Tusks for Mastodon 4+

A tool to 10× your toots

Bardia Golriz

    • Free
    • Offers In-App Purchases

Description

Tusks makes posting to Mastodon feel like publishing to your blog.

This is a Mastodon client with no timeline — just your posts. More specifically, it’s built around threads.

Starting a new thread is just as easy as making a single post. But that’s not what makes it special.

Tusks actively discourages posting into a vacuum, therefore losing valuable context. This is achieved by making it effortless to continue threading narratives. Each post becomes an update to a bigger story.

This priority shift should make your account a higher quality follow.

So, who is it for?

To be clear, if you don’t post and are not interested in writing, then not you. Otherwise…

• If you post regularly, then you.
• If you blog, then you.
• If you want to write (more), then you.

Also: if you post occasionally, then Tusks could encourage you to post more.

# Features

Tusks show your posts as well as any of your follow-ups to the original post (to be clear, you won’t see any users replies, or your interactions with users).

There are several features to help with organizing and publishing.

• Pin threads for quick access.
• Hide posts that you don’t expect to follow-up, so your list is always relevant.
• You can set unique titles for each thread for faster recall.
• Search ignores irrelevant posts (i.e. interactions with users).
• Write as much as you want in one-go and press a button to split it up into multiple posts.

In addition, drafting is a first-class feature. You can draft new threads, and as many follow-ups to already published posts.

# Availability

Tusks has iOS, iPadOS and macOS clients. A lot of work has gone into optimising for each form factor, so they always feel at home. All your drafts, pins and labels will be synced across your devices too.

# Pricing

Tusks has all features enabled for free users, except for one.

If you want to publish content to Mastodon, you’ll need to upgrade to Tusks Pro — this is available through an in-app purchase. No subscription required. All payments will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase.

# Privacy

Tusks takes your privacy very seriously. It does not store any personal data — it stays completely private.

The full privacy policy & terms of use can be read here: https://midnight-beanie-ccb.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-3b45102d741e4a9fa15d8e398839cef0?pvs=4.

What’s New

Version 1.10

# New

- # detected when you type into composer, presenting your most frequent/recent tags. If you start typing after the hashtag, it will filter suggestions based on the characters you’ve input.
- The best part is the hashtags you’ve set on your current draft post will be carried to your next reply addition. Additionally, if this is a new reply to a previously published post, the hashtags from the thread’s last post will be copied across.
- When starting a new thread, if you type 1/any letter in the first post, then subsequent posts will end in a similar format (showing the post’s position and the length of the entire thread). As you add more replies, all previous posts will update to show the correct thread length. Finally, if you move posts around, or delete any, this information will update to reflect the correct positions for each post and thread length.
- You can now right-click to delete published posts when viewing a thread.

# Improvements

- App should feel more responsive after optimising three areas of code that had the biggest memory footprint.
- More contrast between posts in dark mode.
- Search suggestions for a username mention will consider their display name too (not just handle).
- Made the username handle in composer’s at sign suggestions list condensed to allow for more people to appear at a time. Also slightly reduced vertical spacing between name and handle to make for a more compact presentation.
- Icons in toolbar for threads now look nicer, better grouped and have tooltips.

# Fixes

- Splitting a post into multiple due to a character overflow should work!
- Adding mentions should much, much less likely jump the cursor to the wrong position. Also, it should consistently add a space after the username too so you don’t need to. It’s the little things.
- Your username won’t show up when you @ in the composer.
- Toolbar in composer resets state if you manually type in someone’s username after initially tapping on its @ symbol (previously it would only reset if the username was tapped from the suggested list).
- Username suggestions from the last search shouldn’t appear momentarily when mentioning someone new.
- When discarding a draft reply, composer’s state should be accurate, i.e. we change to the previous post (if any).
- Should never show post 0/n when you discard the first draft in a reply chain.

App Privacy

The developer, Bardia Golriz, 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

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