Boxy for Twitter - A gorgeous Twitter client for Mac 🐦💫

Got the inbox app by the same developers. Overpriced for a web wrapper and insanely buggy. Looks like they're going to keep pumping out wrappers without ever going back to update the old ones as the inbox app has NOT gotten better.

I won't recommend it as it is not free.

Pros:

Beautiful!

Looks like an official app.

Cons:

The price. Their should be a free option.

You're charging for a wrapper? 🤔 I am all about supporting devs, but what value do you offer on the top? One can easily wrap the site using Coherence, Chrome's upcoming return of wrapped sites, or nativefier with or without GUIs devs have made for it- is there a reason I would purchase your app instead? I see the few features you've listed (shortcuts, menubar, separate compose window)- any other features planned? My other issue with using Twitter natively is the ads and non-chronological ordered content- even Twitter's own Tweetdeck still avoids those and has tons of settings, which I prefer- so maybe in the end I'm just not the target market, but I'm always willing to check out various Twitter apps and just curious if I could see a reason this one would be worth a purchase.

Hey Product Hunters! 👋 @linuz90 and I made Boxy for Twitter using our experience crafting great Mac wrappers for web services we love. You might know us for the original Boxy, Mac client for “Inbox by Gmail” and the upcoming Boxy Suite (boxysuite.com). 🤔 Problem We love Twitter and there are no native Mac clients that support all of its features and provide a truly authentic Twitter experience. 🛠 Solution We built a wrapper around the great mobile web app that will always stay updated with the latest features, since Twitter itself is maintaining that website. We’re adding some features that, as Twitter junkies, we find ourselves very useful, like the standalone tweet composer that you can open with the shortcut Cmd+N. We also added a nice status bar icon to quickly launch the app when you need it. You can also press CMD+1, 2, 3, 4 to easily navigate between Home, Explore, Notifications and Messages, and CMD+F to Search. 🤓 We’re eager to know what you think Let us know if you have feature requests or issues, this is first version and we already have some neat ideas for future updates. Thanks to @rjonesy for giving us early feedback! 🙌 💖 Product Hunt has always been supportive and motivating, so if you hunters visit the website you should find a sweet coupon code to get 25% OFF the official price. Cheers!

It's currently buggy and feature lacking, as with most new applications. I would suggest giving this one some time to mature and improve in quality before purchasing it. Judging by Boxy 2 it has good potential for the future.

Pros:

A Twitter for Mac client!

Cons:

Lacking in features/buggy, basically a thin wrapper for the web application.

Looks awesome, but do you guys have support for multiple accounts? Haven't found this info on your website.

Curious to hear if there are any new features that make Boxy for Twitter different from Tapbot's Tweetbot app? (Understand that Boxy is a wrapper) https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/...

Do you run tweets non-chronologically? I'd use the main twitter app, but I can't stand that they're always trying to "show me what I missed." Does that happen here since it's just a "wrapper"?

Love the design! Light, clean, white... But what problem you are trying to solve with a wrapper app except hotkeys?

Seems good so far, though I found a bug ~5 seconds into using the app (Disappearing toolbar icons when scrolling up). The icon is hard to recognize as a Twitter application. Overall pretty nice, I just hope you aren't going to neglect this app to work on the Google Apps one. :)

the issue with mobile twitter on the desktop is that it doesn't refresh regularly. does this wrapper deal with that in some way?

Would Twixy have been a snappier name?

@frankdilo what wrapper did you use? Electron? Something of your own? Does the core of this use Chrome V8? or Webkit? Update: Reread my post and I come across pretty demanding. Sorry. I love this type of tech and do a lot of work in Electron and other wrapper systems too. Whatever you’re using it looks great. If you don’t want to say it it’s proprietary I completely understand. But if you do want a chance to say how awesome your tech stack is then I’m here for that!!! I’m the nerd that will listen. 😋

Exactly what I've been looking for since they decided to discontinue the mac app. Simple and nothing fussy. Some small things: The white "X" close icon disappears if you are watching a video since the background is white too. I think pressing esc to exit a tweet you clicked into would be nice.

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Does it have Autoplay for Gifs/Videos? Is there a test version around? I want to try before I buy 😉

@frankdilo just downloaded from the website but the only thing it shows is a request for license… which I don't have and the website doesn't mention at all?

Feels like the development has been abandoned, no responses to emails about bugs, the interface is glitching, switching between accounts is unreliable.

Can you add a feature to see only unread DM?

Quick note as of 2020: the correct website link is https://twitterformac.com