There's been a plethora of Twitter apps for Windows Phone devices, and a lot of them went packing due to Twitter's API restrictions, but here's another one, and it looks quite good. Aeries has been designed to make using Twitter easier and features a neat and intuitive UI.
I've been using a beta version of Aeries for a few weeks, and I can safely say that along with Tweetium, it is definitely one of the top Twitter apps for Windows Phone in 2015.
The app packs in a multitude of features to customize the design and user experience – even the gestures to interact with your timeline. You can also set filters to block anything from Users to Tweets containing particular text. The app also allows you to save the position you have read in each of your timelines.
Aeries also offers offline support that is pretty good allowing you to read your tweets even when your data connection has given up. Finally, there is support for themes, including dark, black, and white.
The app is a tad expensive at $4.49, and there's no trial available, but that's owing to Twitter's token limit rather than a developer's limitation. In other words, do not take it out on the dev. Free trials would shorten this app's lifespan on the market.
It is worth the money though and supports multiple Twitter accounts, and is a great alternative to the very limited official Twitter app and the recent pin on my Home screen, Tweetium.
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Aeries is a brand new and powerful Twitter client for your Windows Phone
Does it support video upload, GIF upload, and @ tags for images? That's what I care about the most in these new clients.
I was on the beta but, No free one for me...Dam, $4.49 is too much
When you log on writes to me "could not contact twittet". Do you know where the error is?
I bought this app for £2.99 believing there would be no problems. Guess what!.. it crashes when viewing my following list intermittently...NOT HAPPY!. Why was there not a try before buy option. Its not just the £2.99 cost. It is also the principle. Can the developers or someone get this sorted Please!.
I know the dev is very responsive on beta, but 4.49 for third party client is a big no no! since the filter issue still there on latest beta, and I cant see any notifications, stay on official twitter :)
Fuk dat token limit, twitter you do dis?!
The beta is awesome :)
Does it look and perform like any other great iOS or Android client? Probably not. Tired of underperforming crappy apps in windows phone. Every time I use my windows phone and then use a my Nexus or iPhone it feels like I'm in a different world. Hopefully with windows 10 developers start supporting more and submit great quality apps. Being a mobile enthusiast I use all platforms and want to see windows phone app ecosystem kick off.
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Hands down the best Twitter app for Windows Phone! Tweetium just got deleted.
Possibly the major concern for most is reliability and performance for ANY paid app via Windows OS. Many are too impatient, wanting 100% performance from the start especially when purchasing. Many can and would download apps when free regardless of its reliability because hey, they can then just delete and move on to another. There probably fearful of wasting money instead of totally changing their mindset from the off and hitting the install button and rolling with it. Jeez, it's what us windowsphone owner's have been doing since builds 6, 7, 7.8, 8 etc, etc what with the big global app devs not even building apps for the Windows platform, open your eyes, take a chance, so what if it end's up in disappointment, least you can say you gave it a good go.
4.49$ for a twitter client? No way
Was looking foward to the public release, and seeing as i had roughly 900 bing rewards points, I decided to spend a little under 500 (I'm a gold member :3) on the $5 Windows Store gift card to get this.
And I gotta say, this is one of the best d*** twitter clients I've used on Windows Phone.
One thing I've looked for in a Twitter Client was exceptional design. Not a single app came close, except for Tweet It!, which i used before this. Everything was bunched together, slapping on Pivots like it's gospel, with no actual attention to design. They all, not unlike recent Windows 10 builds, put functionality over design, which really irks me. I may be weird for this, but I will not keep an app if it looks butt ugly or happens to have some cheap, iOS ripped icon. An app has to look good first, then function well on top of that.
Aeries delivers on that. It is one of the best designed twitter clients in the store. It's arguably even one of the best designed apps in general in the Windows Store! On top of that it includes all the necessary funcctionality (some which were surprisingly overlooked in other 'feature-rich' clients) and works like a charm. I will admit I've ran into a couple of bugs, and have a few slight issues on the placement of things (I feel favorites belong under each profile, that the DM menu should be an option in the app bar rather than in the pivot, and that there should be an activity menu that covers both retweets AND favorites of your tweets). But these issues are minimal in the scale of things. Overall, i am impressed with this application, and feel it was worth what i paid (even though technicallly I paid nothing at all. Thanks, Bing!).
