Comparison

Spring Classic vs Ting Social

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
Read full description

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

Ting Social

Connect with friends and discover content through posts, short videos, and live audio/video streams. Engage in private chats, join communities, and express yourself with customizable profile elements. Prioritizes privacy and offers both Arabic and English language support.

Highlights
  • Post thoughts, photos, and videos
  • Full-screen vertical video clips
  • Disappearing stories
  • Chats with media and voice notes
  • Live audio and video rooms
  • In-app shop for profile customization
  • Communities with custom rules
Features
Read full description

Ting is the Arabic-first social app made in Saudi Arabia. Your feed, your friends and your conversations, in one place. SHARE WHAT MATTERS • Post thoughts, photos and videos, start threads and polls, and tag topics with #hashtags. • Clips: full-screen vertical videos, one swipe at a time. • Stories that disappear after 24 hours. TALK THE WAY YOU LIKE • Chats with photos, videos, voice notes and GIFs. • Photos and videos that open once and can be replayed once. • Ping a friend: a strong buzz with its own sound for when a message is not enough. • Every account has its own PIN and QR code. Share it and start chatting instantly. • Voice and video calls. GO LIVE • Audio rooms where anyone can listen and the host invites speakers to the stage. • Live video for your followers, with comments, hearts and gifts. GIFTS AND THE SHOP • Send animated gifts to the people you watch LIVE. • The Shop: living frames for your picture, jewel badges for your name and themes for your posts, for a day, a week or a month. • Packs: one surprise look, with the chance of every rarity shown before you open it. FIND YOUR PEOPLE • For You, Following, Nearby and Communities feeds. • Communities with their own rules, labels and voting. • Trending hashtags and search. SAFE BY DESIGN • Private accounts, follow requests and message requests. • Report and block from any post, profile, chat or room. Our team reviews every report. • Location is approximate, and only when you choose to share it. Arabic and English, light and dark mode, fully right-to-left in Arabic. Terms of Use: https://tingsocial.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://tingsocial.com/privacy Help Center: https://tingsocial.com/help/en/

Screenshots

Spring Classic4 screens
Ting Social4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Spring Classic at 66% against Ting Social's 0%. Spring Classic also leads on rating (4.2 vs 2.6) and in-app purchases (none vs 11). Ting Social's advantage is update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks). On price 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

Both are free to download. Ting Social sells 11 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Spring Classic asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Spring Classic holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 2.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spring Classic has 132 ratings behind it against 5, 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 0% of Ting Social's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spring Classic ships an update every 3 weeks, Ting Social every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard9 real differences · 1 level
Spring Classic versus Ting Social: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpring ClassicTing Social
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (132 ratings) — better2.6 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews65.5% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings132 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB49 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperJunyu KuangMohammed Alnajashi

Customer experience

Spring Classic

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

Ting Social

All ratings5 ratings
Positive40.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative60.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

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

Ting Social

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Spring Classic

No in-app purchases

11 purchases

Ting Social

Subscriptions2
  • Ting Pro$7.991 Month
  • Ting Pro+$14.991 Month
One-time9
  • 70 Coins$0.99
  • 1 Pin$3.99
  • 350 Coins$3.99
Show 6 more
  • 700 Coins$8.99
  • 3 Pins$9.99
  • 6 Pins$14.99
  • 1,400 Coins$17.99
  • 3,500 Coins$44.99
  • 7,000 Coins$89.99

Questions

Is Spring Classic free?
Spring Classic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ting Social free?
Ting Social is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Spring Classic or Ting Social?
Spring Classic is rated higher. Spring Classic averages 4.2 out of 5 from 132 ratings, while Ting Social averages 2.6 from 5 ratings.
Do Spring Classic or Ting Social have ads?
Ting Social shows ads; Spring Classic does not.
Which is updated more often, Spring Classic or Ting Social?
Spring Classic ships an update every 3 weeks, and Ting Social every 5 days. Most recently, Spring Classic was updated on October 29, 2026 and Ting Social on October 28, 2026.

Other comparisons