |
| October 2018 | $2.99 |
| September 2018 | $2.99 |
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| Rating / 5 | 4.9 | 4.6 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.8 | 4.7 | 4.9 | 4.7 | 4.7 | 3.7 |
| Reviews | 1.8K | 39K | 29K | 12K | 6.5K | 4.8K | 3K | 2.3K | 2.2K | 451 | 127 |
| Released | 2017 | 2010 | 2012 | 2014 | 2017 | 2019 | 2011 | 2015 | 2012 | 2011 | 2024 |
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| Annual price | $29.99 | — | $39.99 | $99.99 | $79.99 | $79.99 | $10.99 | $24.99 | $19.99 | $29.99 | — |
| One-time price | $2.99 | $4.99 | $9.99 | $4.99 | $5.99 | $9.99 | $4.99 | $7.99 | $4.99 | $5.99 | — |
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Poetry Magazine App reviews
4.9 out of 5, based on 1,819 reviews.
What people like
- Excellent design with nice dark mode
- Great audio recordings of poets reading work
- Offers fresh contemporary poetry instead of old classics
- Really helps calm your mind after bad news
What they complain about
- App crashes and stops working randomly
- Subscription issues with Apple support are a mess
- Hard to read poems on small screens
- Most content is locked behind a paywall
Literally save me from brain rot
Every time I am tempted to doom scroll instead I read a poem. I feel sooooo much better for it.
Paywall
Might as well just charge for the app if every single article and poem is behind a paywall.
As good as a phone can be
Great magazine, good app, but some poems just cannot be presented adequately on a phone screen. I mainly use the app to preview the print issue before it arrives.
Expected more than the magazine
I love the app and I love The Poetry Foundation. I regularly check the website but I was expecting the app to be like the web, just in an app-format. That is, being able to read the poem of the day, any other poem, articles, etc. Everything we have in the web for free + the magazine for the subscribers. Maybe soon?
Great mag
I love the poetry but would like to see more diversity in contributors. I should because there are barrels of poets from everywhere. I don’t expect you to present lowbrow or poorly constructed poetry, but if you use ignore New or modernist styles, you will miss diversifying your mag because many writers out there are creative and clever in different manners, etc. They are writing differently than 19th century, etc. The Podcast is great and a marvelous idea. I love it. Joyce
Freedom is in artists speaking truth
We must support our artists and poets are the pinnacle of artists.
Missing theme search from old app
You used to be able to visually search by theme of poetry which was great!
Great poetry app
Most poetry apps are just encyclopedias of the same 100(ish) popular poems. This app offers a broad range of contemporary works to peruse.
Glitchy
Randomly stopped working. Have had to redownload several times.
Improved but still problematic
I'm so glad the Poetry Foundation re-vamped this app. The layout of each issue is much better, it allows landscape view on iPhone (hallelujah) and the UI is much improved. However, it still has one same issue that the former had. It is still having difficulty retrieving past purchases through iTunes and not a subscription. It keeps saying it can't connect to iTunes. For those who have purchased many back issues (like me!) that makes the app, and also our historical purchases, way less valuable.
great app
great app. great poetry.
Bring back the spinner
It saved my life.
Learning without end.
I have read poetry for eight decades but in the past ten years I am finally learning poetry thanks to Poetry. I flipped open essays this morning and discovered a delightful discussion of Chaucer that will prompt me to re-explore the Canterbury Tales with much better understanding. Don’t change and never forget most of your support is from silent but very ardent appreciators. Thank you for being.
No Support
App stopped downloading new issues starting January 2023. I paid for a subscription in the App Store through April 2023. Developer (Poetry Magazine) says they don’t support app subscriptions purchased in the App Store. I spent over two hours with Apple Support trying to trouble shoot, with no success. I was not willing to spend any more time trying to resolve, and asked Apple to process a refund for the unused subscription. The agent didn’t seem to be able to process a refund. I would suggest a print subscription by mail if you want a reliable method to subscribe.
Great
best poetry app
Gosh. I hate this app.
I loved The Poetry Foundation’s very first app with the revolving poem finder. It was amazing. It centered the poems, the work, then the poets, THEN the publication. I didn’t have to wade through editions of the publication to try to find a poem. IT WAS THERE. NOW, I am confronted by the publication, by ribbons of words so badly laid out that the poems are lost in the stacks of publication issues. It puts me off poetry and using The Poetry Foundation as a way to explore it. Recover that application. Update it. Put the editions online via your website where people can peruse to their heart’s content. As it is, this new-to-me app hides the poetry and the poets by placing the publication first. It’s a disaster.
Refreshing as a breath of fresh air.❤️🙏
Refreshing as a breath of fresh air.❤️🙏
Poet audio makes for a better publication than print!
Excellent, intuitive design. Accessible audio and text. Hold your phone sideways for the correct line breaks. I’m not sure if it’s default night-mode, but the white text on black is really nice. Love the downloadable issues! They’ve perfected the format of monthly publication on a phone. Maybe even nicer than a physical mag! Controversial, but i LOVE the audio recordings of people reading their poems. 10/10 excellent work!
WHAT HAPPENED
I used to love the spin feature for the app. What happened to that?
Great poetry!
The best poetry app.
Poetry is the default language of the future
Poetry Magazine is not an antidote nor an alternative. It is the over shadow – – of the hard creepy news of the day. Having it as an app on my phone allows me to look like a normal android human being mutant, and yet while I stare at a mineral-based screen, I am reading poems. Thank my lucky stars.
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Poetry Magazine App FAQ
- Is Poetry Magazine App free?
- Yes. The app and its basic features are free, in all 174 countries it sells in. Premium features are paid: they start from $29.99 (US), across 1 subscription and 9 one-time purchases.
- Does Poetry Magazine App have a free trial?
- No. None of its offers (US) come with a free trial.
- Where is Poetry Magazine App cheapest?
- A one-time purchase costs CA$3.99 (≈$2.83) in Canada and COP 19,900 (≈$5.97) in Colombia, its cheapest and dearest countries.
- What are the best alternatives to Poetry Magazine App?
- ZINIO - Magazine Newsstand (4.6 from 39,156 reviews, premium from $1.99), Foreign Affairs Magazine (4.8 from 29,027 reviews, premium from $8.99) and London Review of Books (4.8 from 12,029 reviews, premium from $4.99).
Poetry Magazine App download
Last updated 3 months ago.
Poetry Magazine App sells in 174 countries. It was released 9 years and 7 months ago, on 10 Mar 2017. It holds a 4.9 rating from 1,819 reviews.
Supports 1 language: English.
How much does Poetry Magazine App make?
Third-party estimates for the last 30 days, worldwide — not the store's own figures, which Apple publishes for nobody.
Revenue by plan
- One-time 70%
- Annual 30%
Revenue by country
- United States 81%
- United Kingdom 5%
- Canada 3%
- Australia 3%