Tusker
A flexible app for Mastodon
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad
Tusker is a free and flexible client for the Mastodon social network and other compatible services.
Features:
• Notification grouping: Combine favorite, boost, and follow notifications into a single row to get a more glance-able view of your notifications.
• Timeline sync: Keep your timeline position across all your devices using iCloud.
• Customize timelines: Pick which timelines (including lists, hashtags, and public instance timelines) are pinned to your home tab, and apply filters to hide posts you're not interested in.
• Tweak your experience: Tusker has a wide variety of preferences to allow you to customize how you use the app. From changing the appearance and interactions, to configuring how content warnings work, Tusker supports it all.
• Digital wellness options: Tusker has a variety of preferences to help you manage how you use social media, including by turning infinite scrolling off or showing all images in grayscale.
• Accessibility: VoiceOver, Voice Control, Dynamic Type, and more are all fully supported.
• Multiple accounts: Sign in to multiple accounts and quickly switch between them.
• Modern Mastodon features: Edit posts, view quotes, view trending posts/hashtags/links, translate posts, and more.
• Broad software compatibility: Tusker also has builtin support for the Glitch and Hometown variants of Mastodon; as well as Pleroma/Akkoma, a Mastodon alternative; and PixelFed, a photo-sharing social network.
Mastodon is part of the fediverse, a free, open source, and decentralized social network. From your home server, communicate and interact with people on any other server using the ActivityPub protocol. Learn more at joinmastodon.org.
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
more This is an excellent start for a Mastodon client on the Mac. Plus you can't beat the price of free! Please keep up the good work. I particular enjoy able to quickly switch to one of my lists. I would like to make one request. Please make the content font size adjustable. The default font size on my Mac screen is way too small. On iOS devices or Mac laptops they are fine, but not on my desktop Mac. Pleaase consider adding this feature. Thank you so much for a great app.
This is an excellent start for a Mastodon client on the Mac. Plus you can't beat the price of free! Please keep up the good work. I particular enjoy able to quickly switch to one of my lists. I would like to make one request. Please make the content font size adjustable. The default font size on my Mac screen is way too small. On iOS devices or Mac laptops they are fine, but not on my desktop Mac. Pleaase consider adding this feature. Thank you so much for a great app.
Ok #Tusker , ok. This is some strong work. Features I havent seen anywhere else, well organized Settings, and just some really good ideas. LOVE the Digital Wellness settings. Just really thoughtful.What’s Missing : Can only select images or videos from iPhone’s Photos library. Please add iCloud Drive and other alternate sources. Gonna put some funds in their tip jar and hope they add alternate image and video file sources like iCloud Drive. … also the draw something thing! That’s neat and I can see myself using that.
Ok #Tusker , ok. This is some strong work. Features I havent seen anywhere else, well organized Settings, and just some really good ideas. LOVE the Digital Wellness settings. Just really thoughtful.What’s Missing : Can only select images or videos from iPhone’s Photos library. Please add iCloud Drive and other alternate sources. Gonna put some funds in their tip jar and hope they add alternate image and video file sources like iCloud Drive. … also the draw something thing! That’s neat and I can see myself using that.
Got the Twitter blues and looking for a way into this Fediverse thing? Try this app and you’ll figure out Mastodon pretty quickly! The UI seems inspired by some of the nicer Twitter apps from the past which should help make it easier to use. The UI for following additional instances is pretty nice, and there are easy ways to manage the tags and such you’re following (something that’s otherwise not very easy to do in most apps yet). Solid initial release!
Got the Twitter blues and looking for a way into this Fediverse thing? Try this app and you’ll figure out Mastodon pretty quickly! The UI seems inspired by some of the nicer Twitter apps from the past which should help make it easier to use. The UI for following additional instances is pretty nice, and there are easy ways to manage the tags and such you’re following (something that’s otherwise not very easy to do in most apps yet). Solid initial release!
Loving this - fast, threads nicely, takes advantage of my iPad real-estate, very confugurable. Still has minor quirks - I'm not seeing it auto-expand all content warnings, and some media is blurred, even though I turned those both off. But - minor quibbles, I'm sure fixed at some point soon.
