Tusker 17+
A flexible Mastodon app
Vaccor, LLC
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
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 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.
What’s New
Version 2024.2
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
Ratings and Reviews
*Much* better than the official app!
TL;DR: a competent iOS app for Mastodon with some genuinely nice touches — excited to see where it’s going!
Tusker rights all the wrongs of the official Mastodon app: The text view for composing a new toot isn’t all kinds of broken, writing alt text let’s you see and edit what you type, as well as the entire image you’re describing (I know: shocker), and (most importantly) the timeline doesn’t jump around losing your reading position all the time — hallelujah! There are several other nice touches like collapsing long toots, the way conversation threads are displayed, etc.
So: Why not 5 stars? Some polish needed: Text contrast is too harsh, especially in night mode (actual white on actual black is really crass). Replies in the timeline should have some sort of indicator that there’s more context. In-line action button icons for favourite and boost should not rely on colour to designate whether you’ve already tapped them (possible alternative: outline vs. filled background with cutout).
But for a first release, this is still a really good app. Oh and: if there was a tip-jar type in app purchase, I’d HAPPILY put something in! 😇
App Privacy
The developer, Vaccor, LLC, 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:
- Diagnostics
Privacy practices may vary based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Provider
- Vaccor, LLC has not identified itself as a trader for this app. If you are a consumer in the European Economic Area, consumer rights do not apply to agreements between you and the provider.
- Size
- 18.4 MB
- Category
- Social Networking
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 15.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 12.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 17+ Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © 2019–2024 Vaccor, LLC
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Nice Tip 1,99 €
- Awesome Tip 7,99 €
- Tusker Supporter 1,99 €
- Incredible Tip 17,99 €