Key differences between SimplyTweet 2 and SimplyTweet 3

  • Offline Caching
  • Support for iOS 4 and iPhone 4
  • Pictures, tweets and direct messages are now sent in the background for 3GS running iOS 4 and iPhone 4. There is a setting to disable background sending.
  • Send DMs directly from system-wide Contacts app.
  • Twitter Lists support
  • Geotagging support
  • Retweet support
  • Read it Later support
  • What The Trend support
  • More URL shortening support - TinyURL, bit.ly, j.mp
  • Re-written UI, pull to refresh, pull to reveal replied-to-message, picture preview
  • Re-written core so it's possible to add many exciting more features in updates. Twitter has evolved alot since the past year and the original design no longer caters to the many features they are starting to put up. This includes support the features listed above, as well as features such as offline caching in SimplyTweet 3.1.

Advanced Features

  • Push notification support for Twitter Direct Messages and Mentions, showing new messages in the application badge
  • Configurable push notification sounds
  • Support for iOS 4 fast app switching
  • Support for iPhone 4 with hi-res icons
  • Pictures, tweets and direct messages are now sent in the background for 3GS running iOS 4 and iPhone 4. There is a setting to disable background sending.
  • Send DMs directly from system-wide Contacts app. You can now link Twitter accounts to your system-wide address book. Besides adding information to the address book, you can now tap on the "Twitter DM" field in a linked address book entry to start composing a direct message to that recipient.
  • Themes
  • Twitter Lists
  • Photos search
  • Multiple Drafts
  • Multiple Twitter accounts support, with quick switch support
  • Support for updating user profiles from within SimplyTweet, including profile picture
  • Bookmarklet Support
  • Full landscape support (including timelines, drafting and photo viewer)
  • Tweetshrink support (both tweets and DM)
  • URL shortening with TinyURL, bit.ly, j.mp and is.gd
  • Send Twitter direct messages longer than 140 characters
  • Unread tweet indicators for all themes
  • TextExpander support (you need TextExpander app installed to use it. Configure shortcuts in TextExpander app, enable sharing, and you get to use them in SimplyTweet)
  • Instapaper mobilizer support
  • Instapaper Support
  • Read it Later Support
  • What The Trend Support
  • Posterous Support (multiple photos and video upload) with hashtags converted to Posterous tags
  • TwitPic support (multiple photos)
  • yfrog support (multiple photos and video upload)
  • TwitrPix support (multiple photos)
  • TwitVid support (video upload)
  • Browse Twitter conversations - display the reply chain of a message all in 1 screen
  • Browse conversations between you and another person - display the tweets between you all in 2 screen
  • Bigger text option
  • Option to hide avatars in blocked list

What the users are saying

"SimplyTweet takes the lead in the iPhone Twitter client race." - Stephen Ingraham

"A solid Twitter app that can hang with the best of them" - AppShouter

"When you load the app to read your pushed Tweets you’ll find an app with more options than you can shake a stick at." - the-iBlog

"This twitter client is in a class by itself!" - ki6ryg

"SimplyTweet has become simply awesome" - mrholder

"The app is simple to use, yet does almost everything any Twit could want!" - SunnySweet

Reviews

4.5/5 stars, reviewed by 148Apps.

Stephen Ingraham gives a detailed review of SimplyTweet 3.1 titled "SimplyTweet 3.1: Back at the Top of the Twitter heap!". There is also an update for SimplyTweet 3.1.1

A review of SimplyTweet 3.1 by @Vinko.

AppShouter Review - A solid Twitter app that can hang with the best of them.

A review of SimplyTweet 3 at iPhoneinCanada.ca.

A video review is available on YouTube here.

There are also reviews by Josiah @woodjosiah at Zym Blog, Touch Reviews, Stephane Lambion, jablickar.cz (in Czech) and a comparison of 17 Twitter apps by ApfelNet.de (in German). Another review in German by @ruffson with many screenshots.

Contact

Email for questions or feedback. Follow @simplytweet on Twitter for news and updates.

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