TweetPlay vs Downpour
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TweetPlay
Experience tweets in a new, hands-free way. This app allows you to play full-screen tweets sequentially, offering intuitive controls for navigation and interaction. Customize your viewing experience with various settings and even use facial gestures to control playback.
- Full-screen tweet playback
- Hands-free navigation with gestures
- Login with Twitter account
- Customize player settings
- Screen mirroring to external displays
- Facial gesture controls
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Play full screen tweets, one at a time, while keeping your hands free. Just login, play and that's it! - Toggle playback with 3D touch - Swipe or tap left and right to navigate manually - Turn on "Screen Mirroring" to play on external display (via Apple TV) --- # Main features: - Login with your Twitter account - Play tweets from your Home Timeline - Customize Settings (theme, player speed etc.) # Details: ## Dashboard - Play - Settings - Profile - there is also a heart behind the play ## Player - Touch screen lightly for quick pause, touch up to continue - Touch screen harder to Play / Pause indefinitely - Swipe back and forth (or tap left and right) to navigate tweets manually - Tap "Like" or "Retweet" icon to immediately interact with the current tweet - Tap "Actions" icon to display additional options: * Play / Pause * Open (open tweet in Twitter app if installed, or Safari if not) * Share (share a snapshot image of the current tweet) * Settings (open quick Settings) - Start new player by tapping on any user's profile image, mention or hashtag - Open any link in Safari by tapping on it - Swipe up or down to close the player and return on Dashboard - When "Face Control" is enabled in Settings: * Wink left eye to go back * Wink right eye to go forward * Blink both eyes to toggle Play/Pause ## Settings - Toggle theme - Toggle app icon - Toggle sound effects - Set player duration (1-60 seconds) - Toggle Intro - Toggle "Face Control" - Toggle "Recent Likes" (weekly notification that plays all the tweets which you liked last week) - Log out
Downpour
Experience a streamlined way to view content from a popular blogging platform. This app offers faster loading and a focused interface for videos, photos, and text posts, avoiding issues found in other clients.
- Lightweight third-party client
- Focused content viewing
- Faster loading times
- Dashboard viewing
- Supports videos, photos, and text
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Downpour is a lightweight third party Tumblr client. No more crashes in the official app. With Downpour, you will be focused on videos, photos, or text of a post. Viewing your Dashboard has never been such easy. Also enjoy faster loading. Let us know in the review if you have any question, suggestion or feedback. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: TweetPlay at none against Downpour's 2. TweetPlay also leads on review sentiment (60% vs 33%). Downpour's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 21 months) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Downpour sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days. TweetPlay asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for TweetPlay against 3.8 for Downpour. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 6 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of TweetPlay's written reviews are positive against 33% of Downpour's.
TweetPlay ships an update every 21 months, Downpour monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TweetPlay | Downpour |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (7 ratings) — better | 3.8 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Marko Tadic | Yao Fan |
Customer experience
TweetPlay
Downpour
In-app purchases
TweetPlay
No in-app purchases
Downpour
- Downpour Ad Free Browsing3 Days trial$1.497 Days
- Downpour Ad-Free Browsing7 Days trial$3.991 Month









