# Graysky, a Bluesky client — user reviews > 75 indexed App Store user reviews of Graysky, a Bluesky client by Pilvia Ltd, rated 3.10/5 from 88 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/graysky-a-bluesky-client/id6448234181/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/graysky-a-bluesky-client/id6448234181.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 27 · 4★ 7 · 3★ 18 · 2★ 12 · 1★ 18 ## What do users think of Graysky, a Bluesky client? Overall sentiment: negative **Pros** - 🚀 Faster and lighter performance than official Bluesky app - 🎨 Better UI/UX design with native iOS feel - 🌐 Built-in translation feature for foreign language posts - 🖼️ GIF autoplay support - ♿ Improved accessibility with VoiceOver support - ⚙️ More customization options than official app - 📱 Proper iPad support with tab navigation **Cons** - 🐛 Widespread app crashes and freezes - ⚫ Blank/black screens on multiple tabs - 🔌 Broken after iOS 26 update - ❌ Non-functional core features - ⏸️ Slow or non-loading notifications - 🚫 No direct message (DM) support - 📺 Unsupported video embeds - 🔐 Login and authentication issues - 📝 Duplicate post display bug - 🎯 Poor landscape mode layout - 👁️ No font size/accessibility settings - ⚠️ Lack of recent updates and maintenance **Commonly reported bugs** - Feeds not loading from Bluesky - Notification tab shows black screen or doesn't refresh - Profile tab displays blank white screen - Search functionality broken or non-functional - Post creation tab not working - All tabs except Feeds showing blank screens - App crashes when clicking 'My Feeds' button - Cannot add or save feeds - App crashes when adding feeds - Screen rendering broken when rotating between landscape/portrait - Cannot log in with correct credentials - Password reset email not sending - Images display as black when tapped - HapticTouch on images crashes app - Save feed button does nothing - Thread nesting displays duplicate posts - App crashes after a couple minutes of use - App won't launch or crashes on startup - Cannot paste into password field - App exits to home screen when pressing 'My Feeds' **Most requested features** - Direct messaging (DM) functionality - Video support and playback - Custom PDS (Personal Data Server) support - Account switching capability - Mute words feature - Font size and text scaling options - Haptic feedback on interactions - Notification grouping like official app - iOS push notifications - Themable UI elements (colors, fonts, spacing) - Move 'My Feeds' button to bottom navigation bar - Double-tap refresh to top functionality - Draft saving for compose window - Larger back navigation swipe area - Like count formatting (e.g., 1K for thousands) ## Newest reviews (19 of 75) ### 2/5 — Struggling with it *2026-05-13, version 2.0.0* There seems to be an issue producing a good iPad native app for Bluesky and for a long time this felt like one of the better ones but it kept logging me out which was a nuisance. More recently it has started taking me back to the top of the feed after I open every post, image or try to reply/respond. It stops me wanting to interact because I’ll lose my place. My Feeds button is hard to see in dark mode. There is a button to open a menu on the left, but this appears to have a few icons and no words. If you are good at hieroglyphs you’ll do fine. Promises so much and delivers none of it. ### 4/5 — Really good *2026-04-23, version 2.0.0* Really good, only things missing are saving posts and the ability to remove the ‘(tabs)’ text at the top ### 2/5 — Good, still needs work *2026-03-17, version 2.0.0* It’s made some progress since I last tried it. Way better than Blue Sky’s own app on iPad. Doesn’t animate gifs in the app, opens them in browser instead. I’ll try it again in 6 months. Unable to log in now I’ve moved to Eurosky. ### 2/5 — Totally broken. No feeds. *2026-02-09, version 2.0.0* App should be OK but just doesn’t work. Biggest issue is no feeds are brought in from Bluesky. Tried log in/out, tried “de-pin/re-pin” feeds on Bluesky per some suggestion. Nothing works. Also couldn’t get to profile setitngs at one point without a force close & re-open. Also changing iPad from landscape to portrait caused screen rendering to get totally borked. ### 2/5 — Pleasant,but significant bug *2025-12-23, version 1.7.0* I have a notification badge,but that page doesn't refresh in the app. Don't know what it's about, the screen is just black on that tab. ### 2/5 — Stopped working *2025-12-11, version 1.7.0* Maybe there’s an update that needs to happen because it’s not working for IOS 26.1 ### 3/5 — Broken or Slow Notification Tab *2025-10-22, version 1.7.0* Please fix this in the next update and do not abandon it because I just recently installed this app about two days ago and I thought that I was going to work like the blue sky app on my phone but nope, it’s not well. I can still see the people I follow but the notifications they do not show me them. They’re just slow loading so please fix it. Get your pets out of your butt and please fix this issue please