Comparison

Spring mini 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 mini 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
Read full description

Spring mini is a Twitter client for iPhone, features fast performance, truly native design and a highly customizable user interface. Spring mini does not support: iPad and Mac, game controllers, Siri Shortcuts, and Home Screen widgets. Please check "Spring for Twitter" if you need those features. 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 build-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 customize the colors such as text color, link color and background 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 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: • Full Screen mode let your timeline content fill the entire screen once you start scrolling • Mute List filters out unwanted tweets and users • 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 • 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 • Link Preview on the Timeline • Customizable Link Preview experience • Customizable text translation experience • Automatic video and GIF playback on the Timeline • Supports selecting different app icon • Tweet Filters: filtering based on predefined tweet categories • Show reading progress on Timeline • Optionally place a Compose Tweet button on the bottom tab bar (Settings > Tab Bar > Compose Button) • Settings to export or import your custom settings/preferences • 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

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 mini for Twitter4 screens
Text without Addressbook4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Spring mini for Twitter at Free against Text without Addressbook's $0.99. Spring mini for Twitter also leads on ratings volume (85 vs 3) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Spring mini for Twitter is free to download; Text without Addressbook costs $0.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Spring mini for Twitter holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spring mini for Twitter has 85 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Spring mini for Twitter's written reviews are positive against 50% of Text without Addressbook's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spring mini for Twitter ships an update every 3 weeks, Text without Addressbook every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 19, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Spring mini for Twitter versus Text without Addressbook: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpring mini for TwitterText without Addressbook
PriceFree — better$0.99
Rating4.2 (85 ratings) — better4.0 (3 ratings)
Positive reviews63.0% of reviews — better50.0% of reviews
Number of ratings85 — better3
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaidFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB19 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJunyu KuangMohit Khanna

Customer experience

Spring mini for Twitter

All ratings85 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral5.9%
Negative14.1%
Written reviews54 reviews
Positive63.0%
Neutral11.1%
Negative25.9%

Text without Addressbook

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

In-app purchases

None

Spring mini for Twitter

No in-app purchases

None

Text without Addressbook

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spring mini for Twitter free?
Spring mini for Twitter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Text without Addressbook free?
Text without Addressbook costs $0.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Spring mini for Twitter or Text without Addressbook?
Spring mini for Twitter is rated higher. Spring mini for Twitter averages 4.2 out of 5 from 85 ratings, while Text without Addressbook averages 4.0 from 3 ratings.
Do Spring mini for Twitter or Text without Addressbook have ads?
Neither Spring mini for Twitter nor Text without Addressbook shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spring mini for Twitter or Text without Addressbook?
Spring mini for Twitter ships an update every 3 weeks, and Text without Addressbook every 2 months. Most recently, Spring mini for Twitter was updated on September 22, 2026 and Text without Addressbook on September 19, 2026.

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