TL;DR: If you're looking for not only the most functional, but the best designed/most asthetically pleasing twitter app in the store, this app is worth the cost.
Cybercrow beta is another good twitter client
I've been using the beta version this app'and it worth a try. but $4.49 is bit expensive. i thought the beta testers would get it for free.
Middle finger to Twitter
I bought it, but boy does it ever need push.
Hi.... can someone tell me which twitter app has auto display of new tweets like tweetdeck... tweetium, aeries or another twitter client?
I picked up. I'm tired of the terrible Twitter app. Hopefully Win 10/8.1 version comes soon.
Why are twitter clients always not free... Smh... Tweetium is $6.99 now this... Nope thank you
Hey guys, I'm the guy who's made Aeries and awesome to see all the feedback positive and negative (mainly price based), just to clear a few things up -
The reason the price is higher than normal is that I love working on Aeries and want to continue its development and range of features. I don't however want to see it go the way of mehdoh and TweetIt with lack of developer support after only a short period.
Regarding the trial situation, it sucks, I know. But by not doing trials I can reserve those tokens for to give more band with to expand and improve the app later in time.
Two more things:
Universal - I'm personally excited to start working on this now as I think there's a lot of space to innovate in, hopefully it won't take too long and will be free too those already purchased.
Notifications: again will come soon, the reason for this is that during the beta period I didn't have the funds to setup a server for all the users to start working on this, however now public release has occured I should be able to reinvest the money in making a notification service for you all!
Anyways, have a great weekend everyone! And thanks to those who have purchased :)
Great work Brad! Love the timeline filter, turning on and off sections, all the customization in appearance. Very cool twitter client!
Mehdoh my go to app for some time but no longer working for me. Your response has cleared up my reservations on buying and trying your app. Please do make it free upgrade once your universal app releases. Cheers.
Does it have push notifications?
The app is good (slow, however), but is expensive because there is no support for notifications and not universal.
Slow? Aeries? How do you know that? Were you a beta tester of Aeries? Guess not!
Have you ever bought an app from the store? Any app?
Aries is quite slow.. At least on the Beta.. The UI is nice and all but Tweetium is faster and more stable
Aeries slow? what kind of device you have? I know that previous versions of beta were laggy on 512BM RAM devices, but the recent beta updates fixed that. Try to clean the cache and then reinstall, see if that works and improves the performance.
On my ATIV S i8750 (WP8.1.1) Aeries beta runs super fast. Loading, Fetching, Starting, everything.
I will try again. I have a 720.
Excellent, come back with findings if that fixed the issue, others will benefit from that. :)
I'm using L1520 and on LTE network.. It's quite slow at loading.. But yeah I'll try to reinstall it.
Try how Aeries works on your home wi-fi network, and then see how it work on your mobile internet (LTE), maybe it's the mobile internet that make's it slow.
Yes. Actually, I bought maybe more than 10 apps. Asphalt, I buy a lot of cars (almost 20 dollars of cars). And, yes, I'm a beta tester of the app.
if you say so... :)
Can it send notifications for tweets from specific accounts that are followed? The official Twitter app can do that, but the notifications are unreliable as they stop suddenly all by themselves. No one can figure out why, apparently. I haven't found another app yet that sends notifications for tweets from people you follow. If one exists, I may pay for it for some better reliability on notifications
Ok people, I have been with Aeries beta since it's own beginning. The developer is so friendly and so ready for suggestions. Do you know how many updates he pushed in the last 2 months? A LOT!
With every new update, first i did is to test the app and send him long feedback emails, with bugs reporting, app suggestions, etc and I am sure lots of his beta testers did the same. Hence, sometimes he even push 2 updates in the last 24 hours. That only means he is working his a$$ off for this app. If you are not a developer you cannot understand the amount of work those developers put into their apps. Instead of bitching and talking sh!t about the app, why don't you use the feedback button and suggest a feature to the developer. Me as an ex Windows Mobile 6 developer can only say that Brad (the app developer) is the most dedicated developer i have ever seen. Maybe on pair with Rudy.
You complain that app sucks, blah blah blah, but i can bet that 9 out 10 of you wouldn't even bother to send the developer feedback with bug reports or app suggestions. He loves those emails, cuz that is the way that you and me are considering the app and we want to support it.
