Indigo is a brand new app that combines Bluesky and Mastodon into a single, unified timeline.
It can be tough to keep up with your social circles when they’re not all in one place, but Indigo makes it a breeze.
Indigo has a modern user interface that helps make common interactions faster and less disruptive, doing its best to provide you all the information you need, without getting in your way. Here’s some of the things we focused on:
CROSS POSTING
Indigo lets you post to Bluesky and Mastodon simultaneously so none of your followers misses a thing you post. It’s fast, simple and lets you add alt-text without having to change views.
TIMELINE
Indigo’s timeline combines your Bluesky and Mastodon timeline into a single feed, with subtle indicators for which service a post is coming from. The goal is for you to forget about the technical underpinnings and just enjoy all the people you follow in one place.
Indigo automatically detects when two accounts you follow are posting the same thing across both services and combines them into a single post, so you don’t have to read everything twice.
POST DETAILS
Indigo features an innovative new approach to post detail views that automatically detects threads, making them easier to read all at once. And you can quickly tap the thread ribbon to view all the replies to a given post.
You can also quick reply to posts without changing views too.
NOTIFICATIONS
Indigo’s Notification view shows you all your notifications from both services in one place. Mentions, Replies, and Quotes are highlighted while Favs and Reposts are grouped together to reduce clutter.
CONVERSATIONS
Indigo supports Bluesky’s direct messages and also provides a conversation interface to Mastodon private posts.
PLATFORMS
Indigo runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, so you can stay up to date on whatever device suits you best. Your accounts are synced, as is your timeline position, so jumping between devices is seamless. There’s no Apple Watch support, because no one should be reading social media on their watch and there’s no Vision Pro support because they’re stupidly expensive.
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PRICING
Indigo is free to download and try out, but interacting with posts and creating posts requires payment. Our premium tier is called Ultraviolet and has monthly, annual and one-time purchase options.
Prices are regional, based on a purchasing power index and are based on the US prices, which are:
$4.99 per month
$34.99 per year
$119.99 one-time purchase
Please note that the one time purchase may not include all future features in perpetuity as ongoing and that the services, Bluesky and Mastodon, may change what features are available without notice.
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We’ve been working on Indigo for quite a while now, and we’re very proud of how it’s turned out. That said, there are a million features we had to leave out of this first release, but we’re very exited to add more features and functionality as quickly as we can.
Ben & Aaron
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Terms of Service
https://soapboxsoftware.net/indigo/terms.html
Privacy Policy
https://soapboxsoftware.net/indigo/privacy.html
Indigo is an early app, still in active development with features and improvements being added each update, but it has already replaced the Bluesky app as my daily social media reader. Reliably remembering my place in the timeline is huge, and it does it across devices while keeping scrolling smooth. Reply threading is both understandable and stylish. I’d have subscribed for the better Bluesky experience alone. Getting a combined bsky and Mastodon timeline with smart, easy handling of crossposts makes Indigo by far my favorite social media reader since Tweetbot back in the before times.
Two Socials One App
Furbe
I’ve attempted various bridge solutions to achieve single-client dual-protocol in the past, but nothing worked well enough to even use begrudgingly, let alone to daily drive. Indigo is the first unified experience I’ve found compelling, so much so that I’ve stopped using my protocol specific clients and am now an Indigo main. Despite being relatively new, the app is already more than sufficiently capable to be my primary client for both networks. The steady pace of improvements and fixes is hugely encouraging and appreciated. Do yourself a favor and give it a try!
Could be THE app
tstrauss26
I have been looking for the everything text social media app for a while. And a lot of the existing options have gotten close, but this gets way closer. If this is the 1.0 version, I’m sold that it will do everything I want in the next few versions! Immediately subscribed.
Good app in many ways, but —
patricknh
The “paired profiles” feature, without any permission from me, incorrectly paired literally dozens of people I follow with one another, people who absolutely are not the same person, nor do they resemble each other in any way. It’s comically bad. Until and unless it actually works, there should be a clear way to simply disable this feature wholesale.
Developer Response
Thanks for the feedback Patrick. You can swipe on incorrectly paired profiles to remove them. And we’re working on a system for manual pairing in the next update.
Fixes:
- Fixed selection highlight on Mac and iOS (with keyboard attached)
- Fixed rendering of posts in Quotes Interaction view
- Fixed order of notifications for DMs
- Fixed scroll to newest DM after sending
Version 1.2.4
The developer, Aniline Applications Inc., indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
Purchases
Identifiers
Usage Data
Diagnostics
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Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
