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Mastodon App Reviews

The Mastodon app recently received 36 positive reviews on iPhone, iPad, and Android devices. Users in the United States have given Mastodon app an average rating of 4.56 out of 5 stars, based on a total of 13.4K ratings since its release on Sep 24 by Mastodon gGmbH. Can you share your positive or negative thoughts about Mastodon?

Ratings and Reviews
Rated 4.06 out of 5

13.4K global ratings

5 Star
42%
4 Star
22%
3 Star
36%
2 Star
0%

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36 Positive User Reviews for Mastodon

Difficult to block or mute

As usual, the three dots used to block or mute a user are almost impossible to touch. In the version I just installed, neither mute nor block actually did anything. Also, what is the point of a huge “Filtered” screen for filtered posts? Literally an entire screen that says filtered. Ego thought that was a good design?

this app is a bit hobbled

I like Mastodon, but I like this app better on android, then on iOS. What are the most important features is the blocking feature and I can’t get it to work in the iOS app. So I can use Firefox or another browser to block I can’t use this app. Until you fix this issue, I’m gonna go find another app or just use the browsers from now on.

Will not load mastodon posts

My friends send me links in texts to Mastodon posts and the app loads when I click them. But it doesn’t bring up the post. Why set itself to handle Mastodon links if it can’t use them?

Early Onboarding

The app is functional in the sense that the user can execute commands and receive output from the app without having to manually create a specific instance but without having a guide on how to fellowship with other users it really serves no purpose. Could it be yet another example of a simple distraction from the powers that be or is it just a little bit more complicated than a typical user experience is used to. Only time will tell…

Offline

Good app when it works but lately more often than not it just indicates “Offline” and I have to use a browser. Killing and restarting the app or changing networks doesn’t help.

Good atmosphere

It has a good atmosphere. Free of extreme ads. Of course for now!

Voiceover

I love this app. It would be awesome if you could add reply, boost. To the rotor for Voiceover users this would allow us to swipe up and select an option. Thank you,

Unable to post

I’m on mastadon and I like it but for some reason I can’t post anything. As soon as I try to post anything I’m kicked out. There is apparently no way to communicate to get this issue resolved with them so I guess I’m just going to fade away.

Much needed translation is now available

I stayed away from using the Mastodon app and instead used other clients mainly due to a missing translate feature. Translation has been included in this release and it is great! At first I was kinda disappointed that you needed 2 clicks to translate a post (Options— Translate). However, later I realized that unlike other apps this option lets you see the translated text directly in your feed instead of needing to expand the text to see the translation. This is actually much better and I hope

Only one problem

When using this app and i turn my iPhone sideways the screen does not flip. This us not a big issue but many videos would be better viewed that way.

Love it but it has a problem

I’m having a problem with this bricking and freezing or crashing while I’m creating a post with a link in it. Hoping a new release fixes it

Needs list support

It’s kind of ridiculous that the official app doesn’t support viewing lists. Third-party apps have it. Just add the button at the top of the user account view alongside bookmarks, followed hashtags, etc. Otherwise a pretty good app. I bounce between this one and the web app I added to my home screen.

Easier than you think

Great app. Simple, honest, and free.

so INSANELY user-unfriendly

...in so many ways for *new users*. It's a real shame, and it is nothing less than self-harm. Master now has this incredible opportunity to grow. It is like something out of 2005. Nothing but frustrating and counterintuitive. Five stars because it's a great opportunity and fills a void and has good intent. Zero stars for initiative, imagination, and common sense. Mastodon, please catch a clue. get help with your on boarding and new user experience. Or dwindle into a relevance. Now is your

Needs work

But it is pretty good.

It’s cool

No weird billionaire saying crazy stuff here. It’s not bad.

Like a lovely climate. Nice change.

Sharp, interesting comments from realistic folks. Don’t always fully agree but no hateful angry slurs if I say so. Also lots of topics shared.

Not just any old port in a storm.

Respect to the hard-working and generous folks who made this wonderful place for the rest of us.

Loving Mastodon

I'm loving Mastodon and my only wish is that multiple devices would keep their last post seen in sync.

Newbie

I’m a Twitter Refugee new to Mastodon. It’s slow (understandable given the exodus), hard to figure out which server to choose and harder still to rebuild my following and find my community to follow. Hopefully things get better.

Wondering

Why it is still unable to show ppl and posts from other servers? I really want to meet more and more ppl on mastodon. Thx!

Neat and missing features

It would be lovely if this app could support switching between multiple accts from different instances. Also the cw tag takes the same space as the folded content block, instead of one line as how it is in the webpage version, making it less useful for people using cw to fold long text blocks in the timeline.

Works, but missing things

This app works as described and is relatively polished in most ways. Its design language is mostly consistent with the web app. Uninstalled because there are no settings to disable animations in timeline media. Not even a pause or stop button on the timeline itself. If someone shares a GIF or video, the only way to not see it play is to scroll it out of view. An incredible accessibility omission. Metatext is well maintained and provides a perfect superset of this app’s functionality. Includes

Solid App

It’s nice to see the crew at Mastodon release a full-fledged native app. The only thing I hope they introduce is a way to change the text size. That would be awesome.

Emojis are not displaying correctly?

It happens to me quite frequently in multiple instances that emojis sent by others or myself are displayed as their codes

Nice

It’s a good app, everything works. Only thing missing is a federated tab, which really doesn’t make sense not having seeing what mastodon is.

Works well on an M1 Mac

The iPhone app works surprisingly well on macOS. But I'd love to see a full Mac Catalyst port!

Can’t log in

There doesn’t seem to be any way to enter my email address or password to log into a server; there’s no keyboard displayed, only an option to scan text.

Feeds are not distinct

There is nothing to indicate the distinction of Fediverse from Home or Local time lines. Perhaps I am missing some hidden setting?

Metatext is the benchmark

Until the official Mastodon app meets and exceeds the feature set of Metatext, it’s not worth it. Metatext feels very native, is performant, and has more features out of the box. Hopefully more to come. 🙂

Gran red social 100% recomendada

Es una gran red social, la verdad es que es mucho mejor que Twitter por múltiples razones.

Free yourself

Great client! Come party on the peoples internet. Still room to grow. I use desktop web for DMs, posting with a lot of copy/paste, etc

Can’t log in to others

It’s ok but if your mastadon instance isn’t listed you can’t login!

Clean, clear, and responsive

I have been using mastodon for about a year and this is one of the best applications I've had the opportunity to use! The UI is responsive and crisp, and it's easy to switch between accounts and discover new people to talk to!

The default app for Mastodon

Only thing it needs is the local and federated timelines in the app.

happy to be here even if a little buggy

I'm happy to have this app as a new place to socialize that said it's pretty glitchy and slow. I understand it's pretty newish so I'm sure things will improve over time