It's not an innovation by any means, but the animated egg icon the slowly cracks revealing Ollie, the app's mascot who flaps his wings while loading, is absolutely charming. The latter uses color coding to differentiate tweet types, something I've loved in previous versions and has thankfully made the cut for this fifth iteration. Twitterrific's advanced settings let you choose between iCloud and Tweet Marker as sync services, decide sync behavior, enable/disable notification sounds and turn the unified timeline on and off. On the iPad, this menu can be pinned permanently to the left-hand side in landscape view. Tapping your avatar in the upper-left corner of the screen brings up a menu where you can access your own tweets and favorites, a search field, saved searches and lists. The two most commonly used actions - reply and view conversation - are tied to right and left swipes on tweets. For instance, tapping on a tweet makes reply, retweet, favorite and advanced options icons appear below it. This is possible because most of its functionality is hidden until you either tap or swipe. Twitterrific's interface is kept very clean. Followers and followed users are presented in a unique grid view of their names and avatars, which is a nice touch, especially if you're like me and associate the people you follow mostly with their pictures. The interface is smooth and fast, with secondary screens such as the built-in browser and image viewer sliding into and out of view quickly and moving between screens is lightning fast, even on my iPhone 4. What's more, you can have Twitterrific automatically switch to the dark theme during nighttime hours, which has ended up being even nicer than it sounds. Overall, there's a high degree of customization. This panel also has its own brightness slider independent of the device's.
Using a dedicated appearance panel, you can select from five different fonts (Helvetica, Proxima Nova, Signika, Museo Slab and Calluna), increase and decrease the font size, resize or remove avatars, change line spacing and toggle between a light and dark theme. What really makes Twitterrific stand out, however, is the ease with which you can customize its already lovely aesthetic. You can disable notifications at any time in your settings menu.
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