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Pay to Play

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Tweetstack: Newcomer Tweetstack brings your TweetDeck columns to the iPhone. Tweetstack is also one of the most feature-rich Twitter () clients we’ve seen, and we’re all a-twitter about multiple accounts, retweets, extra search goodness, and custom tabs. The only thing bringing Tweetstack down is the incredibly lengthy load time for new tweets once you launch the app.
iTunes rating: 2.5 stars
Mashable () rating: 3.5 stars
(Note: all ratings are based on a 5 point scale)
Tweetie: Not to be confused with impostors, Tweetie () combines beauty, speed, and function in an impressive option that will only set you back $2.99. The app supports multiple accounts, search, saved searches, retweets, user profiles, follow options, a landscape keyboard, Instapaper () integration, conversation views, and flashy UI elements. It’s the Twitterati’s app of choice, and ours too.
iTunes rating: 4 stars
Mashable rating: 5 stars
Twitterville: Twitterville is not a bad little $1.99 Twitter app when it comes to viewing tweets, replies, DMs, favorites, and user profiles. You can even follow people right from the app, but without search or multiple account support, it can’t live up to its better competitors.
iTunes rating: 2 stars
Mashable rating: 2.5 stars









TwitterView: This relatively new 99 cent app isn’t the most feature-rich app, but it does provide a clean view of your twitter stream. If you’re not following a ton of people, and you enjoy full-tweet content in landscape view, then you’ll like the fact that with TwitterView you can flick through tweets in this fashion.
iTunes rating: not available
Mashable rating: 2.5 stars
Twiltr: Twiltr’s main purpose is to allow you to filter your tweet stream. So even though you can’t create groups, for $3.99 you can have a filtered view of tweets from the people you really want to follow, as well as save keyword filters (ie. searches).
iTunes rating: 3 stars
Mashable rating: 3.5 stars
iTweets: At the rate Twitter iPhone apps have evolved, we’d expect one with a price tag to be better than free alternatives, but that’s not the case with iTweets. 99 cents gets you a single, custom color-coded view of your Twitter stream that’s impossible to filter or manage. Sure you can shake to fetch tweets, but what good is it if your prettily colored @replys and direct messages fly by?
iTunes Rating: 2 stars
Mashable Rating: 1 star









Tweetion: Even though Tweetion does more than just search, the first screen you see is an unattractive view of current trends and the option to search for tweets nearby. True, you can view your full tweeting history, update Facebook () with each tweet, and change your Twitter avatar, but at $4.99 your wallet and your eyes are better off if you take your business elsewhere.
iTunes rating: 2 stars
Mashable rating: 1 star
Tweetsville: Priced $1 higher than fan favorite Tweetie, Tweetsville () falls about a buck short. There’s no support for multiple accounts or location-based networking, but you can expect Twitter trends, advance search (this is cool), favorites, tweet history, unread direct message count, inline links, and navigation bar customization. Plus, since Tweetsville comes from Tapulous, you can expect a beautiful app, pleasant niceties (like iChat-style view), and plenty of functionality.
iTunes rating: 3 stars
Mashable rating: 3 stars
LaTwit: Combine a myriad of features, a strange UI, and $2.99 price tag, and you get LaTwit. Worthy of note is multiple account support, URL shorteners, Ping ().fm posting, the ability to hide users, custom font sizes, and interchangeable tabs. If it weren’t so buggy, we’d be much more enthusiastic about it.
iTunes rating: 3 stars
Mashable rating: 2.5 stars

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Freebies

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NatsuLion: Not a bad offering for a free app – NatsuLion’s got all the basics covered – though we’d love to have the ability to add photos and retweet. One feature we love is the option to view our Twitter friends conversations.
iTunes rating: 3.5 stars
Mashable rating: 3.5 stars
Twittelator (): This oldie but goodie was the first ad free iPhone app to manage replies, dms, and overall twitter streams in a way that worked for me. It’s certainly managed to evolve with the times, changing both its look and feature set. It now includes search, bookmarks for tweets and searches, the ability to view friends of friends, and a page down button.
Need more? The $4.99 version is pricey, but includes Twitter trends, themes, threaded conversations, groups, and the ability to search nearby.
iTunes rating: 3 stars
Mashable rating: 4 stars
Twinkle: A former personal favorite, Twinkle () still glitters with its prettiness and location-aware features, but has definitely lost its shine when it comes to necessary Twitter functions. We love the look and the landscape map mode, but our biggest problem is that processing replies is impossible since they’re only included in the main stream.
iTunes rating: 3 stars
Mashable rating: 3.5 stars









Twitterific: Another standby Twitter app that’s seen its feature set trumped by newcomers is Twitterific. The current version of the app still doesn’t siphon replies and dms out of the main feed. There are some cute quirks we like including flicking through profiles, double tapping to change views, and left and right keys to navigate the in-app browser.
There may be some changes to the app soon, though. Twitterific has recently completed Twitterific 2.0, which fixes some of the problems stated above and adds even more features. It should be available to all next week.
Don’t overpay for the premium version, which costs $9.99 and comes ad-free and includes an extra theme.
iTunes rating: 3 stars
Mashable rating: 3 stars
Twitterfon: For a free app, Twitterfon () comes pretty packed with goodies and rivals more than a few of its pricier alternatives. Search options allow for location-based search, Twitter trends, and saved queries as bookmarks. You even get user profiles, retweet options, hashtag recognition, an in-app browser, and a Twitter address book for adding usernames to tweets (we love this!).
iTunes rating: 3.5 stars
Mashable rating: 4.5 stars

