Comparison

Spring mini for Twitter vs Aether Chat

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
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

About

Aether Chat

Features
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Aether is a self-hosted chat client for people, teams, and communities that want to run their own communication server. Instead of depending on a centrally hosted chat platform, Aether connects to an Aether server operated by you or your organization. Once signed in, you can chat with contacts, send files, and keep your communication on infrastructure you control. Aether supports LAN, peer-to-peer, and relay routes so messages and files can use the best available path for the current network. Users can also block contacts locally and report abusive users to the connected server administrator. For App Review, a hosted demo server and demo account are provided so reviewers do not need to deploy server software.

Screenshots

Spring mini for Twitter4 screens
Aether Chat4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Spring mini for Twitter at 13.1 against Aether Chat's 17.0. On price, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Spring mini for Twitter versus Aether Chat: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpring mini for TwitterAether Chat
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (85 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews63.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings85 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS13.1 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size59 MB11 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJunyu KuangShenzhen Wisforce Technology Co.,Ltd.

In-app purchases

None

Spring mini for Twitter

No in-app purchases

None

Aether Chat

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Spring mini for Twitter free?
Spring mini for Twitter is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Aether Chat free?
Aether Chat is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Spring mini for Twitter or Aether Chat have ads?
Neither Spring mini for Twitter nor Aether Chat shows ads.

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