Say Hello to Netbot
- October 3rd, 2012
- 38 Comments
Today we’re releasing our newest bots into the world; Netbot for iPhone and Netbot for iPad. These are our clients for the App.net social network. If you love Tweetbot and are on App.net, you’ll want Netbot.
App.net
If you haven’t heard about App.net, it’s a new ad-free and developer friendly social network. App.net lets you post 256 character messages to your friends and followers around the world, without any extraneous noise. They are very much committed to making the best user experience possible for the end user, without focusing on needs of advertisers or corporations.
We’ve been working very closely with App.net. Their goals of always putting users first resonates with what we believe at Tapbots. Even though App.net is currently a small network, we expect big things from them and are proud to be a part of the community.
Push, Direct Messages and more.
App.net is a relatively new social network so there are a number of features that you may be used to that currently aren’t available. Chief among these are push notifications and private messaging. The App.net crew is well aware of these limitations and have been working towards quickly getting those features in place. Once the proper APIs are in place we plan to fully support all those features.
If App.net sounds like a network you want to be a part of, head over to the App Store and buy Netbot for iPhone and Netbot for iPad!
And for Mac ?
Awesome news. Like everyone else will comment, we’d love to see a Mac version too after all the loops the Twitter folks have made you jump through with Tweetbot for the Mac.
Looks like I can finally sign up for app.net now. Lower annual pricing and familiar and robust apps like netbot. Where do I sign?
I’ve read about this on The Verge and there it said that Netbot support for the tent.io protocol is possible. I hereby request this feature.
Seriously ? 5 dollars per app ? I’ll pass. :/ I want ONE app, and then 5 dollars will be OK. _ We don’t even know if App.net will not be dead next year… Don’t get me wrong, I LOVE your apps, I bought most of them. I paid for app.net. But I HATE double apps iPad / iPhone on iOS. :x
What has Tapbots got against Universal apps?
I’m very happy to pay £2 twice for such a quality app for Twitter which is an established network and the app has all the features you’d expect. But £3 twice for a social network that is just starting, and the app doesn’t have all the features yet, seems a little steep.
What about a Mac version?
Awesome, thank you so much for making this! I can see Netbot single-handedly taking me from using App.net once a week, to using it several times a day.
And to haters complaining about the price: what’s wrong with one month’s App.net subscription in order to get an awesome client?
guys – thanks for giving me a reason to try out app.net!
as for folks who are concerned about $5 being too expensive for an app: i’m sorry that your expectations are causing you grief…
as for folks who have both an iPhone/iTouch and an iPad: i suspect that paying another $5 is not really going to impact your disposable income…
if the above two comments seem “harsh”, i apologize.
I just noticed that my comment above reads very negative. To make that clear: I love you guys! Tweetbot is the best Twitter client out there and I just bought Netbot although I don’t have an App.net account simply because I like it so much that you make apps for non-Twitter networks :)
Tent.io support would be the icing on the cake!
I don’t know a lot about twitter/.app clients, but is there a reason you can’t integrate the streams from both platforms in one app?
@Jing I believe it’s against Twitter’s Terms of Service to integrate other services in that manner
Loving Netbot already. I’ll definitely be using app.net a lot more now.
I don’t know if this is possible (either technically or for business reasons), but I would love to see a client that showed both Twitter and App.net in a single stream.
@Marshall Rose – before talking about other people’s income one could talk about the app developers’ income for two separate apps instead of one universal app…
As good as TweetBot is, basically paying twice for it (which is what I did) is not, let’s say it politely, overly user-friendly.
I’d even be somewhat more in agreement with paying twice the price for a universal app but buying the same app twice is… less than satisfying.
Actually, I simply won’t buy any other app by TapBots because of this issue.
Yes! Already found a home for this on my dock – one thing though, it says it supports cross posting to Twitter, but unless I’m completely ignorant I can’t find the setting…
Are you guys abandoning twitter? :(
Wondering why the Netbot apps are $5 apiece versus $3 for Tweetbot.
Seems that TapBots feels they can charge more simply because App.net users have already demonstrated a greater willingness to spend than their Twitter counterparts (by virtue of paying for the app.net service). Or is there some extra functionality in Netbot that is not in Tweetbot?
Mike, you’ve got it right, and that’s as it should be. Or, well, rather than say that App.net users are more willing to pay, I’d say that they’re less likely to be whiny-babies about having to pay. You can be unwilling to pay and yet still not be a whiny-baby about it.
