Spring Classic vs Birdify for Twitter / X
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
Birdify for Twitter / X
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Declutter and refine X/Twitter: hide noise, fix layout, and take back your timeline Fully local · Zero tracking · Zero Ads Feature list: ▸ GENERAL - Classic Bird Branding (bring back the classic bird: logo, favicon, browser-tab title, and "Tweet" wording in place of "X") - Tweet Font Scale [Mobile Only] (enlarge the timeline post text to 100% / 125% / 150% / 200%; menus and the rest of the UI stay the same) - Force Inter Font (apply the clean Inter typeface across the entire X UI) ▸ LAYOUT - Timeline Width (widen the timeline and keep it centered; the left nav and right sidebar dock to the feed's edges and drift outward as it grows, so both stay in view; a slider sets the width up to Max and stays out of the way on narrower windows) ▸ POSTS - Hide Engagement Counts (master toggle with individual controls for reply, repost, like, and follower/following counts) - Hide View Count - Hide Promoted Posts - Hide "Topics to Follow" Suggestions - Hide Post Separators / Borders - Even Action Button Spacing (uniform spacing across post action buttons so bookmark and share are easy to tap) - Edit Share Menu (reorder the items in the post share menu) - Force iOS Share Sheet [Mobile Only] (tap a post's share button to open the native iOS share sheet with the tweet's direct link, instead of X's in-page menu) ▸ TRENDING SIDEBAR - Hide Search Bar - Hide Premium Reminders / Offers - Hide Today's News - Hide What's Happening / Trends - Hide Who to Follow ▸ MENU SIDEBAR - Hide X Logo - Edit Navigation Items (show, hide, and reorder the sidebar nav links) - Edit Bottom Tab Bar [Mobile Only] (show, hide, and reorder the bottom tab bar; Home stays first and always on) - Edit Menu Drawer [Mobile Only] (show, hide, and reorder the slide-out account menu) - Hide Tweet Button - Hide Grok Drawer Button - Hide Chat Drawer Button ▸ SETTINGS - Export / Import (back up and restore your full configuration as a JSON file) - Report an Issue (opens a prefilled support email) The X / TWITTER trademark is owned by X Corp. and used under license.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Spring Classic at Free against Birdify for Twitter / X's $0.99. Spring Classic also leads on iOS requirement (13.1 vs 18.0). Birdify for Twitter / X's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 3 weeks). On ads, in-app purchases 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; Birdify for Twitter / X costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Spring Classic ships an update every 3 weeks, Birdify for Twitter / X every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spring Classic | Birdify for Twitter / X |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (131 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 65.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 131 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 71 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Junyu Kuang | RanduSoft SRL |
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
Birdify for Twitter / X
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Spring Classic
No in-app purchases
Birdify for Twitter / X
No in-app purchases
Questions
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