Understanding credits
What credits are, how to earn or buy them, and what you can spend them on.
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Overview
Credits are GS Poetry’s in-app currency for reach and generosity — tipping poets, boosting your own poems, and gifting other members. Your subscription buys the experience; credits buy reach, generosity, and polish. As a rough guide, 50 credits is about $1. Your wallet lives at Settings → Credits.
Earning credits
Engaged poets earn credits for the work they already do: daily check-ins, poems your readers validate (reads, likes, responses, Trending), thoughtful comments, a growing following, streaks, and achievements. GS Pro members also receive 100 credits every month with their membership.
Earning unlocks once you clear three milestones — publish 10 poems of 30+ words, be a member 30 days, and write 10 thoughtful comments (50+ words that others engage with) — and you pick up a 25-credit bonus when you do. Paying GS Pro members skip the gate; the free week does not. Earning pauses after 30 days away and resumes automatically when you return.
Buying credit packs
You can top up any time. Each pack is a one-time purchase, never a subscription, and your credits never expire.
- 50 credits — $1.00
- 250 credits — $4.99
- 1,250 credits — $19.99 (+25% bonus)
- 3,000 credits — $39.99 (+50% bonus)
The volume bonus kicks in at the $19.99 pack.
Spending credits
- Tip a poet: send 25, 50, or 100 credits from any poem. The poet keeps every credit; GS Poetry takes nothing.
- Boost a poem: put any public poem of yours into clearly labeled extra stream slots for 7 days.
- Boost for 2 days: a shorter, cheaper boost (15 credits) for a poem at least 30 days old, in the same Boosted slots.
- Send a gift: choose Gift credits in another poet’s profile card menu (the … button on their profile card), or tap Gift a Boost on one of their poems.
The 100 monthly GS Pro credits start with your first real payment, not during the free week.
My Patronage: who you've supported
My Patronage (in your profile menu, under Trophy Case) lists every tip, credit gift, gifted boost and gifted membership between you and other poets, with the poet's name and the poem it was on. The Given tab shows who you've supported; Received shows who has supported you. Three totals sit at the top: credits you've given, how many poets you've backed, and credits you've received.
Anonymous gifts. When you gift credits or a boost, you can tick Send Anonymously. The poet sees “an anonymous supporter” instead of your name, and a Say thanks button on that gift in their Received tab. If they press it, you get a notification that they said thanks; they still never find out it was you. Your own Given tab marks the gift “sent anonymously.” Tips are always sent under your name. Anonymous gifts follow the same rules as any other: you can’t gift someone who has blocked you, and GS Poetry’s team can see who sent a gift when reviewing a refund or a report.
Filter by type (Tips or Gifts, where Gifts covers credits, boosts and memberships), by time (last 30 days, this year, last year), sort by newest, largest or oldest, or search for one poet to see everything between the two of you. Like your balance, this page is private: only you can see it. Full guide: My Patronage.
Private, and closed-loop
Your balance and history are private — only you see your own wallet, never anyone else’s. Credits are a closed loop: they never convert back to cash and there is no cash-out. Every movement, including any adjustment, is listed in your wallet History with nothing hidden.
Related
See GS Pro plans and pricing for the monthly credit drip and other membership perks. Still have a question? Contact support.