About the price, well, Abhishek Baxi explain it very precisely. So what if it's 5$? I was an Aeries Beta tester and I am pruchasing this app, cuz i believe in it and i believe in Brad the developer that will get this app better and better with time (very short time). And yes, it will be universal app. He is working on the live tile, notifications, group dm's and many other neat features. This is his baby and since i see how devoted he is, makes me purchasin this app and use it as my only Tweeter app. I did bought 2 tweeter apps before this, and i will ditched them from my phone cuz of this. (of course, I will not tell you the names of those apps, cuz it's not fair for the developers).
Stop bitchin, Start supporting! If you don't like it, just keep it to your self. FEEDBACK is what all developers want, start using that feature. :)
My official Twitter app/account has been nothing short of abysmal for the last month or so with pictures taking an age to load if at all plus the annoyance of feeds taking forever to refresh and that's when using very fast Wi-Fi at home, even after deleting the app and reinstalling on numerous occasions. I'm currently using Gleek which i got when free, this is just brilliant, so I see no reason to pay for something else, can understand the reason's for not wanting to allow a trial version but hey ho !!
Sticking with Tweetium Pro
Worth the money, way better than the original Twitter app. Trust me. I like it better than the other twitter client apps as well. Oh and it also has Live Tile, for those who are claiming it doesn't.
Have you tried Tweetium? What extra features does this one have? Doesn't even have live tile or notifications apparently.
It's basically the same as the other clients it's just smoother and has a much better and more modern UI. & it does have live tile. I didn't really like Tweetium too much, that's just me though
Will wait for a MyAppFree deal ;)
It wont ever do that. Too desperate if it had to because Twitter clients can't have too many users.
Looks good. luckily I'm on Tweetium before they seek out of tokens. Universal apps 4 lyfe , homes
Can't justify the price... Tweetium is just to powerful to spend $4.49 to see if this is better.
Tweetium does squat. Not powerful at all. Neither is this. Powerful are twitter third party apps on iOS.
Ok, then go over there and enjoy IOS. We're talking about Windows apps here...
I wanna see a versus video with this app vs Tweetium. Will this happen Daniel?
And it looks way better than tweetium too
I have to agree that it looks better than Tweetium.
No push and no live tile?! LOL
Excellent!!!
at that price I expect cross platform, buy on phone get on Windows and vice versa. but I understand, I'll stick with Tweetium for now
It's coming
best app for twitter i ever used i like it more than tweetium
So expensive and there is no universal app!!!
What we need is for alot of third party devs to make third party apps for missing first party apps since they usually have more features anyways
Bing - Rudy Hyun.
We need more like him im going to take computer programming in college just so I can start
When will this app has free promotion
Never. No twitter app ever will have promotion.
Can it memorize tweets so that I can more quickly hashbomb to # IDARB?!
I've been in the beta since it started. A great, great Twitter app. I think both Tweetium and Aeries are the best on the WP store right now. I use both and both have pros and cons the other do not, so it becomes a choice of which one you prefer. One thing to remember is that Tweetium requires a yearly subscription for multiple accounts and Aeries does not. So, it all depends on what your use case scenario is for a Twitter app. I think both are equally amazing.
This doesn't have push notifications right?
No universal? No go. Apps that aren't going to be universal in 2015 are just not real deal.
I've been using the beta for a while and going back and forth between it and Tweetium, and visualy this is defintiely the nicer of the two apps. Dev has been working very hard on it and the updates have come fairly rapdily and made the app excellent.
Does it have push notifications? I love Tweetium and am a Pro user so likely won't get this. Just curious.
I understand the token limit and the need to eke it out but no trial is not a good way to go. I wouldn't buy a car without a test drive and if that analogy fails then apply it to anything, because in the real world you can get refunds if you don't like the product. App purchasing singularly fails to give refunds at all and this needs to change. Give a dummy model to try. Limit it to 10 tweets. You need to try these things first.
Now imagine that you have a set limit of 1000 cars and after every test drive you have to demolish the car wether it's bought or not. That's what the token does, trial or bought it cost the developer a token.
