The developers did this to make sure that the community truly wanted Twitterrific to be resurrected before putting all the coding hours into creating the Mac app once again.
Here we are, years down the road and a Kickstarter campaign launched to revive my favorite Twitter client for Mac. Since it seemed like Twitteriffic’s developer, Iconfactory had thrown in the towel for the Mac version, I moved on and started using different apps to manage my Twitter accounts. It’s not that Twitterrific didn’t make a wonderful iOS app, but I wanted my Twitter clients to work with each other between platforms. It was truly sad and I constantly searched for something to replace my old friend because without one platform I didn’t want the other. Tweetie was eventually bought by Twitter and subsequently dismantled and Twitterrific fell off my radar when they dropped the Mac client several years ago. Both apps I used on my iPhone and without them, I probably would have never used Twitter. Twitterrific 5 for macOS is available to purchase on the Mac App Store for $19.99 and runs on macOS 10.11 El Capitan or later.Back in the day, the first two Twitter clients I used were Tweetie and Twitterrific. Block and report spammers with a single click.Follow and unfollow other users directly from their user profile.View user profiles including past tweets, likes & mentions.Customize the appearance of media in the timeline or hide it completely.Robust in-app media viewer with detachable popovers.Muffles & mutes synced from Twitterrific for iOS via iCloud.Share a tweet with actions for email, Messages, Safari Reading List & more.In-app media viewing for images, animated GIFs, Instagram & more.Translate tweets to your native language.Support for tweet storms & chained tweet threads.Browse conversation threads between users.
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Check out global and local trending topics.Autocompletion of usernames & hashtags while editing tweets.Quick access to Emoji when composing new tweets.Support for Retweet (RT) & Quoted tweets.System-wide alerts for mentions & direct messages via Notification Center.Timeline syncing of reading position across all platforms via iCloud.View mentions, messages, and favorites quickly and easily.True multi-account/multi-window support.
#TWITTERRIFIC 5 REVIEW FULL#
Here’s the full feature list for Twitterrific 5.0 for macOS: Twiterrific also includes VoiceOver support for navigating the timeline, composing tweets, and the option to add a text description to images as a fantastic accessibility feature.Īnd like the iOS version, Twitterrific 5 for macOS lets you quickly fix typo tweets with an edit workaround that actually deletes the typo tweet and replaces it with your edited version without manually copying and pasting the tweet. Twitterrific lets you choose between two themes (light and dark), a handful of fonts including Menlo (shown below), nine text sizes ranging from Tiny to CHOCK, and three media thumbnail options.Ĭhanging between light and dark theme also changes the window color for menus even if you’re not using the basic ‘Use dark menu bar and Dock’ preference which is a nice touch, and media opens in a whimsical and fluid popover with share options and even playback controls for video included. But even if you’re not yet a Twitterrific user, the interest in the new app existing is both good news for the Mac as a platform as well as the Mac Twitter client competition (which Twitter tries to prevent without maintaining its own app well). Ultimately, the Kickstarter campaign received $108,346 from 2,852 backers.įor users of Twitterrific for iOS, this launch means there’s finally a modern version of their favorite Twitter client for the desktop again. With Project Phoenix, however, The Iconfactory used crowdfunding to ensure demand for a modern Mac client before devoting months of development work to the project.
#TWITTERRIFIC 5 REVIEW FOR MAC#
Twitterrific for Mac has been effectively dead for the last few years as the market shifted to iOS where Twitterrific 5 has experimented with in-app purchases to remove ads and unlock features. Twitterrific for macOS is a totally new version of the Twitter client with a modern design that includes a dark theme, visual customization, muffle/mute/timeline syncing to the iOS app, and more. The Iconfactory has officially launched Twitterrific 5 for Mac after a successful Kickstarter campaign for Project Phoenix earlier this year.
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