Poet Assistant

Poet Assistant is an open-source Android application for people who write, revise, or explore poetry. It brings several language tools together in one place for working with poem text. The application belongs to MirrorNest’s Translation & Dictionary category because its main resources are dictionaries and word-reference tools.

Its rhyming dictionary uses the Carnegie Mellon University pronunciation dictionary to help users look for rhyming words. It also includes a thesaurus based on WordNet, providing an additional way to examine related words while developing a poem. A WordNet-based dictionary is available for checking word meanings and references during writing.

Poet Assistant provides a screen where users can enter or review their poem text. The device’s text-to-speech engine can then read that text aloud, allowing the writer to hear the poem through the Android device. This supports a workflow that combines word lookup, rhyme exploration, text entry, and listening.

The open-source license makes the software’s source available under its stated licensing model rather than presenting it as a closed product. Poet Assistant is distributed through MirrorNest for Android, with MirrorNest mirroring the official build directly on its own storage. Before publication, MirrorNest scans the mirrored build for malware.