Urdu Shayari & poetry | Rekhta

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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
Read Shayari of Ghalib, Gulzar, Allama Iqbal & more in Urdu & Hindi with meaning
Updated on
Aug 30, 2026

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  • No data shared with third parties
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  • This app may collect these data types
    Personal info, Photos and videos and 3 others
  • Data is encrypted in transit
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Ratings and reviews

42.3K reviews
Siddhartha Jain
January 23, 2024
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
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Rekhta Foundation
February 20, 2023
Dear User, we are sorry for the inconvenience caused. Kindly share the video of the issue along with device details so that our development team can investigate and help you accordingly. Thank you, Team Rekhta
Anmoldeep Singh Josan
May 19, 2026
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.
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Rekhta Foundation
May 26, 2026
Dear Anmoldeep, Thank you for your valuable feedback and for appreciating Rekhta’s collection and dictionary feature. We appreciate you reporting the favourites issue. Please update the app to the latest version, and if the issue still persists, write to us at app@rekhta.org with the details. Team Rekhta
Divya Prakash
September 2, 2026
Only to read shaayri. UX is very bad. What is the point of giving dictionary when you can't hold a word and search in dictionary? You can't even copy the word. Can any of your product manager tell me how do i understand the meaning of a word ? What I can see is I copy the whole verse, take out the word and translate it to english and search.This is how you want the community to use this app ?Also there is no beginners shayari module or something. It is just Search. Search whatever you want.
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Rekhta Foundation
September 3, 2026
Dear Prakash, you can tap on any word to view its meaning in the dictionary. The homepage is updated daily to help you discover new content and poets. You can also search for a specific poet or shayari to explore and read their work. Team Rekhta

What’s new

Minor bug fixes and improvements