Comparison

Spring 27 for Twitter vs Swiftgram

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

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.

Highlights
  • Unlimited accounts
  • Message filtering
  • Voice-to-text transcription
  • Real-time chat translation
  • Customizable interface
  • Apple Watch companion
  • Privacy-focused features
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/

Screenshots

Spring 27 for Twitter4 screens
Swiftgram4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

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 Swiftgram sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $3.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

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 4.2 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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Spring 27 for Twitter ships an update weekly, Swiftgram monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Spring 27 for Twitter versus Swiftgram: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpring 27 for TwitterSwiftgram
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (92 ratings)4.2 (646 ratings) — better
Positive reviews62.3% of reviews69.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings92646 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFree with in-app purchases
Best chart rank—#201 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, MaciPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.015.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size70 MB251 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperJunyu KuangAkentech Ltd

Customer experience

Spring 27 for Twitter

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

Swiftgram

All ratings612 ratings
Positive78.9%
Neutral6.0%
Negative15.0%
Written reviews451 reviews
Positive69.4%
Neutral10.2%
Negative20.4%

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

2 purchases

Spring 27 for Twitter

Subscriptions2
  • Spring Ultra for iPhone7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Spring Ultra14 Days trial$2.991 Month
1 purchases

Swiftgram

Subscriptions1
  • Swiftgram Pro$3.991 Month

Questions

Is Spring 27 for Twitter free?
Spring 27 for Twitter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Swiftgram free?
Swiftgram is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Spring 27 for Twitter or Swiftgram?
Swiftgram is rated higher. Spring 27 for Twitter averages 4.1 out of 5 from 92 ratings, while Swiftgram averages 4.2 from 646 ratings.
Do Spring 27 for Twitter or Swiftgram have ads?
Neither Spring 27 for Twitter nor Swiftgram shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Spring 27 for Twitter or Swiftgram?
Spring 27 for Twitter ships an update weekly, and Swiftgram monthly. Most recently, Spring 27 for Twitter was updated on October 31, 2026 and Swiftgram on October 30, 2026.

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