Miss TweetDeck? A former dev made an analogous app for Bluesky
Again throughout Twitter’s golden days, numerous energy customers relied on the TweetDeck shopper for the way it expanded the social community’s options and customised its consumer interface. It was recognized for its multi-column view that allow you to have a number of concurrent timelines for various subjects, and it will definitely obtained different superior options like advanced searches, new column sorts, and a full-blown Tweet Composer.
No marvel it was the preferred of all of the Twitter purchasers. However in 2023, TweetDeck was rebranded as X Professional and locked behind a paywall, solely out there to paid X Premium subscribers. Now, one former TweetDeck developer—Gildásio Filho—has been engaged on deck.blue ever since he was faraway from the TweetDeck workforce, and he’s been working full-time on deck.blue since March 2025.
To be clear, deck.blue solely works with Bluesky, the open-source X various that has carved out a status for being independently developed and strongly guarded in opposition to excessive ideologies which might be slowly taking up a lot of the online. There are some issues you are able to do to get essentially the most out of Bluesky, however a third-party shopper for energy customers could possibly be simply the factor in the event you really feel restricted by Bluesky’s interface.
deck.blue offers a greater overview of Bluesky posts, and the configuration of the show could be very versatile, even for a number of timelines.
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With deck.blue, energy customers can rapidly discover lively subjects and tendencies, with the app routinely updating columns with recent content material. Nevertheless it’s the multi-column timeline views that change up the sport.
To get began, merely log in along with your Bluesky account. Whereas deck.blue is free to make use of with as much as 4 accounts, there are a couple of superior options which might be solely out there with a subscription. These options embody rising the multi-account restrict, inline translations, and scheduling posts (with larger scheduling limits relying in your subscription tier).
Additional studying: I switched from X to Bluesky. Right here’s what I realized
This text initially appeared on our sister publication PC-WELT and was translated and localized from German.
