The iPhone version of Chitter has seen many improvements over the last year, but it also has critical bugs. What’s the point of skip and accept buttons if you can’t see the messages that the stranger is sending without first tapping accept? There’s still a bug where every so often a chat with a stranger will suddenly end after you press the button to send a message, which has persisted for months now. More recently, a bug was introduced where, occasionally, tapping a notification to open a message from an added user will cause the message to vanish completely.
I have been a paying user of Chitter for 10 months now, and by far my biggest disappointment has been the lack of a competent iPad app. There is absolutely no proper support for Slide Over or Split View, which is absolutely an abomination on my 12.9 inch iPad Pro; it is ridiculous that I have to have this app use up my entire screen to even work properly, not to mention the lack of usage of a two pane view controller like other messaging apps. Because of these major faults, I don’t have the iPad app installed on any of my iPads, and I have severe doubts about the ability to use iCloud to sync my existing chats between my iPhone and my iPad. Any update on this would be greatly appreciated, would bump this review to at least four stars (pending those other bugs being fixed), and help me to feel like I’m not being ripped from my money every month.