Twitterrific 6 brings full timeline images, Giphy integration, new customization goodies more

Twitterrific, The Iconfactory’s venerable Twitter app, start launched dorsum inwards 2008. Today, it was bumped to version 6.0 on App Store. Twitterrific 6.0 delivers a bunch of novel features together with improvements along amongst a alter of concern model that at 1 time embraces subscriptions.

New Twitterrific features

Representing the adjacent phase inwards the lifecycle of Twitterrific, Twitterrific 6.0 delivers a ton of corking novel materials including Giphy integration, the selection to display full, auto-playing media inwards the timeline, a bunch of diverse novel icons together with themes, an improved attachment preview together with more.

New themes, from left to right: Swan, Raven, Puffin together with Parakee.

Visually, the apps is to a greater extent than polished than e'er earlier amongst its precise typography, rounded panels together with other blueprint changes. Twitterrific users at 1 time acquire 3 novel app icons to kicking together with 5 novel themes on overstep of the existing icons together with themes from the previous versions.

More novel themes, from left to right: Falcon, Dove, Blackbird together with Akikiki.

Inline videos together with GIFs at 1 time play automatically equally your scroll through your timeline. You can, of course, disable that demeanor inwards settings to minimize distractions or maybe salve to a greater extent than or less cellular information when using the app on the go. Videos auto-play inwards soundless mode. With a unmarried tap, you lot tin laissez passer notice stance the media inwards a much-improved full-screen browser together with withdraw heed the accompanying audio.

Left: attaching media; centre together with right: the compose sail amongst Dove together with Parakeet styling.

Giphy integration lets you lot search for the right GIF that’ll drive your dot dwelling from the compose sheet, which is super nice. If you lot role Twitter’s latest quoted tweet format amongst media, you’ll last pleased to acquire that Twitterrific 6.0 fully supports that Twitter feature, too.

Giphy integration inwards Twitterrific.

Image uploads tin laissez passer notice at 1 time select optional accessibility descriptions together with the images you lot run across inwards your timeline are rendered inwards their original aspect ratio rather than appear cropped. The app fifty-fifty uses facial recognition to travel on dependent area heads visible when uploading a multi-image tweet.

The Iconfactory has published a cool Twitterrific history timeline equally infographic on its website.

Embracing subscriptions

The app is available equally an ad-supported download. No features are locked or restricted inwards the gratis version together with thus you lot tin laissez passer notice travail everything without paying anything. Banner ads appear at the overstep of your timeline together with you’ll also run across subscription reminders but that’s pretty much it.

To acquire rid of ads, you lot tin laissez passer notice subscribe for 1 buck per calendar month or 10 bucks per year, a savings of 2 bucks per annum. If you lot abhor recurring subscriptions, you lot tin laissez passer notice upgrade to the ad-free sense inwards Twitterrific 6.0 amongst a one-time $30 purchase.

The 3 novel app icons inwards Twitterrific 6.0.

To seat that inwards context, the previous version was also available equally an ad-supported gratis download, but upgrading to the ad-free sense was an affordable one-time $5 purchase.

As 9to5Mac observed:

The substantial cost hike for Twitterrific 6 compared to version 5 is an ambitious reworking of the app’s concern model, together with volition undoubtedly anger to a greater extent than or less people. If you lot are only a casual Twitter user, you lot are unlikely to subscribe or pay $30 for Twitterrific. The society is evidently betting that their base of operations of devoted together with dedicated users is large plenty to generate a sustainable revenue stream, topped upward past times the banner advertizement revenue of gratis customers using the app.

As for the existing Twitterrific 5 customers, The Iconfactory has said they volition acquire the total ad-free benefits of Twitterrific 6.0 for upward to vi months from their final buy date. After that, the app volition nudge them to upgrade to acquire rid of advertising.

For the total details on the buy policy, be certain to read The Iconfactory’ back upward document.

Twitterrific 6.0 changelog

Here’s everything new, fixed together with improved inwards Twitterrific 6.0.

New features

• Video together with GIFs silently autoplay withdraw inwards your timelines & message threads
  
  
  
  • Videos amongst an sound rails demonstrate a speaker icon to avoid whatever loud surprises
  
  
  • Autoplaying of videos together with GIFs tin laissez passer notice last disabled inwards Settings
  
  
  
  


• View total images right inwards your timeline
  
  
  
  • Tweets or withdraw messages amongst an ikon attachment volition display the thumbnail at the photo’s native aspect ratio
  
  
  • Tweets amongst 2 or to a greater extent than images role adjusted aspect ratios together with face-detection to avoid taking upward equally much space
  
  
  
  


• GIPHY integration
  
  
  
  • Tap the GIF push clit when composing a tweet or withdraw message to give away only the right snarky animation
  
  
  • Refine your search amongst the built-in Reactions, Memes or Swear Trek filters
  
  
  
