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

Very good collection of the poetry and commendable effort in putting it all together. On feedback...Site is slow. Sometime takes lot of time to load. Hindi usage has been wrong at many places and I have asked it to be corrected. But no one seems to be listening. "मेरा"को हर जगह "मिरा" लिखा है जो गलत है

I’ve noticed that every time I open the app, I keep seeing the same shayari and poems on the home screen or main sections. It feels repetitive after a while and limits the discovery of new or diverse content. I would love to see more dynamic and frequently updated selections, maybe based on themes, seasons, or poets. It would also be helpful if the app offered better personalized recommendations or a “random shayari” feature to explore lesser-known gems from the Rekhta collection.

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!!