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

The app is great. A great collection of legendary urdu poetry. I love the feature where you can just click on the word to get the dictionary meaning. It has a glitch though. When you add a particular poem to favourites on the app, it doesnt show in favourites. However, if you're using the browser, it shows. Other than that, simply marvelous.

I loved to use rekhta in my free time as it has an amazing collection! Hats off to the Team for that! But lately it's just not running. Taking forever to load even when my internet is working pretty well. And today it wouldn't load at all! And when I click on favourites tab, the app just crashes. Please fix this ASAP. 🥺 PS: My app is up to date.

Great resource to read urdu shayari and short stories. While reading the shirt stories though, I feel the urdu fonts are too small and close together, which makes it difficult for a new learner like me to read and resume the story from where I left. if we can have an option of marking the spot where we stopped reading would be of great help. Overall, I have really enjoyed the app!!