Spring mini for Twitter vs Artook
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
Artook
A social platform for visual artists to showcase their work, build a professional portfolio, and connect with a global community. Participate in art contests, discover new talent, and communicate securely with other creators.
- Professional art showcase
- Personalized artist profile/portfolio
- Automatic art stories for followers
- Community-judged art contests
- Advanced art discovery
- Secure messaging and comments
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Welcome to Artook, the social platform designed from the ground up for the visual artist. Here, your artwork is the center of attention. Artook is not just an app; it's a global space that brings together artists and talents from everywhere, where art becomes the language of dialogue that transcends borders and cultures. Our mission is to elevate art and support creators like you. What makes Artook different from any other platform? ■ Professional Art Showcase: Publish your work (photos, albums, or videos) and add precise tags for the tools and styles used, making it easy for a specialized audience to find you. ■ Your Profile is Your Artistic CV: Design your personal page to reflect your artistic identity, serving as your permanent portfolio and professional resume. ■ Smart Automatic Story: Once you publish your artwork, it automatically becomes a "Story" that reaches all your followers. With a single tap, they are directed to your original post for full interaction. ■ Real Art Contests: Participate for free in our ongoing art competitions. Our system relies on transparent community voting, with clear rules and valuable prizes that your creativity deserves. ■ Advanced Art Discovery: Use the smart Explore page, or search directly for artists or paintings by art type or even the tools used in the drawing. ■ Safe and Secure Communication: Interact freely through direct messages and comments, with full privacy tools that allow you to block annoying accounts and control who sees your content. ■ A Look to the Future: We are constantly developing Artook. Look forward to revolutionary features coming soon, including: ● An integrated art market to buy and sell paintings. ● "Book Your Artist" to request custom artwork or be the artist for hire. ● "Book Your Teacher" to take live art lessons online or become a mentor with us. Join Artook today. Be part of a community that is redefining the art scene, one masterpiece at a time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Artook at 5.0 against Spring mini for Twitter's 4.2. Artook also leads on monetization model (ad-supported vs paid). Spring mini for Twitter's advantage is ratings volume (85 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.1 vs 15.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Artook holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spring mini for Twitter has 85 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Spring mini for Twitter ships an update every 3 weeks, Artook every 4 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and September 6, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Spring mini for Twitter | Artook |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (85 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 63.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 85 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 4 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.1 — better | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 73 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Junyu Kuang | artook |
Customer experience
Spring mini for Twitter
Artook
In-app purchases
Spring mini for Twitter
No in-app purchases
Artook
No in-app purchases
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