THF Haiku App

THF Haiku is our app for the Apple platform. Shake your phone or other mobile device and a new poem appears. The app is loaded with over 700 haiku from poets around the globe, showing the range of topics and form characteristic of today’s—not your grandfather’s—haiku! Share your favorites with friends with a click.

The latest version includes almost 400 new poems that we selected from The Haiku Registry. Thanks to all who allowed us to feature your work! Still free—upgrade yours today.

You can download THF Haiku from the App Store on your Apple device. Still not convinced? Read what Red Dragonfly posted on her blog:

“The Haiku Foundation, with their release of THF Haiku, their haiku app for the iPhone, has recently made waiting in line a task that is no longer fearful to me. I just pull out my phone, punch at the screen a bit to make the soothing THF Haiku backdrop appear, and then spend a relaxing few minutes shaking my phone (really, you just need to tilt it a little, so you won’t look completely insane in public) to see a new haiku with every shake. There’s a wonderful variety — 365 of them so far, with more promised for the future. Some I tilted into recently”:

midsummer solstice
the bonfire luring me back
to my maiden name
an’ya

the shadow in the folded napkin
Cor van den Heuvel

Every second, a tree, a bird, a chimney, a woman
James Kirkup

THF Haiku app will not use any of your personal information. It does not access profile data or information about your mobile device. It only accesses your e-mail, Facebook, and Twitter profiles for the purpose of posting haiku that you explicitly choose to share.