Mast - for Mastodon 17+

Another app that went with a subscription model

Will devs ever learn? This app has always been buggy. The first thing I tried doing was updating my bio. The UX is all very wonky and the UI for actually updating a bio is a disaster. This app is definitely not worth a subscription model for features like basic notifications when better options are available.

[update] this app requires extra taps to do basic things like bio updates and search. its interface is also unintuitive. however, it hasn't crashed yet. added a star since the app hasn't crashed yet.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your feedback, this has now been fixed and should work flawlessly.

No Upgrade Path For Early Supporters

Great app actually, but I paid a fair amount for an app ($5), and suddenly lost access to every feature I used after a hiatus from Mastodon. No upgrade path, so I honestly feel scammed; i bought the app specifically for those features, and never would have purchased had i known it'd only be for 9 months.

Idea of a one time purchase is that it's a one time purchase; Mast isn't like a weather app or some other service-based app that relies on pricey APIs; Mastodon is an open source, "federated" service. Sure, developer needs paid to maintain the application, but stripping 90% of the app from paying users and asking them to pay again seems unfair; at least publish the revised application as a new listing so paying users can use the old version without support. :|

Overpriced and untrustworthy business

It might be a very polished mastodon app for iOS, but no way is it worth $30 or an ongoing $2 per month. Especially once you consider that it was once $5, but then the dev took away features from users that paid and asked for more money. How do you know they won’t do the same thing again after you pay $30?

If you don’t pay, the features you get are paltry. Don’t even get notifications. You’re better off using something else that’s free, like Roma.