Twidere X vs FocusX for Twitter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Twidere X
This app offers a streamlined social media browsing experience with features like a chronological timeline, in-line media display, and conversation thread viewing. It allows for extensive interface customization, multi-account support, and advanced search capabilities without advertisements.
- Chronological timeline with retweets and comments
- In-line picture, GIF, and video display
- Album mode for image galleries
- Quick display of up to 2 levels of tweet conversations
- Customizable interface (avatar style, dark mode, text size)
- Send tweets with photos, subjects, and locations
- Multiple account support
- Advanced search functionality
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Timeline - See what's new and what's happening! Tweets are sorted by time, support for displaying retweets with comments, and quick display of discussion threads. Pictures, GIFs, and videos are displayed in a completely new design. Complete features to ensure your browsing experience. Album mode - Enjoy the pure picture waterfall on the search and profile page. At the same time, multiple pictures in the timeline and tweets are displayed in an elegant form. Quickly display the discussion thread-Complete view of the discussion! Up to 2 levels of tweet conversations can be quickly displayed in tweets. Customized personalized interface - Perfect personalization features allow users to customize their interface: support for setting avatar style, following system settings to display light or dark mode, and customizing text size. Send tweets - You can send live photos in your tweets, or select images from the photo gallery. Send tweets that include the subject and location. Multiple accounts - Use as many identities as you want! You can add multiple Twitter accounts to Twidere X, ensuring that they don't interfere with each other. Search - Find tweets, media, and users among thousands of information. You can also use advanced search syntax to get more effective information. User Profile Display - New design for user’s homepage display. Subtle display of avatar, profile, and background. Also, the number of users following and follower, click to enter the list. User tweets display - a perfect display of user-related tweets and liked tweets with a quick display of discussion threads. Images are elegantly displayed in album mode. No ads - We do not carry any ads! A cool tweet experience. Twitter is a trademark of Twitter, Inc.
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.
- Clean Material Design UI
- Extensive customization (themes, fonts)
- Powerful mute filters
- Integrated translation
- Native video/GIF playback
- Fully customizable tabs
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Twidere X at 4.3 against FocusX for Twitter's 2.5. Twidere X also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 3) and ads (none vs shown). FocusX for Twitter's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (12.1 vs 16.0). On price and update cadence 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. FocusX for Twitter sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per month. Twidere X asks for nothing beyond the download.
Twidere X holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 2.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 33 and 8 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of Twidere X's written reviews are positive against 33% of FocusX for Twitter's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Twidere X | FocusX for Twitter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (33 ratings) — better | 2.5 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 113 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | SUJITEKU LIMITED LIABILITY CO. | 婉 万 |
Customer experience
Twidere X
FocusX for Twitter
In-app purchases
Twidere X
No in-app purchases
FocusX for Twitter
- Pro Monthly$1.491 Month
- Pro Quaterly$3.493 Months
- Pro Yearly7 Days trial$6.991 Year
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