Comparison

Spring Classic vs Clean for Twitter

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

Clean for Twitter

Enhance your social media experience by removing unwanted elements and advertisements. Customize your feed, navigation, and tweet actions for a cleaner, more focused browsing session.

Highlights
  • Hide sidebar elements
  • Remove ads from feed
  • Customize navigation tabs
  • Control tweet actions
  • Restore classic logo
  • Text-only timeline option
Features
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Clean up unnecessary elements on X (Twitter) and enjoy a cleaner, more focused browsing experience. FEATURES Branding: • Restore classic Twitter logo - Bring back the bird logo Layout: • Hide right sidebar - Remove trending topics and suggestions Left Navigation: • Hide Chat - Remove the Chat/Messages tab • Hide Grok - Remove the Grok AI assistant • Hide Lists - Remove the Lists tab • Hide Bookmarks - Remove the Bookmarks tab • Hide Communities - Remove the Communities tab • Hide Premium - Remove X Premium/Twitter Blue promotional elements • Hide Profile - Remove the Profile navigation link • Hide Creator Studio • Hide Ads - Remove promotional advertisements from navigation • Hide Create your Space • Hide More - Remove the More menu option • Hide Follow - Remove the Follow navigation • Hide Aritcles - Remove the Aritcles navigation • Hide App Download in iOS Tweet Actions: • Hide Analytics - Remove analytics buttons from tweets • Hide Bookmarks - Remove bookmark buttons from tweet actions • Hide Grok - Remove the Grok AI assistant Content Area: • Hide Timeline Explore - Remove the Explore tab from your timeline • Hide Discover More - Remove "Discover more" recommendations • Hide Advertisement - Remove sponsored content and ads from your feed • Hide Today News - Remove "Today" news section • Hide Who to Follow - Remove "Who to follow" suggestions • Text mode in Home - Remove Image and Video in Home • Hide Notification Recommendation - Remove recommended posts from notifications GETTING STARTED 1. Install the extension from Chrome Web Store 2. Visit X (Twitter) - The extension activates automatically 3. Click the extension icon in your toolbar to customize which features to enable or disable 4. Your preferences are saved automatically and sync across devices CUSTOMIZATION All features can be individually toggled on/off through the extension popup. Choose exactly what you want to see and hide everything else. SUPPORT Join our Discord community for support, feature requests, and discussions: https://discord.gg/gFhKUthc88 Make X (Twitter) yours again - Install Clean Twitter today!

Screenshots

Spring Classic4 screens
Clean for Twitter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Spring Classic at Free against Clean for Twitter's $4.99. Spring Classic also leads on ratings volume (132 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.1 vs 15.0). Clean for Twitter's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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; Clean for Twitter costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Clean for Twitter holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spring Classic has 132 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spring Classic ships an update every 3 weeks, Clean for Twitter every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Spring Classic versus Clean for Twitter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpring ClassicClean for Twitter
PriceFree — better$4.99
Rating4.2 (132 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews65.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings132 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS13.1 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJunyu KuangKAI WANG

Customer experience

Spring Classic

All ratings128 ratings
Positive82.0%
Neutral3.9%
Negative14.1%
Written reviews116 reviews
Positive65.5%
Neutral6.9%
Negative27.6%

Clean for Twitter

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
Show 11 more
  • 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)
Show 5 more
  • Mastodon client version
  • Bluesky client version
  • Deep linking to open Spring from other apps
  • QR code scanning integration
  • Share tweet as image generation feature

Clean for Twitter

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Spring Classic

No in-app purchases

None

Clean for Twitter

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spring Classic free?
Spring Classic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Clean for Twitter free?
Clean for Twitter costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Spring Classic or Clean for Twitter?
Clean for Twitter is rated higher. Spring Classic averages 4.2 out of 5 from 132 ratings, while Clean for Twitter averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Spring Classic or Clean for Twitter have ads?
Neither Spring Classic nor Clean for Twitter shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spring Classic or Clean for Twitter?
Spring Classic ships an update every 3 weeks, and Clean for Twitter every 5 days. Most recently, Spring Classic was updated on October 29, 2026 and Clean for Twitter on October 30, 2026.

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