Loving this - fast, threads nicely, takes advantage of my iPad real-estate, very confugurable. Still has minor quirks - I'm not seeing it auto-expand all content warnings, and some media is blurred, even though I turned those both off. But - minor quibbles, I'm sure fixed at some point soon.
Bugfixes:
- Fix attachment being removed when adding alt text
2025.4 12/21/2025
Bugfixes:
- Fix quote posts not displaying on Mastodon
- Fix hang when opening advanced preferences
- Fix account not updating when refreshing profile
- Fix hang when scrolling to end of Notifications screen
- Fix video controls overlapping alt text editor
- Fix order not being respected when adding attachments from photo library
2025.3 12/01/2025
This version adds support for displaying quoted posts on compatible instances and for server-side grouped notifications on Mastodon 4.3 and later. See below for further improvements and fixes.
Features/Improvements:
- Add reply/favorite/reblog actions to push notifications
- Add action to profile menu to show notifications only from that account
- Add "Delete and Redraft" action to posts
- Tweak design to use more rounded corners
- Show warning icon on content warnings
- Add advanced preference for switching between client-/server-side grouping or disabling grouping
- Mastodon 4.3: Support editing notification policies
- Mastodon 4.3: Support displaying filtered notifications
- Mastodon 4.3: Use server-side grouped notifications by default
- Mastodon 4.3: Support relationship severed and moderation warning notifications
- Akkoma/Mastodon 4.4: Display quoted posts
Bugfixes:
- Fix "Posted Successfully" not appearing on Notifications tab
- Fix replied-to post being truncated in Compose screen
- Fix gallery controls changing visibliity when switching pages
- Fix tapping certain Pleroma links not showing Conversation screen
- Fix push notifications delivered while in-app not appearing in Notification Center
- Fix tab bar being stuck transparent when switching pages on certain screens
- Fix page switcher on Home/Notifications tab not scrolling when necessary
- iPadOS: Fix scroll-to-top not working with multi-column interface
2025.2 07/14/2025
This update introduces a new and improved Compose screen, with support for composing threads and more! See below for a list of further improvements and fixes.
Features/Improvements:
- New Compose screen
- Compose an entire thread at once
- Schedule posts (and view/edit scheduled posts from the ... menu on My Profile)
- Add attachments from the Files app
- Preference for sharing Live Photos as still photos or videos
- Show confirmation after successfully posting/editing/scheduling
- Add additional attachments when using share sheet extension
Bugfixes:
- Fix signing into API-restricted instances
- Fix push notifications not being grouped by thread
- Fix crash when displaying push notification in certain circumstances
- Fix context menu previews for post links not using correct preview/actions
- Pixelfed: Fix error displaying certain notifications
- Pixelfed: Fix crash when refreshing timeline
2025.1 03/25/2025
Features/Improvements:
- Improve gallery animations
Bugfixes:
- Handle right-to-left text in display names
- Fix crash during gifv playback
- iPadOS: Fix app becoming unresponsive when switching accounts
- iPadOS/macOS: Fix Cmd+R shortcuts not working
2024.5 12/29/2024
This release introduces support for iOS 18, including a new sidebar/tab bar on iPad, as well as bugfixes and improvements.
Features/Improvements:
- Import image description when adding attachments from Photos if possible
- iPadOS 18: New floating sidebar/tab bar
Bugfixes:
- Fix crash when viewing profiles in certain circumstances
- Fix video controls in attachment gallery not auto-hiding
- Fix crash if hashtag search results includes duplicates
- Fix "no content" text not being removed from list timeline after refreshing
- macOS: Fix video controls overlay being positioned incorrectly when Reduce Motion is on
- macOS: Fix reselecting current item not navigating back
2024.4 09/16/2024
This update includes a number of bugfixes and performance improvements. See below for a list of fixes.