  


• Support for Twitter’s novel quoted tweets amongst media
  
  
  
  • When quoting to a greater extent than or less other tweet, you lot tin laissez passer notice attach photos, a video or an animated GIF
  
  
  • The timeline displays both the media you lot attached together with your quoted tweet
  
  
  
  


• View media together with add together descriptions using the novel attachment preview
  
  
  
  • Tap the minor thumbnail of attached media to acquire a better, bigger look
  
  
  • Easily add together accessibility descriptions to all images, videos together with GIFs
  
  
  • Swipe betwixt multiple photos to rapidly add together descriptions to each one
  
  
  
  


• More customization goodies
  
  
  
  • Three novel playful app icons: Crow, Dove together with Neon
  
  
  • Five novel colorful themes: Dove, Akikiki , Puffin, Falcon together with Parakeet
  
  
  • 12 fun novel Olliemoji stickers added to the bundled iMessage sticker pack
  
  
  • A novel font: San Francisco Compact Rounded (‘SF Rounded’)
  
  
  • A novel Presentation setting to demonstrate tweet author’s total name, username or both
  
  
  • A novel High Contrast Text presentation option
  
  
  • Two smaller employment spacing steps for tighter text
  
  
  
  

Improvements

• Refreshed glyphs, font weights together with colors app-wide


• Videos without sound no longer duck sound from other apps


• New Audio & Video settings category for autoplay together with sound effects


• Twitterrific ignores the mute switch when playing sound (what close people want)


• Added back upward for the Brave spider web browser


• VoiceOver indicates the type of media together with number of photos attached to a tweet


• Headings, tab bar buttons, together with toggles are marked equally such for VoiceOver


• VoiceOver magic tap on the master copy timeline opens compose


• Added the VoiceOver escape gesture to all popups


• Added animation amongst compose sub-panels open/close


• Changed the default app icon – the previous icon is an selection inwards the subject panel


• Popup views on iPad brand meliorate role of the available covert space


• Selecting a tweet no longer unexpectedly scrolls the timeline


• Clearing the search filter no longer loses your house inwards the timeline


• Long press the Follow push clit on a profile to follow amongst a different account


• Long-pressing a user inwards compose’s user search no longer dismisses the view


• Clear buttons on search fields alone appear when needed


• Increased the maximum number of tweets per timeline


• Replies to a tweet are sorted past times appointment instead of past times engagement


• All panels together with popups select rounded corners


• Private lists select a novel icon inwards the sidebar


• The Twitterrific banner advertizement uses your electrical flow app icon


• Improved tap expanse of the place badge on tweets amongst an attached location

Bug fixes

• Timelines never refresh if the Automatically Refresh Timelines setting is off


• Fixed an number where to a greater extent than or less quoted tweets wouldn’t demonstrate their quoted URLs


• Fixed to a greater extent than or less Twitter URLs from beingness incorrectly identified equally a link to a user


• Fixed Center Stage together with  DM layout issues on devices without dwelling buttons


• Fixed problems preventing the Open User Page profile activity from working


• Fixed a põrnikas that would suspension user together with hashtag autocomplete when swapping accounts spell composing a tweet


• The Profile Photo avatar shortcut (long press) at 1 time opens the ikon inwards app


• Fixed an number that sometimes caused the banner advertizement to last blank


• Loading respond chains no longer leaves a zombie timeline opened upward inwards memory


• Fixed animation issues spell dismissing compose’s autosuggestion bar


• Profile activity popups appear inwards the right place on iPad


• Accessibility descriptions are properly attached to videos or GIFs when posting


• Fixed compose stance layout problems afterward rotating & dismissing the keyboard


• Fixed a põrnikas that could drive crashes at launch together with when switching accounts


• Timelines won’t loop forever trying to fill upward a gap that could never last filled


• Timelines no longer unceremoniously halt scrolling when decelerating


• Timelines tin laissez passer notice update inwards the background spell beingness filtered past times a search query


• Fixed timeline seat issues when clearing the cache or adding a novel account


• Fixed display issues amongst the alt app icons spell scrolling the Appearance Panel


• Fixed a employment causing the timeline loading indicator to flicker


• Fixed several issues that caused crashes when clearing the cache


• The keyboard no longer appears spell viewing drafts


• Trends are at 1 time correctly sorted past times popularity


• Removed former together with obsolete cod

To acquire more, visit the official website.

Will you lot upgrade?

Twitterrific 56.0 requires iOS 11.2 together with newer.

The developers select cautioned that upgrading your re-create of the app from a prior version to Twitterrific 6.0 may termination inwards previously read messages together with tweets beingness marked equally unread, which is a known bug. Also, it’s worth reiterating that Twitterrific no longer supports Tweet Marker since that service is shutting down.

Grab Twitterrific 6.0 from App Store for free.

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