Spring Classic vs Clean for Twitter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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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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
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.
- Hide sidebar elements
- Remove ads from feed
- Customize navigation tabs
- Control tweet actions
- Restore classic logo
- Text-only timeline option
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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!
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Spring Classic | Clean for Twitter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (132 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 132 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Junyu Kuang | KAI WANG |
Customer experience
Spring Classic
Clean for Twitter
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
Clean for Twitter
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Spring Classic
No in-app purchases
Clean for Twitter
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Spring Classic free?
Is Clean for Twitter free?
Which has better reviews, Spring Classic or Clean for Twitter?
Do Spring Classic or Clean for Twitter have ads?
Which is updated more often, Spring Classic or Clean for Twitter?
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