Fabrizio Rinaldi

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

Gorgeous Mac client for Twitter, based on the mobile Twitter website. It has a beautiful and minimal interface, a convenient standalone Tweet composer, and it supports common macOS shortcuts. It also has a status bar icon for quick access.

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Arthur Guiot

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.

Francesco Di Lorenzo
I despise this kind of thinking. You should pay for things you like and use.
Roland Horváth
??
Anthony V
"I won't recommend it as it's not free" lolol
Shayon Pal
@frankdilo Sure, but what are you asking the money for? What was your side of the effort?
Brian Atiyeh
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.
Francesco Di Lorenzo
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!
Eric Jackson

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.

Irakli Agladze
Looks awesome, but do you guys have support for multiple accounts? Haven't found this info on your website.
Francesco Di Lorenzo
@iraqlee support for multiple accounts is coming in a future update. We just wanted to ship this fast to see if there was interest and we are happy with the response.
Frank Lagendijk
@iraqlee @frankdilo Same question... biggest painpoint with just using the Twitter Web app: switching between my personal profile and product account
Rebecca Garcia
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/...
Francesco Di Lorenzo
@geekgirlweb Since, unfortunately, Twitter does not provide APIs for features like pools and activity, you will not be able to use those from native clients like Tweetbot/Twitterrific. Also, media support (GIFs and videos) is more inline with what you find in the official mobile apps.
Joel Runyon
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"?
Nathan Gathright
@joelrunyon tweets are served in the same order as mobile.twitter.com, which is to say: algorithmically
Nikita Skitev
Love the design! Light, clean, white... But what problem you are trying to solve with a wrapper app except hotkeys?
Eric Jackson
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. :)
Francesco Di Lorenzo
@eric_j_designer Re the icon we wanted to go with something unique that would not resemble the official Twitter logo. Sorry for the bug. Added it to my list. It will be fixed soon.
oz lubling
the issue with mobile twitter on the desktop is that it doesn't refresh regularly. does this wrapper deal with that in some way?
Francesco Di Lorenzo
@ozlubling in our experience there is no live timeline, but if you check back every 5 mins, you usually see new tweets loaded automatically.
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