EratoDiscover and keep poems
Erato brings you new poems every day from four centuries of English and German poetry: Shakespeare, Donne, Keats, Dickinson, Yeats, Goethe, Rilke and more than 2,000 other poets.
- One poem at a time as a card: swipe right to keep it, left for the next.
- Over 45,000 poems by poet, period, century, 36 themes and forms such as the sonnet or the ballad. Full-text search finds every line.
- A poem of the day as a widget and, if you like, as a morning notification.
- Read aloud with your iPhone's own voices, with the current line highlighted.
- Every text is in the public domain and links to its source. No account, no ads, no tracking, fully offline.
Help
Where are my kept poems stored?
Only on your iPhone. They are included in your normal device backup; deleting the app deletes them.
Reading aloud sounds robotic.
Erato reads with your iPhone's own voices. Download better ones under Settings › Accessibility › Spoken Content › Voices (English or German, "Enhanced" or "Premium").
How do I add the poem of the day as a widget?
Touch and hold the Home Screen, tap "Edit" and "Add Widget", and choose Erato. On the Lock Screen, use "Customize" the same way.
I found a mistake in a poem.
The texts come from Wikisource, Project Gutenberg and PoetryDB, and every poem links to its source. Tell us which poem it is and we will correct it.
Contact
Email: erato-app@gmx.de