It’s for these reasons and more that I’m glad Twitterrific 6 addresses areas the previous version had fallen behind in, particularly in the realm of media. Apps like Twitterrific continue to offer the features power users demand – full control of timeline sorting and position sync across devices, customizable themes, fonts, icons, and more, and a timeline free from promoted tweets. Despite these changes, however, there remains a large market for custom-tailored Twitter experiences that only a third-party client can offer. Twitter has stripped away key functionality these apps once offered, all while the service’s first-party client has grown more capable itself. It’s been a challenging season of late for third-party Twitter clients. If you have any further questions about Twitterrific 6’s pricing model, The Iconfactory has published a detailed breakdown here. If you purchased Twitterrific 5 prior to March 25, 2014, or you’ve never purchased any in-app unlocks, both banner ads and occasional pop-ups will be present for you in Twitterrific 6 until a purchase is made.If your purchase in Twitterrific 5 was recent, you’ll still never receive banner ads, but the pop-up messages will also be hidden for six months from the time of your previous purchase.If you’ve purchased any feature unlocks in Twitterrific since version 5.7, you won’t receive banner ads in version 6, and there will be less frequent pop-ups encouraging you to make a purchase.If you’re an existing Twitterrific 5 user, the above pricing structure comes with some asterisks: Purchase options include subscription plans – $0.99 monthly or $9.99 annually – or, if you’d like to avoid a subscription, you can make a one-time $30 In-App Purchase to remove ads for the life of Twitterrific 6. The full Twitterrific 6 experience is free to all users, however most users will now have banner ads display in the app unless a purchase is made, as well as receive occasional pop-ups encouraging them to make a purchase. App Store economics have changed a lot in that time period, so it’s no surprise that Twitterrific’s pricing model has been revised in this new update. Twitterrific 6 arrives, as I already mentioned, almost seven years after version 5 debuted. Rounding out Twitterrific 6’s customization options, there are three new app icons, of which Neon is my new icon of choice, and the app’s iMessage sticker pack has 12 new stickers for using Ollie, the app’s mascot, in place of common emoji. Joining the expanded set of themes is a new font option: SF Rounded, which is a variation of iOS’ systemwide San Francisco font that instantly became one of my favorite Twitterrific fonts. Dark themes use varying shades of blue, brown, gray, and black to offer a range of differing choices. Two light themes are fairly similar, with the same uses of white and taupe but differences in accent colors the third theme heavily employs pleasant shades of blue and pink. There are now three light themes and five dark themes, each named for a different bird. Themes have received the biggest upgrade, going from three previously (Light, Dark, Black) to a grand total of eight in Twitterrific 6. Recent updates to Twitterrific have offered more and more ways to customize the app’s appearance to your preferences, and version 6 continues that trend with a handful of new display options. New themes, new icons, and (right) the new font. Twitterrific 6 now fully supports this feature, displaying both the quoted media and that of the new tweet in your timeline.įinally in the realm of media, there’s a new attachment preview screen where you can view full-screen previews of your attached content and also add accessibility descriptions to them if you choose. Recently Twitter made it possible for quote tweets to include media, even in cases where the tweet being quoted has its own media attachments. The way Twitterrific displays images in the timeline has always bugged me, so I’m really happy to see this change in version 6. All audio is automatically muted by default, but if a video contains sound you’ll see a volume indicator in the lower-left corner of the thumbnail tapping anywhere on the video loads it in a full view and unmutes the audio.Īnother meaningful improvement to media in your timeline is that images are now displayed in their native aspect ratio no longer will a thumbnail preview be cropped, except in cases where multiple images are attached to a tweet. GIFs and videos now autoplay as you scroll your timeline, a fantastic addition that nonetheless can be disabled if it’s not your thing. There are also three built-in filters you can activate with a single tap: Reactions, Memes, and Swear Trek. GIPHY support has been built right into Twitterrific, so whenever you compose a tweet you’ll see a new GIF option that brings up a library of GIFs you can browse or search to add to your tweet.
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