# Spring for Twitter — Redefine Customizability

> A highly customizable, native Twitter client for iOS and macOS. (iPhone/iPad app by Junyu Kuang.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spring-for-twitter/id1508706541 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Junyu Kuang](https://appshunter.io/developer/961945907)
- Category: Social Networking, Utilities
- Price: Free (on sale, was $19.99)
- Rating: 4.30/5 from 125 App Store ratings · 109 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 13.1 · 71 MB
- Languages: Russian, Bangla, Hindi, Vietnamese, American English, Arabic, Hungarian, Dutch, Greek, Danish and 24 more
- Released: 2020-05-31
- Data updated: 2026-08-27
- Monetization: paid
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spring-for-twitter/id1508706541/reviews.md

## What is Spring for Twitter?

Introducing Spring 5, a new generation of Twitter client for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Features fast performance, truly native design and a highly customizable user interface.

Tab Bar
• Pin your frequently visit pages to the tab bar (for example, a Twitter List, search result list or user profile)
• Drag tabs into the order you prefer
• Rename your tabs
• Change your tab icons (more than a thousand of icons for you to choose)
• Show/hide tab names and button shapes

Tweet Actions
• More than 20 actions, including Reply, Retweet, Like, Add Bookmark, and Translate
• Drag actions into the order you prefer
• Configure actions as swipe options: swipe a tweet horizontally to perform an action
• Option to hide some or all action buttons from tweet cards, while keeping them accessible via context menu, swipe options, keyboard shortcuts, and VoiceOver rotor
• Turn on Like Confirmation to avoid accidentally like a tweet

Accent Color
• Configure different Accent Colors for Light and Dark mode
• More than 10 built-in colors for you to choose
• Design and set custom colors

Theme Editor
• Customize the app’s color scheme
• Design and set custom themes for Spring
• Advanced color settings allow you to fine-tune colors for different level of views
• Export and share your themes

Font Customization
• Configure different fonts for body text and headings
• Select from a variety of build-in fonts
• Supports custom fonts installed by third-party apps

User Notes
• Privately set aliases, notes and username colors for other Twitter users
• User Notes list: browse, organize and edit all your notes in one place

Game Controller (require iOS 14, iPadOS 14, macOS 11 or a newer system)
• Control the app and browse tweets with a compatible game controller, such as a Playstation DualSense/DualShock, Nintendo Switch, Xbox or MFi controller
• Customize button functions via in-app settings
• Set extra functions for Adaptive Triggers on the Playstation DualSense controller

Privacy
• Spring does not collect any personal information
• Your account tokens are protected by on-device Keychain
• Your network connection to Twitter is protected by HTTPS
• Links you opened are not shared with Twitter
• GIFs you selected are not shared with Giphy, the GIF content provider

Other features:
• Universal Purchase: purchase once, and install on your iPhone, iPad and Mac
• Column View takes full advantage of the big screen on iPad and Mac, shows multiple views at once and allows you to navigate between views fluently and efficiently
• Full Screen mode on iPhone let your timeline content fill the entire screen once you start scrolling
• Mute List filters out unwanted tweets and users
• Check recent tweets on your home screen or notification center with widgets
• Search tweets on the Timeline
• Adjustable text spacing
• Adjustable and adaptive text sizes
• Option to display tweet source on timeline (e.g. Twitter Web App)
• Share a tweet as picture
• Option to load websites in background: open in-app Safari view only after website is completely loaded in background, so you can browse other tweets while website loads (iPhone and iPad); open browser app and load website in background (Mac)
• Open multiple windows on iPad and Mac
• Customizable Link Preview experience
• Customizable text translation experience
• Automatic video and GIF playback on the Timeline
• Supports changing app icon on iPhone, iPad and Mac
• Turn on/off content scaling on Mac for extra screen estate or sharper text
• Open in Spring: open Twitter links via Spring. Available as Share Sheet action and Safari extension
• Autocomplete for Tweet Composer

Customer support:
• Twitter: @theSpringApp
• Email: theSpringApp@gmail.com

## Key features

- Customizable tab bar
- Configurable tweet actions
- Theme and accent color editor
- Font customization
- User notes and aliases
- iCloud data sync
- Game controller support

## What do users think of Spring for Twitter?

Overall sentiment: negative

**Pros**

- 🎨 Highly customizable interface and layouts
- ⚡ Fast and smooth performance
- 🍎 Native iOS design and feel
- 🔒 Privacy-focused with no ads
- ✨ Clean and intuitive user interface
- 🔄 Frequent updates and active development
- 📱 Works seamlessly across iPhone, iPad, and Mac
- 💰 One-time purchase with no subscriptions
- 🎯 Better than official Twitter app
- 📊 Shows when people like your tweets

**Cons**

- 🐛 Messages/DMs not functional or buggy
- 🐛 Search functionality broken or returns 404 errors
- 🐛 Media tabs not working properly
- 🐛 Cannot post or like tweets
- 🐛 Feed doesn't remember scroll position
- 🐛 Frequent 'Content inaccessible' errors
- 🐛 App force closes or crashes
- ❌ No push notifications
- ⚠️ Limited API access after Twitter/X restrictions
- 😞 Developer support is non-existent or slow
- 🚫 Account authentication issues after password changes
- ⏱️ Occasional lag when performing actions
- 🔗 Requires opening X app for some content
- 📵 Cannot participate in polls directly
- 💸 High price (£17) for limited functionality
- ⚠️ Updates frequently break existing features

