---
title: "Poetics - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "Poetics is a visual poetry app focused on developing concepts of mutable, semiotic poetry and decentralized art.  The app is an ongoing project by Seth Indigo Carnes, an artist based in New York City."
---

# Poetics — United States
> A visual poetry app

![Poetics App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/a8/bb/5d/a8bb5d60-1260-e98d-d18f-d1742c334fb8/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-8-0-85-220.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [Soulincode](https://apptail.io/developer/soulincode-UNqb)
**Category:** Graphics Design
**Rating:** 4.2/5 (68 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** com.iheartpoetics.poetics
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 2.2.4 (released 2025-06-15)
**Original Release:** 2013-07-09
**Languages:** English, Japanese, Polish

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id543995959)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/united-states)

## Poetics Description
Poetics is a visual poetry app focused on developing concepts of mutable, semiotic poetry and decentralized art.

The app is an ongoing project by Seth Indigo Carnes, an artist based in New York City. Poetics is used in over 150 countries, across languages and cultures.

Art features:

• mutable text
• chance operations
• ephemeral missives
• gestural semiotics
• nonlinear flux
• meta tangents
• intermedia cutups
• multimodal love

App features:

• works on all iOS devices
• portrait and landscape compositions
• curated set of font choices
• always editable, saved work
• custom photo filters
• minimal text styling and color
• physics-based interactions
• nuanced gestural control
• zoom in and out for detailed work
• write in multiple languages
• speak your words into app

Music in App Store preview courtesy of Patrick Golden and Jim Clouse of Parkwest Records.

Feedback or thoughts? hello@poetics.app

Metta

## Poetics Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/ce/88/37/ce88374d-a0ea-0a03-0537-cb1e4a868b2e/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/63/56/e5/6356e57e-9b71-9143-87df-8991fb91fef1/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/d9/d7/86/d9d78646-5eeb-a21b-33ed-9ea145ff8b15/eb4935ff-4541-4fd1-b57a-ba7b64ac43a4_screenshot3.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/2a/7c/9a/2a7c9a00-9592-495c-89c3-4dfd40df49d3/3100b98b-be05-43f7-bac0-bd65038957fc_screenshot4.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/d9/74/46/d974465d-3b4f-431d-9fe1-37722cf7c479/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 6](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/0d/3b/43/0d3b432d-bf3f-fbcf-2093-90cc63da390c/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 7](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple211/v4/1b/6b/45/1b6b45b7-30cb-51eb-dcec-20e2f3d0894d/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 8](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/65/21/0b/65210bf1-7b6c-1d0d-c6cd-ca54c3d87573/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 9](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/4d/c1/71/4dc17182-d0ba-1c34-ad3c-9923c3698f19/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 10](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/fd/ce/2e/fdce2ec9-e943-4c62-e931-21d2344c46ba/pr_source.png/1242x2688.png)

## Poetics Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 47 (69%)
- 4 stars: 9 (13%)
- 3 stars: 2 (3%)
- 2 stars: 0 (0%)
- 1 stars: 10 (15%)

## Poetics Reviews in United States

### ***** "Like fridge poetry + picture"
I love this simple app. I thought it was gone because for some reason it wasn’t amongst my apps. Just by chance someone in our digital artist group used it and I said “what???” Love having it back and it remembered I had already downloaded the in-app purchase! Thanks for keeping this up.
-- Ghostmoth, 2023-04-09

### *---- "This is a joke"
Don’t waste your money. You can only write 3 words on a single screen. Scammers. Should be taken down from the App Store. Jerks scamming poets are the lowest humans
-- Timmy.Viola, 2023-02-14

### ***-- "Great at first, but text functionality is messy"
I really like the simplicity of the app, and it is very slick looking. Unfortunately, working with the text is not that easy. Automatic text wrapping and resizing to fit the window would it a lot more user friendly (apologies if this is something that it can do, but if it does, it is unintuitive). Still, I will keep an eye on this; as slick as it is at first, I’m sure the developers will make it a lot better as time goes on.
-- scottgsmith62, 2022-11-18

