TweetPlay vs Tootoise
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
Tootoise
A straightforward client for the Mastodon social network, allowing users to manage multiple accounts, interact with timelines, and customize their experience. It offers robust post management features, including editing and pinning, along with privacy controls like muting and blocking.
- Manage multiple Mastodon accounts
- View and post to timelines
- Create and edit post lists
- Pinning and bookmarking posts
- Mute, block, and report users
- Customizable theme colors
- Edit posts
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Tootoise is a simple Mastodon client. ## You can do this - View and post timeline - Add and switch multiple accounts - List display, creation and editing - Add, remove and list favourites - Add, remove and list bookmarks - Display notifications list (Not push notifications) - Display and input of custom emoji - Post information about the song you are currently listening to - Sharing from other applications (Safari, etc.) - Use with iPad multitasking function (SplitView, SlideOver) - Change theme color - Absolute time display - Pinning posts - Mute, block, report, filter - Search (As per server specifications) - Display and vote on poll - Edit a post (Some functions are not yet supported.) - Setting and displaying the ALT attribute (alternate text) ## These are not possible - Push notifications - Streaming - Create a poll - Relative time display The text size can be changed from the iOS Settings view. You can check the license of the library etc. used in this App by tapping the app icon in iOS settings.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Tootoise at 4.3 against TweetPlay's 3.9. Tootoise also leads on update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 21 months) and review sentiment (68% vs 60%). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Tootoise holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 18 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of TweetPlay's written reviews are positive against 68% of Tootoise's.
TweetPlay ships an update every 21 months, Tootoise every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 2, 2026 and October 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TweetPlay | Tootoise |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (7 ratings) | 4.3 (18 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 68.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 | 18 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Marko Tadic | Naoki Kuwata |
Customer experience
TweetPlay
Tootoise
In-app purchases
TweetPlay
No in-app purchases
Tootoise
No in-app purchases









