Nambu Alternatives
Nambu is described as 'The Nambu Network is creating the best possible social messaging experience: seemlessly integrated with a superior look and feel. Nambu OS X is still in beta, but progressing quickly'. There are more than 10 alternatives to Nambu for a variety of platforms, including Mac, iPhone, Android, iPad and Online / Web-based. The best alternative is Twitter, which is free. Other great apps like Nambu are TweetDeck (Free), Echofon for Twitter (Freemium), Choqok (Free, Open Source) and YoruFukurou (Free).
- Twitter is an online social networking service that enables users to send and read short 280-character messages called "tweets".
- Free • Proprietary
- Windows
- Online
- Android
- iPhone
- Blackberry
- Windows S
- Android Tablet
- Windows Phone
- iPad
- Blackberry 10
- Kindle Fire
No screenshots yet - TweetDeck aims to evolve the existing functionality of Twitter by taking an abundance of information i.e twitter feeds, and breaking it down into more manageable bite sized pieces.
- Echofon is the easy-to-use, super fast Twitter app that smartly syncs across all your devices.
- Freemium • Proprietary
- Android
- iPhone
- Android Tablet
- iPad
- Choqok - KDE Micro-Blogging Client The name comes from an ancient Persian word, means Sparrow! Currently supports Twitter.com and Identi.ca services. It currently features: * Supporting Twitter.com micro-blogging service.
- YoruFukurou (NightOwl) is a Twitter client for Mac OS X, designed for Twitter addicts. It provides powerful functionality through simple user interface.
- Gwibber is an open source microblogging client for GNOME developed with Python and GTK. It brings the most popular social networking web services to your desktop and gives you the ability to control how you communicate.
Discontinued
The project seems to be no longer developed. Last verson, 3.6.0, released in October 2012, can be still downloaded from Launchpad.'s not in Ubuntu 14.04
- Socialite is a revolutionary social application that keeps all your social networks in one convenient place! Socialite makes it easy to stay in touch with the social networks and services that matter to you.
Discontinued
Socialite has been discontinued on September 10th, 2013. Latest version is still available for download from the official website.
- UberSocial will keep you up-to-date while you're on-the-go, offering lightning-fast functionality, curated content, customization options, and a richer, more user-friendly Twitter experience.
- Re-imagined from the ground up to be the Mac's most friendly, powerful and modern Twitter client. Twitterrific makes Twitter fun. ? Twitter Your Way
- Plume is customizable Twitter app that will revolutionize the way you use Twitter! Brought to you by the authors of the popular Beautiful Widgets, Plume is one of the best Twitter clients for Android!