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Search and Trends

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ReTweet: When retweets are all that matter, Retweet can you help view the most popular retweets over the past 30 minutes, 3, 12, or 24 hours.
iTunes rating: 3.5 stars
Mashable rating: 3 stars
Summizer: The free version of Summizer allows you to search Twitter, view trending topics, save two searches, view related tweets, reply, and retweet. The full version comes with unlimited saved searches and a $2.99 price tag. It’s probably best to spend your money elsewhere (like on a full-featured app with search included).
iTunes rating: 2.5 stars
Mashable rating: 2.5 stars

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One Hit Wonders

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Twitterlink: Send tiny URLs in the is.gd form from your phone. Twitterlink is free and works when you add a bookmarklet to your phone’s Safari () browser. It’s not super easy to setup, but it makes tweeting the interesting links you find while browsing a breeze.
iTunes rating: 2.5 stars
Mashable rating: 3.5 stars
Twittervision: The iPhone version of the popular web app isn’t about tweeting at all. Twittervision is just a great way to visualize real-time tweets on a map. It’s so simple, and yet so great. We likey!
iTunes rating: 2.5 stars
Mashable rating: 3.5 stars
Gyazickr: Gyazickr’s free app just supports tweeting photos. You can opt to crop photos and have posts hosted on Gyazickr, TwitPic (), or Tumblr ().
iTunes rating: 3 stars
Mashable rating: 2.5 stars









Twitterboost: If Mr. Tweet had an iPhone app it would probably look a lot like Twitterboost, but give better recommendations. $1.99 gets you this app that continually (and randomly) suggests twitterers for you to follow. Want to be recommended? You’ll need to add yourself to the app for that.
iTunes rating: 2 stars
Mashable rating: 1.5 stars
GPSTwit: A single function Twitter app for only posting tweets. GPSTwit’s calling card is posting a link that shows location, status, and photo (if included on a map. At 99 cents you might find its single-mindedness a barrier to purchase.
iTunes rating: 2.5 stars
Mashable rating: 2 stars
Tweeter: All you can tweet for free. But with no image upload options and no Twitter-viewing options, we’d almost rather use SMS over Tweeter.
iTunes rating: 2 stars
Mashable rating: 1 star









Twitfire: Twitfire’s good for one thing and one thing alone – browsing the web to easily insert links into your tweets. Once the iPhone adds copy/paste, this handy free app might be obsolete.
iTunes rating: 2.5 stars
Mashable rating: 2 stars
JustUpdate: Certainly keeping it real with their name, JustUpdate does nothing more than let you update Twitter. No photos, no frills, just update.
iTunes rating: 3 stars
Mashable rating: 1 star
TwitterPics: Use TwitterPics to search for photos by keyword, user, or hashtag. You can also follow the photos from your favorite users or trends and share image links with Twitter. It’s a nifty way to experience Twitter photos and might even be worth the $3.99 price tag.
iTunes rating: 2.5 stars
Mashable rating: 3.5 stars
Pic.im A simple and free app just for sharing and viewing photos. Pic.im’s a TwitPic-like app with a mobile, web, and desktop presence (integrated with Nambu).
iTunes rating: 3 stars
Mashable rating: 3 stars

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Multi-Purpose

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Ziibii A free app for keeping up with Facebook, Flickr (), YouTube (), Twitter, and RSS feeds (like Mashable!) all in one stream that actually flows like a river. Ziibii’s probably not the best way to consume information, but it’s certainly fun to look at it.
iTunes rating: 2.5 stars
Mashable rating: 3.5 stars
Twitxr Perfect for sharing geo-tagged photos with not just Twitter, but Facebook, Flickr, and Picasa () too. Twitxr’s also a great app for viewing photos from Twitxr friends. The only downside is that you have to create a Twitxr account and configure your other social profiles from the website.
iTunes rating: 2 stars
Mashable rating: 3 stars
Nambu: Nambu’s iPhone app brings popular desktop client features to your phone. It’s a free way to fully engage with Twitter and FriendFeed (), update Identi.ca, post to Ping.fm, upload to pic.im (and view images), and create tr.im URLs. Once priced at $1.99, the app is now free and definitely worth checking out.
iTunes rating: 3 stars
Mashable rating: 4 stars

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Best in Show

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We’ve certainly covered a lot of Twitter apps. If your head is left a little dizzy, don’t fret. Take our best in show pics as a cheat sheet for finding the best Twitter apps in iTunes App Store ().
Without further ado, here are the apps that we think ace the Twitter for iPhone test. Of course, we always want to hear what your favorites are, so feel free to share those in the comments.

Pay to Play: Tweetie
Freebies: Twitterfon
Search and Trends: ReTweet
One Hit Wonders: Twitterlink
Multi-Purpose: Nambu