Tweetbot has long been one of the best third-party Twitter apps for iPhone and Mac, and today sees the launch of the latest iOS version: Tweetbot 6, which converts the app into a paid subscription service instead of just once purchase that was previously offered.
The new application makes the move to New Twitter API that the company launched last summer, allowing for some features that have been missing for a long time in the premium Twitter app, such as Twitter cards and surveys. This change comes with some disadvantages, however, including removing user-selected options for URL shortening, image uploads and video uploads.
The free version of the app offers some basic functionality to allow users to view Twitter – but you’ll have to pay for more substantial features, including the ability to send or respond to tweets, along with support for multiple accounts, push notifications and “Filtering advanced ”.
Existing users may find the update a little frustrating, since Tweetbot 5 was a one-time purchase for $ 4.99. For $ 0.99 a month (or a discount of $ 5.99 a year), the new app marks a price increase, no matter how you look at things, while offering just a handful of new features to make up for it. difference. In addition, Tapbots will soon stop selling Tweetbot 5 on the App Store (developer Paul Haddad says Apple made it a requirement to approve the new version), so new users will soon not have the option to purchase the older outdated version for a single payment.
Tapbots notes on its website that the new version of Tweetbot 6 is an “early access” version of the application, with “many new features in our roadmap to be built, as well as new APIs to be adopted as Twitter makes them available”, is It is possible that the new app will get more functionality over time, which can alleviate the bitter pill from the pricer’s signature change.
The company also has yet to announce any plans to upgrade to the Mac version of Tweetbot, which currently uses the older Twitter API and still costs $ 9.99 to use. Including an updated macOS version of Tweetbot in this monthly or annual subscription can also help add value to the new subscription, a strategy that other apps like Fantastical employed in their own paid app hops for ongoing subscriptions.