Would you keep a poetry app that finds you at the right moment?

I built an iOS app called Sometimes: A Poem Arrives.


Instead of asking you to open an app and scroll, it sends a curated poem when time, weather, and season line up for you.


I just shipped a much bigger update than I planned. I rewrote the delivery engine behind the app, and also added pull navigation between poems, local backup and restore, archive quick actions, calmer notifications, better widgets, and word-level Look Up while reading.

For Poetry Month, I also made a small event called April Arrives. Each day in April, a set of poem fragments appears inside the app. You pick one, and it reveals the full poem.


Would something like this actually stay on your phone, or is poetry still something most people prefer to seek out on their own? Any suggestions?

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