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Elise Moreau
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- George Brown College
Elise Moreau is a writer that has covered social media, texting, messaging, and streaming for Lifewire. Her work has appeared on Techvibes, SlashGear, Lifehack and others.
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Updated on April 18, 2024
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Chances are you probably use one of X's (formerly Twitter's) own mobile apps for your iOS, Android, or Windows Phone. But, is it the best mobile X app out there? There are lots of third-party apps offering different layouts and features, all of which may or may not be useful to you depending on how you like to use the social media platform. Have a look through the following mobile X app alternativesto see how you can take your tweeting to the next level whenever you’re on the go.
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Tweetbot
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What We Like
Frequently updated with new features.
Built-in support for GIPHY makes it easy to add GIFs to tweets.
Syncs with iCloud.
What We Don't Like
Threaded conversations could be easier to navigate.
Limited user interface customization.
Doesn’t support group direct messages, polls, or bookmarks.
Tweetbot is one of the highest rated and most popular mobile X apps out there. The interface simplifies almost every function, even allowing you to build multiple timelines and easily switch between viewing each one. You can customize your navigation and take advantage of its smart gestures for even more simplified functionality.
It’s not free, and it's a little more expensive than the average app, but it's well worth it.
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Plume
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What We Like
Muting feature makes it easy to ignore certain users.
Allows for a lot of customization.
Excellent refresh rate.
What We Don't Like
The cluttered interface might intimidate some users.
Suffers from occasional sluggish performance.
No group DMs.
For X power users who run on Android, Plume is a great option. It’s fast and has an excellent refresh rate, with the ability to support multiple X accounts. You can make it look and perform just the way you want via its robust customization options, including the ability to change colors of tweets, hide avatars, or switch between themes.
With Plume, you can also manage multiple accounts, view inline photo previews, edit your profile, see what's trending, and so much more. It has all the powerful features of X's own app with a completely different interface.
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UberSocial
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What We Like
Powerful search feature to find tweets sent from specific locations.
Built-in themes are aesthetically pleasing.
Inner Circle feature creates a "favorite users" list and saves you the hassle of searching for their Tweets in your timeline.
What We Don't Like
Doesn't send push notifications.
Has been shutdown in the past by X.
No group DMs.
UberSocial claims to be the world's most popular full-featured X app among mobile users. This powerful and easy-to-use X client brings a suite of advanced options to the table that will probably leave you wondering how you got on without them before.
You get a totally moveable menu bar that lets you show/hide all necessary functions, likeUberTabs, that let you compose tweets with one tap and a media-rich timeline with all links intact. UberSocial is also great for managing more than one account.
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HootSuite
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What We Like
Provides helpful analytics for social media marketing.
Easy to integrate with Facebook, Instagram, and other social media networks.
What We Don't Like
Most useful features are behind the paywall.
Publishing and curating tweets could be better streamlined.
Most people are aware that HootSuite is a great desktop client for all sorts of social media management. But most people don't know there are also HootSuite mobile apps available as well. And they’re free!
You can basically do anything that the desktop app offers, including schedule tweets, manage multiple users, compose tweets easily, and even track all of your analytics. It's constantly being updated to maintain the most streamlined design and up-to-date offerings not just for X, but for all the other social networks you can use with HootSuite too.
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Twitterrific
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What We Like
Wide variety of unique fonts and themes to choose from.
Notifications are easy to customize.
Built-in push notifications.
What We Don't Like
Notifications must be manually turned on.
Consumes a considerable amount of CPU resources.
Twitterrific is another high-rated premium X client compatible with iOS devices only. It's known for its elegant design that highlights the visuals without sacrificing functionality. And it's the only X app on this list that works with the Apple Watch.
The app comes with a full list of features every X power user can take advantage of, including complete design color customization, excellent hashtag filter options for your timeline, built-in push notifications, voiceover support, and so much more.
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Echofon
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What We Like
Syncs across devices so that you don't see the same tweets again.
Chat conversations are easy to follow in threaded conversation mode.
LiveLinks take you instantly to detailed content on your timeline.
What We Don't Like
Annoying pop-up ads.
Several important features are hidden when using portrait mode layout.
Echofon is another popular X client, but unless you are okay with ads being shown throughout the app, you might as well just stick with any of the other alternatives on this list. It’s a free app, but it's been attracting more bad reviews due to the intrusive ads.
Echofon claims to be the only free app that brings you push notifications and inline photo previews, with an intuitive interface that has been built for speed. X power users may benefit, especially for the convenient "Threaded Conversation Mode" when chatting.
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