App Review – SimplyTweet Twitter Client for iPhone
Posted in App Reviews | Posted on 06-10-2009 | Post Comment |
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SimplyTweet (version 1.6) by MotionObj is a Twitter client that provides a simple to use interface to help you manage your various accounts on Twitter. SimplyTweet comes in 2 versions, a lite version that is free and a paid version that will cost you $3.99. You will want to check the SimplyTweet website for a break down of the features between the two versions.
Product Highlights
- Manage multiple accounts. This is a pretty big feature for most people that use twitter clients, so its nice to see that it supports this functionality
- Built in browser. This is another nice feature that makes following links easier. The built in browser will launch when you click a link in a tweet. The built in browser does support panning and zooming, but does not allow you to view the page in landscape mode. The options menu does provide a few other nice features. You are able to open the current page in Safari, and you are also provided with an option to read later which will save it to your Intrapaper account
- Conversation view. This view is helpful to view a particular conversation wtih someone or view a conversation about a specific topic
- Custom views give you the ability to group friends together and view a timeline based on who is in your view. For example, you can create a view that has your family grouped together. When you click more link, the view will be listed there for easy access.
- Trends are listed in the more options menu so that you can find out about the hot topics that are being talked about on Twitter
- When composing tweets, you have lots of options at your finger tips. You have easy access to creating a reply, as well as replying to multiple people at once. Just swipe a tweet and you are on yoru way.
- When editing a tweet, a shortening option is available that will attempt to shorten the tweet for you. It doesn’t appear to be tied to a URL shortening service, but it will abbreviate words when applicable.
- Twitpic integration allows you to share a photo from your iPhone
Overall I think SimplyTweet is an awesome Twitter client. Most of the features you come to expect in a Twitter client exist. The ability to manage multiple accounts, and the conversation features are the features I like the most. It would be nice if the built in browser would support landscape mode, but since its easy to jump to Safari I can easily over look the missing feature. For $3.99, I would highly recommend giving this app a try.



Thanks for the review! 1.7 will have landscape mode for the builtin browser. If nothing goes wrong, it should be available with the next few days.