### ***** "Thanks for changing the pricing model"
Thanks for changing the pricing model. 

With Kind Regards~
-- Sherap6, 2022-11-17

### ***** "Fun with fonts."
Adding fonts to your poetic is pretty neat. I just wish there was a broader selection of type faces but this is definitely a neat addition to an already great app.
-- spectrekid68, 2022-01-15

### ****- "Fun"
This is a fun app.  For future it could become more entertaining and useful if fonts, colors, and other variabilities were included.  Adding a return key or ability to type longer phrases would be really useful. 

Regardless of these needed additions, it is a very useful app.  Thanks for the creation.
-- Traveler—46, 2021-04-30

### *---- "Can’t paste into the app"
You can’t paste anything into the app. Huge flaw, waste of money on my part. Lucky it was only $3
-- Nippytippylippy, 2020-10-22

### *---- "Simple app/lpoor quality"
You 
Would think for such a simple app there would be more in terms of quality assuranxe. 
 however is that for years now and basis and it was always at least one or two but I would consider showstoppers eg  it’s currently has an issue right now with the spelling mistakes, it freezes up if you use rhe replace optoon
Prior this saved in messenger is broken for (I just seen screenshots of around it but my point being is a company I will never do business with due to the lack of quality

basically yes its free but you get what you pay for. Its obvious they dont even test the code. 

Also this whole “OOO poetry” makes no sense. Its just an app that has defects. Its not like anyone has split the atom here or anything.
-- Note_Luver, 2020-08-12

### ****- "Praying for more features soon 😍"
Love this app so far! I have such a blast with it, but my only criticism is I think it would be 100x better if they allowed different font or text styles....praying for that to happen soon!!
-- kerrid-away, 2019-02-13

### *---- "Dislike"
Dislike that to write an entire poem I have to constantly stop to adjust the words. It would nice to just be able to continue typing.
-- Vanessa L.C, 2018-02-20

### *---- "Unhappy with my purchase"
I could do anything with this App, other then move words around... I would like a refund...
-- Ladybuy, 2018-01-08

### ****- "Post to Instagram...not really!"
11-17-17...wish you would update with just the ability to control aspect ration and image size, don’t change anything else :-)

Really, it's a great app. However, if your intended final share location is Instagram, you cannot work with a square aspect ratio until after you have made your creation and then you have to zoom and crop out a percentage of your work.  But still, a great app but I gave it a low score due to the restricted aspect ratio.
-- CeDeFi, 2017-11-17

### *---- "Weak"
For skimmers: don't buy. You can only type one word at a time. Instagram would probably make for a better poetry app.

No tools. No syllable count, no rhyme tool, no room, no lines, no community, zilch-o. 

I wish I could get me money back, mateys.
-- Poobagel, 2016-11-02

### ***** "Fun app"
I use this to capture a sentimental mood in my pictures and use as my lock screen. Some might find one block font limiting but I actually find that it makes the app more useful. Instead of fussing around with typeset, I'm looking for precision in word choice.
-- myphone406, 2016-09-07

### ****- "Surprise feature"
I know that it's not technically what this app is for, but I use it to create iPhone wallpapers with my photos. I crop them and after editing the photos with the app I take a screenshot of it when the photo covers the whole phone. The results are good. It's a decent photo editor and you can move the text around and add it. I'm not much of a text person but this app has a surprising purpose for me.
-- sarasarasarAAA, 2016-04-15

### *---- "Want my money back"
This is such a stupid app, doesn't solve any purpose. You can only type 11 words and then you have to type them again and again and then arrange them all in one sequence and align them. Such a headache. Can't see how this works for posting on social media. Apps are meant to help make it easy for you and not make ur work hard. Stay away from it unless u have a dyslexic child and want to teach him how to arrange words and sentences in order.
-- sahimusic, 2016-04-04

