Spring 27 for Twitter vs Swiftgram
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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
Swiftgram
A modified Telegram client offering enhanced privacy, unlimited accounts, and advanced messaging features. Enjoy ad-free communication with tools like message filtering, real-time translation, and voice-to-text transcription.
- Unlimited accounts
- Message filtering
- Voice-to-text transcription
- Real-time chat translation
- Customizable interface
- Apple Watch companion
- Privacy-focused features
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Swiftgram is a modded client for Telegram with Lots of features, focus on Privacy, No Limits, No Ads. Completelly Open Source and includes all latest updates from Telegram plus UNLIMITED ACCOUNTS: Add as many numbers as you want for FREE. ACCOUNTS BACKUP: Log-in to your accounts without SMS-code. Restore all Sessions that are still Active on Telegram servers. MESSAGE FILTER: Reduce visibility of SPAM, promotions and annoying messages. FORMATTING PANEL: Bold, Italic, Links? Formatting with just a single tap. VOICE-TO-TEXT: Transcribe audio messages to text for FREE. TRANSLATOR: Real-time translations for an entire chat. Translate messages you send with a single tap. STORIES: Hide stories or disable swipe for recording. APPLE WATCH COMPANION: Send and Receive Text and Voice messages on your Watch, only in Swiftgram! CHAT MANAGEMENT: Control Tabs, Hide "All Chats", move Folders to bottom and remember the last opened Folder to quickly jump into the discussion. HIDE NOTIFICATIONS: No more Pinned Messages or @mentions when you need some piece of mind. 50+ CUSTOMIZATIONS: Tabs, Chat List and Folders, Profiles, Stories, Translator, Better Photos, Stickers, Context Menu and much, MUCH MORE! SIMPLICITY: Swiftgram remains easy to use with no interface clutter. PRIVACY-FOCUSED: Instant Passcode Lock, Completelly Open Source, No Ads, No Trackers. Your messages and chats remain secure. ACCESSIBILITY: Improved VoiceOver support for Messages Sharing, cause A11y matters! Follow the news: @swiftgram Discuss: @swiftgramchat Swiftgram is an unofficial fork based on Telegram API. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Spring 27 for Twitter at weekly against Swiftgram's monthly. Swiftgram's advantage is chart position (#201 vs unranked) and ratings volume (646 vs 92). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads 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
Both are free to download. Spring 27 for Twitter sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Swiftgram sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.1 for Spring 27 for Twitter against 4.2 for Swiftgram. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Swiftgram has 646 ratings behind it against 92, 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 69% of Swiftgram's.
Spring 27 for Twitter ships an update weekly, Swiftgram monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spring 27 for Twitter | Swiftgram |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (92 ratings) | 4.2 (646 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.3% of reviews | 69.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 92 | 646 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #201 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 70 MB | 251 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Junyu Kuang | Akentech Ltd |
Customer experience
Spring 27 for Twitter
Swiftgram
Bugs and requests
Spring 27 for Twitter
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Swiftgram
Reported bugs
5 issues- Search bar crashes the app
- Forwarded messages disappear
- Notification issues and unknown caller spam
- Slow message loading and account switching
- Crashes when accessing storage usage section
Requested features
5 requests- Add Thai language support
- Integrate with iOS call features
- Implement 'show restricted content' for entire chats
- Add 'add to cloud' option for direct message saving
- Allow custom app icon selection
In-app purchases
Spring 27 for Twitter
- Spring Ultra for iPhone7 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Spring Ultra14 Days trial$2.991 Month
Swiftgram
- Swiftgram Pro$3.991 Month
Questions
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