A privacy-focused Android app and wrapper for Nitter, allowing you to browse Twitter/X content without an account and subscribe to your favorite user profiles.
Nitterium is a modern, native Android app that provides a clean, privacy-respecting way to consume Twitter/X content. By leveraging Nitter instances, it avoids tracking and requires no user account, all wrapped in a beautiful Jetpack Compose interface.
While browsing Nitter on Android, I needed a way to subscribe to accounts I was interested in following, along with some customization options. That led to the creation of this app!
Important
This app depends entirely on Nitter persistence and the operational state of public Nitter instances. It's important to check the source and health of the instance you are using.
- 🔒 Privacy First: No ads, no tracking, and no Twitter/X account required.
- 🕸️ Nitter Integration: Browse seamlessly using your preferred Nitter instance via a custom WebView wrapper.
- 📌 Subscriptions: Save and manage your favorite accounts locally on your device. Each account can be rearranged individually by dragging and dropping to suit your preferences!
- 🖼️ Intuitive Image Viewer: Easily exit the image viewer by swiping up or down, and download images directly to your device.
- 🔄 Pull-to-Refresh: Swipe down to reload content seamlessly.
- 🎨 Dynamic Theming: Beautiful Material 3 design that automatically adapts to your system theme and wallpaper (Android 12+).
- 🚀 Modern UI: A fast, responsive user interface built entirely with Kotlin and Jetpack Compose.
- 🔗 Deep Linking: Automatically intercepts Twitter, X, and Nitter links to open them directly in the app.
- 🌍 RTL Support: Supports RTL content by default.
- ❤️ FOSS: 100% Free and Open-Source Software.
Nitterium can be downloaded from:
- GitHub Releases: Get the latest APK directly from the Releases page.
- Obtainium: Keep track of direct APK updates seamlessly.
Nitterium respects your privacy and requests only the absolute minimum permissions required to function:
INTERNET: Required to fetch content and images from Nitter instances over the network.
ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE: Used to check if the device is connected to the internet before attempting to load content, providing a better user experience when offline.
- Kotlin
- Jetpack Compose
- Material 3 Components
- Coil 3
- Jetpack DataStore & Kotlinx Serialization
This project is distributed under the MIT License. See LICENSE for more information.
A huge thanks to the Nitter maintainers and the individuals hosting Nitter instances. Without their hard work and dedication to privacy, this app would not be possible.
