Android: Fritter, a privacy-friendly Twitter frontend for Android devices.
All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter. List of Instances.
Reviewed by Gabriel Bachmann
Nitter
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Threat level
Hardened
A hardened pick. Worth the effort once you have chosen to shrink your footprint on purpose. Enough for most people. Threat levels
Our take
Pick this if you need to read a Twitter/X account or thread without an account or the tracking, and don’t mind that it is a constant cat-and-mouse with the platform. Public instances get throttled and shut down regularly, so reliability is genuinely poor and a working instance is half the battle. It still beats logging in, but go in expecting to hunt for a live mirror rather than trusting one.
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Nitter license, in plain English
AGPL-3.0 Strong copyleft · network
Free to use, even commercially. Changes must be published under the same license, and running a modified version as a network service counts as distributing it.
Permits
- Commercial use
- Modification
- Distribution
- Patent use
- Private use
Requires
- Disclose source
- Network use is distribution
- Same license
- State changes
- License and copyright notice
Does not provide
- Liability cover
- Warranty
Why it matters: The network clause is the point. Anyone who runs a modified version as a hosted service has to publish those changes, so the code handling your data stays inspectable. This is why privacy-first projects reach for AGPL.
Plain-language summary of the project's license, not legal advice. Read the full text for the exact terms.
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