One of the best looking iPhone apps is without out a doubt Twitterrific. The Icon Factory is bringing their design talents to the iPad with Twitterrific for iPad redesigned completely for the new device. The app will be live day 1 of the iPad App Store with the same elegant design and easy to use feature set it’s known for.
The app presents a display providing you with all your tweets, mentions, and direct messages as well as a view for lists, searches, and trends. For users of the iPhone version the interface looks similar, but it doesn’t feel nearly as cramped, and you don’t need multiple screens to access all of the same information. There will be two different displays depending on if you’re holding the device in portrait or landscape.
The best part is that Twitterrific for iPad is a free download that you can pick up as soon as you turn on your brand new iPad. Twitterrific premium is included as an in-app purchase for $4.99 that removes ads from the timeline, and allows managing of multiple twitter accounts. One thing to take note of is that it’s the same pricing scale of their current iPhone offerings. Pricing and screenshots are subject to change.
This is cool….. At first I thought I didn’t want an iPad because of it’s similarity to iPod Touches and iPhones, but with all this software i’m mad I can’t afford one …. *sigh* ….
Xanadeath
I’m aware of AppAdvice’s disdain for Twitterrific on the IPhone/iPod Touch, giving Tweetie 2 the top spot in your Twitter App List, but the free version does support multiple accounts. It just looks like an unnecessarily large version of Twitterrific, now with lists and buttons that are easier for the lazy to discover. Still underwhelmed.
What about those of us who already have the premium version??
It’s crazy to ask people to re-buy such apps, just because they reshuffled the navigation a little.
Twitterific never was a graphics based app, what would justify repurchasing the app?
Besides, isn’t twitter meant to run just fine natively, just like any other website?
The last one is a really interesting question, and I think you have a valid point here. Many of the apps that basically provide a better interface to standard Web sites will not really serve a need on the iPad. I can’t say for Twitter, as I do not use it, but I have e.g. no idea why I would buy a RSS reader for the iPad, as Google Reader should work just fine in Safari. I assume games, media and productivity apps will be more important on the iPad.
I’m using Reeder 2.0 on my iPhone which kicks the butt of Google Reader in Safari all across the room. I expect, awesome apps for iPad that do things we don’t expect. By taking the iPhone’s best learnings on how to do a touch interface and then giving you a big canvas for reading or content creation. The best and brightest iPhone developers (only a few among many like the Reeder 2.0 folks) will blow you away.
as this is a software application – i think it is valid for them to charge you for having another version that can run on a new device. think about it this way – you are using it on your iphone, and your sister is using it on the family ipad, even though you purchased it for the ipad yourself. the same goes for if you have microsoft office at work – you have to buy it for your home mac, too. this is just how software products are.
however, now that i wrote this – does the ipad handle multiple “users”? IF it does, well… this could be a much more valid reason for your argument. but, if it doesn’t, so anyone can pick up an ipad and start using all the software on it, then… it should follow the existing model of software use.
At least in this case, it might not even be worth it to re-buy the application. Twitter’s mobile site works great on the iPhone and will work just fine on the iPad, only larger.
I’m going to be pretty unhappy if I start getting pestered to re-buy apps for the iPad. On the bright side, the majority of the apps I’ve purchased have been $0.99….
Doesn’t look like it uses the bigger real estate for good things.
I think it is going to take developers a little while to get to grips with the iPad. I have just spent 7 days writing an iPad App (I have previously written a number of Apps for the Mac and the iPhone) and I discovered that it takes a slightly different mind-set to write for the iPad – http://bit.ly/bYRkIi
Looks like it’s one of the best designed iPad apps… Awesome work, Iconfactory!