Shakespeare Pro

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4.1
1.52K reviews
100K+
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Content rating
Everyone
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About this app

The Shakespeare Pro app has been completely refreshed! We've been working hard to put together your best feature requests. The app is still FREE and contains the following:

• READ THE COMPLETE WORKS, the app contains 41 plays, 154 sonnets and 6 poems, including apocrypha

• CUSTOMIZE YOUR READING EXPERIENCE by choosing from a variety of color combinations, change the font family and size, and jump around to different scenes.

• HIGHLIGHT CHARACTER LINES by color coding to more easily read them.

• STUDY UP to learn more about Shakespeare's life, Elizabethan theatres, and a chronology of the plays.

• DETAILED SCENE BREAKDOWNS give you an overview of the scenes within each play, their locations, and the characters present in each.

• SHAKESPEARE PASSPORT is your ticket to free and discounted Shakespeare events all of the world—just show the Passport on your device screen.

• QUALITY TEXTS are a top priority and our team spent over four years compiling and editing the best references available. If you find an error our editing team didn't catch, we will give you a free upgrade.


For the Pro users, you can get only the features you need:

• BOOKMARK your favorite speeches

• VIEW LINE NUMBERS for all the plays to help find your way around

• READ THE FIRST FOLIO for 32 plays in its original font, including Quartos for Two Noble Kinsmen, Pericles, and the Sonnets

• SEARCH THE COMPLETE WORKS to find anything you need

• SHAKESPEARE"S WORDS GLOSSARY provides definitions to over 21,000 entries throughout the works

• Choose the PRO option to get all the above features and any future PRO features for free!

NOTE: The Apple and Android versions of Shakespeare Pro do NOT have all the same features yet. The Android version is still in development so read the description carefully before upgrading.

We hope you'll agree that Shakespeare Pro is the best Shakespeare app available! Please send us your feedback, bug reports and feature requests.


Works contained: All’s Well That Ends Well, Antony and Cleopatra, As You Like It, The Comedy of Errors, Coriolanus, Cymbeline, Double Falsehood, Edward III, Hamlet, Henry IV (Parts 1 & 2), Henry V, Henry VI (Parts 1-3), Henry VIII, Julius Caesar, King John, King Lear, Love’s Labours Lost, Macbeth, Measure for Measure, Merchant of Venice, Merry Wives of Windsor, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Much Ado About Nothing, Othello, Pericles, King Richard II, Richard III, Romeo and Juliet, Sir Thomas More, Taming of the Shrew, The Tempest, Timon of Athens, Titus Andronicus, Troilus and Cressida, Twelfth Night, Two Gentlemen of Verona, Two Noble Kinsmen, The Winter’s Tale, Sonnets, Venus & Adonis, Rape of Lucrece, A Lover’s Complaint, Passionate Pilgrim, Phoenix & Turtle, To the Queen
Updated on
Feb 17, 2025

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Ratings and reviews

4.1
1.38K reviews
Linus Porter
February 14, 2025
Seems great so far! A complaint about the UI however: the menu bar is impossible to click on my phone, because it shows up at the very top of the screen, underneath my transparent notification tray. I tried swiping out from the side to open the menu that way (which exists in some apps), but that feature does not exist in this app. It would be nice if that was added as a backup, as well as if the UI was fixed to work better with the tray. Anyway, good app so far!
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PlayShakespeare.com
February 18, 2025
Please update your app to the latest version to get all the latest fixes and improvements.
Maxwell Bank
February 19, 2025
UPDATE: Company doesn't respond to a service request for a few years and then comes out of the woodwork to be snarky. App still doesn't work right, but given the behavior of the devs, that's not much of a surprise. Original review below. I was too kind. Unsurprising that they're as good at customer service as they are programming. Fortunately there are classes for both to help this developer improve. Wishing them the best. Bought the Pro version a few years ago and it worked great for years.
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PlayShakespeare.com
February 18, 2025
Did you contact support to help with any issues? Nope. I always respond to support requests and resolve them. Some people just want to complain.
Holly R
February 25, 2025
I love this app. Read from it every day. Just wish the home screen widget that e get on Apple was available to Android users. I just switched back to Android and this apps widget is the one I miss the most.
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About the developer
PlayShakespeare.com
support@playshakespeare.com
820 Mission Ave APT 11 San Rafael, CA 94901-3251 United States
+1 415-446-9064