### ***** "Best new app"
Love this app.  So much fun  especially because you can send $.99 postcards and they look awesome.
-- Scampo69, 2016-03-31

### ***** "Pretty cool"
This app is like post secret meets poetry meets photography- taken to the next level. I think it's super cool and a unique way to create things for, let's say, a poetic Instagram account. A+++
-- Watevaghettogrl, 2016-01-14

### ****- "Great except one flaw"
I'm really liking Phoetics. To be fair, it's really short on features and options. It uses one font and background color for the text. But you can resize the text and move it and reorient it. So what it does it does well. What I HATE is that to add the "Phoetics" you have to crop it to ONE RATIO of 16x9 and ruin whatever you had it cropped to before, like a square! Makes it very hard for Instagramor anything else.

Developers: please just make one change! Remove this crop! Don't force us to crop, just let us add it to the image in whatever shape we want! Thank you.
-- MesutOzilStark, 2016-01-09

### ***** "👍🏻 THUMBS UP 👍🏻"
Quality user interface and useful app for my iPhone photo toolbox. Recommended for anyone who is searching for a clean minimalist block-text add-on capability for their images.  Easily a five star rating.  

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
-- NOPE ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ NOPE, 2016-01-06

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## Poetics In-App Purchases
| Item | Price |
|------|-------|
| Cage | $0.99 |
| Futura | $0.99 |
| Duchamp | $0.99 |
| Whitman | $0.99 |
| Basquiat | $0.99 |
| Font Pack | $5.99 |
| Gill Sans | $0.99 |
| Mallarmé | $0.99 |
| Baskerville | $0.99 |
| Filter Pack | $5.99 |

## Poetics Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Paid | Lebanon | Graphics Design | #8 |
| Top Paid | Nigeria | Graphics Design | #13 |
| Top Paid | Portugal | Graphics Design | #16 |
| Top Paid | India | Graphics Design | #17 |
| Top Paid | Norway | Graphics Design | #17 |
| Top Paid | United Arab Emirates | Graphics Design | #18 |
| Top Paid | Ireland | Graphics Design | #19 |
| Top Paid | Indonesia | Graphics Design | #19 |
| Top Paid | South Africa | Graphics Design | #19 |
| Top Paid | Australia | Graphics Design | #19 |
| Top Paid | Mexico | Graphics Design | #20 |
| Top Paid | Singapore | Graphics Design | #22 |
| Top Paid | Canada | Graphics Design | #22 |
| Top Paid | Argentina | Graphics Design | #24 |
| Top Paid | New Zealand | Graphics Design | #24 |
| Top Paid | Denmark | Graphics Design | #24 |
| Top Paid | Philippines | Graphics Design | #25 |
| Top Paid | Saudi Arabia | Graphics Design | #25 |
| Top Paid | Greece | Graphics Design | #25 |
| Top Paid | Spain | Graphics Design | #27 |
| Top Paid | Brazil | Graphics Design | #27 |
| Top Paid | United Kingdom | Graphics Design | #28 |
| Top Paid | Ecuador | Graphics Design | #30 |
| Top Paid | Kuwait | Graphics Design | #30 |
| Top Paid | Sweden | Graphics Design | #30 |
| Top Paid | Malaysia | Graphics Design | #30 |
| Top Paid | Chile | Graphics Design | #31 |
| Top Paid | Colombia | Graphics Design | #32 |
| Top Paid | Azerbaijan | Graphics Design | #34 |
| Top Paid | Netherlands | Graphics Design | #35 |
| Top Paid | Peru | Graphics Design | #37 |
| Top Paid | Czechia | Graphics Design | #39 |
| Top Paid | Austria | Graphics Design | #40 |
| Top Paid | Hong Kong SAR China | Graphics Design | #40 |
| Top Paid | Italy | Graphics Design | #40 |
| Top Paid | Türkiye | Graphics Design | #41 |
| Top Paid | Israel | Graphics Design | #41 |
| Top Paid | Belgium | Graphics Design | #42 |
| Top Paid | Finland | Graphics Design | #45 |
| Top Paid | Dominican Republic | Graphics Design | #47 |
| Top Paid | Switzerland | Graphics Design | #47 |
| Top Paid | Pakistan | Graphics Design | #48 |
| Top Paid | South Korea | Graphics Design | #50 |
| Top Paid | Russia | Graphics Design | #54 |
| Top Paid | Taiwan | Graphics Design | #56 |
| Top Paid | Japan | Graphics Design | #63 |
| Top Paid | United States | Graphics Design | #65 |
| Top Paid | France | Graphics Design | #66 |
| Top Paid | Poland | Graphics Design | #67 |
| Top Paid | Egypt | Graphics Design | #69 |
| Top Paid | Romania | Graphics Design | #70 |
| Top Paid | Vietnam | Graphics Design | #71 |
| Top Paid | Kazakhstan | Graphics Design | #74 |
| Top Paid | Germany | Graphics Design | #76 |
| Top Paid | Ukraine | Graphics Design | #78 |
| Top Paid | Thailand | Graphics Design | #94 |
| Top Paid | Hungary | Graphics Design | #109 |
| Top Paid | China | Graphics Design | #111 |

