Comparison

Code Drawer vs Spring mini for Twitter

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Code Drawer

Organize, generate, and display your QR codes efficiently. Save links and QR codes in one place, import them from various sources, and generate new codes to save as images. Supports iCloud syncing and multiple Apple devices.

Highlights
  • Save links and QR codes
  • Import QR codes (link, image, camera)
  • Generate QR codes
  • iCloud Syncing
  • Home Screen and Control Widgets
  • Apple Watch App
Features
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Code Drawer is an all-in-one QR code toolkit. It helps you organize and show your QR codes with ease. With one purchase, you can use it with iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch, and Mac. With Code Drawer, you can: - Scan QR codes from the camera or images. - Generate QR codes from pasteboard, links, and texts. - Save QR codes to images. - Manage all the links and QR codes you need in a single place. Code Drawer also supports: - iCloud Syncing. - Home Screen and Control Widgets. - Live Activity. - Apple Watch App. - Shortcuts. - Extract link from text. URL Scheme supported: - Scan from camera: codedrawer://scan - Scan from image: codedrawer://scanImage - Paste text: codedrawer://paste - Show Favorite: codedrawer://showItemWith?title=[Title]

About

Spring mini for Twitter

This app offers a highly customizable Twitter experience for iPhone users. Tailor your tab bar, tweet actions, themes, fonts, and user notes to your preferences. Enjoy enhanced privacy features and a streamlined interface.

Highlights
  • Customizable tab bar with pinned pages
  • Extensive tweet action configuration
  • Advanced theme and accent color editor
  • Font customization for body and headings
  • Private user notes and aliases
  • Enhanced privacy and security features
Features
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Spring mini is a Twitter client for iPhone, features fast performance, truly native design and a highly customizable user interface. Spring mini does not support: iPad and Mac, game controllers, Siri Shortcuts, and Home Screen widgets. Please check "Spring for Twitter" if you need those features. 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 build-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 customize the colors such as text color, link color and background 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 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: • Full Screen mode let your timeline content fill the entire screen once you start scrolling • Mute List filters out unwanted tweets and users • 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 • 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 • Link Preview on the Timeline • Customizable Link Preview experience • Customizable text translation experience • Automatic video and GIF playback on the Timeline • Supports selecting different app icon • Tweet Filters: filtering based on predefined tweet categories • Show reading progress on Timeline • Optionally place a Compose Tweet button on the bottom tab bar (Settings > Tab Bar > Compose Button) • Settings to export or import your custom settings/preferences • 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

Screenshots

Code Drawer4 screens
Spring mini for Twitter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Spring mini for Twitter at Free against Code Drawer's $1.99. Spring mini for Twitter also leads on ratings volume (85 vs 24) and iOS requirement (13.1 vs 18.0). Code Drawer's advantage is review sentiment (83% vs 63%) and chart position (#144 vs unranked). On rating, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Spring mini for Twitter is free to download; Code Drawer costs $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.2 for Code Drawer against 4.2 for Spring mini for Twitter. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 85 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 83% of Code Drawer's written reviews are positive against 63% of Spring mini for Twitter's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Code Drawer ships an update monthly, Spring mini for Twitter every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 15, 2026 and September 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Code Drawer versus Spring mini for Twitter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCode DrawerSpring mini for Twitter
Price$1.99Free — better
Rating4.2 (24 ratings)4.2 (85 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews — better63.0% of reviews
Number of ratings2485 — better
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
Best chart rank#144 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.013.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size17 MB59 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperJinyu MengJunyu Kuang

Customer experience

Code Drawer

All ratings24 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.7%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral16.7%
Negative0.0%

Spring mini for Twitter

All ratings85 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral5.9%
Negative14.1%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive63.0%
Neutral11.1%
Negative25.9%

In-app purchases

None

Code Drawer

No in-app purchases

None

Spring mini for Twitter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Code Drawer free?
Code Drawer costs $1.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spring mini for Twitter free?
Spring mini for Twitter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Code Drawer or Spring mini for Twitter?
Code Drawer and Spring mini for Twitter are both rated 4.2 out of 5 on the App Store, from 24 and 85 ratings respectively.
Do Code Drawer or Spring mini for Twitter have ads?
Neither Code Drawer nor Spring mini for Twitter shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Code Drawer or Spring mini for Twitter?
Code Drawer ships an update monthly, and Spring mini for Twitter every 3 weeks. Most recently, Code Drawer was updated on September 15, 2026 and Spring mini for Twitter on September 22, 2026.

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