Openvibe: Your Gateway to Open Social Networking Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr & Threads in a single app!
Discover a New Era of Social Media: Openvibe offers unified social experience, bringing together your favorite open social networks like Mastodon, Bluesky, Nostr, Threads, and more into a single, seamless timeline. Connect, share, and explore without boundaries.
Connect Across Platforms Effortlessly: Post once, reach all. Openvibe makes it simple to share your moments, thoughts, and discoveries across multiple networks, amplifying your voice and expanding your reach.
Your Network, Your Control: Empower your online presence. Openvibe places you in charge of your social feed, data, and identity. Customize your experience, safeguard your privacy, and migrate your followers with ease.
Be Part of the Open Social Revolution: Join us on Openvibe and experience the future of social networking. Own your content, your network, and your social identity.
Features:
- Unified timeline of decentralized social networks ( Mastodon Bluesky Nostr Threads )
- Cross-platform content sharing
- Personalized content discovery
- Complete control over your social feed and data
- Easy migration of followers across platforms
Download Openvibe now and be the first to join the town square of open social media.
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I was enthusiastic about Openvibe when I started using it, but there are a few major usability bugs that keep biting me. First, if you're behind in your feeds by several days, the app will regularly lose your place and scroll to the top when reloading. There's no way to quickly page back to where you were, so you have to scroll for a while to find your spot. (I suspect this has something to do with the app cache getting cleared, but your spot in the feed should not be tied to the cache in the first place.) Second, my Bluesky account sometimes gets broken without warning and I have to remove and re-add it. There are no errors when this happens: your posts just mysteriously stop loading. Third, when you tap into a post or link and then navigate back to the timeline, you sometimes get scrolled to the top and lose your spot. Please fix these issues! They are damaging an otherwise excellent app.
Awesome with a few missing features
Joiedevivre099
Really great work so far so kudos to the devs!! But would love it even more if these features were implemented: (1) A way to view trending topics like in the Bluesky app (2) Able to add additional login accounts (only lets you add one per) (3) ability to see the detailed bio when you view the following list for others. In the bluesky app, you can click on the someone’s following list and the list will show the users name, handle and their bio. Makes it easier to find new profiles based on your interests (4) Search is a little clunky and not as detailed as if you use the respective native apps, for instance, there’s no Top, Latest, Feeds like in Bluesky search. (5) Also is more of a nitpick but when you try to click on a profile from the search results list, you have to specifically click on their name in the row. Clicking on the leading edge on the profile picture doesn’t navigate you to their profile.
Developer Response
Thanks for the awesome review and detailed feedback! 😊 We really appreciate the support and great suggestions. Some of these features, like multiple logins and improved search, are on our radar for future updates. We'll also look into refining navigation and exploring trending topics. Stay tuned—exciting improvements ahead! 🚀🐙
Still extremely rough around the edges
Kribensisis
This app does something that nobody else does (lets you use both Mastodon and Bluesky) but it’s just not ready yet. It has too many usability problems like not showing full landscape images or how many posts users have. It also has an odd design with that scrollable top bar, which deviates from the iOS design language and is very jarring. Worst of all, when I posted full size images to bluesky, the compression algorithm crunched them up and I had to delete. This is beta-level at best. But, I’m going to keep this installed for a few months in the hopes that it gets good enough to use as a daily driver. There is definitely a lot of work to do though. Three stars is charitable.
Developer Response
Thanks for giving Openvibe a chance and for your honest feedback! 😊 We’re actively working on improving image compression, and landscape images should already be fixed. We appreciate your patience as we refine the experience—we hope to make it your daily driver soon! Stay tuned for updates, and we’d love to earn more stars from you in the future! 🚀🐙
UI train wreck
grandgeezer
It has many UI issues, but I think the worst is the lack of control of videos (if you want to read the comments, accompanying a video post, the video is running — with sound — whether you like it or not) and the fact that clicking outside the input overlay while composing a reply/post basically discards everything. On iPad, share doesn’t do anything. Paywall pop-ups in the in-app browser (the I Paper’s is an example) will block everything, you have to interact with the pop-up, you cannot close the browser. The cross posting feature is useless – instead of just cross-posting the message (with a discrete link showing where it came from) it creates some gaudy mess of a post that nobody would put their name on. Seems to have a problem updating, if I haven’t used it for a few hours, I generally need fo force close it.
Developer Response
thank you so much! We will add tap the top to scroll in the following week update. For now you can tap the home icon to scroll to top
Cross-platform bookmarks are here! Also a Bluesky fix, we will keep monitoring the Bluesky performance.
Version 1.19.0
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Information
Seller
Tweetoshi s.r.o.
Size
153 MB
Category
Social Networking
Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPhone Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
iPad Requires iPadOS 15.6 or later.
iPod touch Requires iOS 15.6 or later.
Mac Requires macOS 12.5 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
Infrequent Profanity or Crude Humor Mature or Suggestive Themes Horror/Fear Themes Medical Treatment information Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
Contains Unrestricted Web Access Messaging and Chat User-Generated Content
