Falcon Pro vs Fenix
When comparing Falcon Pro vs Fenix, the Slant community recommends Fenix for most people. In the question“What are the best Twitter clients for Android?” Fenix is ranked 1st while Falcon Pro is ranked 2nd. The most important reason people chose Fenix is:
You can get push alerts when one of your favorite users post something. Turning off alerts for the general tweets, makes it really useful.
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Pros
Pro Free, without ads
Pro In-app browser
You can choose to use the in-app browser or Android default. The in-app browser can also be set to force a light, mobile friendly version of a site or a full web page when connected to Wi-Fi. Additionally, it can use hardware acceleration to render web pages faster.
Pro Statistics
Tracks the life of your tweets - retweets and favorites.
Pro Embedded Youtube support
Linked YouTube videos can be played back in the app.
Pro Real-time notifications
At the expense of more battery consumption, you can have your notifications pop-up as they happen.
Pro Theme support
Light and dark themes are available.
Pro Multiple account support
Allows easy switching of different Twitter accounts within the app.
Pro Beautiful, well designed app
It's incredibly easy to read tweets, view media and see web content.
Pro Mute function
Allows muting someone - hiding their tweets from the timeline without unfollowing them. Can also mute hashtags.
Pro URL shortener and expander
Allows shortening URLs within the app and seeing the final destination of shortened URLs.
Pro Starred user article preloading
A linked article from a starred user will load the beginning of said article in the app.
Pro Native Dashclock Widget support
Dashclock Widget brings advanced features and notifications to your lock screen, including Falcon Pro notifications.
Pro Landscape and tablet support
The same app works on both Android phones and tablets in portrait and landscape modes.
Pro Transparent widget
Pro Native & non-native retweets
You can use Twitter's built-in method of retweeting or choose RT/quote/via retweets.
Pro Favorite users push alerts
You can get push alerts when one of your favorite users post something. Turning off alerts for the general tweets, makes it really useful.
Pro Swipe to compose
Ludicrously quick at getting tweets out there. From anywhere in-app, just swipe from the very edge of the screen to the center, and the compose box will appear.
Pro Clean UI
Intuitive, easy to overview user interface.
Pro Dedicated tablet layout
Fenix has an optimized version of the app for Android tablets.
Pro Themes
Dark and Light themes available.
Pro In-app browser
Internal browser allows following links without having to leave the application. You can also choose to use the Android default browser.
Pro Mute function
Allows hiding a users tweets from timeline without having to unfollow them.
Pro Multiple user support
Allows for easy switching between different Twitter accounts within the application.
Pro Fenix is now $1.99 on the Google Play Store
Pro Inline video and image preview
Embeds image and YouTube video previews within the timeline.
Cons
Con Not free
Con Requires some hacking in order to use to it's full potential
In order to get the best use out of this app, you need to apply a few tweaks to get around some artificial limits, which have been placed on this app as a result of its success. Bypass the Twitter token limit.
Con Requires in-app-purchase to add your own Twitter account
Con Latest update to "fix" threading made it even worse.
It wasn't good before.
Con Unreliable push updates
Sometimes you'll get updates on activity, sometimes you won't. Sometimes you'll get one multiple times. Keeps you on your toes.
Con No widget to view tweets at a glance
A widget would let me view, scroll, favorite and retweet with a glance and a single click.
Con View tweets from multiple accounts on one page.
Con Back button on the main screen forgets feed position without confirmation
Con Unreliable, abandoned
The developer for FalconPro seems to have abandoned it.
Con Won't hold its place when you exit and reenter the app
Con Cant view long tweets