Android: Fritter - A privacy-friendly Twitter frontend for Android devices.
All requests go through the backend, client never talks to Twitter. List of Instances.
Official website nitter.net
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.