I'd like to "test drive" it but since it will count against the token limit I'd like to at least see a video that goes through all the features and settings and not just a quick one minute video
Will buy once notifications are supported.
Does this client support Group DMs? If not, NO SALE.
It's currently not possible for a third-party app to offer group DM support, as Twitter hasn't made that functionality available via the API. They'll have to do that before any apps can offer that feature.
I have a doubt. If I buy this and install. After the Twitter tokens run over, I'm still able to use the app?
Yes. When a third party twitter app reaches a milestone of 100k limit, they prevent new users from using the app.. Existing users can continue to use the app. I think thats part of the reason why some devs charge high prices for a twitter app.
Thanks. So if I format or reinstall my OS, and the token run over, I'm unable to install it again? I mean, the app will remember that "me it's me"?
Yup
I got no problem paying, but that much without a trial?! Can't do it
I think its definitely worth the price... I've been using the Beta and I can tell you, its every bit as good!! Developer updates regularly, responds to user suggestions and bug reports promptly. Its smooth, slick, gorgeous UI and fluid.
Twitter sucks!!
Using Twitter just for quick look for news and stuff. Gleek is good enough for me.
If there was a Desktop version along with the Windows Phone version & I hadn't already purchased Tweetium then id have considered this, but the fact that Tweetium is already a Universal App with a Desktop version makes this look pricey for what's currently a Universal App awaiting the Desktop version to be made available.
Who cares if it's brand new or powerful, what matters most is if it's FAST and RELIABLE.
I believe it is. I used it as a beta tester. Pretty fast even on 2g network and OLD Lumia
Yup beta tester and casual user. But too expensive.
I understand the price, but it's difficult to shell out that for a Twitter client without the ability to try it first. I like the pivot scheme and UI better than Tweetium's icons.
Twitter's scheme of limiting 3rd parties unfortunately works. There's just not a 3rd party app I'm going to pay for, regardless of how nice it is. Good luck to the devs, the screens look cool.
I don't mind paying for this since I use Twitter almost everyday... :)
Way too expensive and no trial means no put purchase
4.49? Hell no.. Sorry
I use Twitter everyday, so I don't mind paying this price at ALL. Casual Twitter users may not care though
Nice app! Not that expensive if you count the hours the dev has put into it. Bought it right away to support development. Needs notification but for now it already got 4 stars from me
Once it has notifications I'll def. Buy
Beta tester here. This app is the best twitter app I've ever used. The developer is highly active and responsive. Well worth the $5, especially when the PC ver comes out.
Beta tester here. A really powerfull app. Is there will be a w10 universal app too ?
Yep. Simply superb app. Nice and clean UI. And amazing performance.
Looking good. I love peregrine though. Maybe will look at it down the road.
Not expensive.^^
The only problem with the $4.49 is that I have bought so many of these and they either get abandoned or pulled once the token max is reached.
Maybe if they had a client for my tablet and PC. But no thanks
I've been using this app for months.. It's a great app apart from the awful logo but I still prefer Tweetium more.
Tweetium is amazing.
Well its ok. Nothing shouts amazing. Look at third party apps on other OS. They charge fraction of Tweetium and are LOADED with features. Tweetium has no "wow" features. So many apps on WP for Twitter, nothing that matches iOS third party twitter. They have same token BS too, yet much nicer and feature packed apps there.
I mean in comparison to Windows clients. But yes, I concur.
I am shocked at the inability to add more features or even COPY them on WP after charging twice as much! The app situation sometimes makes me think of Zimbabwe bread prices back in 2009-2010.
Hahaha :'D
Tweetium dev here.
To be fair, Tweetium is a lot cheaper than the main alternative in the Apple world, TweetBot (which was $28 for "universal" equivalent last I checked, plus they charge for upgrades so it's a recurring cost like Tweetium Pro). I also get regular requests from iOS/Mac users to port Tweetium there, indicating they'd rather use it than TweetBot.
What features are you referring to? Tweetium is a lot newer than TweetBot but matches it in most areas and exceeds it in some.
Agreed. As I've said elsewhere Tweetium is fantastic for the cost. Works a treat.
Great job, B!
Well said brandon
I love your app
Beta was great but $4.49 is way to expensive.
This is like wanting a nice shirt but the tag says $499
lol
Lovely app .. Used to beta for a while .. Loved it !
