One thing the iPhone (and iPod Touch) does not have is a large amount of Dribbble clients, but most people who have an iDevice don’t have a Dribbble account or even know what Dribbble is for that matter. Swish, by Stunnify members Joshua Lee Tucker and Mathieu White, is taking a shot at the competition.
Swish loads shots vertically in a grid-style, unlike Dunk that only displays one shot at a time, and it’s much more like the Dribbble website, the way I Iike it. By tapping the Dribbble icon in the upper right, you get access to ‘Following’ (if you enter a username when launching the app), ‘Popular’, ‘Everyone’ and ‘Debuts’ all via a very iPad like pop-over UI element. This looks fantastic on the iPhone and the buttons are very easy to select. Select an option to jump to that section or push the icon again (or flick the page up) to dismiss the menu. All the pages use a dribbble-like script font in the header to feel consistent with the site. The colors scheme is very Dribbble-inspired as well.
Once you select a shot, it slides over to reveal a larger view of the piece with comments, views and likes. You can flick up to read all the comments as well and even click on the usernames to reveal player profiles. Swish also has an action button in the upper right when viewing individual shots. Tap it to get a similar pop-up to View on Dribbble (via Safari.app), Copy Link or Tweet directly from Swish (after entering login credentials).
Swish works better at giving you more information at once than Dunk, as it only shows on shot at a time and comments are a separate pop-up. Swish is all right there together. I prefer portrait mode on the iPhone over landscape as well.
A few things I noticed about Swish is that you don’t have easy access to your own Dribbble account; you have to navigate through the ‘following’ pages until you find one of your own shots or comments to get to your profile but this could be added in a future update. Also, If anyone embeds HTML in their comments, Swish unintentionally shows the code but this is also being fixed. The grey-colored comments are a little difficult to read at times as well.
Overall, Tucker and White did a fantastic job on the design and user experience to make this the best looking and most fun Dribbble iPhone app available. Sweet shot Stunnify! It’s $1.99, here’s the App Store link.
For you Dribbble members, Mathieu White has posted a Rebound contest for Swish, they’re giving away copies of the app to the winner, details here.