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Messages/DM functionality returns 404 errors
- Search returns 404 errors or same results repeatedly
- Timeline sync doesn't work despite being advertised
- Cannot like or post tweets
- Feed doesn't remember scroll position and resets to top
- Media tabs display buggy content
- Force closes on launch
- Account authentication fails after password changes
- Expired or invalid account info errors
- Unauthorized error code 401 on sign in
- Content marked as inaccessible when needed most
- Replies don't load completely without manual refresh
- Videos play inconsistently
- Rate limiting errors preventing tweets
- App stops syncing with Twitter after installation
- Becomes unusable with each update

**Most requested features**

- Push notification support
- Multi-image/media tweet support with same layout as Twitter
- Location tagging feature
- Additional text size options matching official Twitter app
- App lock feature (like Telegram)
- Mastodon client version
- Bluesky client version
- Deep linking to open Spring from other apps
- QR code scanning integration
- Share tweet as image generation feature

## Recent user reviews (10 of 109)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/spring-for-twitter/id1508706541/reviews.md

### 5/5 — The best - is back.!!

*2026-04-30*

Edit 30/04/2026. Previous review removed as not warranted anymore. All issues resolved and as normal the developer has cracked it and given a complete and fully tweaked app. Thank you so much!

### 2/5 — Bad

*2026-04-18*

1. Cannot read a whole tweet -if long
2. Cannot write a long tweet
3. Cannot see all comments
4. Posting tweets is a nightmare.

### 4/5 — Used to be my favorite

*2026-01-25, version 5.11.9*

Developer, please, please, update this app so it's fully functional again!

### 1/5 — تلافى الاخطاء

*2025-12-13*

اريد منكم تلافي بعض الاخطاء بالتطبيق واعادة تحديث بعض الميزات خصوصا البعض عندي يظهر خطا حينما ابحث وما يظهر لي index كفرزات اقدر افرز الاف النصوص واجري بحث الخاص من خلال فرز اخر نهاية للكلمة او syllables المتاشبة والقوافي لو عملت راح يظل افضل تطبيق ويحتاج تحديث فورا لتلافي اخطاءه البرمجية وتطبيق جميل جدا ولكن فيه بعض الميزات والعيوب تحتاج الى اصلاح

### 3/5 — This app is pretty broken

*2025-12-13*

I have tried contacting the developer for support several days ago. Multiple things don’t work correctly. I can’t go to my messages, I get a 404 error. Searching gives me the same thing most of the time. Where I was in timeline is advertised in the app description and in settings as being supported, but that doesn’t work at all. Will be asking for a refund when this goes from pending to processed as the features I got it for like timeline sync don’t work, and basic Twitter functionality like messages and search don’t work either.

### 2/5 — Many things are still broken

*2025-07-12*

Media tabs and direct messaging are still buggy, it’s honestly a surprise this app is still functioning today. Until those functions get fixed, I still cannot replace this over just using X/Twitter on Safari.

### 3/5 — تطبيق يفقد ميزة البحث الدقيق بالمواعيد

*2025-06-18*

تطبيق الخصوصية والامان ولكن يفقد ميزة البحث الدقيق المواعيد آملا ان يتحدث بالتحديث القادم شكرا لكم

### 1/5 — Good app that now seems to be broken

*2025-05-24*

I used to love this app. When Twitter stopped third party apps, there was a way of continuing with this via the API. However, since I changed my password in X this app has just stopped working. Asked for support and silence. So avoid this app. Sad end.

### 1/5 — Don’t update

*2025-05-07, version 5.11.5*

Every update makes the app more unusable

### 2/5 — Barely better than X app & getting worse!

*2025-05-01*

Well since my last review this app has got worse! Can’t even like tweets let alone post a tweet. This is an expense mess. 

Old review:

When Twitter got taken over by a mad man and ruined it stopped access to most 3rd party apps. Spring still works but sadly is very limited. No access to messages, needs to open X app to read some threads and posts. Then today I was trying to make a tweet and the search user doesn’t even work. So basically I paid £17 for a feed reader. Not happy

## Frequently asked questions about Spring for Twitter

### What is Spring for Twitter?

Spring for Twitter is a next-generation Twitter client designed for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. It focuses on providing a fast, native experience with extensive customization options for the user interface and functionality.

### What are the key customization features?

You can customize the tab bar by pinning pages, reordering tabs, changing icons, and showing/hiding names. Tweet actions can be reordered, set as swipe options, and hidden. The app also offers extensive theme and accent color customization, font selection, and user notes for private annotations.

### Is Spring for Twitter free to use?

No, Spring for Twitter is a paid application. It utilizes a universal purchase model, meaning you buy it once and can install it on your iPhone, iPad, and Mac.

### What devices is Spring for Twitter compatible with?

The app is compatible with iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices. Specific features like game controller support require newer operating system versions (iOS 14, iPadOS 14, macOS 11 or later).

### How does Spring for Twitter enhance the Twitter experience?

It enhances the experience by allowing users to tailor the interface to their preferences, making navigation more efficient and personalized. Features like user notes, advanced action configurations, and iCloud sync streamline how you interact with and manage your Twitter content.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 5.13.2 — 2026-05-04

• Photos on tweets are now displayed in 4K resolution if available
• Tweet detail page now shows more replies
• Fixes loading issues of link previews
• Fixes VoiceOver issues
• Other bug fixes

### 5.13.1 — 2026-04-30

• Photos on tweets are now displayed in 4K resolution if available
• Tweet detail page now shows more replies
• Fixes blank Home Screen widgets
• Fixes sign-in issues

### 5.13 — 2026-04-28

This update includes bug fixes.

### 5.12.1 — 2026-04-22

This update includes bug fixes.

### 5.12 — 2026-04-20

This update includes bug fixes.

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