Twitter has excellent mobile apps, but using Twitter Web on a browser often leaves people complaining about several issues. These apps and extensions try to improve Twitter Web with features like a better sidebar, organizing bookmarks, and a minimalist alternative interface to default Twitter.

1. Kizie (Web): Beautiful, Feature-Packed Alternative App for Twitter Web

Kizie is a web app to use Twitter, bringing loads of cool features that the default app lacks. Just log in with your Twitter account, and you'll see a cleaner interface with fewer ads and some optimizations for browsing on the web. Features include:

1. Reader view to read links in a clean and beautiful reader mode.
2. Image preview to see photos, videos, and GIFs in full when you hover your mouse cursor over them.
3. Download any media in a tweet, whether videos, photos, or GIFs.
4. Analytics to see the interactions on your tweets and your profile and how many people are clicking on links you tweet.
5. Bookmarking to save tweets for later.
6. Double-click a tweet to Like it.
7. Auto-convert images to Twitter-friendly formats when you upload.
8. Undo or edit tweets within 10 seconds of posting it.

Kizie gives you access to all these options but restricts how many times you can use them in the free version. Try it out, and if you like it, you might want to subscribe to Kizie Pro. If not, the free version is still a great way to improve Twitter without subscribing to Twitter Blue.

2. Twemex (Chrome, Firefox): Powerful and Useful Sidebar to Replace Twitter Sidebar

Twemex is a browser extension that replaces the default sidebar on Twitter Web to make it a fun and more useful experience. You get four major features in this sidebar:

1. Random User Highlights: Twemex will pick a random user from the people you follow and show their most popular tweets (by likes and retweets) from all time or recently. It's an excellent way to re-discover who you follow.
2. On This Day: See the best tweets in previous years from the people you follow.
3. Recent Hits: The most popular tweets on your timeline from the past few days, just in case you missed something.
4. Our Conversations: Click any user, and you'll see all conversations between the two of you in the past.
5. Powerful Search: Twemex's search function has keyword operators to quickly search your tweets, your timeline tweets, tweets from the highlighted user, replies to a user, and Twitter Lists.

Twemex is a great add-on for anyone who uses Twitter on the web, reducing wasted time on the social network. And by the way, just in case you want to avoid distractions, you can turn Twemex off to get a blank sidebar too.

Download: Twemex for Chrome | Firefox (Free)

3. Dewey (Web, Chrome): Organize Twitter Bookmarks in Folders for Free

Technically, you can already bookmark tweets to save them for later. But Twitter's implementation is messy, and the search function is not up to par. And if you want to organize these tweets in folders, you'll need to subscribe to Twitter Blue. If you already have a lot of bookmarks on Twitter and want to manage them, Dewey is a powerful and free way to do that.

Install the extension and click the Grab Bookmarks button to start importing your existing Twitter bookmarks to Dewey. It takes a few minutes, after which you can begin organizing them into folders called Collections. You can also share these Collections with others, and you can export them as a CSV file.

For your notes, you can add tags to Bookmarks in Dewey and write comments to remember why you saved a particular tweet for later.

4. Social Scroll for Twitter (Chrome): Browse a User's Old Tweets by Year and Month

A user's Twitter feed is a chronological list of all the tweets they've ever sent. However, when it comes to active tweeters, it's difficult to quickly go back and check out their old tweets from a certain period. Social Scroll for Twitter solves this with a simple sidebar widget.

Open any user's profile, and you'll see a year-by-year list in the Social Scroll widget. Click the year, choose a month, and the extension will show you what the user was tweeting at that time.

Download: Social Scroll for Twitter for Chrome (Free)

5. Scroll Portal (Chrome): Scroll Twitter Mindfully and Avoid Time Wasting

Do you end up wasting too much time on Twitter when you should be working or studying? Scroll Portal is a simple extension to mindfully browse Twitter and reduce distractions and time-wasting.

The extension shows a Speedometer at the bottom-left corner of your Twitter screen, indicating your scrolling speed and a mileage count indicating how many tweets you have scrolled past. You can reset this mileage at any point.

And if you are scrolling mindlessly instead of reading the tweets (which we all are guilty of doing when procrastinating), the speedometer will catch you. Set a limit in the speedometer where it imposes a 3-second penalty when you scroll too fast, so you know you need to focus and stop wasting time.

Download: Scroll Portal for Chrome (Free)

6. PlainTweet (Web): Minimalist, Distraction-Free Twitter

Do you easily get distracted on Twitter but still don't want to cut it out of your life? Try PlainTweet, a web-based Twitter client made to look minimal while you use Twitter for focused purposes.

PlainTweet removes all the bells and whistles of Twitter, including profile images, buttons for interactions, image and URL previews, and other such distractions. In fact, you won't even see retweets or replies by people you follow, you'll only see original tweets.

It's just about reading the latest tweets chronologically, not about the various ways social media is trying to keep you hooked with its algorithms. You can choose a light or dark theme and even disable usernames to remove the bias of whose tweet it is.

Have You Tried Tweetdeck?

If Twitter for Web is frustrating you, maybe you should try out TweetDeck. This alternative client, also made by Twitter, has long been touted as the best Twitter web client for power users. With support for multiple columns, scheduled tweets, and a bunch of other useful features, Tweetdeck can change how you use Twitter on a computer.

That said, you should know that Twitter has recently announced plans to make TweetDeck look more like Twitter, which hasn't gone down well with many fans. Then again, newcomers shifting from Twitter to TweetDeck have found it a smooth transition, so check it out.