Tapbots Making 'Phoenix' App for Bluesky

[MacRumors]

Tapbots, known for the now-defunct Tweetbot app, is planning to release a new app for the Bluesky social network later this year.

Called Phoenix, the app will be developed for iPhone and Mac in tandem with Ivory, the app that Tapbots created for the Mastodon social network. Tapbots says that Bluesky has become so popular that its clients are now split between Mastodon and Bluesky, and it is no longer possible for the company to survive on Ivory alone.

Tapbots does not plan to stop development on Ivory, and work on the Mastodon app will continue after Phoenix is released. The two apps will share features, but will be separate. Tapbots says that it made more sense to develop two separate apps than to create a single combo app to provide a better customer experience, but cross-platform posting is a feature planned for the future.

After Twitter (now X) stopped supporting third-party platforms like Tweetbot, Tapbots pivoted to Ivory, an iPhone and Mac app designed for posting on the Mastodon social network. Both Mastodon and Bluesky are popular alternatives to Twitter/X.

Tapbots plans to release Phoenix sometime this summer, with a limited public alpha coming in the near future. More information is available on the Tapbots website.

Article Link: Tapbots Making 'Phoenix' App for Bluesky

 

[everybodylovesramen]

this is a day one purchase. welcome back tapbots!

 

[TroyJam]

Man, I miss Tweetbot so much...

 

[Quasi26]

Always a fan of their Dev work, will be there day one for this.

 

[DotCom2]

Glad to hear this. Day 1 purchase as well.

 

[dannyyankou]

Awesome. I will sign up for the alpha once available.

 

[countermind]

When Nostr app?

 

[dgdosen]

I wonder how much this hurts/will hurt Twitter... I've avoided it in favor of Bluesky.

 

[piercedpagan]

Weirdly enough, I was looking this up recently, as someone who loves their apps, but is just confused by mastodon, would love to be able to support them again! Will be a day one download!

 

[WarmWinterHat]

I wonder how much this hurts twitter... I've avoided it in favor of Bluesky.

I never could find any use for Twitter. Is blue sky very similar?

 

[Eureka20]

this is a day one purchase. welcome back tapbots!

Agreed! Im looking forward to this one!

 

[mansplains]

I never could find any use for Twitter. Is blue sky very similar?

Yeah, another echo chamber in the opposite direction.

 

[DocMultimedia]

Losing Tweetbot is the day I stopped using Twitter. It was a superb app and I still miss it.

 

[jimmy_john]

I never could find any use for Twitter. Is blue sky very similar?

It's similar to twitter but without the nazis, bots, and algo manipulation. It's what twitter was in about 2009, but with good blocking tools.

 

[CarlJ]

Weirdly enough, I was looking this up recently, as someone who loves their apps, but is just confusedly mastodon, would love to be able to support them again! Will be a day one download!

Are you saying that you're confused by Mastodon? Or that you're confused that they do/don't support Mastodon? (They do, that's Ivory.)

 

[Paul Shields]

It's similar to twitter but without the nazis, bots, and algo manipulation. It's what twitter was in about 2009, but with good blocking tools.

And without the ads which the death of Tweetbot forced me to see. I will buy this app as soon as it's available.

 

[jimmy_john]

And without the ads which the death of Tweetbot forced me to see. I will buy this app as soon as it's available.

Yes- how could I forget. I remember when Elon killed tweetbot and made everyone use the first party app or website.

I couldn't believe how bad it was after using tweetbot for years.

Quickly left for BlueSky.

 

[Tito360]

Glad to hear this. Day 1 purchase as well.

Will be obsolete in 20 yrs

 

[kilimanjaro]

This was the best and dare I say - it gamified Twitter.
It was great and can’t wait to see what they’ve got coming for us.
Sign me up for alpha-beta tests!

 

[HiVolt]

It's similar to twitter but without the nazis, bots, and algo manipulation. It's what twitter was in about 2009, but with good blocking tools.

Yeah no nazis but you instead get communists. Pick your poison. I choose neither.

 

[jimmy_john]

Yeah no nazis but you instead get communists. Pick your poison. I choose neither.

Believe it or not, there are people that are neither. We call them "normal".

 

[jimmy_john]

One thing twitter does still have going for it in a big way is how easy it is to make money there.

Crypto scams, phishing, good 'ol fashion porn bots....the algo is an absolute dream. Just force feeding this stuff to the marks.

In the business its what we call a target rich environment.

 

[S.B.G]

I love their Ivory app a lot. Sure miss the old days of Twitter and Tweetbot.

I don't use Bluesky, but I am confident that Tapbots will have another superior user experience with Phoenix.

 

[HiVolt]

Believe it or not, there are people that are neither. We call them "normal".

No sh*t sherlock. normal people exist on all platforms and in life. You chose to assign a derogatory name to people on a specific platform.

 

[Capeto]

Bluesky is for snowflakes who don't like the truth and can't stand the fact that they can no longer censor it.

What truth was being censored on pre-Musk Twitter?