TweetDeck is another official Twitter client that’s free to use, and it’s a lot better than the one Twitter just ditched. Technically, it’s more of a web app than a native macOS app, but you can. Tweetbot is an award-winning, full-featured. Twitter client for the Mac. It has a beautiful interface with light & dark themes, multiple-column support and much more. Twitter does not grant 3rd party apps access to every single feature that is available on Twitter’s website. Free Twitter Clients For Mac Os X. List of best free twitter clients for mac os x. TweetDeck is a pleasant Twitter client in which you browse information from the service in. The customizable Twitter client. TwitterPod is a Twitter client with message store capability. It allows you to search messages. The official Twitter client for the Mac died yesterday. When you try and start it now it fails to authenticate any of your accounts. This is because Twitter announced recently that they were going to stop developing and supporting their client on the Mac in an attempt to people to use their Web-based client. The official Twitter client is the re-branded version of Tweetie, which was a much-loved Twitter app to begin with. Twitter bought Tweetie and just renamed it Twitter, so it didn't really stop.
What's everyone saying?
Ethan Marcotte
“I couldn’t use Twitter without Twitterrific.”
Ethan Marcotte — @beep
John Siracusa
“Twitterrific’s unified timeline matches the way I think about Twitter: a single, chronological stream of tweets, regardless of type. The fact that Twitterrific is also a great Twitter client with all the other features you’d expect—including separate views for mentions, DMs, etc.—is just icing on the cake.”
John Siracusa — @siracusa
Michael Lopp
“A daily corner of my desktop feels revitalized.”
Michael Lopp — @rands
Manuel Alejandro López Zarzosa
“Now I can finally use the best client on all my devices!”
Manuel Alejandro López Zarzosa — @manuelale69
Alex Waddell
“I’ve been an active participant in the Phoenix Kickstarter beta and I’m delighted with the final app. Its elegant features, combined with lot of great UI touches, make Twitter a delight to use on the Mac again.”
Alex Waddell — @alexwaddell
Daniel Jalkut
“It's exciting to see the very first Twitter client being rethought in 2017 as the very newest one.”
Daniel Jalkut — @danielpunkass
Brent Simmons
“I switched immediately. It was like coming home.”
Brent Simmons — @brentsimmons
Seth Roby
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“Twitterrific makes Twitter simple, fun, and quick. Thank you for bringing it back to the Mac, where I still spend most of my days.”
Seth Roby — @TALlama
“Twitterrific has the potential to make bored users fall in love with Twitter all over again.”
Christine Preusler — HostingAdvice.com
“My favorite Twitter client.”
Robyn Oglesby — MacSources
“Features the same finesse that we’ve seen in Twitterrific for iOS, but at the same time, also leverages all the features offered by macOS.”
Preshit Deorukhkar — Beautiful Pixels
“The Iconfactory has given users a high degree of control over how Twitterrific looks within a clean, easy-to-read design.”
John Voorhees — MacStories
“Packs a ton of features into the new app...fantastic keyboard and accessibility support, delightful sounds, and a few nostalgic Easter eggs from past incarnations.”
Chris De Jabet — Full City Press
“The app delivers a good handful of features Mac users will like.”
Sarah Perez — TechCrunch
“Finally, a modern desktop Twitter client that not only looks amazing and performs, but offers all the features you would expect. So relieved to have Twitterrific resurrected!”
R.C. Rains — @shadowbottle
Just when you think you've tried every Twitter app out there, a few more appear on the scene. For Mac users that might have either grown tired of, or are looking for alternatives to, Tweetie, Twitterrific, Kiwi or Socialite, never fear, there are indeed other native Mac OS X options out there!
While some of the best Twitter apps, in terms of power, are still the Adobe Air-based Seesmic Desktop and Tweetdeck, there are also some great, free native OS X clients (and one that runs on Mozilla's XUL platform) worth checking out.
1. Itsy
Itsy is for the Twitter minimalist — someone who wants to have the ability to send a tweet, view @replies and maybe perform a search, but doesn't want the app to take up tons of real-estate or attention. The app has a very small footprint, both in terms of memory and screen size, and offers up the basic Twitter features. Plus, it supports Growl notifications and keyboard shortcuts. If you want something simple and something that will stay out of your way, this just might be your app.
Itsy is free and requires Mac OS X 10.5 or higher.
2. Twitt
Twitt is a Twitter app for the Mac user who appreciates a good user interface and likes the ability to customize or theme his apps. Like Kiwi, Twitt supports HTML+CSS themes that are easy to install and change around. The app has the basic Twitter features covered, but adds a few things that power users should like too.
For instance, if you like to share photos via Twitter, you can use the built-in image uploader to send stuff to TwitPic or yFrog. It also supports multiple accounts, Growl, offline reading, the official Retweet button, plus you can set up notifications for certain content and create filters to prevent certain stuff from showing up in your timeline.
The only real feature that Twit lacks is Lists support, but as it stands, most native Mac apps don't do that yet anyway. Twitt is free.
3. Echofon for Mac
Echofon for Mac is a desktop version of the popular iPhone app. The two apps share a lot of similarities, lots of features, and a clean, if not mindblowingly-awesome user interface. Echofon has a really nice browser drawer that can slide out of the side of the client, showing off conversation history or user information or user timelines, without obstructing your other screen. This is a great compromise between either having something always open in a browser, or the menu and column madness that some of the more powerful Twitter apps use.
Like Twitt, you can easily drag and drop to upload photos, a feature that's a nice touch and something that many desktop clients ignore. You can also easily look at Twitter trending topics or view your saved searches from within the app, a feature that's really handy.
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If you use Echofon Pro for the iPhone, you can sync your unread tweets. And if you send an @reply or direct message to someone using Echofon for the iPhone, they can receive a push notification of your tweet instantly. Again, the only real feature that Echofon lacks is Lists support, but if that gets added, this will be a real competitor to the power-user apps. Update: Echofon for Mac just added list support, making it a very attractive option!
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Echofon is still in beta and is free right now. Full pricing details will be announced in the future.
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4. Yoono Desktop
Yoono Desktop is a desktop version of the popular Firefox add-on and it actually controls more than just Twitter. It also supports Facebook, LinkedIn, Flickr, AIM, Google Talk, Yahoo Messenger, MSN Messenger and MySpace IM. The nice thing about Yoono is that you can update your status across networks and connect to all networks at once. It also supports real-time search across your different networks.
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As a desktop app, Yoono includes most of the big features that came in the Firefox add-on. Unlike the other apps in this round-up, Yoono is not written using Cocoa — it's based on Mozilla's XUL-runner framework. That's the same base that Firefox and Thunderbird use. I mention this because some of the interface features are going to differ — similar to what happens when you run Adobe Air apps. However, while XUL still tends to be poor with memory management in Mac OS X, it's nowhere near as bad as Adobe Air. Users who want a powerful client that isn't Air-based, this might be fore you.
Yoono can be run in a more compact space, but it really likes to take over as much of your screen real-estate as you can give it. Depending on what you like to monitor, that may or may not suit your needs. Still, for a power Twitter client that isn't based on Adobe Air, Yoono is a great option. Mac users should also check out the Firefox add-on if you want a slightly more integrated approach.
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