Comparison

Spring 27 for Twitter vs Text without Addressbook

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

Head to head
About

Spring 27 for Twitter

This app offers a highly customizable Twitter experience for iPhone users. Tailor your tab bar, tweet actions, themes, fonts, and user notes to your preferences. Enjoy enhanced privacy features and a streamlined interface.

Highlights
  • Customizable tab bar with pinned pages
  • Extensive tweet action configuration
  • Advanced theme and accent color editor
  • Font customization for body and headings
  • Private user notes and aliases
  • Enhanced privacy and security features
Features
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Meet Spring, the next generation of social networking app. Enjoy buttery-smooth scrolling, native design, and powerful customization options. It delivers a truly personal Twitter experience and is fully optimized for VoiceOver. Essential features: • Browse Twitter feeds like For You, Lists, and Profiles • Reply, retweet, like, bookmark tweets with ease Spring features: • A stunning user interface with the Liquid Glass design • Adjustable text spacing and text sizes • Check recent tweets on your home screen or notification center with widgets • 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 • Share a tweet as picture • Open multiple windows on iPad and Mac • Privately set aliases, notes and username colors for Twitter accounts • User Notes list: browse, organize and edit all your notes in one place • Control the app and browse tweets with a compatible game controller, such as a Playstation DualSense/DualShock, Nintendo Switch, Xbox or MFi controller • Customize game controller’s button functions via in-app settings Privacy: • Spring does not collect any personal information • Your account tokens are protected by on-device Keychain • Your network connections to Twitter servers are protected by HTTPS Tab Bar (Spring Ultra feature): • Pin your frequently visit pages to the tab bar • 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 Tweet Actions (Spring Ultra feature): • Drag actions into the order you prefer • Configure actions as swipe options: swipe a tweet horizontally to perform an action • Optionally hide some or all action buttons from tweet cards, while keeping them accessible via context menu, swipe options, keyboard shortcuts, and VoiceOver rotor Accent Color (Spring Ultra feature): • 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 (Spring Ultra feature): • Customize the app’s color scheme • Design and set custom themes • Advanced color settings allow you to fine-tune colors for different level of views • Export and share your custom themes • Import custom themes shared by other people Font Customization (Spring Ultra feature): • Configure different fonts for body text and headings • Select from a variety of build-in fonts • Supports custom fonts installed by third-party apps Other Spring Ultra features: • Add multiple accounts: you can also opt to like, retweet, quote tweet, or follow using a non-current account • Automatically translate tweets on the timeline • Filter and mute: filter timelines based on tweet category and content; hide tweets with certain words; hide tweets from certain people • Export and import settings: easily transfer your custom settings between multiple devices Customer support: • Twitter: @theSpringApp • Email: theSpringApp@gmail.com Terms of use: https://apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

About

Text without Addressbook

Easily start WhatsApp conversations with individuals or multiple contacts without saving their numbers to your address book. Features an updated menu for selecting ISD codes to ensure correct dialing.

Highlights
  • Start single contact chats
  • Start multiple contact chats
  • Select contacts from dropdown
  • ISD code selection menu
  • No contact saving required
Features
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This app allows you to start a whatsapp conversation without adding contacts to your addressbook. Two Options are granted: Single Contact: You can enter a mobile number and click Whatsapp button to start a conversation with that mobile number on your whatsapp messenger app. Multiple Contacts: You can enter multiple mobile numbers and then select each number from a dropdown select menu and start a conversation with these mobile numbers on your whatsapp messenger app. Design updated with a menu to select ISD codes from. These ISD codes are helpful when the phone numbers don't have an ISD code. It's a useful app for people who want to whatsapp unknown numbers without adding them to their mobile address book.

Screenshots

Spring 27 for Twitter4 screens
Text without Addressbook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Text without Addressbook at none against Spring 27 for Twitter's 2. Spring 27 for Twitter's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (91 vs 3). On price, rating, ads 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. Spring 27 for Twitter sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Text without Addressbook asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Spring 27 for Twitter against 4.0 for Text without Addressbook. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spring 27 for Twitter has 91 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 62% of Spring 27 for Twitter's written reviews are positive against 50% of Text without Addressbook's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spring 27 for Twitter ships an update fortnightly, Text without Addressbook every 2 months. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Spring 27 for Twitter versus Text without Addressbook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpring 27 for TwitterText without Addressbook
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (91 ratings) — better4.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews62.3% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings91 — better3
Update frequencyFortnightly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size69 MB19 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJunyu KuangMohit Khanna

Customer experience

Spring 27 for Twitter

All ratings91 ratings
Positive76.9%
Neutral5.5%
Negative17.6%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive62.3%
Neutral9.8%
Negative27.9%

Text without Addressbook

All ratings3 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative33.3%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Spring 27 for Twitter

Subscriptions2
  • Spring Ultra for iPhone7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Spring Ultra14 Days trial$2.991 Month
None

Text without Addressbook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spring 27 for Twitter free?
Spring 27 for Twitter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Text without Addressbook free?
Text without Addressbook is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Spring 27 for Twitter or Text without Addressbook?
Spring 27 for Twitter is rated higher. Spring 27 for Twitter averages 4.1 out of 5 from 91 ratings, while Text without Addressbook averages 4.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Spring 27 for Twitter or Text without Addressbook have ads?
Neither Spring 27 for Twitter nor Text without Addressbook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spring 27 for Twitter or Text without Addressbook?
Spring 27 for Twitter ships an update fortnightly, and Text without Addressbook every 2 months. Most recently, Spring 27 for Twitter was updated on October 24, 2026 and Text without Addressbook on October 24, 2026.

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