Bugfixes:
- Fix an issue displaying rich text in certain cases
- Fix crash when video attachment finishes playing
- Fix video attachment thumbnails being flipped on Compose screen
- Fix profile header images being blurry
- Fix crash when opening push notifications in certain circumstances
- Fix certain links in profile fields not being tappable
- Fix gifv playback pausing audio from other apps
- Fix gifv playback being paused when returning from background
- Fix badges on gifv attachments not appearing
- Fix excessive network traffic when opening profile pages
- Fix controls visibility not matching across attachment gallery pages
- Fix add hashtag/instance pinned timeline sheet in Customize Timelines dismissing instantly
- Fix Dynamic Type not applying to status content
- Fix mention/status push notifications not showing CW
- Fix sensitive attachment thumbnails being shown in push notifications
- Fix profile moved overlay visual and VoiceOver issues
- Fix opening Mastodon remote status links
- Fix reply author avatar on Compose screen not being pinned to top when scrolling while typing
- Pleroma/Akkoma: Fix editing attachment descriptions not working
- Pixelfed/Firefish: Fix error loading certain accounts
- Pixelfed: Fix error loading relationships and follow/block/etc. actions
- iPadOS: Fix pointer interactions throughout the app
- iPadOS: Fix multiple close buttons being added in multi-column interface
- iPadOS: Fix Cmd+1/etc. removing columns when returning to previous tab
- iPadOS: Fix multi-column interface not animating for some actions
- iPadOS: Fix selecting search results always adding new column
2024.3 08/12/2024
This release introduces push notifications as well as an enhanced multi-column interface on iPadOS!
Features/Improvements:
- Push notifications
- Add post preview to Appearance preferences
- Show instance announcements in Notifications tab
- Add subscription option to Tip Jar
- iPadOS: Multi-column navigation
- Pleroma/Akkoma: Emoji reaction notifications
Bugfixes:
- Fix fetching server info on some instances
- Fix attachment captions not displaying while loading in gallery
- macOS: Remove in-app Safari preferences
- Pleroma: Handle posts with missing creation date
2024.2 05/21/2024
This update includes a significant improvements for the attachment gallery and displaying rich text posts. See below for a full list of improvements and fixes.
Features/Improvements:
- Improve attachment gallery
- Improve animations
- Display video captions
- Support sharing/saving videos
- Resume music playback after playing videos
- Improve rich text display in posts
- Add See Results button to polls
- Add Share and Save to Photos menu items to post attachments
- Show verified links in account lists
- Display message on empty list timelines
- Add preference to indicate attachments lacking alt text
- Mark notifications as read on Mastodon web frontend once displayed
- iPadOS: Support tapping the selected sidebar item to scroll to top
Bugfixes:
- Fix issue changing scope after searching
- Fix crash when searching "from:me"
- Fix tapping Followers button on profile opening Following screen
- Fix crash when removing poll option on Compose screen
- Fix hang when sharing video/GIFV attachments
- Fix stretched Save to Photos icon when sharing attachments
- Fix GIFV playback preventing device sleep
- Fix Notifications tab not scrolling to top when tab bar item tapped
- Fix selection not clearing on Trending Hashtags
- Fix fast account switcher overlapping iPhone sensor housing in landscape
- Fix Edit List screen not updating when adding/removing accounts
- Fix changing list reply policy not refreshing timeline
- Pixelfed: Fix crash when there are multiple follow notifications from the same account
- macOS: Fix attachment gallery displaying improperly when Reduce Motion is on
2024.1 04/08/2024
This update adds support for search operators and post translation, and improves support for displaying rich-text posts. See below for a full list of improvements and fixes.
