| iPhone Twitter App Comparison Chart by John Tokash (blog.tokash.org) | |||||
| twittelator | tweetsville | twitterrific | twitterfon | tweetie | |
| Price | 4.99 | 3.99 | 9.99 | free | 2.99 |
| Free Option | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Open Source | yes | ||||
| Version | 1.6.1 | 1.2 | 1.1.1 | 1.4 | 1.2 |
| Reading Functionality | |||||
| twittelator | tweetsville | twitterrific | twitterfon | tweetie | |
| Friends Timeline | yes | yes | combined | yes | yes |
| Public Timeline | yes | combined | yes | ||
| View Replies to Me | yes | yes | combined | yes | yes |
| Mark Tweet as a Favorite | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| View Favorites | yes | yes | combined | yes | yes |
| View My Tweets | yes | yes | yes | ||
| View Inbound Direct Messages | no | yes | combined | yes | yes |
| View Sent Direct Messages | yes | combined | yes | yes | |
| Trends | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Scroll to Unread | yes | yes | |||
| Scroll to Last Read | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Auto refresh | yes | yes | |||
| Tapping the top of the screen scrolls immediately to the top of your tweet list | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Groups - see streams of tweets from a specific selection of users | yes | ||||
| Multiple Accounts | yes | yes | |||
| TwitPics images are shown inline | yes | ||||
| Embedded TwitPic viewer | yes | ||||
| Save twitpic images to photo album | yes | ||||
| Multiple Themes | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Multiple Font Sizes | yes | ||||
| Reply Navigation | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Instapaper Integration | yes | ||||
| Email link to Tweet | yes | ||||
| Offline Reading | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Writing Functionality | |||||
| twittelator | tweetsville | twitterrific | twitterfon | tweetie | |
| Write Tweet | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Write Tweet has friend chooser | yes | yes | |||
| Insert Pic | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Location aware | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Save Tweet as draft | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Tweet edit has symbol selector | yes | ||||
| Retweet functionality | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Reply | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Direct Message | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Delete Tweets | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| URL Handler and/or bookmarklet | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Landscape Keyboard Option | yes | ||||
| Switch 'from' User in Compose Screen | ? | yes | |||
| Post Link to this Tweet | yes | ||||
| Offline Compose | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Searching Functionality | |||||
| twittelator | tweetsville | twitterrific | twitterfon | tweetie | |
| Search | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Show nearby tweets | yes | yes | yes | yes | |
| Search nearby tweets | yes | yes | |||
| Search within all friends tweets | |||||
| Advanced Search Constructor | yes | yes | |||
| Search History or Bookmarked Searches | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Clicking #tags in tweets take you to a search | yes | Safari | yes | yes | |
| Link Functionality | |||||
| twittelator | tweetsville | twitterrific | twitterfon | tweetie | |
| Embedded Browser | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Safari | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Tweet link | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Email link | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Follow urls in tweets | yes | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Handle $AAPL Style Links | yes | yes | |||
| History is maintained between tweet link clicks in embedded browser | yes | yes | yes | ||
| Shortened links are resolved before you have to go to the browser | |||||
| User Management | |||||
| twittelator | tweetsville | twitterrific | twitterfon | tweetie | |
| See lists of Followers and Following per user | yes | yes | Safari | yes | yes |
| Follow and Unfollow users | yes | yes | Safari | yes | yes |
| Access user profiles | yes | yes | sometimes | yes | yes |
| Access user timelines | yes | yes | Safari | yes | yes |
| See "followers" stream for a given user | |||||
| See "following" stream for a given user | |||||
| Browse a list of friends to get, quickly, to individual timelines | |||||
| List of Recent users clicked | yes | ||||
| Block / Unblock users | yes | ||||
| Look up user | yes (search) | yes (search) | yes (search) | yes |