We've been missing Twitterrific on our Macs for a long time and we know we're not alone. Today we're announcing a plan to bring it back: Project Phoenix. Free full version plants vs zombies.
After much consideration, we decided that the best way forward was to go back to the beginning. Rather than bending the long-neglected Twitterrific for Mac into a new shape, we will borrow what we can from iOS and use it to build a modern new macOS app.
Twitterrific Mac Shortcuts
Twitterrific is a Mac-only application which has been around for ages but only recently had a huge update. It used to be our goto tool for Twitter and it's back available but as a commercial tool. The first thing you might notice: no ads. Although we're not convinced this will please Twitter, Twitterrific will remove all adverts and promotional. Twitterrific feels right at home on the Mac. Support for Notification Center, Retina displays, built-in sharing, beautiful animations, full-screen mode & more. Re-imagined from the ground up to be the Mac's most friendly, powerful and modern Twitter client. Twitterrific makes Twitter fun.
To achieve such a large undertaking in a reasonable timeframe, we'll start small: Our goal is to deliver a minimal Twitter client much like the original Twitterrific for Mac, but with a feature set that fits how we use Twitter in 2017 instead of how we thought we wanted to use it back in 2007.
We're confident that we can do this, but we need your help! Please check out our Kickstarter page, watch the video and study the plan. There are many different funding levels including regular access to beta builds all through Phoenix's lifespan. If you're the kind of person who loves to see software evolve through it's development, or just want to start using a new Twitterrific on your desktop sooner rather than later, this one is for you.
Twitterrific For Mac
This is our first Kickstarter project and a new way for us to fund our software development. The main reason the Mac app languished is because we aren't sure that there's a market for a desktop social networking product (it's easy to make a case that all our social activities have moved to mobile.) For our small software company, the risk of recouping development costs was just too high. Kickstarter removes this unpredictability and gives us an exact budget to work against.
Together, we can make a new Twitterrific for Mac a reality. Make a pledge, and with luck, we can get started soon!
There are so many apps for accessing Twitter from your Mac, but if you've used the official app, you'll soon realise it might be worth committing to a commercial tool if you want to improve productivity. The official Twitter app is slow, a resource hog and has huge delays with direct messages.
Twitterrific is a Mac-only application which has been around for ages but only recently had a huge update. It used to be our goto tool for Twitter and it's back available but as a commercial tool.
The first thing you might notice: no ads. Although we're not convinced this will please Twitter, Twitterrific will remove all adverts and promotional messages from your timeline. Another highlight is the multi-window approach to Twitter, enabling you to open a specific window for each account, so if you have more than one Twitter account, you can follow each without having to switch accounts.
Twitterrific Mac App Store
Twitterrific offers you both a regular light and Night Mode, which is a dark theme which works very effectively. You can sync your position within your Twitter timeline using iCloud, which is handy if you want to pick up where you left off on your laptop, after work.
Where Twitterrific excels is its support for notifications, which can be controlled in the Notification Center. It also adds support for Apple's VoiceOver,
Twitterrific 5 For Mac
Sadly, despite being a commercial product, there are some key things missing. For example, you can't add images to direct messages. You can't start a tweet and save it to drafts to edit later. You can't edit your geolocation and more. All these are on the to do list.
Our issue is the price. It's $19.99 or £19.99 in the UK. Expensive for a social media tool.
Verdict:
Twitterrific is promising, but hindered by the price and some important 'to do' features which are yet to be included.
