Comparison

Tweet Plus vs Spring Classic

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

Head to head
About

Tweet Plus

Expand your messaging capabilities beyond traditional character limits. Customize your posts with various backgrounds, personal images, and text formatting options. Share longer thoughts, poems, or pasted content with ease.

Highlights
  • Compose messages beyond character limits
  • Select custom backgrounds
  • Use personal images
  • Customize text formatting
  • Adjust text size
Features
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Tired of the 140 characters limit? Wanna Tweet bigger messages, poems, stories, or pasted text snippets? With Twitter Plus, you can do that and more: Choose different backgrounds, use your own images, choose Text formatting and size, among others. Check it out!

About

Spring Classic

This app offers a highly customizable Twitter experience for iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Tailor your interface with custom tabs, actions, themes, and fonts. Enhance your browsing with user notes, iCloud sync, and even game controller support.

Highlights
  • Customizable tab bar
  • Configurable tweet actions
  • Theme and accent color editor
  • Font customization
  • User notes and aliases
  • iCloud data sync
  • Game controller support
Features
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Spring Classic is a Twitter client for iPhone, iPad and Mac. Features fast performance, truly native design and a highly customizable user interface. 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 built-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 fine-tune 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 Game Controller (require iOS 14, iPadOS 14, macOS 11 or a newer system) • Control the app and browse tweets with a compatible game controller, such as a Playstation DualSense/DualShock, Nintendo Switch, Xbox or MFi controller • Customize button functions via in-app settings • Set extra functions for Adaptive Triggers on the Playstation DualSense controller 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: • Universal Purchase: purchase once, and install on your iPhone, iPad and Mac • 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 • Full Screen mode on iPhone let your timeline content fill the entire screen once you start scrolling • Mute List filters out unwanted tweets and users • Check recent tweets on your home screen or notification center with widgets • 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 • Option to 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 (iPhone and iPad); open browser app and load website in background (Mac) • Open multiple windows on iPad and Mac • Customizable Link Preview experience • Customizable text translation experience • Automatic video and GIF playback on the Timeline • Supports changing app icon on iPhone, iPad and Mac • Turn on/off content scaling on Mac for extra screen estate or sharper text • 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

Screenshots

Tweet Plus4 screens
Spring Classic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Tweet Plus at 5.0 against Spring Classic's 4.3. Tweet Plus also leads on monetization model (free vs paid) and review sentiment (100% vs 67%). Spring Classic's advantage is ratings volume (128 vs 1). 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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Tweet Plus holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spring Classic has 128 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Tweet Plus's written reviews are positive against 67% of Spring Classic's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tweet Plus versus Spring Classic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTweet PlusSpring Classic
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.3 (128 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better67.3% of reviews
Number of ratings1128 — better
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree — betterPaid
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS7.0 — better13.1
Further details — not scored
Size12 MB71 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperMariano GuadagniniJunyu Kuang

Customer experience

Tweet Plus

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Spring Classic

All ratings128 ratings
Positive82.0%
Neutral3.9%
Negative14.1%
Written reviews110 reviews
Positive67.3%
Neutral7.3%
Negative25.5%

Bugs and requests

Tweet Plus

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Spring Classic

Reported bugs

16 issues
  • Messages/DM functionality returns 404 errors
  • Search returns 404 errors or same results repeatedly
  • Timeline sync doesn't work despite being advertised
  • Cannot like or post tweets
  • Feed doesn't remember scroll position and resets to top
Show 11 more
  • Media tabs display buggy content
  • Force closes on launch
  • Account authentication fails after password changes
  • Expired or invalid account info errors
  • Unauthorized error code 401 on sign in
  • Content marked as inaccessible when needed most
  • Replies don't load completely without manual refresh
  • Videos play inconsistently
  • Rate limiting errors preventing tweets
  • App stops syncing with Twitter after installation
  • Becomes unusable with each update

Requested features

10 requests
  • Push notification support
  • Multi-image/media tweet support with same layout as Twitter
  • Location tagging feature
  • Additional text size options matching official Twitter app
  • App lock feature (like Telegram)
Show 5 more
  • Mastodon client version
  • Bluesky client version
  • Deep linking to open Spring from other apps
  • QR code scanning integration
  • Share tweet as image generation feature

In-app purchases

None

Tweet Plus

No in-app purchases

None

Spring Classic

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tweet Plus free?
Tweet Plus is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spring Classic free?
Spring Classic is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tweet Plus or Spring Classic?
Tweet Plus is rated higher. Tweet Plus averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Spring Classic averages 4.3 from 128 ratings.
Do Tweet Plus or Spring Classic have ads?
Neither Tweet Plus nor Spring Classic shows ads.

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