Name: Mast
Price: 5.99 USD
Rating: 3.6 (126 reviews)
Author: Shihab Mehboob

Description

Mast is a beautiful Mastodon app built with iOS design guidelines in mind. It’s as feature-packed as it is gorgeous. With customisable content and themes, it’s most definitely the perfect choice.

The stunning timelines make reading the latest content a joy, and tapping the on-screen elements gives you a wonderful haptic response. Long-holding anywhere in the app quickly lets you toggle themes, and Siri Shortcuts let you do the same, and more. Awesome.

I've also thrown in some cool things like 3D Touch support, Today Extension, Share Extensions, iMessage Stickers, a Watch app, Siri Shortcuts, and an iPad app! I hope you enjoy using Mast.

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“What is Mastodon?”, you may ask. Well, it’s a federated and decentralised social network. Think of it as email, where you can choose your provider, yet talk with almost anyone from anywhere regardless of their choices. The instances on Mastodon and Pleroma give users freedom to find their community, whilst allowing everyone to talk with each other with the level of visibility that they want. The content warning feature makes it safer, and the increased character count makes it far more expressible. It’s what microblogging should have always been.

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If you're a fan of details, here's what Mast contains:

- Beautiful and clean interface
- Fast and lightweight
- Light mode (day), dark mode (dusk), darker mode (night), true black dark mode (midnight), and midnight blue themes (you could even set up Siri Shortcuts to do this for you magically)
- Themes and customization
- Multiple user accounts
- Supercharged toot composition screen with a powerful media gallery, text styling options, ASCII text face insertion, instance emoticons, now playing content insertion, picture pasting, and user autocomplete
- Browse and add GIFs to toots when composing
- Powerful media app-drawer with a gallery slider, and drag-and-drop deletion
- Polls support (create, view, vote)
- Supercharged media viewer and Picture-in-Picture videos that can be dragged around
- Dedicated chat-like direct messages section
- Media galleries
- Swipe actions to like/boost/reply (swipe right)
- Swipe actions to mute/block/report/translate/share (swipe left)
- Alt image text addition and viewing support
- Pinch the screen anywhere to toot a screenshot
- Schedule toots for the future
- Filter toots
- Endorse accounts
- Translate toots
- Threaded toot conversations
- Notifications and activity
- List creation support
- View pinned and liked toots
- View muted and blocked users
- Gorgeous profiles with links
- Dynamic hashtags, related, and user search
- Content warning overlays (shake to display again)
- Dynamic history view
- Adjustable segments
- Instance emoticons display and composition support
- Account locking and follower requests
- Customizable gestures
- Multi-column iPad app
- Hardware keyboard shortcuts
- 3D Touch Peek and Pop
- 3D Touch Quick Actions
- Today Extension
- Share Extensions for Photos and Safari
- Siri Shortcuts
- Watch app with timelines and profile, works over cellular
- Cute iMessage stickers
- Joyful haptics and alerts
- Real time streaming
- Push notifications
- URL schemes
- Subtle volume indicator
- Dynamic app icon changing
- Useful settings to customize as you see fit
- Image and video audio to text conversion
- VoiceOver accessibility for the visually impaired
- Universal iOS app (iPhone, iPad, iPad Pro)
- Supports iOS multitasking on the iPad (Slide Over and Split View)

(Requires a Mastodon account)

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I'm constantly evolving and crafting Mast to create the perfect Mastodon app for you. If you have any suggestions or feedback, I’d love to hear it! Come visit us on Mastodon and let’s craft an incredible toot browsing experience together.

Mastodon Developer: @JPEG@mastodon.technology

Jun 15, 2019

Version 1.7.2

Mast 1.7.2 is here, and I think you're going to love it! This update brings with it an entirely new and redesigned multi-column iPad app.

