Birdhouse 1.0.2 (iPhone OS 3.0 Test - iPhone - iPod Touch - 309827985 Category: Social Networking Author: Sandwich Dynamics Vote(s): 411 Price: $1.99 Released: April 13, 2009 Version: 1.0.2 (iPhone OS 3.0 Test Download Birdhouse Get Birdhouse for $1.99
Birdhouse - Sandwich Dynamics
Birdhouse is a notepad for Twitter.
It's a simple, well-designed app for capturing your ideas, saving them for later, and publishing when ready.
Birdhouse won't replace your favorite Twitter client, it'll add to it. Continue using your favorite Twitter client for keeping up with your friends. When you think of something to write that you don't want to post right away, Birdhouse is the perfect place to put it.
FEATURES
• Quickly jot down your ideas, just like in Notes.
• Count down to 140 characters, just like in Twitter.
• Save as many drafts as you want, revisit them later.
• Save and publish from multiple Twitter accounts.
• Capture your ideas offline, even in Airplane mode.
• Rate drafts with stars and sort by best or by latest.
• Unpublish the bad ones just as easily.
• Back up everything through email.
For demo video and more info, visit birdhouseapp.com. 2010 Sandwich Dynamics
Birdhouse reviewed by Users
Strangely useful I didn't see a need for this until I got it. Now I love it. It's great for jotting down notes for later fine tuning. And it lets you rate and back up your finely crafted tweets.
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Version 1.0.1
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May 1, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
Notratched
Pleasant The act of tweeting is now a more enjoyable experience, thanks to Birdhouse. It is a thoughtfully designed app, wonderfully simple and easy to use. I highly recommend buying and using Birdhouse to anyone who likes to think about their tweets.
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Version 1.0.1
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May 2, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
drumby
Yay! I never thought I'd keep 2 separate Twitter apps on my phone. But Birdhouse really fills a need I didn't even realize until I started using it. Major kudos to Cam and the Sandwich!
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Version 1.0
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Apr 14, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
toddster
Fantastic - wish it had spell check This is a really great app. I write draft tweets all the time in the Notepad and never get around to posting them. The only thing it lacks is spell check, the primary reason I don't publish something in the first place.
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Version 1.0
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Apr 13, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
Trev dot Com
Actually fills some needed functionality For those without ubiquitous networking (iTouch users). Ofter I wished my twitter client would just stash tweets when out of network and then automatically send them out when logged in to wifi. Birdhouse is the next best thing
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Version 1.0
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Apr 13, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
nucho
I love this thing we made. Is it uncouth to review my own app? I'm not sure I care. Cameron and I set out to make a tool we needed, and I'm going to rate the outcome as honestly as I can.Birdhouse is better than I imagined it would be. I don't just use it some of the time. I use it all of the time. It allows me to access and strengthen a part of my brain that threatened atrophy from normal Twitter use. Is Birdhouse for everybody? No. But it's for me, and (judging by the overwhelming response) it's for a lot of other people, too. So how did we do, Cameron? That's right. 5 stars is how we did.
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Version 1.0.1
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Apr 30, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
lonelysandwich
Pleasant When I loaded the update, it lost all my drafts. What gives?
The act of tweeting is now a more enjoyable experience, thanks to Birdhouse. It is a thoughtfully designed app, wonderfully simple and easy to use. I highly recommend buying and using Birdhouse to anyone who likes to think about their tweets.
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Version 1.0.1
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Apr 26, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
drumby
Perfect notepad It's a great notepad for so many features. Come up with your own use like creating a private family Twitter with an inside group following and gathering information for projects or even a band creating one for gathering ideas on the next album. You create your own amazing reason to use this!
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Version 1.0
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Apr 18, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
Skettalee
Must-Have for Twitter Writers Disclosure: One of the authors of this app is a very close friend and colleague.There are dozens of good, well-made, and feature-rich apps for readers of Twitter, but this is the first app I know of for _writers_. "Write" for Twitter? Yeah, I know. Crazy, right?I've been beta-testing Birdhouse for weeks now and already can't imagine being without it. I love the combination of fast, ubiquitous capture combined with more thoughtful editing and time away from a draft. It's really fun to use.Having all this polished functionality across multiple accounts -- and with the ability to move toots both from one account to another *and* to an entirely different place via email -- is ideal for anyone who takes their writing seriously. Even the seriously unserious stuff. Not essential for typical lifestreamy tooting ("Went running. Again."), but very handy for almost any Twitter fan who wants to try a little harder. In my opinion, it's uniquely indispensable for the auteur mobile smartypants who loves hitting the blue tweeter and scoring that red rooster. Starred.
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Version 1.0
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Apr 13, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
Merlin Mann
BEFORE / AFTER YOU, BEFORE THE RELEASE OF BIRDHOUSE: bar napkins, a Sharpie™ on your forearm, only one comment at a time, mnemonic devices, not closing the window with half a comment written so it's not lost, the backs of business cards, the backs of pets, Notes without copy/paste, counting characters with all 18 fingers and toes, TextEdit, faulty short-term memory storage, faulty short-term memory storage, handheld recording devices, too-little sub-par marination of your comment in its own juices.YOU, AFTER THE RELEASE OF BIRDHOUSE:Birdhouse.
