Chirp debuts a faster, feature-filled Twitter app for Apple Watch
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Chirp debuts a faster, feature-filled Twitter app for Apple Watch
Chirp, a Twitter client preferred by hundreds of thousands of Apple Watch users, is getting its biggest upgrade since its arrival last year. Now redesigned for watchOS 6, the new version of Chirp includes a rebuilt timeline feature that allows you to endlessly scroll through tweets much more quickly than before, along with other enhancements like support for iOS 13's dark mode and a way to add colors to your Twitter username.
The app was first introduced to fill the void created when Twitter pulled its own Apple Watch app back in 2017 in favor of using Apple Watch's notifications platform instead.
Chirp, meanwhile, lets users access a real Twitter client from their Watch's small screen, which included a way to view your Home Timeline, Twitter Trends, @ Mentions, Direct Messages, and more. Some features - like the ability to Direct Message or compose tweets from your Apple Watch - are only available to Chirp Pro paying users, though.
Chirp Pro is a user-friendly "pay what you want" feature that lets you chip in at either $4.99, $5.99 or $7.99 to upgrade the app and doesn't require a subscription. To date, Chirp has 294,000 downloads and only around 5% conversions.
The new version, Chirp 2.0, hopes to encourage more upgrades as it enhances the Twitter-on-your-wrist experience with a redesigned timeline that endlessly scrolls faster and more reliably than before, and includes an improved video player, image grids, and more.
"The inspiration for rewriting the timeline came from when I was fortunate enough to attend WWDC 2019 as a scholar," explains Chirp developer Will Bishop. "During the keynote, Apple announced SwiftUI, a new framework that allowed developers to develop t