While most people have either moved on with the fact that the Twitter social media network was re-branded as π following Elon Muskβs acquisition, or theyβve simply moved to other platforms such as BlueSky, there remain a small percentage of users who canβt let go of what Twitter used to be and want their experience to remain just the same as it was.
For those folks, thereβs a modified π app out there called NeoFreeBird that includes branding reverts, an improved BHTwitter ad-blocker, and other Quality of Life modifications that makes the user experience much more Twitter-like β such as before the social media plaform got re-branded as π.
We should note that NeoFreeBird is a newer and improved fork of the FreeBird app by iOS developer nyathea, and that this build is maintained by iOS developer actuallyadrian. As you can see in the screenshot examples above, it does a beautiful job of reverting many of the appβs assets back to the original, such as the Twitter bird in the news feed header, the Twitter bird app icons, and the Tweet button, among other things.
In addition to the branding reverts, NeoFreeBird gives you all kinds of Twitter Blue-like features at no cost, which drives a hard bargain for the nostalgic ones out there who want the old-fashioned Twitter experience in 2025.
NeoFreeBird also comes with a slew of options to configure, which weβll show you below:
Things you can do here include:
General
- Enable or disable Voice Tweets
- Remove Tweets tied to suggested topics
- Remove suggested topics
- Require biometric authentication to open Twitter
- Use an external browser instead of the Twitter app to open links
- Customize links and remove tracking features
- Pick a custom URL
Tweets
- Disable the compact Tweet style
- Enable or disable long-press to share or export Tweets as images
- Show Tweet source labels
- Confirm before liking Tweets
- Confirm before posting Tweets
- Hide views under Tweets
- Remove the bookmark button from Tweets
- Hide sensitive content warnings
Profiles
- Confirm before following someone
- Copy usernames, bios, and more with one tap
- Translate bios to another language
- Disable βWho to Followβ
- Merge the Photos and Videos tabs into one
- Hide the Articles tab in profiles
- Hide the Highlights tab in profiles
Search
- Disable Twitter search history
- Remove all trending videos from the search menu
Photos and videos
- Disable video captions
- Enable high-quality media uploading and viewing mode
- Enable or disable large images
Twitter Blue
- Enable or disable undo Tweet
- Enable or disable downloading media from Tweets
- Enable or disable saving Photos directly to the Photos app
- Remove all Twitter ads
- Remove the βGet Verifiedβ and βUpgradeβ buttons
- Change the Twitter app theme
- Change the Twitter app icon
- Edit the tab bar
Layout
- Enable or disable custom messages backgrounds for direct messages
- Hide the Spaces bar
- Keep the tab bar visible when scrolling
- Use the left-to-right layout even for right-to-left languages
- Always show the scroll bar
- Enable or disable custom fonts
As you can see, thereβs a lot being offered in the NeoFreeBird app, and it evokes a lot of the classic features that Twitter once had before the π re-brand.
Those who want to give NeoFreeBird a try can download the .ipa file from the projectβs GitHub page and then sideload it with AltStore or perma-sign it with TrollStore. From there, youβll need to sign in with your existing π account, and it will be as if you were still using the Twitter app before the re-brand.
Are you planning to take advantage of NeoFreeBird, or have you resigned to the new π app and its features in 2025? Let us know in the comments section down below.