That said, there are some good ones here. Just keep in mind I can only speak for what I see available. But just because I don’t I need them doesn’t mean they’re not important. Outside of needing glasses, I don’t have many needs for these. Now I’ll be upfront, I am not an expert on accessibility. I want to highlight some of the accessibility features in Aviary. I’m not going through and watching all my YouTube through this little Twitter app, but it is handy when my favorite YouTubers post a video link, and I can just start watching it. In other words, it’s a way to keep playing YouTube videos outside of the app without needing YouTube Premium. One is that you can have the video playing in a corner as you keep scrolling through your timeline, but also have it keep playing when you leave the Aviary app. As if to make it better, the app has support for the iPhone’s Picture-in-Picture mode. If you click on the YouTube link, or have previews enabled, you can watch those YouTube videos from within the Aviary app. But I’ve not seen any other apps do this for YouTube links. Of course you can see photos posted by other users on Twitter, and if someone posts an Instagram photo link in their tweet that will be visible. One of the things that really drew me to the app was actually the in-link previews for YouTube. It’s pretty slick and makes the app feel like it’s your own.Ī Picture-in-Picture video from CNET on at Boston Dymanics robot Want to hide one of those tabs so you have fewer buttons in the bottom row? Change it. Want to have search more easily accessible because no body DM’s you on Twitter? Change it. Don’t care for the saved section and instead use lists? Change it. While your Feed and Profile are always there at the edges of the bottom row, you can change the order or shortcuts of the middle three buttons. However, you can change those (at least the middle three). That’s pretty handy so I can keep some of those easily on hand. However you also have an option to “Save” tweets, meaning you can quickly get them without having to just screenshot them and find them later in your photos or go through your personal posted timeline to see stuff you retweeted. You have some pretty standard sections, such as your feed, mentions, DM’s, and profile page. As an example, let’s look at the bottom row. That said, what helps Aviary stand out are some of its more unique features and customization options. You can also set how you want the app to open web links, namely whether to open them in the built-in browser or another browser app on your phone such as Safari, Firefox, Chrome, etc. Swiping to the right brings up the retweet options. For myself when I swipe to the left it brings up the like and reply buttons, or I can keep sliding to just reply. You can use gestures to move around the app or to interact with it, with some customization included.
For example it shows a chronological timeline rather than an algorithmic one, with the stuff at the top of your feed being the most recent stuff from the people you follow rather than what Twitter thinks you want to see. There are some features here that you expect in just about every good third-party Twitter app.
#Tweetbot 4 review update
While the update pace has slowed down in the last month or so, I still see patches just about every week. There were so many times, even within the span of a week, where there would be updates to either add an entirely new feature, adjust a function in response to user feedback, or just fix some bug that had cropped up. It’s also zippy in its update cycle too, which is part of the reason I took so long to write a review up. The app feels very responsive and quick to scroll through, read through threads, and compose or respond to different tweets. After using it for a few months, I’m ready to talk about it.Īviary is a zippy little app, in more ways than one. Something that was similar to the flexibility and power of Tweetbot. Unfortunately, I’m not enough of a Twitter power user to be able to justify a Twitter subscription.
This isn’t to say they don’t deserve the money they make an excellent app that I’d easily recommend, especially to hardcore Twitter users, and they deserve to get paid to keep it going and implement some of the new API’s. I won’t lie, when I heard the news that the newest Tweetbot was becoming a subscription service, I wasn’t thrilled.
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