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Hello, I want to switch to mastodon from twitter can anyone suggest me the best app on iOS to make the transition.

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[–] rarkgrames 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I really like Toot! I tried a whole bunch and this is the one I settled on.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Same for me.

[–] hunterhog 7 points 1 year ago

Ice Cubes has been pretty good to me, personally.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yep Ice Cubes is great, you can have loads of timelines on there if you want. Mastoot is also great, really nice to use and easy on the eye.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Mastoot is about as simple as the official mastodon app. If you don’t want to do anything complicated, you can’t go wrong with either of these. However, if you’re like me, and you don’t care about people, but you care about topics, these apps are going to be useless to you. Following particular hashtags just doesn’t work with these.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not sure about official Mastodon app, but I am following loads of hashtags on Mastoot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Mastoot never managed to load any of my hashtags. Seems like a broken feature.

[–] drudoo 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] tamas 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ivory is very polished but the subscription is really expensive considering the alternatives.

[–] youtherealmvp1 1 points 1 year ago

Agreed, it’s definitely on the pricier side. But in my opinion it’s also the most refined one, the app works great and the UI is really good. If you appreciate well-crafted and -designed apps, it’s worth it. If those things don’t matter as much (or if you simply prefer to have more options/customizability), it might not be for you.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago
[–] silly_apples 4 points 1 year ago

I am new to Mastodon but have enjoyed Mona the most so far

@[email protected]

I think it may also be worth noting the “in app purchases” seem to be actual purchases not subscriptions

Cheers

[–] snailwizard 3 points 1 year ago (2 children)

So far I’ve been using Mammoth and Metatext. I like them both but Metatext is edging out at the moment.

Pros of Mammoth: *Plenty of customization options *Nice interface *Translation features

Cons of Mammoth: *A little clunky *Some trouble uploading pictures *Custom emoji/emojos don’t show up (on my phone at least)

Pros of Metatext: *A bit smoother *Nice interface *Custom emoji appear

Cons of Metatext: *No translation options (that I’ve seen) *Some errors when starring posts

Both are pretty decent apps, but once I get around to updating my iOS I will probably try a couple others on for size.

[–] amanvelani 3 points 1 year ago

These are really good insights! Thank you

[–] drudoo 2 points 1 year ago

Ivory by Tapbots.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I’m not on Mastodon a lot, but when I go I like to use Phanpy.social as a PWA. Feels a smooth as a native app and looks great.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I echo IceCubes ^^ it’s very slick

[–] PuffyPanda 1 points 1 year ago

I use the default Mastadon app, it works fine enough.