Mastoot Hack 1.22 + Redeem Codes

When trying to pick a Mastodon client, I have to admit this one first jumped out at me because of how cute the icon is. But the reviews sold me on it, and I'm really pleased with this client. It's very straightforward and intuitively organized. It's easy to find whatever I want. The only feature requests I have are a character counter so I can tell how close I am to the limit instead of just guessing; and a way to access the extra emojis that are available in the browser version. (This second one is less of a big deal because you can manually insert them if you know the name of the emoji.) Overall I'm really happy with Mastoot and hope it continues to just get better and better!

As far as I know, I have used all of the Mastodon apps, and I certainly want to support them all. But as my daily go-to app, Mastoot has clearly won me over. Immediately apparent is the very smooth and fluid scrolling. Downloading posts and images while scrolling is awesome. On the Home feed, a small notification will appear to let me know how many unread posts there are left. Notifications are supported within iOS. Terminology is consistent with the Mastodon desktop. Supports search by hashtag. And each week seems to include a new update.

There are two times that one seems to leave the app … when I edit my profile (opens a browser window), and when I click on a #hashtag in a person’s profile. (which “should” open the in-app search window but instead goes to the Mastodon web app login).

The developer is clearly invested to make this the best app out there, and it shows. Nice work.

I’ve used 4 different Mastodon clients at this point, from the official Mastodon app, to Tootle, Mammoth, to Metatext and this is definitely the cleanest, easiest to use client so far.

Very well lashed out, easy to customize and makes all of the best features of Mastodon readily available. I love the option in the explore section to go to my local timeline or the federated feed, something many clients make difficult to navigate.

One thing I really need to see in the app is a hashtag button on the main keyboard when drafting a post. Having to navigate to my special characters menu when hashtagging is the only reason this review is at 4 stars instead of 5. I’ve submitted a feature request, so fingers crossed we’ll see this in an update soon.

I've tried the official Mastodon client, Metatext, Tooot, Toot!, and Tootle, and THIS app is the only one that I immediately felt was on the right track for being the best client. The post layout is clean and logical (@names are shown under their display name, improving clarity), the dark mode lets you pick different levels of dark (not just "white on pure black" some others do), you can easily change icon and color schemes, and the profile view is neat and clearly highlights "verified" links. The various sections are arranged well and easy to get too. Some other apps bury sections under pop-up menus or try to cram too many buttons together on the screen.

This app is great and I will start recommending it.

So the creators of ivory seem to be riding their own coattails and not fixing bugs that are glaring while small developers aren’t charging and make amazing apps like Mastoot. There’s several others that are great as well but I’ve landed on this one as a favorite. Think twice before spending money ($50 per YEAR for MacOS and iOS separately for Ivory because the greed just never ends) and support small developers and donate as you can. I don’t want this to become another monopoly and it seems those at the top as per usual are fine pulling the ladder up behind them. Support small developers. Amazing app.

I try other clients out, but I always come back to Mastoot. Many of us find some comfort in the way Twitter looked, and this client really bridges that gap. If you are coming over from that nightmare of a site, this should be the app you jump into first.

If I could make some recommendations, I would ask for a way to “quote tweet” toots via generating an image of the toot and the allowing text with the image embedded (Mammoth can do this, I think).

Also, and I find this to be an oversight on the dev team’s part, but favoriting and boosting need to be at the bottom of every toot, not hiding behind an ellipses submenu. These kinds of feedback are crucial to the entire network, and boosting should be front and center.

Even with those deficiencies, though, this is still a five star app. Stable. Nice looking. Simple.

Great work.

… like Home timeline synchronization across devices (iPad & iPhone). This is huge for someone like me who wants to see all toots from folks I follow. The developer responded almost immediately when I reported a crash, and included the fix with another major feature: posted toot editing. And honestly I just really like the design decisions the developer has made. They make the app a pleasure to use.

There’s no easy way to switch between accounts, and it doesn’t even show pinned toots. That second issue is a dealbreaker for me. Pinning a toot as an introduction is such a common practice on mastodon that not being able to see them makes this client largely unusable. I’ll stick with it for a bit to see if it improves, especially now that Metatext is done. I like the interface of the app generally, and composing toots seems good. It’s not as intuitive to add a image description and you can’t choose how the Image is cropped like on most other mastodon apps.

Having tried a bunch of Mastodon clients, Mastoot is my favorite! It feels 100% at home on iOS, and the UI doesn’t feel cluttered with unnecessary things. So far the only thing I wish it had is a way to see my character count/limit as I compose a post (or some indication that that’s why my post won’t send when I do exceed the limit). But, yeah, other than that I love it!!

This app is in nearly every regard the best free fediverse client I've found for any platform, ever. It's elegant, it's pretty, it's intuitive, and it feels completely native. My only gripe is the lack of support for displaying animated emoji, and the lack of an emoji picker. The emoji picker I can at least understand not having, but animated emoji not animating is a bit frustrating. At the very least make them start moving again and this could be a very easy 5 stars for me.