It’s been more than a year since Twitter discontinued its Mac desktop app and now the company has announced that it’s bringing it back. The announcement comes after Apple unveiled Project Catalyst for macOS 10.15 Catalina at WWDC (Worldwide Developers Conference) last week.
Apple, while unveiling, announced Twitter as an early partner that will be using Project Catalyst to bring Twitter back to the Mac. The new tech from Apple allows developers to bring their iPad apps to macOS.
Project Catalyst has enabled the social networking platform to bring back its Mac app by leveraging its existing iOS codebase. The platform says that it will also be able to add native Mac features on top of features currently being offered via its iPad app. Because of the shared codebase, Twitter will be able to maintain its apps for different platforms more efficiently.
Twitter discontinued its Mac app as it started focusing more on its mobile apps. “Supporting the two separate codebases was no longer a sustainable option and ultimately we sunset the native Mac app,” explained the company.
The new Twitter for Mac app will have full feature parity with its other platforms plus the company will be adding some additional features as, according to the social platform, Mac users are some of the most engaged ones. With the new app, users can expect resizable windows with dynamic content, native notifications, multiple windows support, drag and drop and keyboard support.
“There may even be a few new exciting features we haven’t been able to build for mobile devices that we’re excited to share.”
The newer version of Twitter for Mac app will be arriving with Catalina this fall.