# Birdie for Twitter — user reviews > 50 indexed App Store user reviews of Birdie for Twitter by Cartasec Pte. Ltd., rated 4.60/5 from 603 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/birdie-for-twitter/id1438965061/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/birdie-for-twitter/id1438965061.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 451 · 4★ 90 · 3★ 39 · 2★ 8 · 1★ 12 ## What do users think of Birdie for Twitter? Overall sentiment: neutral **Pros** - 🚀 Clean and intuitive interface - 👍 Ad-free experience - 💡 Useful news aggregation feature - 🔒 Respects user privacy **Cons** - 🐛 Bugs and stability issues - ⚠️ Lack of feature parity with official Twitter app - 🕰️ Lack of updates and developer engagement - 🔍 Difficulty searching and navigating **Commonly reported bugs** - Tweets not loading properly - Clipboard copying behavior causing privacy concerns - Favorites section displaying duplicate tweets - Inconsistent behavior when tapping on tweets **Most requested features** - Add support for Twitter lists - Implement horizontal video playback - Provide options to customize UI elements - Improve notification settings and management ## Newest reviews (11 of 50) ### 4/5 — Great experience *2022-07-25, version 1.9* By far the best twitter app over others. It’s ad-free, has a clean layout, and has all the features I need. My only concern is, how is it being funded to keep it ad-free, and why hasn’t it received any updates in awhile? If the developers still view these reviews, a response would be wonderful. ### 4/5 — Pretty clean! But need… *2022-06-06, version 1.9* The app is pretty clean and good! But need the feature to download videos. Right now you can share, download pictures but no videos. Also there isn’t a media tab or where to go to see precisely that, to see the medias apart of the regular tweets. Thanks for the attention! ### 4/5 — Great Twitter app! *2022-02-12, version 1.9* This is the best Twitter app I have found that isn't riddled with ads that require a monthly subscription fee to remove.. Apps should not be subscription based (unless it's a video streaming service). This app also doesn't drain the tar out of my battery as the "official" Twitter app does. Just one request if I may though! Would be cool if while scrolling through tweets the top/bottom bars become hidden. They take up a bit of space. Could even add it as a feature with a toggle switch for hiding top or bottom or both 😉 Other than that though, hands down the best Twitter app! ### 4/5 — Birdie *2021-07-25, version 1.9* Great app, literally the only thing is I can’t view videos in landscape mode, very annoying ### 4/5 — Great app *2020-09-03, version 1.8* It's a great app, but has some bugs and hasn't been updated in a year. Has a lot of potential to grow ### 4/5 — Missing *2020-08-11, version 1.8* Hard to search when you find it does not scroll item at top unable to select no scroll overall its getting there ### 4/5 — It is a ok app *2020-05-01, version 1.8* I like the app itself, it’s just I have my notifications on for the app and put people in the favorites section and don’t get notifications for them. The app is good though. ### 4/5 — Needs a few tweaks *2020-01-30, version 1.8* Nice app with a couple bugs, mainly the back button shows both an arrow and the label “Button”. I’d you could get rid of “button” that would be great! But , this is a completely free app with no ads and this isn’t exactly urgent. So ... when you get around to it, it would make the app just that much better. ### 3/5 — Good app but one gripe *2019-12-05, version 1.8* If I tap on a tweet to view it or its replies/conversation, in the top left corner of the app I’ll see an arrow and the word “button” on top of the arrow. It’s such a beautiful app overall, but this is distracting and ugly. I don’t use Birdie that much anymore because of this. ### 3/5 — Why the useless top, new , seen & even the bigger header Home eating essential top space. *2019-10-15, version 1.8* I would’ve given 4 starts but on the main user interface the most essential screen area is eaten by the useless buttons of top, new, seen and a bigger header “Home”. Why do we need these buttons and why would you destroy a beautiful and clean interface with these? ### 4/5 — No more floating buttons please *2019-09-14, version 1.8* I love the app, but I really really really wish there wasn't a floating tweet button. It's one of my biggest gripes about the actual twitter app ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 2/5 — Doesn’t work on iPhone 12 mini & latest iOS *2022-06-23, version 1.9* I want to use this app. I’ve tried reinstalling it three times over the last year to see if it runs on my device yet - it still does not. I can see the elements of the app when I open it. But zero content from Twitter is populated. Two stars for great looking screenshots of the app functioning. Tweetbot and Twitter apps work fine fwiw. Haven’t tested on other iPhone models and iOS versions. ### 2/5 — Nice look but buggy *2021-11-23, version 1.9* I love the clean look and focus on news but it was too buggy to use. Can’t tap pictures to view, too easy to accidentally tap and open the wrong thing, froze a couple times. ### 2/5 — Seemed interesting at