Spring for Twitter vs CityChat
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
CityChat
Connect with people in your city through ephemeral chatrooms. Messages disappear after 24 hours, fostering spontaneous conversations without a permanent record. Discover local happenings and engage in real-time discussions with your neighbors.
- Ephemeral 24-hour disappearing messages
- Location-based chatrooms
- No profiles or followers
- AI and human content moderation
- Dark and light modes
- Native iOS design
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What if you could talk to everyone in your city right now? CityChat makes it happen. Drop into your local chatroom and join the conversation. Every message disappears after 24 hours, so there's no pressure, no permanent record, just real talk with real people nearby. WHY PEOPLE LOVE CITYCHAT Fresh Start Every Day - All messages vanish after 24 hours. Wake up to a clean slate. No old drama. No scrolling through yesterday's news. Just what's happening right now. Actually Local - GPS connects you to people within miles of you, not across the globe. These are your neighbors, your coworkers, people you might run into at the coffee shop. Zero Commitment - No followers. No profiles to curate. No algorithm deciding what you see. Just open the app and start talking. OVER 100+ major cities worldwide and growing AND GROWING New York. Los Angeles. Chicago. Miami. Houston. Phoenix. Seattle. Denver. Boston. Atlanta. Portland. Las Vegas. Austin. Dallas. San Diego. San Francisco. And dozens more across America. WHAT HAPPENS IN CITYCHAT The morning commute rant. The "where should I eat tonight" question. The breaking news nobody's covering. The random thought that deserves an audience. The inside joke that only locals get. Real conversations about real things happening in your city right now. BUILT FOR PRIVACY Messages delete automatically after 24 hours. We don't sell your data. We don't track you around the web. What happens in your city stays in your city, then disappears. SAFE SPACES AI moderation catches spam and inappropriate content before it hits the feed. Block anyone with one tap. Report anything that doesn't belong. Our team reviews every report. BEAUTIFUL AND FAST Dark mode. Light mode. Smooth animations. Works perfectly on all iPhones. Designed to feel native because it is. THE VIBE Think of CityChat as your city's group chat. The one where everyone's invited, the conversation never stops, and everything resets at midnight. No influencers. No ads. No nonsense. Just your city, talking. Questions? support@thecitychat.com Download CityChat. Join your city. Say something. End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Spring for Twitter at none against CityChat's 5. Spring for Twitter also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.3 vs 3.9). On price and review sentiment 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. CityChat sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Spring for Twitter asks for nothing beyond the download.
Spring for Twitter holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spring for Twitter has 125 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 67% and 67% positive.
Spring for Twitter ships an update every 3 weeks, CityChat every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spring for Twitter | CityChat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (125 ratings) — better | 3.9 (9 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 67.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 125 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| 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 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Junyu Kuang | Block Browser |
Customer experience
Spring for Twitter
CityChat
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
CityChat
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Spring for Twitter
No in-app purchases
CityChat
- CityChat Pro Weekly$1.997 Days
- CityChat Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- CityChat Pro Yearly$39.991 Year
- CityChat Pro Lifetime$49.99
- CityChat Lifetime Access$49.99
Questions
Is Spring for Twitter free?
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