Comparison

Spring 27 for Twitter vs FocusX for Twitter

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 social networking app offers a highly customizable Twitter experience with a native design and advanced features like widgets, column view, and controller support. It prioritizes user privacy and allows for extensive theme and font customization.

Highlights
  • Highly customizable interface
  • Widgets for home screen and notification center
  • Column View for iPad and Mac
  • Game controller support
  • Advanced theme and font customization
  • Multiple account management
  • Tweet filtering and muting
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

FocusX for Twitter

Enhance your social media experience with a cleaner interface, powerful customization options, and advanced filtering. Enjoy a pure, ad-free timeline with integrated translation and native video playback.

Highlights
  • Clean Material Design UI
  • Extensive customization (themes, fonts)
  • Powerful mute filters
  • Integrated translation
  • Native video/GIF playback
  • Fully customizable tabs
Features
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Please note: This is an unofficial Twitter/X app(a third-part Twitter/X app), and we use the API provided by Twitter to improve some of the experience Tired of seeing ads and promotions in your timeline, being disrupted by tweets from bots and people you don't like, or just want a pure Twitter experience back like the good old days? Try it! It is a truly unique and beautiful app for Twitter with a lot of useful features. • Clean and beautiful Material Design UI • Extremely Customizable – themes, font related customizations – basically everything you’d ever wish to be able to customize, it’s all there for you. Tailor your perfect experience • Powerful mute filters • Night mode • Fully customizable tabs • Excellent download function, picture, video, just long press it • The integrated translation function displays the translation directly below the original content • Play Twitter videos and GIFs without leaving your timeline • Native YouTube, Twitter GIF, and Twitter video playback It is open source, based on Harpy -- Subscription Details -- • Monthly 、Quaterly and annual subscriptions are available • Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase • Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is disabled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period • Automatic renewals will be charged at the same price you were originally charged for the subscription • Subscriptions can be managed or cancelled by going to Account Settings on the App Store after purchase Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/privacypolicyoffocustwitterx

Screenshots

Spring 27 for Twitter4 screens
FocusX for Twitter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Spring 27 for Twitter at 4.1 against FocusX for Twitter's 2.5. Spring 27 for Twitter also leads on ads (none vs shown) and review sentiment (62% vs 33%). FocusX for Twitter's advantage is iOS requirement (12.1 vs 17.0). On price, update cadence, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 and FocusX for Twitter sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Spring 27 for Twitter holds the better App Store score, 4.1 against 2.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spring 27 for Twitter has 92 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 62% of Spring 27 for Twitter's written reviews are positive against 33% of FocusX for Twitter's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spring 27 for Twitter ships an update weekly, FocusX for Twitter every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Spring 27 for Twitter versus FocusX for Twitter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpring 27 for TwitterFocusX for Twitter
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (92 ratings) — better2.5 (8 ratings)
Positive reviews62.3% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings92 — better8
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.012.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB113 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperJunyu Kuang婉 万

Customer experience

Spring 27 for Twitter

All ratings92 ratings
Positive76.1%
Neutral5.4%
Negative18.5%
Written reviews61 reviews
Positive62.3%
Neutral9.8%
Negative27.9%

FocusX for Twitter

All ratings8 ratings
Positive25.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews9 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral22.2%
Negative44.4%

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
3 purchases

FocusX for Twitter

Subscriptions3
  • Pro Monthly$1.491 Month
  • Pro Quaterly$3.493 Months
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$6.991 Year

Questions

Is Spring 27 for Twitter free?
Spring 27 for Twitter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is FocusX for Twitter free?
FocusX for Twitter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Spring 27 for Twitter or FocusX for Twitter?
Spring 27 for Twitter is rated higher. Spring 27 for Twitter averages 4.1 out of 5 from 92 ratings, while FocusX for Twitter averages 2.5 from 8 ratings.
Do Spring 27 for Twitter or FocusX for Twitter have ads?
FocusX for Twitter shows ads; Spring 27 for Twitter does not.
Which is updated more often, Spring 27 for Twitter or FocusX for Twitter?
Spring 27 for Twitter ships an update weekly, and FocusX for Twitter every 2 weeks. Most recently, Spring 27 for Twitter was updated on November 3, 2026 and FocusX for Twitter on November 3, 2026.

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