TweetPlay vs Humboldt
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
Humboldt
Create custom shortcuts for seamless posting to Micro.blog, including HTML content and image uploads. Automate your blogging workflow with hands-free publishing and import options from other platforms.
- Post HTML to Micro.blog
- Upload images to Micro.blog
- Build hands-free posting shortcuts
- Import posts from other systems
- Easy Micro.blog account sign-on
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Humboldt is an application that enables you to post HTML and upload images to Micro.blog. This enables you to build simple Shortcuts that enable hand-free posting to Micro.blog. You can also build more complex Shortcuts that import posts from other blogging systems. All you have to do is supply Humboldt with your Micro.blog account email and Humboldt will walk you through the sign-on process. You'll then be ready to start building your Shortcuts.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Humboldt at 5.0 against TweetPlay's 3.9. Humboldt also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%) and device support (4 vs 2). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Humboldt holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of TweetPlay's written reviews are positive against 100% of Humboldt's.
TweetPlay ships an update every 21 months, Humboldt every 33 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TweetPlay | Humboldt |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (7 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months — better | Every 33 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 14.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 1 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marko Tadic | Vincode, Inc |
Customer experience
TweetPlay
Humboldt
In-app purchases
TweetPlay
No in-app purchases
Humboldt
No in-app purchases