Features/Improvements:
- Show search operators on Mastodon 4.2
- Use server-set preference for default post visibility, language, and (on Hometown) local-only
- Allow changing list reply policy and exclusivity options on Edit List screen
- Add Translate action to conversations (on supported Mastodon instances)
- Style block quotes correclty in rich-text posts
- Improve the appearance of lists in rich-text posts
- Add preference to underline links
- Compress uploaded video attachments to fit within instance limits
- Add preference to hide attachments in timelines
- Update visible timestamps after refresh notifications/timelines
- iPadOS: Allow switching between split screen and fullscreen navigation modes
- Pixelfed: Improve error message when uploading attachment fails
- Akkoma: Enable composing local-only posts
Bugfixes:
- Fix older notifications not loading if all initiially-loaded ones are grouped together
- Fix List timelines failing to refresh if they were initially empty
- Fix replies to posts with CWs always showing confirmation dialog when cancelling
- Fix Compose screen permitting setting the language to multiple/undefined
- Fix crash when uploading attachments without file extensions
- Fix Live Text button reappearing with swiping between attachment gallery pages
- Fix avatars on certain notifications flickering when refreshing
- Fix avatars on follow request notifications not being rounded
- Fix timeline jump button appearing incorrectly when Button Shapes acccessibility setting is on
- Fix public instance timeline screen not handling post deletion correctly
- Fix post that's reblogged and contains a followed hashtag not showing the reblogger
- Fix crash on launch when reblogged posts are visible
- Fix crash when showing display names with custom emoji in certain places
- Fix crash when showing trending hashtags without history data
- Fix potential crash on instance selector screen
- Fix potential crash if the app is dismissed while fast account switcher is animating
- Fix potential crash after deleting List on the Eplore screen
- Pixelfed: Fix error decoding certain posts
- VoiceOver: Fix history entries on Edit History screen not having descriptions
- iPadOS: Fix delay on app launch before "My Profile" sidebar item appears
- iPadOS: Fix language picker button not highlighting when hovered with the cursor
- macOS: Fix "New Post" window title appearing twice
- macOS: Fix Cmd+W sometimes closing non-foreground windows
- macOS: Fix visibility/local-only buttons not appearing in Compose toolbar
- macOS: Fix images copied from Safari not pasting on Compose screen
2023.8 12/23/2023
This update includes some minor bugfixes.
Changes:
- Indicate that edit history may be incomplete for remote post.
- Fix crash when collapsing to tab-bar mode in certain circumstances
- Fix potential crashes when using autocomplete on the Compose screen
- Fix Iceshrimp instances not being detected
2023.7 09/13/2023
This update fixes a number of bugs and improves stability throughout the app. See below for a list of fixes.
Bugfixes:
- Fix issues displaying main post in the Conversation screen
- Fix crash when opening the Compose screen in certain locales
- Fix issues when collapsing from sidebar to tab bar mode
- Fix incorrect UI being displayed when accessing certain parts of the app immediately after launch
- Fix link card images not being blurred on posts marked sensitive
- Fix links appearing with incorrect accent color intermittently
- Fix being unable to remove followed hashtags from the Explore screen
- Akkoma: Fix not being able to follow hashtags
- Pleroma: Fix refreshing Mentions failing
- iPhone: Fix ducked Compose screen disappearing when rotating on large phones
2023.6 07/23/2023
This update adds new several Compose-related features, including the ability to edit posts and a share sheet extension. See below for the full list of improvements and bugfixes.
Features/Improvements:
- Edit posts
- Indicate edited posts in timestamp
- Show post edit history from Conversation screen
- Add Share Sheet extension
- Add expanded attachment view on Compose screen
- Add an attachment, select the description text field, then tap the expand button
- Expanded view allows you to see the attachment while writing the description
- Allows playing back videos while writing description
- iOS 16: Allows zooming in to the attachment
- Add language picker to the Compose screen
- Improve Compose screen ducking behavior
- Show reblogger's avatar on reblogged posts
- Use system photo picker instead of custom interface
- Improve hashtag search UI in Customize Timelines
- Improve status collapse/expand animation on Notifications screen
- Apply filters to Notifications screen
- Improve performance when scrolling through timeline
- Improve error messages when editing filters
- Change favorite/reblog button order to match Mastodon UI
- Gracefully handle unknown attachment types
- iPadOS: Persist sidebar visibility across
Bugfixes:
- Fix scroll-to-top not working in in-app Safari
- Fix inaccruate titles in certain error popups
- Fix error decoding post HTML
- Fix replied-to account not being the first @-mention
- Fix "No Content" message on profiles using wrong background color
