Spring for Twitter vs Twidere X
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Spring for Twitter
This app offers a highly customizable Twitter experience for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Tailor your interface with custom tabs, actions, themes, and fonts. Enhance your browsing with user notes, iCloud sync, and even game controller support.
- Customizable tab bar
- Configurable tweet actions
- Theme and accent color editor
- Font customization
- User notes and aliases
- iCloud data sync
- Game controller support
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Introducing Spring 5, a new generation of Twitter client for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Features fast performance, truly native design and a highly customizable user interface. 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 built-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 fine-tune 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 Game Controller (require iOS 14, iPadOS 14, macOS 11 or a newer system) • Control the app and browse tweets with a compatible game controller, such as a Playstation DualSense/DualShock, Nintendo Switch, Xbox or MFi controller • Customize button functions via in-app settings • Set extra functions for Adaptive Triggers on the Playstation DualSense controller 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: • Universal Purchase: purchase once, and install on your iPhone, iPad and Mac • Column View takes full advantage of the big screen on iPad and Mac, shows multiple views at once and allows you to navigate between views fluently and efficiently • Full Screen mode on iPhone let your timeline content fill the entire screen once you start scrolling • Mute List filters out unwanted tweets and users • Check recent tweets on your home screen or notification center with widgets • 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 • Option to 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 (iPhone and iPad); open browser app and load website in background (Mac) • Open multiple windows on iPad and Mac • Customizable Link Preview experience • Customizable text translation experience • Automatic video and GIF playback on the Timeline • Supports changing app icon on iPhone, iPad and Mac • Turn on/off content scaling on Mac for extra screen estate or sharper text • 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
Twidere X
This app offers a streamlined social media browsing experience with features like a chronological timeline, in-line media display, and conversation thread viewing. It allows for extensive interface customization, multi-account support, and advanced search capabilities without advertisements.
- Chronological timeline with retweets and comments
- In-line picture, GIF, and video display
- Album mode for image galleries
- Quick display of up to 2 levels of tweet conversations
- Customizable interface (avatar style, dark mode, text size)
- Send tweets with photos, subjects, and locations
- Multiple account support
- Advanced search functionality
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Timeline - See what's new and what's happening! Tweets are sorted by time, support for displaying retweets with comments, and quick display of discussion threads. Pictures, GIFs, and videos are displayed in a completely new design. Complete features to ensure your browsing experience. Album mode - Enjoy the pure picture waterfall on the search and profile page. At the same time, multiple pictures in the timeline and tweets are displayed in an elegant form. Quickly display the discussion thread-Complete view of the discussion! Up to 2 levels of tweet conversations can be quickly displayed in tweets. Customized personalized interface - Perfect personalization features allow users to customize their interface: support for setting avatar style, following system settings to display light or dark mode, and customizing text size. Send tweets - You can send live photos in your tweets, or select images from the photo gallery. Send tweets that include the subject and location. Multiple accounts - Use as many identities as you want! You can add multiple Twitter accounts to Twidere X, ensuring that they don't interfere with each other. Search - Find tweets, media, and users among thousands of information. You can also use advanced search syntax to get more effective information. User Profile Display - New design for user’s homepage display. Subtle display of avatar, profile, and background. Also, the number of users following and follower, click to enter the list. User tweets display - a perfect display of user-related tweets and liked tweets with a quick display of discussion threads. Images are elegantly displayed in album mode. No ads - We do not carry any ads! A cool tweet experience. Twitter is a trademark of Twitter, Inc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is monetization model: Twidere X at free against Spring for Twitter's paid. Spring for Twitter's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and ratings volume (125 vs 33). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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 — 4.3 for Spring for Twitter against 4.3 for Twidere X. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 125 and 33 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of Spring for Twitter's written reviews are positive against 63% of Twidere X's.
Spring for Twitter ships an update every 3 weeks, Twidere X every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spring for Twitter | Twidere X |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (125 ratings) | 4.3 (33 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.0% of reviews — better | 62.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 125 — better | 33 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.1 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Junyu Kuang | SUJITEKU LIMITED LIABILITY CO. |
Customer experience
Spring for Twitter
Twidere X
Bugs and requests
Spring for Twitter
Reported bugs
16 issues- Messages/DM functionality returns 404 errors
- Search returns 404 errors or same results repeatedly
- Timeline sync doesn't work despite being advertised
- Cannot like or post tweets
- Feed doesn't remember scroll position and resets to top
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- Media tabs display buggy content
- Force closes on launch
- Account authentication fails after password changes
- Expired or invalid account info errors
- Unauthorized error code 401 on sign in
- Content marked as inaccessible when needed most
- Replies don't load completely without manual refresh
- Videos play inconsistently
- Rate limiting errors preventing tweets
- App stops syncing with Twitter after installation
- Becomes unusable with each update
Requested features
10 requests- Push notification support
- Multi-image/media tweet support with same layout as Twitter
- Location tagging feature
- Additional text size options matching official Twitter app
- App lock feature (like Telegram)
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- Mastodon client version
- Bluesky client version
- Deep linking to open Spring from other apps
- QR code scanning integration
- Share tweet as image generation feature
Twidere X
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Spring for Twitter
No in-app purchases
Twidere X
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Spring for Twitter free?
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