- Redesigned the iPad app and added scrollable multiple columns
- Added the ability to speed up or slow down video playback (long-hold on a video whilst it's playing in the stock video player to present this option)
- Replaced the game timer with a monospaced font to reduce shaking and resizing
- Using the smart invert accessibility option now doesn't affect content images and profile images
- Improved table inset sizing
- Improved changing orientation on an iPad
- Improved iPad keyboard shortcuts
- Improved accessibility features
- Fixed issue where some video playback wouldn't loop round to the beginning
- Fixed issue where the app would crash when starting it with VoiceOver enabled
- Fixed issue where toot filters wouldn't display via the settings section sometimes
- Fixed issue where toots with multiple images wouldn't be displayed on an iPad
- Fixed issue where an initial load wouldn't display mentions and messages sometimes
- Minor UI adjustments and bug fixes

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If you'd like to read the gigantic updates notes for 1.7.0, head over to https://www.thebluebird.app/post/mast-1-7-0 for an extensive rundown of everything that's changed since the last major update.

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If you like this update and enjoy using Mast, please leave a review! It really helps. I'd also love to hear your thoughts and questions via Mastodon through @JPEG@mastodon.technology.

3.6 out of 5

126 Ratings

Very promising, pleasant to use, minor snags yet

I've been using Mast for a few days so far, and it's been quite great! The interface feels well thought out and behaves as I'd expect it to. It supports the Mastodon features you need (message privacy, CW's, sensitivity and textual descriptions for pictures), and feels pleasant and fast.

Some toothing problems in this revision, but I expect they'll get fixed soon!

* the "activity" view crashes very often
* you can use the app one handed! Great when waiting in line: double-tap images to zoom, throw them away to dismiss; unfortunately, dismissing animated GIFs requires stretching your thumb all the way to the X in the far left corner (Mast does picture in picture, which seems neat but I don't use it)
* It still loses scroll state on occasion (but is pretty good at retaining the position usually!)
* content-warning posts, once revealed, can't be closed again; the only way I found to do that has been to scroll away, which restores the warning (weirdly: I've seen background refreshes restore the content warning without any interaction from me)

Overall, I think this app is more than worth the price! Once the crasher bugs are fixed, I'd absolutely recommend using it for anyone's Mastodon needs!

Crashes on iPad, notifications broken on iPhone

The app looks great! Best UI in all of the Mastodon apps I have tried. Unfortunately, the app constantly keeps crashing on my iPad (non-Pro) 2018. Logs in fine, but the moment I touched on the hamburger menu icon, it crashed. Upon reopening the app, my feed is blank. No way to get my feed back without reinstalling the app, but the hamburger menu crash still persists.

The app itself works fine on my iPhone 8+, fortunately. But, there is a weird issue with notifications. They show up in the Notification Center on my phone just fine, but they do not show up on the app. I’ve tried to manually sync them, but new ones will not show up. Only notifications that I had at the time I logged in. Logging out and back in again makes newer notifications appear, but this is not ideal.

Hey, thank you for the great feedback and insight into what's not working as great as it could be. The iPad app will be redesigned entirely from the ground up in the near future and will contain fixes and better handling of elements. The feed issue should also be fixed for the next update where it refuses to load sometimes. In terms of notifications, this is now resolved for the next update too. Hope this helps!

UPDATE:

This should be fixed now.

Better than the webUI, work in progress

I’m giving Mast 5 stars because this app is beautiful to look at (though uniquely designed it’s still easily navigated) and the potential is there to be the go to app for Mastodon users.

I can’t stress this enough: If you need a mature app that’s been tested for years and has a solid bedrock of Q&A underneath it: look elsewhere. Part of Mast’s charm is that it’s immature software and although it’s a bit buggy, the developer works incredibly hard on adding features and squashing bugs. Updates are frequent and I haven’t witnessed any update feel like a “regression”

I’m happy I bought it and look forward to future updates.

Information

Seller: Shihab Mehboob
Size: 142.3 MB
Category: Social Networking
Compatibility: Requires iOS 11.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.
Languages: English, French, German, Italian, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
Age Rating: You must be at least 17 years old to download this app.
: Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
: Unrestricted Web Access
: Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
: Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
: Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information
: Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
: Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humor
Copyright: © 2018 Shihab Mehboob.
Price: $5.99
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