- Fix reblogged posts appearing in Bookmarks
- Fix spurious errors when loading timeline
- Fix crash when displaying certain profiles
- Fix crash when the server returns invalid notifications
- Fix link previews not appearing in Notifications
- Fix Notifications screen taking a long time to load
- Fix deleted posts not being removed from Notifications screen
- Fix crashes when switching between sidebar/tab-bar modes
- Fix instance features not being detected on IDNA domains
- Fix list/hashtag timelines missing controls when opened in new window
- Fix reblog button being enabled on the user's own direct posts
- Fix main post in Conversation flickering
- Fix link card images not loading on Mastodon
- Fix crash when editing filter with the Hide action
- Fix certain remote status links not being resolved
- Fix Handoff to iPad/Mac presenting new screen modally
- GoToSocial: Fix decoding certain posts
- Calckey: Fix decoding certain posts
- iPadOS: Fix Compose window lacking a title
- iPadOS: Fix keyboard focus highlight not showing
- macOS: Fix sidebar keyboard shortcuts not working
2023.5 05/18/2023
Features/Improvements:
- Add preference for non-pure-black dark mode
- Add Jump to Present button to timelines on the home tab
- Consolidate Trends into a single screen
- Allow pinning instance public timelines to the Home tab
- Add GIF/ALT badges to attachments (and preference to hide them)
- Add action to show hide/show reblogs from specific accounts
- Add preference to hide link preview cards
- Hide placeholder image in link preview card for previews without images
- Truncate links in posts
- Move Drafts button in Compose screen to nav bar to reduce accidental presses
- Load more posts/notifications on each page
- Update Bookmarks screen when posts are bookmarked/unbookmarked
- Add infinite scrolling to Bookmarks screen
- Add Favorites screen to the Explore tab
- Make attachment description text selectable in gallery
- Add long press to copy username on profile screens
- Optimize conversation loading
- Apply server-configured poll limits in Compose screen
- Add infinite scrolling to trending links/hashtags/posts
- Add state restoration for more screens
- Persist state when switching between accounts
- Add Handoff support for various screens
- Add preference to sync timeline position using Mastodon API, rather than iCloud
- Show percentage of voters for multi-choice polls, rather than percentage of votes
- Display message on remote profiles with no posts
- Indicate moved profiles
- Make Load More button on timelines more prominent
- VoiceOver: Make fast account switcher accessible
- VoiceOver: Improve labels for notifications
- VoiceOver: Fix custom emoji picker not having labels
Bugfixes:
- Workaround for not being able to sign in to certain instances
- Fix timeline position sync not working in certain circumstances
- Fix local-only posts not being decodable when logged in to Akkoma instances
- Fix Trends sometimes appearing in Explore/sidebar on non-Mastodon instances
- Fix favoriters/rebloggers list not resizing on screen rotation
- Fix crash when tapping My Profile tab immediately after app launch
- Handle authentication required errors on instance public timelines
- Fix follow request accept/reject buttons not matching accent color preference
- Fix tapping reblog count in conversation main status showing favorites list
- Fix crash when certain tags are present in post HTML
- Fix crash when opening Report screen in certain circumstances
- iPadOS: Fix crash when resizing window while on the Explore screen
- iOS 15: Fix accent colors not being displayed in Preferences
2023.4 03/01/2023
This update includes a number of bugfixes and a few small features. It also includes some changes to address the unreliability when logging in to accounts on mastodon.social.
Also, by popular request, this update also adds a Tip Jar, which can be found on the Preferences screen.
Features/Improvements:
- Add scopes to the search field
- Handle instance timeline authentication failures more gracefully
- Add a tip jar
- iPadOS/macOS: Show trending posts and suggested profiles on the Explore screen
Bugfixes:
- Fix Open in Safari action not working
- Fix notifications for posts from subscribed accounts not being shown
- Fix Misskey post links not being detected
- Fix trending hashtags not adjusting to Dynamic Type
- Fix link preview card descriptions not being formatted
- iPadOS: Fix crash when expanding the window size while showing the Trending Posts/Hashtags/Links screens
- macOS: Fix not being able to right-click to remove pinned timelines on the Customize Timelines screen
2023.3 01/26/2023
Features/Improvements:
- Improve design of link preview cards
- Show loading indicator during timeline state restoration
- Show loading indicator while loading conversation
Bugfixes:
- iPad/Mac: Fix some keyboard shortcuts not working
- Fix several state restoration crashes
- Fix not being able to tap More Replies button in conversations
- Fix collapse button disappearing from posts on the conversation screen
2023.2 01/22/2023
Bugfixes:
- Fix attachment being removed when adding alt text
more Version 2025.4 12/21/2025
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