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 2024.1
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
Ratings and Reviews
A feature-rich and mindful Mastodon client
Tusker is all about getting the most value out of your time on Mastodon without getting hooked on it.
It excels at helping the user distil posts on Mastodon into an easily digestible format.
You can focus in on just what you’re interested in by creating lists of posts with specific hashtags or from specific users. Or you can zoom out and see posts, links, and hashtags which are trending. You can even visit timelines from other instances to see different communities in action.
You can even save things to read later with the “Bookmarks” feature.
Best of all, it has several great customisation options to help users avoid developing addictive patterns. My favourite are the ability to disable infinite scrolling, and the option to make all images black-and-white.
I feel more in control of my usage of Mastodon while still reaping the benefits of it. I can’t thank the developer enough for that.
Simply the best
I've tried the majority of Mastodon clients on iOS and this is my number one choice. The main benefits for me are: grouped notifications, macOS support, and a very responsive developer. I was happy to support the app with a tip!
Mona is the only other client that comes close but it requires a subscription and imho it's still not as good as Tusker.
Don’t forget to tip the dev!
Nice mastodon client, and totally free. Regularly updated with new features.
The tip jar is buried down in “my profile” > “preferences” > “tip jar” - I always encourage supporting apps that make purchase optional, so leave a tip when a new version comes out if you can afford it!
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
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Information
- Provider
- Vaccor, LLC
- Size
- 14.7 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 £6.99
- Incredible Tip £14.99