If you are just a casual Twitter user, you are unlikely to subscribe or pay $30 for Twitterrific. The substantial price hike for Twitterrific 6 compared to version 5 is an ambitious reworking of the app’s business model, and will undoubtedly anger some people. To put that in context, the previous version was also available as an ad-supported free download, but upgrading to the ad-free experience was an affordable one-time $5 purchase. The three new app icons in Twitterrific 6.0. If you loathe recurring subscriptions, you can upgrade to the ad-free experience in Twitterrific 6.0 with a one-time $30 purchase. To get rid of ads, you can subscribe for one buck per month or ten bucks per year, a savings of two bucks per annum. Banner ads appear at the top of your timeline and you’ll also see subscription reminders but that’s pretty much it. No features are locked or restricted in the free version so you can try everything without paying anything. The app is available as an ad-supported download. The Iconfactory has published a cool Twitterrific history timeline as infographic on its website. The app even uses facial recognition to keep subject heads visible when uploading a multi-image tweet. Image uploads can now have optional accessibility descriptions and the images you see in your timeline are rendered in their original aspect ratio rather than appear cropped. If you use Twitter’s latest quoted tweet format with media, you’ll be pleased to learn that Twitterrific 6.0 fully supports that Twitter feature, too. Giphy integration lets you search for the right GIF that’ll drive your point home from the compose sheet, which is super nice. Left: attaching media center and right: the compose sheet with Dove and Parakeet styling. With a single tap, you can view the media in a much-improved full-screen browser and hear the accompanying audio. You can, of course, disable that behavior in settings to minimize distractions or perhaps save some cellular data when using the app on the go. Inline videos and GIFs now play automatically as your scroll through your timeline. More new themes, from left to right: Falcon, Dove, Blackbird and Akikiki. Twitterrific users now get three new app icons to boot and five new themes on top of the existing icons and themes from the previous versions. Visually, the apps is more polished than ever before with its precise typography, rounded panels and other design changes. New themes, from left to right: Swan, Raven, Puffin and Parakee. Representing the next stage in the lifecycle of Twitterrific, Twitterrific 6.0 delivers a ton of great new stuff including Giphy integration, the option to display full, auto-playing media in the timeline, a bunch of various new icons and themes, an improved attachment preview and more. Twitterrific 6.0 delivers a bunch of new features and improvements along with a change of business model that now embraces subscriptions. Today, it was bumped to version 6.0 on App Store. Twitterrific, The Iconfactory’s venerable Twitter app, first launched back in 2008.
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