Wulf C. Krueger, being willing to pay $10 for a universal app but not $5 for two apps makes no sense. Look at it like this: if you don’t have both devices, you don’t have to pay the full cost. Or: if you don’t know if you’ll like it, you only have to invest $5 to give it a trial run, rather than the full $10.
Furthermore, saying you’d be more willing to pay $10 once than $5 twice rather contradicts your first point, where you implied that Tapbots were money-grubbers, because if they priced it the way you say you’d prefer, they might make more money than they do as it is now, where every iPhone-only user doesn’t have to subsidize the iPad users.
A client for the status.net software would be great. It has an API that’s more or less compatible with Twitter: http://status.net/wiki/Twitter-compatible_API
Then we can use services like http://identi.ca/ with a great client :-)
Cross-posting in Netbot is off by default and also quite hidden. To cross-post to Twitter, you have to create a new post, then tap on New Post in the top bar to bring up a menu that’s similar to Tweetbot’s timeline selector (on the iPad, tap on your profile picture in the New Post screen). Here, you can select the App.net account you want to post with, and additional Twitter accounts for cross-posting. If you activate cross-posting, your post will be sent to App.net and Twitter. You can select multiple Twitter accounts, too.
Via : http://www.macstories.net/reviews/netbot-tweetbot-reborn-for-app-net/
@Mike
> Wondering why the Netbot apps are $5 apiece versus $3 for Tweetbot.
Possibly, as well, that there aren’t nearly as many users on ADN, making a much smaller audience for the app, so needing a higher price to make the money back.
I’d like to pay you more.
The Mac version should be compatible to Tweetbot for Mac.
Will Android be getting Netbot?
Dear Tapbots, is there a reason that the cross-post always gets a app.net link even if it’s < 140 characters?
They already told us (on twitter) that they already submitted the mac version of tweetbot. Awaiting Apple’s approval only.
I’m with Jing on this. Why not just do one app for both networks? Otherwise, App.net will just sit there as that service we’re all signed up for, but no one uses as the accessibility of posting things is too difficult. Compare that to the experience of just having one client that seamlessly integrates both networks so you don’t even notice you’re using different networks, now that would be grand. Suddenly people would start interacting with App.net, rather than just having an account on it.
Evan Walsh – If integrating multiple social feeds is a limitation, how does a product like Hootsuite do this then?
Jing – it is against Twitter’s terms of service to integrate your Twitter timeline with that of another service. If Tapbots did this Twitter would have every right to take away their api access. It is unfortunate that Twitter has chosen this road as I agree it would be a useful feature.
app.net is a rich man’s poor man’s twitter, with a self-selecting audience ripe for gouging.
I’m impressed that netbot is so competitively priced, tbh…
Loving the header photo in the profile page. Hopefully this will be shown in the next Tweetbot update as well (if there is a API for it that is)..
I really wish Twitter and App.net would have been integrated together in one app as well. The fact that it is against Twitter’s TOS is bull. Twitter sure is making it easy to thinking about ditching it all together.
I always marvel at “professionals” who gripe and moan about a dollar or two when it comes to an app, when $1-2 marginal expense wouldn’t weigh in their decision to get a second Starbucks coffee, buying a set of tires, or choosing a pair of jeans.
How many times do you buy an app? If you can’t afford a five bucks one-time purchase, maybe you should be spending your time burnishing your stackoverflow resume to get a (better) job instead of grumbling about other people’s pricing.
Good day.
You iphone an ipad apps are great.
Is there a mac Client coming for this or will you just be rolling it into tweetbot?
Would be nice to have them all in one package and sync-able. Not sure if thats possible…
However keep up the good work…
SPANISH!!!!. REMEMBER THAT THE SPANISH LANGUAGE THERE!
Great app. The reason the app is not universal is well stated above: why charge everyone more for a Universal app when not everyone has both an iPad and an iPhone? I would argue that there are more people with just one device type (iPhone or iPad) than with both. Sure, lots of people with iPads have an iPhone, so maybe paying extra to get a universal app seems sweet to them. What about all the iPhone owners that don’t have an iPad having to pay more for a Universal app? People are so cheap and petty. Complaining about the small cost of using a high quality product for a non-essential service is quite lame. To expensive for your blood? Feel gouged? Then don’t buy it, and please don’t bring your whining and complaining over to ADN.
Thank you, Tapbots.
I don’t mind to pay for applications, although I have a feeling of being ripped by the $5 App.net vs $3 for Tweetbot. But integration is much more welcome; why don’t add Twitter support in the Netbot? Why would I have to switch applications to check the other streams?
Very slick application, btw!