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The Waste Land is #20 in Books Paid in United Kingdom and charting in 4 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
25 Sep 2026Full timeline · 6 events in the last 12 months
- 🚀The Waste Land: now shown next to Paradise Lost!, English Poetry Collectionthe store's “similar apps” for it changed: who it's seen as competing with
- 📈The Waste Land entered the top 100Top Paid · Books · US
- 📈The Waste Land entered the top 10Top Paid · Books · GB
- 📈The Waste Land charting in a new country in 2 chartsGermany · United States
- 🆕The Waste Land first spotted by AppInsider#53 in Top Paid · Books · Italy
- 🆕The Waste Land released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Books PaidThe Waste Land at a glance
AI summary written from our chart and store data, 2026-11-08. It can be wrong: check the numbers above.
An interactive digital edition of T.S. Eliot's poem 'The Waste Land' designed for literary enthusiasts and students seeking multimedia annotations, expert commentary, and synchronized audio performances. The app holds a strong #4 position in the UK Books Paid chart, significantly outperforming its presence in other major markets like the US (#186) and Germany (#161), indicating sustained regional demand in its home market.
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The Waste Land on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
The Waste Land declares it collects no data at all — the rarest and most private label on the App Store.
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The Waste Land downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where The Waste Land's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | BooksPaid | #20 |
 United States | BooksPaid | #195 |
 Australia | BooksPaid | #146 |
| Italy | BooksPaid | #148 |
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Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisReview momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about The Waste Land
From the 39 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users overwhelmingly praise the app's high-quality multimedia content and scholarly depth, calling it a benchmark for digital literature. However, some reviewers report technical issues with audio playback and touch responsiveness, alongside complaints about the price relative to the single-poem scope.
Mostly positive (85% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for good value, and speed. The main complaints are about price and subscriptions, and recent updates. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Price & subscription: “Well worth the price and simply brilliant”
- Speed & performance: “Fiona Shaw's performance is remarkable”
- Fun: “I bought this last week and my wife and I have greatly enjoyed it”
- Design
Common complaints
- Price & subscription: “Very disappointing, felt like I threw my money away”
- Updates: “Will you EVER update this for Retina Display?!?”
About The Waste Land
This digital edition carefully respects the typography and integrity of the original yet offers spectacular new ways to explore the significance and influence of the poem.
• watch a remarkable specially filmed performance of the entire poem by Fiona Shaw, synchronised to the text
• listen to complete audio readings of the poem, also synchronised to the text, by T. S. Eliot himself (readings from two periods in his life) as well as Ted Hughes, Alec Guinness, Viggo Mortensen and Jeremy Irons with Eileen Atkins
• understand the poem’s many references and allusions with the help of comprehensive interactive notes
• reveal the structure of the verse and move quickly between sections with a new navigation tool
• watch over 35 expert video perspectives on the poem including contributions from Seamus Heaney and Jeanette Winterson
• examine original manuscript pages to see how the poem took shape under Ezra Pound’s editing
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Winner Best Adult App at the FutureBook Awards 2011
Winner International Interaction Design Award 2013
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“As someone coming from the wrong side of the two cultures, Eliot's poem had effectively been closed off to me for decades. Now it isn't, and that in itself would almost justify the price of the iPad that made it possible.”
-The Guardian, UK, John Naughton
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The Waste Land is published jointly by Faber and Faber and RGB. Faber is the London publisher where Eliot himself worked for almost four decades; RGB is behind other revolutionary interactive books for iPad including The Elements and Solar System which are defining the future of publishing. The interviews and Fiona Shaw's performance are specially filmed by Adam Low, director of the BBC Arena documentary on Eliot.
Publication of The Waste Land in 1922 was a milestone in the literary history of the 20th Century. This edition carries forward Eliot's vision and vividly demonstrates how literature can be illuminated by the new digital medium.
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