Best Twitter Apps on Google Play

There are a tonne of half decent Twitter Apps on Google Play but while most kinda do a "job" many fall over at the first hurdle of providing a great user experience, so which ones should you give your time to (and indeed Money).

I'm not much of a fan of free apps, as you would either have to give up half of your screen estate to some bullshit advert or handover your digital DNA to a company who will sell your soul on your behalf, yes I'm looking at you Facebook. 

To keep it simple I have just given my thumbs up to just two of the best paid Twitter apps out there, otherwise this could have been the longest post in history of this blog had I mentioned them all in some way.


Plume

Plume has been around forever, and has some great features like live streaming, multiple account support and the ability to highlight tweets from certain people. There is a snazzy tablet version also which really does give you multiple line view with all your tweets, mentions, DMs, and other configurations which you can dick around with to your hearts content. 

You can select a tweet and then swipe the bar under the tweet to choose a ReTweet, Quote, Copy and a host of other options without clogging up your display like some kind of TouchWiz.

Ignore the free version and go straight to the 'Premium' version to avoid those pesky adverts. There is a new material design on its way that was in beta, its received a bit of a mixed bag of support and hate recently so you might want to look elsewhere until that settles, personally I think its excellent. 

$4.99 on Google Play


Fenix

Bit of a dark horse this one, and certainly left of field, its close as you can get to the official app without losing the features that Plume offers. There is also a superb tablet specific app here, so it does do a great job on any screen size, we tested on 10.1in, and let me tell you it looked great. The material design is in full effect here, and I must give full props to the design team as they nailed it. 

What I love about Fenix is that is displays pictures in a very large format both in the stream and when opened / viewed. Its much better than say the official Twitter app and in Plume in that respect. 

On first glance you would think Fenix is actually under featured but things like Quote tweet are hidden away in the ReTweet icon, but one cool item that's missing from Plume, Tweet Cast and others is the option to translate right from the icon pull down on the right of any tweet, once selected Google Translate will fire up and as you how you want the tweet translated; I like.

I choose the dark theme, although you might enjoy the lighter one. 

Fenix really is the best out there in my opinion, check it out. 

$4.99 on Google Play