Pipilo 17+

Unique Fediverse experience

Lukasz Rutkowski

Designed for iPad

    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

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Description

Pipilo is a unique Fediverse app that lets you browse posts on a horizontally scrolling timeline. Each post is displayed within the context of its conversation with replies from people you follow. This results in an elegant, distraction-free interface, making it easy to follow various conversation threads.

Pipilo works with Mastodon, Pixelfed, Pleroma, Akkoma, Friendica, Firefish, Catodon, Iceshrimp, and GoToSocial.

Features:
- Horizontally scrolling timeline with each post appearing in the context of its conversation
- Clean, collapsible threads showing only posts from people you follow, with an option to view replies from everyone
- Notifications grouped by day
- Quote posts
- Rich previews for mentioned links and videos
- Home, local, and federated timelines
- Followed hashtags and custom lists
- Quick search of posts, hashtags, and users
- Full iPad support, with multiple windows allowing you to display different timelines side by side
- Smooth media viewer with intuitive gestures, alt-text descriptions, share functionality, live text selection, and subject lifting
- Advanced video player with native system interface for play/pause, time scrubbing, volume control, and full-screen or PIP mode viewing
- Keyword filters to hide posts behind a warning or remove them from your timelines completely

Premium Features:
- Submit posts with images, videos, media descriptions, and content warnings
- Sync reading position across multiple devices
- Follow new hashtags and users
- Create and edit custom lists
- Add multiple accounts from all supported servers
- Enable push notifications
- Create and edit filters
- Bookmark posts

Unlock all premium features with a monthly subscription, yearly subscription, or a one-time purchase.

Privacy Policy: https://pipilo.thanel.me/privacy/
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

What’s New

Version 1.3.1

1.3.1
- Improved detection of YouTube videos
- Made link previews feature opt-in

1.3
- Bookmarks
- Navigate between posts by tapping on left or right screen edge
- Improved link previews
- Colored backgrounds
- Descriptions
- In-app YouTube player
- Links to Mastodon profiles of authors
- Collapsible post threads
- Post translation (Requires iOS 17.4 or newer)
- Post deleting

### Improvements

- Going to notifications screen will automatically select first account with unread notifications
- Trying to perform actions on deleted post will mark it as deleted instead of showing error
- Notifications screen displays selected account in toolbar
- User icon in bottom menu opens account switching menu instead of own profile
- When replying to a post the parent post can be tapped to show details screen or long pressed to show actions
- Opening matching screens from autocompletion suggestions
- Updated styling of media alt text descriptions
- Haptic feedback when voting on poll
- Improved background of media alt text if it couldn’t be extracted from image
- Tapping on mastodon links will open them in-app
- Buttons in bottom menu that want your attention display subtitle telling the reason (new notifications, updated changelog)
- Boosting or favoriting posts is available without premium
- Creating posts from Pipilo will mark them as posted using it
- Updated post visibility options naming
- Focused post is always read as accessibility value of navigation bar
- Screen available when there are a lot of links is resized to whole screen height
- Improved hashtag autocompletion/highlighting to work with more characters
- Toast linking to changelog after app update instead of highlighted drag handle
- Push notifications should no longer stop working after updating/migrating device
- Added better error message during authorization if entered instance appears to be unsupported
- Removed suggestions for Sharkey instances from Sign In screen

### Bug fixes

- Fixed new position is not remembered when jumping to end of timeline and leaving app
- Fixed posts are not grouped together if someone first boosted a reply and then boosted parent post
- Fixed videos posted by users from threads do not load
- Fixed expanding replies to a boost didn’t sometimes show „No new replies”
- Fixed thread lines are pointing in wrong direction when right-to-left layout is enabled
- Fixed corner radius of link previews when right-to-left layout is enabled
- Fixed push notifications do not load user avatars in previews
- Fixed being unable to enable push notifications after migrating devices
- Fixed tapping on post search result might open link from text instead of whole post
- Fixed option to save images to Photo Library was missing
- Fixed threads posts are not displayed as quoted posts
- Fixed truncated text in notification filters when using large text
- Fixed incorrect bottom menu height when opening user profile from notification
- Fixed verified user profile links are read twice as “Verified” with VoiceOver
- Fixed close button of single post details screen closes screens under it
- Fixed post editor sometimes loses spaces inserted by autocompletion
- Fixed cross device synchronization might be unavailable when leaving app on unexpanded thread
- Fixed potential crash when long pressing link preview for url without scheme
- Fixed link previews alignment in user profiles
- Fixed unnecessary search input focus when returning to search results
- Fixed truncated text in pending follow requests screen when large text is enabled
- Fixed expand replies button doesn’t show progress indicator when opening single post thread
- Fixed end of timeline page is missing for hashtag timeline with a single post
- Fixed images for next post don’t load after fresh app launch
- Fixed bottom menu in notifications is sometimes too small
- Fixed Open in Browser action available from context menus not working on iOS 18
- Fixed bottom bar sizing on iPad when placed in slide over

App Privacy

The developer, Lukasz Rutkowski, 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 based on, for example, the features you use or your age. Learn More

Supports

  • Family Sharing

    Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.

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