Spring Classic vs HELLO
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
HELLO
Connect with people globally by sending handwritten letters, drawings, or photos via virtual paper planes. Discover planes on a map, reply to messages, and foster conversations with friends or new acquaintances worldwide.
- Send letters with words, drawings, or photos
- Discover planes on a real map
- Reply to incoming letters
- Connect with friends via invitation links
- Pick up nearby planes
- Choose location sharing options
- Report inappropriate content
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Exchange letters with people around the world through words, drawings, and photos. Hello Paper Plane is a pen pal app that sends your letters on paper planes. Discover planes traveling across a real map, share a reply, and see where the conversation takes you. ◆ A Little of Your Day, in Your Own Hand Write by hand, draw what’s on your mind, or add a photo from your day. Pick a color for your paper plane to make the letter your own. ◆ Choose Where Your Letter Goes Set a direction with the compass or choose a world capital, then launch your paper plane. You can also pick someone who’s waiting for a letter and send the first hello. ◆ Send Paper Planes to Friends Connect through an invitation link to send paper planes to each other. Share words, drawings, and photos, then exchange replies to keep in touch. ◆ Discover Stories Nearby Pick up paper planes that have arrived nearby or catch one flying past. See where each plane came from on the map and open the letter inside. ◆ Keep a Conversation Going When a letter speaks to you, send a reply. Trade paper planes to share anything from a quick hello to the little moments of everyday life. ◆ Choose What Location to Share Show your exact launch location or a random location nearby instead. Report inappropriate content and block users you don’t want to hear from. Put a little of your day into a paper plane and send it out. A new reply might come flying back from somewhere in the world. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spring Classic at none against HELLO's 2. Spring Classic also leads on ratings volume (132 vs 17) and device support (4 vs 2). HELLO's advantage is rating (4.5 vs 4.2) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 3 weeks). On price and ads 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. HELLO sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Spring Classic asks for nothing beyond the download.
HELLO holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spring Classic has 132 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 66% of Spring Classic's written reviews are positive against 83% of HELLO's.
Spring Classic ships an update every 3 weeks, HELLO every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spring Classic | HELLO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (132 ratings) | 4.5 (17 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 65.5% of reviews | 83.3% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 132 — better | 17 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 21 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | +17 |
| Developer | Junyu Kuang | Goateraction |
Customer experience
Spring Classic
HELLO
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
HELLO
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Spring Classic
No in-app purchases
HELLO
- Monthly$1.991 Month
- Yearly$4.991 Year









