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Add to SafariWhen comparing Birdie vs Choqok, the Slant community recommends Birdie for most people. In the question“What are the best Twitter clients for Linux?” Birdie is ranked 1st while Choqok is ranked 3rd. The most important reason people chose Birdie is:
The app has just 5 tabs - home, replies, direct messages, profile and search. That's it.
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Pros
Pro Simple
The app has just 5 tabs - home, replies, direct messages, profile and search. That's it.
Pro Good looking interface
Birdie has paid attention to details - cohesive icons, functional typography, color scheme that's easy on the eyes, layout and letter spacing that makes reading the feed comfortable, etc.
Pro Plugins that extend functionality are available
Pro Highly customizable
Custom keybindings, color schemes, etc. Even the plugins are customizable.
Pro Unfurls long URLs
Shows non-shortened URLs on hover so you can check if you feel safe visiting the URL before clicking it.
Cons
Con No longer maintained
Con Limited configuration options
The tradeoff to Birdie's simplicity is that if you don't like something about how it presents the information, you most likely won't be able to change it.
Con Elementary OS focussed, might not work properly on other distros
The dev has decided to continue development based on Elementary OS APIs, entirely dropping support for other ditros. https://www.birdieapp.eu/building-our-future-on-elementary-os/
Con No built-in spell checker
Con Lacks a built-in URL shortener
Con Out of date
More than two years since the last code commit, this app will fail when Twitter changes their API.
Con No multi-column layout option
You can just see one feed at a time. No way to set up side-by-side feeds.
Con Feels out of place on non-KDE systems
As a KDE application, it doesn't look right on desktop environments other than KDE, such as Gnome, that's used by Ubuntu's Unity.
Con Requires the KDE framework
