Hi,
I highly recommend spring for Twitter, due to its full accessibility with voiceover, as well as the ability to customize the tab bar located at the bottom of the screen.
This is a feature I haven’t seen in any other app. The process for customizing the tab bar is fully accessible, and making things like this accessible, is really tricky
I've been using both the iOS and Mac version for a few months. Initially there were some things where it was lacking in functionality compared to the competition, but the developer is amazing at incorporating suggestions and now it hasn't just caught up but surpassed Twitterrific (my previous client of choice) and the official Twitter app. The most recent beta which you can install for free from the about screen if you buy the app added the option to not speak Emoji in user names which was a feature a lot of people were missing. Anyway, in no particular order some of my favorite Spring features:
Very good reading order on both Mac and iOS - if you used Twitterrific on Mac you know the way it reads tweets is not as good as the iOS version. Spring reads how you'd expect on both platforms and you can customize what gets spoken by turning on/off source labels, real VS user names and absolute or relative time.
A lot of hotkeys for the most common actions
You can pin almost anything to the tab bar - searches, user timelines, lists and you can have as many tabs as you want with the bar scrolling if it can't fit them on screen
Customisable rotor actions - almost anything you can think of that can be done on a tweet can be put in as an action or in the menu. You can listen to Jonathan's podcast to hear all the options
Quick access to actions with gestures - you can magic tap to compose a tweet, but you can also configure "right and left swipe" actions that you can perform with a 3-finger swipe with VO. It's like having a keyboard shortcut on the touch screen!
Notifications - they're a bit delayed because of Twitter limitations but they work really well otherwise.
By default Spring tries to show you more of a thread if you're looking at your home timeline so you can get more context just like the official app. This can be turned off if you want a purely chronological timeline though
The search is more than just that - you can search for keywords or hashtags, but if you type in a username proceeded with @, or paste a twitter link to a tweet and press enter it'll open directly to that person or tweet in the app.
Speaking of search, if you start a new tweet while looking at a ashtag, it'll be pasted into the tweet for you automatically
There's more I'm probably forgetting, for example a lot of people really like that you can select multiple users to follow/unfollow/manage a list in bulk. Like I said at the start though this app is very rapidly being developped and it's using the newer Twitter API so it's much more likely to get new features if Twitter releases something
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I highly recommend it
Hi,
I highly recommend spring for Twitter, due to its full accessibility with voiceover, as well as the ability to customize the tab bar located at the bottom of the screen.
This is a feature I haven’t seen in any other app. The process for customizing the tab bar is fully accessible, and making things like this accessible, is really tricky
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Favorite Spring features
I've been using both the iOS and Mac version for a few months. Initially there were some things where it was lacking in functionality compared to the competition, but the developer is amazing at incorporating suggestions and now it hasn't just caught up but surpassed Twitterrific (my previous client of choice) and the official Twitter app. The most recent beta which you can install for free from the about screen if you buy the app added the option to not speak Emoji in user names which was a feature a lot of people were missing. Anyway, in no particular order some of my favorite Spring features:
There's more I'm probably forgetting, for example a lot of people really like that you can select multiple users to follow/unfollow/manage a list in bulk. Like I said at the start though this app is very rapidly being developped and it's using the newer Twitter API so it's much more likely to get new features if Twitter releases something