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Version 1.0
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Apr 13, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
Jason Permenter
Finally. I'd seen enough pre-release chatter about this little app to know that I wanted it, sight unseen. And it lived up to the hype.Now, I still love my daily Twitter client, but Birdhouse is a writer's *tool*, in the most positive sense of the word. No more crafting Tweets or half-formed ideas in email and sending them to myself for later use - hooray!It's a fantastic little app, simple as that.
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Version 1.0
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Apr 13, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
Tony Delgrosso
Try a new way to use Twitter Done well, Twitter can be so much more than a generic social network/meat market. There are people out there tho turn it into digital-age haiku, micro-stand-up comedy, or instant Bartlett's Quotations. And you can bet those folks take a minute to think about what they want to write, IF they want to write it, and how to best put it in 140 characters or less.It helps when your Twitter app doesn't encourage knee-jerk posting; it's awesome when you can sit on an idea for a while and refine it into something a total stranger would like to read. Give it a try: next time you're on the subway, on the plane, or in an underground shopping mall - places where you can't help making interesting observations, but darn, there's no cell signal - put your thoughts in your Birdhouse. If poetry just poured out of you and onto the touch keyboard, that's excellent, but if you need a few minutes to make the tweet punchier, take your time. No hurry. Publish when you're ready. It's the thoughtfully designed thoughtful Twitterrer's app.
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Version 1.0
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Apr 13, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
Neven Mrgan
Let those ideas ripen (or rot) Disclosure: The authors of this app are imaginary friends from Internet.
I was lucky enough to beta-test this app, and I love being able to quickly save a kernel of an idea so I can later massage it into something complete, or (more likely) decide it's going nowhere.
Those of you that WRITE tweets, and you know who you are, add Birdhouse to your quiver. You'll be glad you did.
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Version 1.0
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Apr 13, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
toldorknown
File cabinet for my leaky brain Sounding clever on the Internet is a lot harder that it looks. This perfectly replaces my hodgepodge of fragmented witticisms previously captured in iPhone notes, emails to myself, and scribbles on the backs of receipts and notecards.With Birdhouse as my lonely Internet comedy wingman, I'll never again forget where I left that off-color joke or first world problem that I just _had_ to share with everyone.
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Version 1.0
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Apr 13, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
Jeffrey L.
Mature Instead of ripping that brain fart directly to Twitter, turn it into a robust Dutch Oven toot, Chloroform your friends when they least expect it and put the deadly back into that Silent but Deadly. Birdhouse will help you tune your blathering tuba Twitter posts into a sophisticated and creamy French Horn solo. So stop with the ol' rip and run 140s and transform them into a sustained penny-whistle concerto.Full disclosure: I was awesome enough to be on the beta and I have no problem paying $4. You'll find that @camh and @lonelysandwich are responsive and communicative developers bent on making their application the best they can. Quality product from quality people.*brrrapp*
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Version 1.0
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Apr 13, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
SeoulBrother
Super Useful I've got a few different Twitter accounts that I post under, so it's been awesome to be able to manage them all from one really elegant, intuitive app. And it's the prettiest icon on my iPhone's home screen.
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Version 1.0
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Apr 13, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
CrashCrush
Very Smart The ability to quickly publish and unpublish tweets is a great idea. Well put together and thought out. The only flaw is that this functionality should be accompanied with a full Twitter client. This app is still a must have for any Twitter users.
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Version 1.0
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Apr 13, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
zangbang
Simple genius Simple but smart. Finally a way to tweak your tweets. Spontaneity is not always your friend.
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Version 1.0
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Apr 13, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
sallyhunt
Not a bad start The ability to manage multiple drafts should be part of any good Twitter client (why the heck isn't it?), so this definitely fills a gap. However, in its current state, Birdhouse doesn't appear to make it easy to work with a key element of composing tweets; namely, inserting/creating shortened URLs and @names. Everything has to be typed out manually.I use Tweetie, and it allows me to use a bookmarklet from within Safari to pass a shortened URL of the page I'm viewing to Tweetie in a new post. I don't see any way of doing that in Birdhouse (I tried adapting the Tweetie bookmarklet, but it just opened Birdhouse without starting a new draft). That's pretty much a dealbreaker for me, because most of my posts link to something.The scant documentation (a brief FAQ) also doesn't make it clear that Birdhouse is the only way to post the tweets that you compose. There is no option to pass your tweet to your preferred Twitter client. Not surprising, but it seems a bit misleading to suggest that this app adds something to your existing client, when there's no interaction between the apps at all.
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Version 1.0
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Apr 13, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
Roquentin999
Loved the demo video Ok, I admit that I bought this simply because I liked the demo video on birdhouseapp.com so much. After actually using the app, I really like it! It scratches an itch I didn't know I had, and makes twittering from my phone even better. Thanks @camh!
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Version 1.0
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Apr 13, 2009
- Birdhouse review by
quux
iPhone and iPod Touch Applications from Sandwich Dynamics
Birdhouse - iPhone Social Networking Application Birdhouse is a notepad for Twitter.
It's a simple, well-designed app for capturing your ideas, saving them for later, and publishing when ready.
Birdhouse won't replace your favorite Twitter client, it'll add to it. Continue using your favorite Twitter client for keeping up with your friends. When... Sandwich Dynamics - Released: April 13, 2009 - Vote(s): 411
