Limerino: Chat for Twitch

Landscape is rebuilt around a chat layout you pick, every message you send says where it actually got to, and the composer can hold a line and post it again and again. LANDSCAPE, YOUR WAY Turn the phone and chat has a layout of its own: Settings > Video > Chat layout, or the menu in the landscape top bar. Chat beside video, the default, gives chat its own column next to the picture; the divider drags to set the split, and the video always keeps its share of the screen. Chat over video floats chat above a full-width picture as small plates that hug the text, with the stream itself between the lines. One tap hides chat entirely in either layout, and your choice, your width and the hidden state all survive rotations and relaunches. The resize bar now responds exactly where it is drawn, scrolls chat when you drag it up or down, and VoiceOver can resize the panel and hear its width. SENDING THAT TELLS THE TRUTH Your message appears the moment you send it rather than after Twitch answers, and the box is free for the next one straight away. A message that is still on its way, failed, or held for review says so, with a refusal quoted in Twitch's own words instead of quietly vanishing. A failed message keeps your words, so Retry sends it again and Discard hands the text back. Sending pulls the list down to your own line, and an opt-in line above the box shows when a channel is followers-only, in slow mode, or emote-only. HOLD SEND, REPEAT A LINE Type something and press and hold Send for about half a second: a ring charges, the line clicks into place, and every tap of Send posts it again. An X at the left of the box unlocks and clears in one motion, and switching channels or starting a reply unlocks too, keeping your text as an ordinary draft. The message-options menu carries an untimed Lock message row for anyone who cannot comfortably press and hold, and VoiceOver gets lock and unlock as actions on the Send button. 7TV, END TO END Link a 7TV account and manage emote sets for your own channel and any channel you edit: search the directory, add, rename, remove, and undo. Choose your name paint from a rebuilt wardrobe that opens instantly and previews each paint with your own name. Add an emote straight from the peek card in chat, search all of 7TV without leaving your message, and read a quiet line in chat when a channel's emotes change. A 7TV emote link now renders as a card with the emote, its name and its artist. CHAT THAT KNOWS PEOPLE The profile card reads identity, then history, then relationship, then actions, with an account-age caption and Report and Block in plain sight. A chatter with a localized display name shows both names, in Twitch's own order. Long-pressing a message opens a compact platter instead of a screen-tall list, and moderators get AutoMod-held messages in chat with the flagged text quoted and Allow and Deny on the row. SETTINGS YOU CAN NAVIGATE The rules-and-lists tail of Settings is now three sections named for what they do, search reaches dozens of new places, and About holds "How Limerino works": what the app does, a gesture reference, and every slash command grouped by who can run it. Muted phrases get their own whole-word and match-case switches and now cover emotes and cheermotes. The Highlights inbox is one tap from the rules that fill it. ALSO Favourites in the emote picker. Message separators. Recent custom name colours. A typeface choice and named colour palettes. Live viewer counts on channel rows. Asking Siri to watch a channel. Plus three performance passes and a long run of repairs across chat, emotes, sign-in, video and accessibility, most of them reported by people using the app.