The Twitterrific Twitter app has been on the stage for years, but with version 5 IconFactory has completely overhauled the apps interface, giving it a radical new look.
Twitterrific 5 just debuted as a universal iOS app, with a launch price of $2.99. Rebuilt graphically from the ground up, it’s a significant departure from how the app used to look. There’s a laundry list of new features, too:
• Universal app for iPhone and iPad
• All-new, fresh user interface
• Optimized for smooth, fast performance
• Unified, color-coded timeline for easy reference
• Customizable theme control
– Dark/Light themes
– Choice of font & font sizes
– Avatar size
– Line spacing
– Brightness control
• In-app tweet type notifications (Mentions & DM’s)
• VoiceOver support
• Easy account switching
• Pull to refresh
• Powerful gestures for quick control
• Supports Twitter picture service
• Attach and view location on tweets
• Native RT & RT with Comment
• People search
• Discussion view
• Threaded DM view
• Pinnable sidebar (iPad version)
• Automatic switch to Dark theme at night
• Timeline syncing using iCloud or Tweet Marker
• Read-it-later using Instapaper & Pocket
• Translates tweets into your own language
• Advanced gap detection
• Offline support for posting, favoriting & following
Unfortunately, for all that it’s shiny and new, and generally pretty darned good, it’s still missing one major feature that most modern Twitter apps have: push notifications. That’s right, there’s still no native push support built in to the app, which seems a significant flaw.
However, apart from that, reviews so far have been mostly positive. See one from our podcast co-host Marianne Schultz, as well as a bunch of others.
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