TweetPlay vs Text without Addressbook
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
Text without Addressbook
Easily start WhatsApp conversations with individuals or multiple contacts without saving their numbers to your address book. Features an updated menu for selecting ISD codes to ensure correct dialing.
- Start single contact chats
- Start multiple contact chats
- Select contacts from dropdown
- ISD code selection menu
- No contact saving required
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This app allows you to start a whatsapp conversation without adding contacts to your addressbook. Two Options are granted: Single Contact: You can enter a mobile number and click Whatsapp button to start a conversation with that mobile number on your whatsapp messenger app. Multiple Contacts: You can enter multiple mobile numbers and then select each number from a dropdown select menu and start a conversation with these mobile numbers on your whatsapp messenger app. Design updated with a menu to select ISD codes from. These ISD codes are helpful when the phone numbers don't have an ISD code. It's a useful app for people who want to whatsapp unknown numbers without adding them to their mobile address book.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Text without Addressbook at every 2 months against TweetPlay's every 21 months. TweetPlay's advantage is review sentiment (60% vs 50%) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.0). 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 3.9 for TweetPlay against 4.0 for Text without Addressbook. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 7 and 3 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 60% of TweetPlay's written reviews are positive against 50% of Text without Addressbook's.
TweetPlay ships an update every 21 months, Text without Addressbook every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | TweetPlay | Text without Addressbook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (7 ratings) | 4.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 7 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 21 months | Every 2 months — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 10 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marko Tadic | Mohit Khanna |
Customer experience
TweetPlay
Text without Addressbook
In-app purchases
TweetPlay
No in-app purchases
Text without Addressbook
No in-app purchases
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