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.
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.
- 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
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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
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.
- Start single contact chats
- Start multiple contact chats
- Select contacts from dropdown
- ISD code selection menu
- No contact saving required
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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.
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Spring mini for Twitter | Text without Addressbook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $0.99 |
| Rating | 4.2 (85 ratings) — better | 4.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 63.0% of reviews — better | 50.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 85 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.1 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Junyu Kuang | Mohit Khanna |
Customer experience
Spring mini for Twitter
Text without Addressbook
In-app purchases
Spring mini for Twitter
No in-app purchases
Text without Addressbook
No in-app purchases
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