## Poetics Discovered Keywords
- poetics

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## Poetics Available In
- [United States](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/united-states)
- [Canada](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/canada)
- [Italy](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/italy)
- [Australia](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/australia)
- [Japan](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/japan)
- [South Korea](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/south-korea)
- [Denmark](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/denmark)
- [Türkiye](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/turkey)
- [Indonesia](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/indonesia)
- [Brazil](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/brazil)
- [Portugal](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/portugal)
- [China](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/china)
- [Belgium](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/belgium)
- [Germany](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/germany)
- [United Kingdom](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/united-kingdom)
- [Pakistan](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/pakistan)
- [Poland](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/poland)
- [Russia](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/russia)
- [Saudi Arabia](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/saudi-arabia)
- [Greece](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/greece)
- [Singapore](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/singapore)
- [Slovenia](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/slovenia)
- [Taiwan](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/taiwan)
- [Ireland](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/ireland)
- [South Africa](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/south-africa)
- [Argentina](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/argentina)
- [India](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/india)
- [Malaysia](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/malaysia)
- [Mexico](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/mexico)
- [Switzerland](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/switzerland)
- [Netherlands](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/netherlands)
- [Norway](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/norway)
- [Spain](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/spain)
- [Finland](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/finland)
- [Chile](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/chile)
- [Madagascar](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/madagascar)
- [Armenia](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/armenia)
- [Austria](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/austria)
- [Azerbaijan](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/azerbaijan)
- [Bulgaria](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/bulgaria)
- [Brunei](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/brunei)
- [Belarus](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/belarus)
- [Colombia](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/colombia)
- [Czechia](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/czechia)
- [Dominican Republic](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/dominican-republic)
- [Algeria](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/algeria)
- [Ecuador](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/ecuador)
- [Egypt](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/egypt)
- [France](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/france)
- [Hong Kong SAR China](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/hong-kong)
- [Hungary](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/hungary)
- [Israel](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/israel)
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- [Lebanon](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/lebanon)
- [Latvia](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/latvia)
- [United Arab Emirates](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/united-arab-emirates)
- [Nigeria](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/nigeria)
- [New Zealand](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/new-zealand)
- [Peru](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/peru)
- [Philippines](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/philippines)
- [Romania](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/romania)
- [Sweden](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/sweden)
- [Thailand](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/thailand)
- [Tunisia](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/tunisia)
- [Ukraine](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/ukraine)
- [Vietnam](https://apptail.io/app/poetics-UzX/vietnam)

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