I need to start by saying that the icon for Hibari is the worst one of the lot. Having said that it is an interesting option and I urge you to try it out at least once to see if it is something that fits with your workflow. I don’t dislike it, but I also don’t like it very much – Twitterrific just does not fit my workflow and how I integrate Twitter on my Mac. The way the app was designed is very different from all other Twitter apps I tried. That means that by default it sits on top of everything else and yet it feels like something to keep you up to date, not something you should be interacting with. Twitterrificįree version has only one account supported ((I could not find if the paid version was any different.)) and the app acts more like a desktop widget and not so much an app. Kept breaking and crashing when I tried to switch views… the app is really not usable. If there is one thing I hate about the app it is the you must view Tweets with a username instead of the real name field – people pick stupid Avatars and stupid usernames that confuse the stupid out of me.
That said this app doesn’t lack on keyboard shortcuts and has some nice OS integrations like adding the current Safari pages URL in the compose window. There needs to be better indication of the fact that you are running multiple accounts, and it would be nice to get a better more Tweetie like direct message view. What I really didn’t like is how you switch between accounts, the inactive account kinda gets forgotten in the UI especially if you don’t look at your dock. I particularly like the design of the top bar and how you compose a new tweet. I really do like Echofon a lot and think that it has some really great things going for it.ĭid you know that Echofon will position sync with the iOS apps, thus keeping you right where you left off on all your devices? That is pretty damn cool. Echofon, unlike Kiwi, takes a lot of the good design cues from Tweetie. It was recommended to me by Justin Blanton and I can see why he uses it. Within the first ten-seconds of running this app I started to like it.
The sad thing is I know so many people that use it, I wish they knew better.
#ECHOFON MAC WINDOWS#
Tweetdeck has gained new features since I last used it, but it is still the same cluttered Windows inspired app that it was back when I started with Twitter. It really is just ugly and very overwhelming to use, not for me in any way. Then I sent a tweet from it, then I deleted it from my MacBook Air. Ok that is not fair, I installed it using Chrome and updated Air on my machine and added an account. So I just looked at the screenshots and decided: no way. That is the precise point that I remembered it runs on Adobe’s Air platform.
#ECHOFON MAC INSTALL#
I went to give it another run through, but you needed Flash to install it, I don’t have Flash installed in Safari. When I first started using Twitter this is what I used. ((The app icon is ugly too, but I feel bad enough about trashing this app already.)) Tweetdeck Tabs are fine, but honestly why make them closeable if that is not the intended use of tabs? If I want to view the icons across the top in ‘text only’ ((Something I commonly do with apps like Mail)) view to save space and clean up the UI, I can, but the minute I click on one text view goes away. This is not a convenient feature – this is stupid, I can’t fathom why you would want a quick way of deleting an account. If I have the Brooks Review tab open and I go to close that tab Kiwi will delete that account from the app. The tab system it uses makes absolutely no sense. A pretty neat feature but I would rather just unfollow someone instead of filtering tweets that I see. This works as a way of filtering out, say, Instagram tweets. You get a rule system where you can define actions that Kiwi should take given parameters you set, which is neat. The ads are implemented poorly and look like they are from 2002 instead of 2011. The navigation bar is confusing, trying to follow a new user is too difficult. The ‘compose’ window is a rip off of Tweetie, yet it is 18 times uglier, that top bar for instance is on steroids. I don’t like to say bad things about products that people clearly took time and effort to build, but this needs a ground up redesign. It leaves you with a confusing and ugly interface. Kiwi 2 is an exercise in letting the user pick a theme, while ripping off only the worst parts of Tweetie. I started a search to find something new, to see if anything out there is better than the rapidly aging Tweetie for Mac.
#ECHOFON MAC MAC#
I am starting to lose all hope that Tweetie for the Mac will ever be updated.
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