Tapbots has announced on its website that it is officially discontinuing some of its apps to focus on Tweetbot and Calcbot, for the time being. Convertbot’s features have been built into Calcbot, as we covered last week, so it’s not surprising that app is going away. Pastebot and Weightbot have also been discontinued. Although Pastebot is getting pulled, Weightbot is now free on the App Store for “sentimental value” as it is the app that started Tapbots as a company. The blog post says that the company may return to Pastebot in the future.
With those three products retired, the company is dedicating 2015 to focus on major improvements to Tweetbot and Calcbot. More specifically, Tapbots are looking to bring Calcbot to Notification Center as a Today view extension.
What most people are interested in, naturally, is the state of Tweetbot. The Yosemite redesign of Tweetbot 2 for Mac was teased earlier this month and the post says that is approaching beta, foreshadowing a near-term release. The update will be free, so you can download Tweetbot for Mac today and get the Yosemite update automatically when it is released.
The long-overdue iPad update for Tweetbot 3 is also in the cards, which will move away from iOS 6 design motifs to fit the modern Apple design styles. The company also said that they will be bringing a landscape mode to Tweetbot 3 for iPhone. These updates are currently planned to come out before WWDC, a June timeframe.
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When I got the notification on my Mac, it said “Tweetbot 2 for Mac coming next…” I was like, they better not mean next year!
Love Tweetbot. Can’t wait to see what they do next.
Can’t come soon enough
It’s nice to have a (sort of) time frame for the Tweetbot for Mac update. Ever since their tease a week or so ago I’ve been checking the App Store for updates daily.
Oh that’s a shock, discontinued apps, making people who payed for ConvertBot pay again with new CalcBot. Time and time again they expect people to just keep buying and buying. Paying twice for the same thing is a p*ss take in my opinion. They used to be good, now they just out to make money and they do it on previous reputation. I’ve been asking tapbots about tweetbot3 for iPad for nearly 2 years and they never answer, they pull support for tweetbot2 but then what are iPad users meant to do. I just hope with this tweetbot that they sort the astronomically slow posting etc on cellular.
Still waiting for the new iPad update.