Comparison

Spring for Twitter vs Mithka

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

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
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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

About

Mithka

A fast, customizable messaging client for focused communication. It organizes conversations, groups, and media into a clean interface with extensive visual and notification controls. Offers features like polls, checklists, and translation tools.

Highlights
  • Fast chat list and conversation views
  • Groups and topic-style discussions
  • Stickers, voice notes, polls, checklists
  • Message search and rich previews
  • Light/dark modes and accent colors
  • Notification and translation settings
Features
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Mithka is an independent messaging client built for people who want a fast, focused, and highly customizable way to stay in touch. It brings your conversations, groups, topic feeds, contacts, media, updates, and profile tools into a clean mobile interface designed for daily use. The app is powered by TDLib and keeps the experience close to native iOS patterns, with quick navigation, refined chat controls, and a flexible visual system. Highlights: - Fast chat list and conversation views - Groups, topic-style discussions, contacts, and profiles - Stickers, animated stickers, voice notes, polls, checklists, files, and location sharing - Message search, shared media, pinned messages, and rich message previews - One-to-one call interface - Light and dark appearance, accent colors, font controls, chat layout options, and notification settings - Translation settings and keyword blocking tools - Localized interface for English and Simplified Chinese Mithka is an independent, unofficial app. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to Telegram. Telegram is a trademark of its respective owner.

Screenshots

Spring for Twitter4 screens
Mithka4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Mithka at 5.0 against Spring for Twitter's 4.3. Mithka also leads on monetization model (free vs paid) and update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). Spring for Twitter's advantage is review sentiment (67% vs 33%) and ratings volume (125 vs 4). On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mithka holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spring for Twitter has 125 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Spring for Twitter's written reviews are positive against 33% of Mithka's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spring for Twitter ships an update every 3 weeks, Mithka every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on September 18, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Spring for Twitter versus Mithka: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpring for TwitterMithka
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (125 ratings)5.0 (4 ratings) — better
Positive reviews67.0% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings125 — better4
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac
Requires iOS13.1 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size71 MB130 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperJunyu KuangKitta Co.

Customer experience

Spring for Twitter

All ratings125 ratings
Positive82.4%
Neutral4.0%
Negative13.6%
Written reviews109 reviews
Positive67.0%
Neutral7.3%
Negative25.7%

Mithka

All ratings4 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

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

Mithka

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Spring for Twitter

No in-app purchases

None

Mithka

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spring for Twitter free?
Spring for Twitter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mithka free?
Mithka is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Spring for Twitter or Mithka?
Mithka is rated higher. Spring for Twitter averages 4.3 out of 5 from 125 ratings, while Mithka averages 5.0 from 4 ratings.
Do Spring for Twitter or Mithka have ads?
Neither Spring for Twitter nor Mithka shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spring for Twitter or Mithka?
Spring for Twitter ships an update every 3 weeks, and Mithka every 4 days. Most recently, Spring for Twitter was updated on September 18, 2026 and Mithka on September 23, 2026.

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