Highlighting hashtags in a different colour is actually really sensible. And the ugly Twitter stories bar from the official app is not shown. There is no advertising anywhere in sight. It looks really nice, and the app is fast and snappy. This review was conducted on 22 June 2021, using Tweetbot 6.1.2 on an iPhone 6s running iOS 14.6 The crux of it: Tweetbot 6 puts some of the problems of previous versions right, but not enough of them to mean it’s ripe for switching from Twitter’s own iOS app just yet. Were the app to be my main Twitter app again I would be happy to pay it… There is a new subscription model too – either €0.99 a month, or €6.49 a year. I was not the only one – old nerd friend of mine Simon Wheatley was happy to see Tweetbot back as well – and this blog post is as a result of both of us running our critical eye over it. But back in 2018 Twitter’s API changes restricted what Tweetbot could do, rendering it inappropriate for my purposes.īut yesterday I was alerted to the new version of the app – Tweetbot 6 for iOS – that uses Twitter’s new API and was supposed to overcome the shortcomings dating back to 2018. Using an independent app made sense as I could configure how everything would display according to my needs, rather than Twitter chose that for the sake of its advertisers. As a very heavy Twitter user, for years I was a fan of Tweetbot on iOS, an independent Twitter app made by Tapbots.