This isn’t my app, it just seems super cool as a way to pull together your own social media and news.
Adds and a subscription model are present FYI.
Twitterrific team launches new ‘Tapestry’ iPhone app for Bluesky, Mastodon, RSS, more
Submitted 4 weeks ago by ubergeek@lemmy.today to technology@lemmy.world
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stevo887@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
3dmvr@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Im not using one of these with ads, ill host my own and use the website before that, would have to be insanely convenient and polished, even then id wait for a one time purchase clone
stevo887@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
It has a lifetime subscription but it’s missing so many features I couldn’t imagine paying that right now. Well ever but specifically right now…lol
Hafty@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Cool concept. Seems a bit pricey for what is essentially an RSS reader. UI looks kind of ugly.
stevo887@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
100% although I like the UI but it’s crippled without those features mentioned. Openvibe and Surf offers the same concept and can do both those things.
BeefPiano@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
The interesting thing to me is that you can code and share your own feed sources. This means you can integrate APIs, or even scrape sites.
cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 weeks ago
This is really cool. 👍
stevo887@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
This is great. I’ve really been enjoying OpenVibe but it’s not perfect so I’m looking forward to checking out another take on this.
stevo887@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
Am I taking crazy pills or can you not reply to BlueSky and Mastodon post in Tapestry?
dylanmorgan@slrpnk.net 4 weeks ago
I can’t either, looks like this is just for reading.
stevo887@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
That’s crazy, you can reply in Opevibe and Surf.Social and they want $80 for this?
misk@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I don’t understand who this is for.
It’s not a good RSS client because it doesn’t offer any specialised features (reader view, caching etc)z
It’s an awful microblogging platform client because you can’t see context or comments. So then maybe you could set up another account because you can’t select what you’re going to see there and then you wonder why not use this account in Mastodon client and not install another app.
It’s not a good YouTube app or whatever else they implement. It’s not going to be a good everything app because better apps exist for individual services and this developer doesn’t seem to have capacity to implement even the basics.
It does offer some cool features when you have a bajillion news sources but then you’d be kidding yourself that this app will let you browse them all. Maybe you’ll set up some cool alerts for stuff you’ll see elsewhere anyway.
I might be missing the point but this is really undercooked.
ubergeek@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Think of “Google News”, but for social media and RSS… Or Google Reader for all of those.
The point isn’t to be able to comment and whatnot, but to get all the things you want updates on, in a single pane of glass, so to speak.
misk@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
I understand. I tried it and it was awful for the reasons stated above.
Reeder did a similar rebrand recently and it was similarly received. I had to switch RSS app that I’ve been using since 1st gen iPod Touch. I understand Iconfactory had to reinvent itself because Musk killed Twitterific but this just doesn’t work and it’s been proved to not work already.
stevo887@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
That seems like such a narrow use case. I’m not sure why making it usable would have hindered people who want to use it like that.
Not being able to reply or see threads are just wild design choices IMO.
chiisana@lemmy.chiisana.net 4 weeks ago
I’ve never been a Twitterific user, even back when everyone was on it. The UI never really made sense to me because it always felt lacking. But maybe that minimalistic approach is their entire schtick, and their former users that enjoyed their style would buy it right up.
On a similar thought, I think if Tapbots made a similar aggregator, I’d buy it in a heart beat.
misk@sopuli.xyz 4 weeks ago
Twitterific was too old school, like it didn’t want to move past skeuomorphic design of old iOS. I liked it but I’m old. I should like Tapestry so I’m really bummed about this experience.
If you want this kind of aggregator then the new version of Reeder attempted it couple of months ago and it seemed much nicer to use. When I noticed that’s it’s the same idea I reinstalled it and am now trying to stick with it. It didn’t have those custom filtered views that Tapestry has before but it’s been added since. I think it wants me to set up many views and just dip into them like channels to surf on TV. Configuration was painfully slow but I understand why some of it had be done this way - you have to make sure you’re adding low noise sources. It’s also half baked honestly but much more usable, better looking and cheaper.
macstainless@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
Been beta testing this as a Kickstarter backer for many months and it’s one of my top iPhone apps. Iconfactory has done a real good job and I’ll say that if you like the app, $80 for a lifetime purchase really will pay for itself after only a year of using it.
stevo887@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
You can’t reply! What am I missing?
mesamunefire@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Cool. Is there anything like this on android? Or desktop?
stevo887@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
ubergeek@lemmy.today 4 weeks ago
Thanks! I’ve not seen this before, gonna go look into it :)
specialseaweed@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
It looks great but man I hate subscriptions and $80 for a lifetime license is absurd.
tkw8@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
$80 for a lifetime subscription is reasonable for a well developed app without venture capital subsiding the cost.
Plexpass lifetime is $120.
mosiacmango@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Plex is owned by venture capitol now.
Badland9085@lemm.ee [bot] 4 weeks ago
$60 can buy you a lifetime license for the Affinity Designer 2, which is a fantastic alternative to Adobe’s Illustrator, which some people can’t live without. AFAIK, Serif isn’t backed by a venture capitalist as well. So, are you still happy paying $20 more for a social media app?
Like, look, I get that we should support devs for what they do, especially if they don’t take venture capitalist money to sell their products for cheap to gain market share. But this seems really overpriced. What are you getting with an $80 app for social media?
stevo887@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
Completely different services. What social media app has ever cost $80?
scarabic@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Yeah but Plex has also been around for years and established that “lifetime” might be a good stretch of time. I’d never spend “lifetime” level money on some new mobile app.
3dmvr@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
80$ goes so far with software, I could buy so much cool shit with years of development behind it
paraphrand@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Software use to cost this much and much more in the 90s, and often did less and wasn’t frequently updated.
It’s 25-30 years later.
People have lost touch with what paid software costs.
ICastFist@programming.dev 4 weeks ago
Developers didn’t have access to mountains of open source code, online tutorials and stack overflow back then either. Compilers, like Turbo C, also used to be paid products.
3dmvr@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
Shit was much harder vfx artists were paid a lot too, but they also were the mfs starting apple and pixar
stevo887@lemmings.world 4 weeks ago
I’ve been using Openvibe which is a similar app and haven’t seen one add and doesn’t have a subscription model. I understand development cost money but I agree with you.
Ulrich@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Openvibe is backed by Automatic so zero chance it doesn’t become shit. But you can just switch when it does, I suppose.
WalnutLum@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
There is no such thing as a lifetime license.
Any license only lasts as long as the person doesn’t want to alter the deal.
(Speaking as a sublime text user who got shafted and switched to emacs)