Urdu Shayari & poetry | Rekhta

Rekhta Foundation

About this app

Rekhta.org is the world’s largest website for Urdu poetry and literature. The Rekhta app presents thousands of Urdu ghazals, sher, nazms, rubai, qita, dohe in three scripts – Urdu, Hindi, and Roman. You may easily find the meanings of any Urdu word in Hindi by just clicking on the word.

A specially curated list of sher on various topics, subjects, and moods like love Shayari, sad Shayari, Motivational Shayari, romantic Shayari, Dosti shayai, ishq shayari, dard shayari, bewafa shayari, Mohabbat shayari, etc. are available for easy reading and sharing with your friends.

Rekhta has the best collection of ghazals and nazms of famous Urdu poets like Mirza Ghalib, Meer Taqi Mir, Allama Iqbal, Faiz Ahmed Faiz, Jaun Elia, Gulzar, Javed Akhtar, Rahat Indori, and other major poets. You can also read shayari of progressive poets, women poets, and budding young poets.

The best of Urdu stories, articles, quotes, khaake of major Urdu authors and writers like Sadat Hasan Manto, Premchand, Krishan Chander, Ismat Chughtai and others are available in Urdu and Hindi.

Find any sher o shayari that you are looking for with our powerful search engine. You can search in English, Hindi, or Urdu scripts, the intelligent search engine will give the closest result. Mark your favorite shayari, read offline and dark theme features available in the app.


Download the app to read and understand the finest in Urdu poetry and literature in Urdu, Hindi and English.

Rekhta App Features:
• Shayari in Hindi, English, or Urdu scripts
• Word meanings at a click
• Robust Search facility
• All forms of Urdu poetry like Ghazal, Sher, Nazm, Dohe, Marsiya, Qita, Rubai, Rekhti etc.
• 50,000+ Ghazals, 15,000 Nazms
• 8,000+ classical and young Urdu poets
• Best Urdu stories, articles and quotes in Urdu and Hindi
• Image shayari, Ghazal audio and videos


Additional Features:
• Mark your Favourite Shayari
• Dark Theme
• Easy to share
• Updated regularly with new features and content

Ratings and reviews

I’ve always admired this app, as it has helped me a lot since I started using it. However, the new UI update is a complete mess. Bad UX, the Favourites tab is gone, and it still shows the English description of the poet even when the language is set to Urdu. We want the old UI back. 😓 (I would have given this app 5 stars, but the new update is the reason for my 3-star rating.)

Congratulations, you just destroyed the whole feel of the app with this new update. (1) Dark Mode should be called "Charcoal Mode". No Black Amoled Mode. (2) "Favorite" tab is now renamed as "saved". What a linguistic downfall. (3) To categories saved content, go to "saved -> All -> Read -> in the corner 3 lines. What a huge downfall from earlier version. (4) Why are you adding colorful background in my saved couplets & imposing a certain feeling of interpretation? (Example, dark color=sorrow)

Worst "update" till date. What were you thinking? The font is bugged now, the layout is alien. What was wrong with the existing UI? The only feature that it needed was the ability to read ebooks, but instead you decided to kill the app.

What's new

✨ Daily Interactive Feed: A fresh, dynamic feed tailored to your taste, featuring hand-picked poetry, quotes, stories, and more.
🤓 Advanced Dictionary: Search for any word to get its detailed meanings, pronunciation, and usage in all three languages - English, Hindi & Urdu.
📜 Curated Collections & Playlists: Explore hand-picked thematic poetry, prose, and literary lists, designed for every mood and moment.