first.. *2021-07-24, version 1.9* But then saw that it copies your clipboard every time you open the app (apple’s popup message stating that it copied from the clipboard). So if you copied anything sensitive like bank info etc. then it would be pasted to the app and there is no way to see how it’s being used or where it’s being sent to. Ended up deleting the app. ### 3/5 — Decent but *2023-01-17, version 1.9* Great app to view tweets with no ads but you can’t view lists and it’s not very intuitive to retweet, like to reply to tweets. It’s ok nothing wow. ### 3/5 — Not updated for over a year *2022-12-31, version 1.9* I like this app for Twitter cause it takes out all the garbage Twitter had on my feed that I don’t want to see. I put this at three stars cause I’m not sure if this apps been abandoned since there has not been any updates since 2021. Another is can’t watch videos horizontally. And last no feature to bookmark a tweet. This can be such a great app but worried the super got the app is gone. ### 3/5 — Why copy from clipboard? *2022-06-05, version 1.9* Pretty interface but loathe that it copies my clipboard. Otherwise privacy policies look good. Please stop copying from my clipboard. ### 3/5 — Notifications *2022-05-03, version 1.9* Why am I constantly getting notifications for people that I do not follow. How do I stop this, it’s getting very annoying. ### 3/5 — Cool but DM’s don’t pop up. *2022-01-09, version 1.9* Tried everything and my DM’s (groupchat and normal) don’t pop up, sending or receiving either. ### 3/5 — Any updates coming? *2020-11-16, version 1.8* The app has a lot of potential but it’s buggy. I see there haven’t been updates since 2019. Will this app ever be updated? Is anyone still working on it? Or should I just delete it? ### 3/5 — Great Potential But Inferior To Official Twitter App *2020-05-03, version 1.8* Until a Twitter app can dethrone the official app it needs to at the very least be able to perform ALL the same functions and more. Probably is some basic functionality found in the official twitter app is missing. Even comment threads are poorly payed out compared to the official app. Until these issues are fixed I won’t be using birdie which is too bad because it has potential. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Very Amazing app... *2022-05-01, version 1.9* The creators of this app deserves a five star rating this is the best app i have come across so far even better than the twitter app itself. Please just keep up with your Good work you have been doing on this app. I am very grateful. A good app without ads or subscription and still has quality in it. Thank you so much for this app. ### 5/5 — Hands Down *2022-04-18, version 1.9* best kept secret that shouldn’t be kept - hence this review for your sake. Do you wish you could utilize Twitter without ads and having to see everything that everyone else likes or shares? This is it. I’m not sure how the developers are paying for this - nor am I sure how long it will last in this incredibly pure form - but I’m going to enjoy it for as long as it does. Keep it up, Birdie. You’re doing it. ### 5/5 — Nice, simple, sofisticated. *2021-12-17, version 1.9* The lay out is super easy on the eyes, simple to use, the news tab is very useful. ### 5/5 — Twitter list add *2021-11-18, version 1.9* The app is great, and if you're adding twitter lists to make it perfect, it's highly recommended ### 5/5 — I like it alot *2021-07-22, version 1.9* A very good application. Just very good. I like it more than native. There are only two nuances. First, I would like to hide the new tweet button. Second, it would be nice to be able to add retweeted users to ignored. ### 5/5 — Excellent Twitter Experience. *2021-04-19, version 1.9* Birdie providesAn excellent Twitter experience! It’s a free app complete with themes, the ability to change the icon, a button that links directly to news on Twitter, And of course no ads are sponsored posts. If there is an in app purchase for pro I would be making it. I was looking for a Twitter client to purchase when I found this free app. It feels as though I’ve just gotten away with something LOL.I understand why it has such high ratings. I’d like to know how the developer plans to continue to develop the app without charge you a fee, because I would like to see this app go away anytime soon. ### 5/5 — New update app version ? *2020-04-05, version 1.8* Are you guys working on a new update ? Brining new features ? What’s the status of this great app! ### 5/5 — Great app, needs an update to fix bugs *2019-12-14, version 1.8* I like this app more than the official twitter app. Only thing is it need a bit more polishing and it’ll be my go to app. Also the news section is way better than twitters. ### 5/5 — Excellent!! Worth a download. *2019-09-04, version 1.8* Thanks for making an easy way to gather news on twitter!! I can find the real stories that matter and I can keep up with what’s going on around the country. I also love that I can choose my own sources. ### 5/5 — Beautiful but unstable *2019-05-14, version 1.8* It crashes when we want to customize the tab bar, and video only plays for 1second. Practically unwatchable --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*