
Ice Cubes for Mastodon 17+
Speedy, customizable & cold
Thomas Ricouard
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Ice Cubes is a fast, reliable and beautiful Mastodon client.
You can connect to any Mastodon instance and use the various features this app offer.
- Browse your home, federated and local timeline
- Push notifications.
- Favorite, boost, share, and even quote any toot!
- Great macOS support with a column dedicated to notifications
- You've read it right, this app offer a quote toot feature, Ice Cubes will also embed any other toot link so the content is easily readable.
- Organize your timeline with lists, add and remove users from lists, create new lists!
- Filter your timeline by your lists, followed tags and more.
- The timeline is also live, this app is connected to the powerful streaming API of Mastodon so you won't miss any content!
- You can even pin other instance local timelines, you can keep up with all your communities from the same account.
- Explore, search and discover new content with a powerful explore tab.
- Dedicated tab for your direct message.
- Multi accounts support and easy switch between your accounts.
- A lot of customisation options.
- AI Tools Integration, you can get a little help from your AI friend when composing your toot, it can help you correct your text or even shorten it!
- And much more to discover within the app.
Bonus: It's completely open source, you can have a look at the code here: https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp to learn more, and maybe even follow along!
Terms: https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp/blob/main/TERMS.MD
Privacy Policy: https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp/blob/main/PRIVACY.MD
What’s New
Version 1.11.2
- Better list formatting on post content.
- New batch accept/reject notification requests.
- Various other fixes.
Ratings and Reviews
It’s absolutely non-toxic here! Yay!!!!
I have been on Mastodon for about a year now, using different instances with different profiles. And every instance that I have played around them, I have found nothing but positivity, mind blowing creativity, lots of friendly Neurodivergents, and an atmosphere that is upbeat and helpful, unlike the negativity, the intolerance, and the oneupmanship to be found on Eeeeks, formerly known as Twisted, and on Blechbook. I haven’t been on any instances where you experience homophobia, transphobia, racism, ableism, misogyny, Islamophobia, Christian nationalism, extremism of any kind, or just plain undirected hate, unlike the big boys. Your kids can’t even be safe if you make sure they join a good instance with great moderators/administrators. The ones to which I belong do not tolerate hate and negativity of any kind, and the most that show other than PG-rated content automatically use NSFW warnings.
Ice Cubes is good
This app is good, it’s alive and in constant development. I just brought up the iPad app, and it was totally synced up to date with the phone app. This is what we need in a client! Also, amazing to me, what a good job job the captioning is in describing photos you post. This is a thing on mastodon, to always provide a caption for the visually impaired to be able to know what you have posted. The captioning is SO GOOD that it made me wonder why the visually impaired person wouldn’t have a captioning capability as good. But then I realized it does pause a bit. And also, I can usually improve the caption slightly & make it more human. So. … that’s photos.
There is a new thing called hashtag groups. I have no idea how to use it, yet, but look forward to learning. The magnifying glass search icon leads to something called “explore”, but does not seem to let you actually search the timeline. I know that’s on the list, though!
Thank you, creator of Ice Cubes App! Much appreciated!!
behaved poorly under an unstable network environment
This app behaved like a website when you go through timeline.
When you open it, the new toots counting number indicates that new toots are loading up (and the account setting shows that a certain number of toots have been cached); but when you scroll down, the app still needs to fetch a new batch of toots every time.
When you are in an unstable network environment and the app can't reach the instance server, it will drop all the data that is already cached and loaded, instead a full-screen error message will show up. And when you tap the "try again" button under the error message, if the app has successfully reached the server again, it forces you to go back to the very top of the timeline, and you lose the position you've been reading. You had to scroll and wait for apps to reload every toots you already read.
Maybe unstable network is not a problem that occurs to first-world users, but Mastodon is part of fediverse which means instance servers can be anywhere, so I don't think designing data loading strategy completely under the sumptions of every user having the perfect network environment is reasonable.
Apps like Toot! and even some PWA frontends are behaving better at this.
App Privacy
The developer, Thomas Ricouard, 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:
- Purchases
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Thomas Ricouard
- Size
- 43.1 MB
- Category
- Social Networking
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Basque, Belarusian, Catalan, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian
- Age Rating
- 17+ Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes Unrestricted Web Access Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor Infrequent/Mild Contests Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Copyright
- © 2022 Thomas Ricouard
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Monthly supporter subscription $0.99
- Nice Tip $2.99
- Generous tip $6.99
- Small Tip $0.99
- Insane tip $13.99