Comparison

Spring Classic vs QR generator + link storage

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

Head to head
About

Spring Classic

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.

Highlights
  • Customizable tab bar
  • Configurable tweet actions
  • Theme and accent color editor
  • Font customization
  • User notes and aliases
  • iCloud data sync
  • Game controller support
Features
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Spring Classic is a 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

About

QR generator + link storage

Features
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Generate and store QR codes for your social media URL link, or your web store page link. Organize them in different categories like contact list. In addition, this app can also generate QR code for your phone contact (vCard). What this app does? 1. Generate QR code for your social URL links, such as YouTube video link, TikTok video link, Instagram photo link, or your own website / online shop page link, etc. 2. Generate QR code for your phone contact (digital name card), ready for all others mobile phone QR code scanner to scan and save your contact information. 3. Store all your QR codes that generated, and organize them in 1 single app. How to use this app? This app is design for simplicity, similar to mobile phone contact list. Nothing more, nothing less. Too many QR codes generated? QR codes can be organize, put under different categories and search by title or description. When to use this app? Any offline networking event, meetings, social gathering, and so on. User can also post the QR code on your website, Facebook post, or send the QR code through email. E.g. show your QR code to link to your YouTube video in social event, ask your audiences to like, comment, share and subscribe. Who should use this app? Content maker such as YouTuber or TikToker, social influencer, key opinion leader (kol), digital marketer, business person, online shop owner, or any one who wants to get more followers or social awareness. Summary of the features: - No weekly or monthly subscription, no ads, no in-app purchase, just buy once and use forever. You will save a lot in the long run. - All latest mobile phone (e.g. iPhone 5s with iOS 11) come with built-in QR code scanner. It is NOT necessary to download another QR code scanner to scan the QR code generated with this app. - URL too long for input? This app supports iOS Live Text with camera (requires latest hardware). That is, camera can recognize URL and copy paste in the app. - You can add custom logo to the center of the QR code. - In addition, you can add custom header text information to the top of the QR code. That is, QR code image with your text image on top. - Able to save QR code to photo album, print it out, email, or directly share it out through social media. - User can generate multiple digital name cards (contact) for different purposes. Requirement: - This app only support iOS 17 or above - To use iOS Live Text, please check your hardware support list.(e.g. iPhone XS or above)

Screenshots

Spring Classic4 screens
QR generator + link storage4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Spring Classic at Free against QR generator + link storage's $3.99. Spring Classic also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months) and device support (4 vs 2). On 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 Classic is free to download; QR generator + link storage costs $3.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spring Classic ships an update every 3 weeks, QR generator + link storage every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Spring Classic versus QR generator + link storage: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpring ClassicQR generator + link storage
PriceFree — better$3.99
Rating4.3 (128 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews67.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings128 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.1 — better17
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB1 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJunyu KuangWimlog

Bugs and requests

Spring Classic

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

QR generator + link storage

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Spring Classic

No in-app purchases

None

QR generator + link storage

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spring Classic free?
Spring Classic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is QR generator + link storage free?
QR generator + link storage costs $3.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Spring Classic or QR generator + link storage have ads?
Neither Spring Classic nor QR generator + link storage shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spring Classic or QR generator + link storage?
Spring Classic ships an update every 3 weeks, and QR generator + link storage every 3 months. Most recently, Spring Classic was updated on October 14, 2026 and QR generator + link storage on October 15, 2026.

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