Mert Özel

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.

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/sometimes-a-poem-arrives/id6756898323

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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