That, of course, comes with some trade-offs. Tweetbot has always been better than Twitter’s own app for opening webpages thanks to non-modal web views, but extensions take Tapbots’ app to the next level for processing tweets and links. I can tweet with Linky’s tweet panel inside Tweetbot if I want – a testament to the democratization of app features that extensions bring to iOS 8. If you follow recipe blogs, you could use the AnyList extension to save recipes to your account without leaving the app.
#TWEETBOT 5 ARCHIVE#
With extensions available in my Twitter timeline, I can quickly save links to Pinner, archive them in Evernote, and even pin Twitter photos to Pinterest – tap & hold a tweet with photos, bring up the Pinterest extension, and it’ll scan the tweet for images.Īny read-later app can now be integrated natively with Tweetbot thanks to the share sheet. In testing Tweetbot 3.5, I’ve noticed that I now tend to use Twitter favorites less as temporary bookmarks and more as real favorites for tweets I like. I turned Twitter favorites into an inbox because it was hard to share links quickly on iOS. Over the years, I developed a habit of marking tweets I found interesting as favorites so I could later go through all of them and manually bookmark them on Pinboard, add them to Evernote, or save them to other apps. Tweetbot featured support for Instapaper, but its integrations stopped at read-later services. I discover apps, products, and great reads thanks to Twitter, but neither the old Tweetbot or Twitter’s app allowed me to act on those links right away with no friction. I probably spend too much time on Twitter, but I can’t deny that the people and websites I follow give me a consistent amount of interesting links I use for articles, MacStories Weekly, and podcasting. Every time you tap & hold a tweet/link or hit the share icon in your timeline or a web view, Tweetbot 3.5 will open the iOS 8 share sheet.
With iOS 8, Tapbots has decided to fully embrace extensions (abandoning the custom contextual menu they had built for Tweetbot 3) by switching to Apple’s share sheet for action and share extensions. What’s changing today in Tweetbot is the action menu for tweets and links. The app hasn’t changed considerably – it has evolved in expected ways and within the limitations imposed by Twitter’s API for third-party apps.
Unfortunately, third-party apps can’t access the quick reply feature found in Apple’s Messages app: like Twitter, tapping the Reply button in a notification won’t let you reply immediately but it’ll take you to Tweetbot instead.įrom a visual perspective, Tweetbot 3.5 looks and works the same, keeping the foundation that Tapbots introduced with Tweetbot 3 last year. Including an updated macOS version of Tweetbot in that monthly or yearly subscription could also help add value to the new subscription, a strategy that other apps like Fantastical have employed in their own jumps from paid apps to ongoing subscriptions.Tweetbot 3.5 looks great on the iPhone 6, and its new notifications allow me to quickly mark a tweet as favorite without opening the app.
#TWEETBOT 5 UPGRADE#
The company also has yet to announce any upgrade plans for the Mac version of Tweetbot, which currently uses the older Twitter API and still costs $9.99 upfront to use. Tapbots does note on its website that the new version of Tweetbot 6 is an “early access” version of the app, with “many new features on our roadmap to be built as well as new API’s to adopt as Twitter makes them available,” so it’s possible that the new app will get further functionality over time that may ease the bitter pill of the pricer subscription change. Furthermore, Tapbots will soon stop selling Tweetbot 5 on the App Store ( developer Paul Haddad says Apple made that a requirement to approve the new version), so new users soon won’t have the choice to buy the outdated older version for a single-time payment. At $0.99 per month (or a discounted $5.99 per year), the new app marks a price increase no matter how you look at things, while offering only a handful of new features to make up the difference.
#TWEETBOT 5 UPDATE#
The free version of the app offers some basic functionality in allowing users to view Twitter - but you’ll have to pay for more substantial features, including the ability to send or reply to tweets, along with support for multiple accounts, push notifications, and “advanced filtering.”Įxisting users may find the update to be a bit frustrating, given that Tweetbot 5 had previously been a single-time purchase for $4.99. Twitter launches new API as it tries to make amends with third-party developers
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