Birdie for Twitter Reviews

best kept secret that shouldn’t be kept - hence this review for your sake. Do you wish you could utilize Twitter without ads and having to see everything that everyone else likes or shares? This is it. I’m not sure how the developers are paying for this - nor am I sure how long it will last in this incredibly pure form - but I’m going to enjoy it for as long as it does. Keep it up, this app. You’re doing it.

4 months since the last update and some things don't work right. All tweets in Favorites section are duplicated. Normal timeline jumps around so I lose where I was at as I was scrolling. Both happen each time I am using Birdie and it wastes my time.

If Birdie didn't have the favorites section, I'd probably give this 1-star and delete Birdie but I really like the notifications for the faves I selected. I like this better than how the main Twitter app does it. I tweeted for support since there is no email address in the Help section, it just makes you send a tweet. Then the dev never replied. I've waited for months for a reply. I give up. Maybe this will generate a response and maybe they'll fix the bugs.

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This is the best Twitter app I have found that isn't riddled with ads that require a monthly subscription fee to remove.. Apps should not be subscription based (unless it's a video streaming service). Birdie also doesn't drain the tar out of my battery as the "official" Twitter app does.

Just one request if I may though! Would be cool if while scrolling through tweets the top/bottom bars become hidden. They take up a bit of space. Could even add it as a feature with a toggle switch for hiding top or bottom or both 😉

Other than that though, hands down the best Twitter app!

A very good application. Just very good. I like it more than native.
There are only two nuances. First, I would like to hide the new tweet button. Second, it would be nice to be able to add retweeted users to ignored.

Until a Twitter app can dethrone the official app it needs to at the very least be able to perform ALL the same functions and more. Probably is some basic functionality found in the official twitter app is missing. Even comment threads are poorly payed out compared to the official app. Until these issues are fixed I won’t be using this app which is too bad because it has potential.

First off Birdie in my opinion is better looking than the stock Twitter app, but the only reason I will be going back to the stock Twitter app is because of the timeline. Honestly I would just get rid of the seen and new section and make it a single timeline. Or at least give the option to do that, but other than that no complaints!

this app looks great and introduces a very nice system for using Twitter as a news client, but it’s kind of unfriendly to people who like viewing their regular timelines as well. It’s unable to load comments on retweets and the like buttons are small and hard to press. Birdie also hides anything you type when you are using # and @ which is really annoying.

Birdie is for sure an improvement over the stock Twitter app but there are a few things that keep me from using this otherwise really good Twitter app alternative.

1: Let us see how many people have responded to a tweet. If you can show us how many people liked and retweeted a post, why not replies as well???

2: Give us the ability to also add gifs to tweets. I’m one of those people who use gifs in almost all of my tweets. It was a shame it’s not yet in Birdie .

3: Where is the dev? I feel like he or she has been MIA because the last time Birdie has been updated was 5 months ago. (I am writing this review on May 29, 2019) What’s going on over there?

First of all, Birdie is, in my opinion, better than the Twitter app itself. It’s beautiful, clean, and easy to use. I do have some suggestions though:

1) Please allow Birdie to go into landscape mode while viewing media. It’s frustrating trying to watch a video in portrait all the time.

2) When I get a notification, if I tap on it, it should take me to the actual tweet. Instead, it just opens Birdie .

3) I would like to turn off notifications from favorites without having to turn Birdie notifications off. Just because they are a favorite doesn’t mean I want to be notified EVERY TIME they tweet.

Nice app with a couple bugs, mainly the back button shows both an arrow and the label “Button”. I’d you could get rid of “button” that would be great! But , this is a completely free app with no ads and this isn’t exactly urgent. So ... when you get around to it, it would make Birdie just that much better.

In Favorite Tab, instead of people up there, show our list. I mean, for example, Friends, Family, Hollywood Stars and etc. I mean we can add our personal list and when we touch every circle (List) we can see the tweets of that list. And most important, we can add the people who not following by us.

I would’ve given 4 starts but on the main user interface the most essential screen area is eaten by the useless buttons of top, new, seen and a bigger header “Home”. Why do we need these buttons and why would you destroy a beautiful and clean interface with these?

Overall, it’s a great Twitter client (especially for its price). However, it still have room for improvement: 1. Pls add “slide to exit video” function 2. Those little heart icons on the favorites tab are very hard to tap. 3. Maybe consider let user define the size of avatars and texts?
Thank you developers for buildings Birdie.🥳

Thanks for making an easy way to gather news on twitter!! I can find the real stories that matter and I can keep up with what’s going on around the country. I also love that I can choose my own sources.

I like Birdie more than the official twitter app. Only thing is it need a bit more polishing and it’ll be my go to app. Also the news section is way better than twitters.

Hard to search when you find it does not scroll item at top unable to select no scroll overall its getting there

But then saw that it copies your clipboard every time you open Birdie (apple’s popup message stating that it copied from the clipboard). So if you copied anything sensitive like bank info etc. then it would be pasted to Birdie and there is no way to see how it’s being used or where it’s being sent to. Ended up deleting Birdie .

This really is an amazing app - it takes the best of Twitter and presents it beautifully. The fact that it collects interesting news articles from your timeline is a nice plus. This is what twitter should be - simple and impactful, minus the trolls and bots.

It crashes when we want to customize the tab bar, and video only plays for 1second. Practically unwatchable

Great looking design, responsive and accessible. No content though, zero content loads on any tab. Tweetbot and Twitter apps working fine. Looking forward to content loading for me. iOS 15.3.1 iPhone 12 mini

Dev won’t respond to any inquiries. The Seen screen is a great idea but doesn’t populate with any tweets. No idea why not. Just a blank screen.

The whole News thing is another great idea but not really anything remarkable.

Just an average Twitter client. Better off just sticking with Twitter’s own app.