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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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@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. 😋
@isaiah It's our own tech stack based on WKWebView. We have developed it for the original Boxy (Inbox client) and refined it for boxysuite.com. Now it's quite a joy to use 👌
@frankdilo it's really great. works really well -- makes it feel very native, which is great.
it would probably be pretty easy to translate that to an Electron app too, if you'd like to hit the Windows market.
the issue with mobile twitter on the desktop is that it doesn't refresh regularly. does this wrapper deal with that in some way?
@ozlubling in our experience there is no live timeline, but if you check back every 5 mins, you usually see new tweets loaded automatically.
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/...
@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.
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.
@kirstyatx really happy you like it! And thanks for the bug report. We will do a bugfix update as soon as we are done with the launch.
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!
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"?
@joelrunyon tweets are served in the same order as mobile.twitter.com, which is to say: algorithmically
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.
Feels like the development has been abandoned, no responses to emails about bugs, the interface is glitching, switching between accounts is unreliable.
Love the design! Light, clean, white...
But what problem you are trying to solve with a wrapper app except hotkeys?
@steve1215 love how that sounds! But Boxy is kinda becoming its own brand so we don't want to ditch it :)
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.
I despise this kind of thinking. You should pay for things you like and use.
@frankdilo Expecting an application that is built based on someone else's free platform and code to also be free is not too large of an ask.
@eric_j_designer Yeah, but I am not a multimillion dollar corporation and I value my time.
@frankdilo You value your time and he values his money. You shouldn't despise anyone's kind of thinking, rather, try to understand it. :) A limited, "lite" version is not uncommon in this field to appease free users.
@frankdilo @eric_j_designer I think but me and Francesco understand and actually empathise with that kind thinking, it's just that it should now be normal to see that products made by indie devs (or solo makers) aren't and shouldn't in most cases be free. Unfortunately giving the "free option" likely means that almost everyone will just go with that one.
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. :)
@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.
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.
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.
Looks awesome, but do you guys have support for multiple accounts? Haven't found this info on your website.
@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.
@iraqlee @frankdilo Same question... biggest painpoint with just using the Twitter Web app: switching between my personal profile and product account
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