Excellent app!!
$4.49? No..
Me too it's like a rip off!
Do you read anything? It isn't a rip off. It's done because otherwise within weeks the app would not work due to the token limit.
Will that's fair enough, but a week's trial would be better than an ad supported free app. What if you buy it and think it's shit? I appreciate the business model and the twitter restrictions but that's not at all flexible.
Right, but as stated it's just not possible because of the Twitter token limit. In other words, only so many accounts can access Twitter using a 3rd party client before Twitter shuts it down. And the only way around that is by an exemption. And from my understanding an exemption is only given out if the client does something that the official client does not do. That's why Tweetium Pro is in existence.
Why don't they use a separate token for the trial?
I'm sure it's just an excuse but they spin it as policy.
The people to blame for this are those at Twitter. We should have a good official app by now. It's ridiculous. I am however happy using Tweetium for the time being.
I think Microsoft has spoken to FB and Twitter and will launch updated universal apps for FB, IG, Twitter.
Or, I could be very wrong.
I understand that but what if the app sucks? I would hate spend that money only to find out the app freezes and crashes a lot. I hate that twitter set this damn limit. A trial would have been nice.
I believe that is the reason why Windows Central exists: To give you a review...
We read. We know, it's still a rip off. He said nothing about the trial, he's saying 4.50 for a twitter client is a rip off.
And that's your opinion. I'll quite happily pay for it if it does what I need it to. Twitter is something I use a lot and I need my app to work. The official app is garbage.
Damn dude, its less than 5 bucks. That's gonna break you? Either you want a twitter app that does what this one does or you don't. Either way, the cost is 5 bucks? If you ain't got 5 bucks, why are you in this thread at all crying about how broke you are? Its embarassing man.
94 cents and it's yours.
Have in mind that this app will be a Universal one and once you buy it you'll can use the Win8.1 version when it releases.
The same way Tweetium is. And only cost $ 1,49.
Consider Tweetium has a pro plan that brings it's price (and features like tweetmarker) up to par with what this developer is offering out of the gate.
Tweetium is a per year cost for the pro features.
$1.49/year?
£2 for app plus £4 yearly.
This app isn't universal. Doesn't support push notifications. Tweetium for £2 is universal. £4/yr supports instant push.
Without push notifications it's pretty useless to me. Same reason I don't use official app, even though it's supposed to have them it still doesn't work for me.
No, this app has no notifications. Yet.
Maybe $2.49?
I almost forgot that people still use 8.1. (Win10FTW)
Because 8.1 is great.
That price tag made me say oooooohhhhhhh!!! Quite pricy!
You pay more for a McDonald's meal that you'll crap out of your body than what this app costs/offers. Stop being cheap and pay developers for their hard work.
I'm not being cheap. I'm a student, so I have to justify spending my parents' money on just a twitter client. It doesn't even have a trial.
Then justify it Sagar. Your parents won't mind you spending 5 bucks on fast food but assume you irresponsible spending 4.50 on a communications utility that benefits your need to keep in touch with technology and the world around you as well as contribute to commerce? Your parents have more faith in a happy meal? Tell me you're not saying that.
First of all, I don't regularly eat happy meals, and my meals are cheaper because I eat home cooked food.
Secondly, this comparison with food is ridiculous because you need food to survive and stay fit whereas you can EASILY do without an expensive twitter client.
If it were some other app that really has actual use for me, eg. Wolfram alpha or AutoCAD, I would happily pay for it (and have too)
So you don't have any of your own money you work for? Yikes.
No, I thought it was pretty clear when I said I'm a student. It's impractical for me to work given the amount of studying I have to do in engineering.
Making excuses again. Unless you have a physical limitation, get a job and pay for your own happy meals. You'll find it's wholly liberating. Mommy and daddy already pay for your classes, you could at least get your own happy meal from time to time. Besides, I have a B.S and M.S in computer science with no mommy/daddy financing. I worked at the same time and got my own happy meals. Which was all I could afford. lol.
Maybe such a scheme works in your country (I'm guessing USA?), but with the education system here, that is laughably unrealistic.
How the hell am I supposed to work when I have to go to college every day of the week from 9am to 3pm? LOL
Scheme? ROTFL. Yes, USA.