Eddy for Twitter vs Downpour
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Eddy for Twitter
This app presents your Twitter feed one tweet at a time in a fullscreen, animated display. It allows for hands-free reading of tweets, supporting your home timeline, hashtags, and searches.
- Fullscreen animated tweet display
- Hands-free reading
- Home timeline view
- Hashtag browsing
- Search functionality
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Eddy animates through your twitter feed, one tweet at a time in a fullscreen display. That means you can read the latest tweets while keeping your hands free for cooking or coding or eating nachos while you watch the game. The default view is your home timeline (people you follow), but you can also view #hashtags and searches.
Downpour
Experience a streamlined way to view content from a popular blogging platform. This app offers faster loading and a focused interface for videos, photos, and text posts, avoiding issues found in other clients.
- Lightweight third-party client
- Focused content viewing
- Faster loading times
- Dashboard viewing
- Supports videos, photos, and text
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Downpour is a lightweight third party Tumblr client. No more crashes in the official app. With Downpour, you will be focused on videos, photos, or text of a post. Viewing your Dashboard has never been such easy. Also enjoy faster loading. Let us know in the review if you have any question, suggestion or feedback. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Eddy for Twitter at 80% against Downpour's 33%. Eddy for Twitter also leads on rating (4.6 vs 3.8) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). Downpour's advantage is update cadence (monthly vs every 2 months). On price, ratings volume, ads 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
Both are free to download. Downpour sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.49 per 7 days. Eddy for Twitter asks for nothing beyond the download.
Eddy for Twitter holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 15 and 6 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 80% of Eddy for Twitter's written reviews are positive against 33% of Downpour's.
Eddy for Twitter ships an update every 2 months, Downpour monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Eddy for Twitter | Downpour |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (15 ratings) — better | 3.8 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 11.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 45 MB | 19 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Chris Ricca | Yao Fan |
Customer experience
Eddy for Twitter
Downpour
In-app purchases
Eddy for Twitter
No in-app purchases
Downpour
- Downpour Ad Free Browsing3 Days trial$1.497 Days
- Downpour Ad-Free Browsing7 Days trial$3.991 Month
