Mastonaut 17+

A delightful Mastodon client

Bruno Philipe Resende Silva

    • 4.4 • 7 Ratings
    • Free

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Description

Mastonaut is a Mastodon client for Mac.

Mastodon is a distributed social network of over 2 million users and hundreds of servers catering to the most varied set of interests and topics. Mastonaut is an easy-to-use and beautiful window into this world. Browse, follow, interact, and contribute to this amazing community from the comfort of your Mac.

As a lovingly-crafted app from a Mastodon user to other Mastodon users, Mastonaut is made to integrate with macOS in the finest aspects. Some features include:

* Thoughtful interface, made for the Mac, with simple usability and powerful capabilities.
* A concise status composer, that also lets you submit posts with image and video attachments that can be drag-and-dropped from Finder.
* Keyboard navigation, so you can quickly browse through your feed
* Polls support: Vote on polls right from your timelines, and compose your own, right from Mastonaut.
* Instance emoji support: Each mastodon instance has its own set of custom and often animated emoji. Mastonaut makes sure you can enjoy them at their best by letting you see them in your timelines, and also letting you insert them using a picker in the composer. But if you're a pro you can also insert instance emoji by simply typing their shortcode between colons.
* Versatile column-based layout, that allows browsing anywhere from a simple and straightforward single-column mode, to a many column window that lets you keep everything that's happening now right in front of you.
* Multi-Account support, so that you can manage and post from several accounts (even in different servers) at once (and quickly switch between them via keyboard shortcuts).
* Mention auto-complete: Just type the first few characters from a user's handle to get Mastonaut to suggest them to you.
* Full support for media and content warnings (spoiler warnings), so that you don't have to see what you don't want to see.
* Annotated media support, so you can access the accessibility labels of attachments in posts, but also insert annotations on your own posts.
* Search: Find users by handle or display name, and lookup hashtags.
* Delete & Redraft: We all make typos, so Mastonaut lets you quickly delete and re-draft your statuses. It will even reuse the attachments from the original status so you don't need to upload them again.
* Notifications: Get notified when other users mention you, or favorite your toots. Notifications can be configured per account.
* Share extension: Share webpages, text, and images right from other apps such as Safari, Photos, or Finder.
* Saved tags: Bookmark your tags to easily browse through them later.
* Account editing support: You can update most of your accounts settings from Mastonaut, including your avatar and header, your bio, fields, and more.

The goal for Mastonaut is to be the best client for Mastodon, period. User feedback is extremely welcome, as this is the only way that such a bold goal can be achieved.

If you're unfamiliar with the Mastodon network and would like to learn more, visit joinmastodon.org.
To learn more about Mastonaut, visit mastonaut.app.

Note to Pleroma users: Although Pleroma servers are supported, there are some quirks and differences in the APIs that makes it hard for a client to support both Pleroma and Mastodon fully. In cases where API issues are present, Mastonaut opts to honor Mastodon's behavior first. Bugs have been filed with Pleroma's developers for the known issues, but since Mastodon is a complex system, comprehensive support can't be guaranteed. Feel free to reach out at the support link for Mastonaut if you have any questions. Thank you for your understanding.

Mastonaut will not interact with servers that are known to not moderate the content posted by their users. The list of blocked servers is not comprehensive, and might change under request from Apple, or at the discretion of the developer. The list of blocked servers is available at the support link. Thank you for your understanding.

What’s New

Version 1.3.9

This is a small update that fixes rendering issues with the latest version of macOS.

Ratings and Reviews

4.4 out of 5
7 Ratings

7 Ratings

thing thing thing ,

Nice execution, but could make better choices.

Overall it's a nice app - calm design and less Electronny than Whalebird - ie the controls look and feel like system controls, and significant props for supporting back to High Sierra.

I wish I could pay the developer (not a subscription) for it. Happily pay AUD$20-40 for it, and the same for each iOS version (if support for iOS 12, and timelne sync can be included).

Could use some improvements:

- A Whalebird / Tweetbot style primary nav bar on the left to control the leftmost column's contents & show notification badges would be nice, though could be solved with putting more stuff in the profile tab.
- Columns being user-changable to whatever you want them to be - profile, or any feed (local, federated, my toots, likes etc).
- Follows & followers should be tabs / selectable in the profile, so you can see & manage those lists.
- Likes & Boosts would be nice to have as a fourth & fifth options in the profile, along with Toots, Toots & Replies, & Media.
- Expanding a toot should happen in place (growing the toot itself, or replacing the current column, and spawning a back button), not in a different column.
- Returning to the app after not using it overnight should retain continuity of the user's feed, not skip a bunch of posts to newer entries with "load more" buttons to fill in the chronology. That's the biggest pain point of the app. If there's one thing a lot of people are reactng aganst with social media, it's algorithmic intererence in feeds. Be less smart, and less automatic. Give us the dumbest feed imaginable - every post in post order, nothing skipped, and then let us apply behaviours (skipping overnight posts etc) to it.

- Bug: Profile column contents don't reflow when the column is resized, and the resize doesn't stick if anything else replaces it.

Flitterby ,

Really nice Mastodon app!

Awesome to find a great app for reading Toots on Mastodon. It looks nice and has a variety of views.

Henr3y ,

It's not there yet.

No conversations view, can't see threaded conversation, rather essential to my Mastodon experience.

No user-selectable dark mode, that has to be done via what I consider to be the poorly-implemented Mojave Dark mode.

But what really grates is the app is unable to retain multiple columns, they have to be reset each time the app is opened.

Disappointing.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your feedback.

Regarding the conversations view, you can see that by double-clicking a status, or right-clicking it and selecting “Show toot details”.

Window state preservation is a system-wide feature on macOS. To enable it, deselect the checkbox “close windows when quitting an app” under System Preferences > General. Alternatively, you can quit Mastonaut using Command+Option+Q to preserve window state for the next launch.

Mastonaut tried to be a good citizen Mac app that doesn’t override system behaviors, and that’s the philosophy that guides most of these design decisions.

App Privacy

The developer, Bruno Philipe Resende Silva, 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 Collected

The developer does not collect any data from this app.

Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More

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