I do not want to abandon this and just only do it on my phone, I want to be able to be doing it on my iPad as well so take this into account. Do not ignore it just like many other selfish greedy companies. I know you wanted to make an alternative to the dying, tying X so please fix this issue. Please do not ignore it. Do not run away or look away from it. ### 3/5 — no DMs. *2025-10-16, version 1.7.0* This is my favorite bksy client so far but without DMs I don’t know if people are messaging me on other clients… not sure if this is an inherent issue or a lack of feature ### 2/5 — Please add the option for pds other than Bluesky’s *2025-10-12, version 1.7.0* It’s a nice client but not being able to change the pds address makes it unusable for me. ### 4/5 — No private messages *2025-09-26, version 1.7.0* i use this for the in-app translation, but if you wanna access your private messages you have to use the real bluesky app ### 1/5 — Broken on latest iOS *2025-09-22, version 1.7.0* After updating to iOS 26 every tab except for “Feeds” is broken. ### 3/5 — No longer working *2025-09-20, version 1.7.0* App worked great until recently. Search feature no longer working ☹️ ### 1/5 — Abandonware… *2025-09-18, version 1.7.0* Graysky appears to have been abandoned—it hasn’t been updated in seven months—and it shows. The app is completely nonfunctional on my iPhone 16 after the latest iOS operating system update (iOS 26). ### 3/5 — Good, still needs work *2025-08-01, version 1.7.0* It’s made some progress since I last tried it. Way better than Blue Sky’s own app on iPad. Doesn’t animate gifs in the app, opens them in browser instead. I’ll try it again in 6 months. ### 1/5 — Duplicate Posts *2025-07-13, version 1.7.0* When someone replies to their own posts, the original post is shown twice in the feed. If they reply multiple times it litters the feed with the same post over and over again. Going back to the main app. ### 2/5 — Duplicate Posts *2025-07-02* When someone replies to their own posts, the original post is shown twice in the feed. If they reply multiple times it litters the feed with the same post over and over again. The main Bluesky app doesn’t do this. ### 1/5 — Can't log in to my PDS *2025-05-13, version 1.7.0* There is no option to input PDS url and it only logs in to Bluesky PDS so I can't use this app because I migrated to my own PDS. ### 4/5 — Built-in translations *2025-03-07, version 1.7.0* The one feature that reliably brings me back to Graysky again and again is its nifty handling of foreign language posts, allowing me to read translations quickly within the app. (While Bluesky kicks me out into Google Translate, which creates dozens of pages that clutter up my browser whenever I try to follow an involved foreign-language thread.) Thank you to the developer for this great service. ### 1/5 — Resetting password doesn’t work *2025-01-25, version 1.6.0* I have been trying to reset my password but it’s not sending me an email code. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Dead App *2026-05-06, version 2.0.0* I used to really love this app when it first came out because it was the only way you could actually access the app on an iPad. The fact that blue sky has now been out for almost 3 years and still hasn’t developed or made any progress towards making the official app available in the iPad is just lazy and disrespectful to the clientele. This app became completely unusable in my opinion once they started rolling out censorship and only allowing you to see one adult content at a time before the feed will glitch out and hide what you’re looking at. Now I can’t even save a simple photo of a cat drawing without it telling me that I don’t have the right permissions. Re-downloading the app changes nothing at all, very sad to see Twitter regain all the people who tried to jump ship to something else reliable. Fix Bluesky NOW ### 1/5 — Broken since iOS 26 upgrade *2025-12-14* Desperately needs an upgrade. It used to work okay, but since the upgrade I have a blank white screen for the Notifications and Profile tabs. Yes, I deleted and reinstalled. I would really love to be able to switch accounts but I think that’s probably too much to ask. ### 1/5 — Completely broken *2025-11-11, version 1.7.0* The app just doesn’t work anymore. Every tab is blank ### 1/5 — 80% broken *2025-10-31, version 1.7.0* Search, Post, Notifications, and Profile don’t work at all… just empty screens. You can scroll a feed and reply and that’s it. ### 1/5 — No longer works (iOs26) *2025-10-29, version 1.7.0* Only Feeds view works: Search, Post, Notifications, and Profile all bring up blank windows ### 1/5 — Stopped Working *2025-10-20, version 1.7.0* was working great. one day I opened the app and all the tabs other than the default feeds tab show black screens and all functionality had completely disappeared. :/ ### 1/5 — App is no longer working *2025-10-09, version 1.7.0* App hasn’t worked in months. All tabs show blank screens with no data after logging in. Ended up uninstalling. ### 1/5 — Broken, blank feeds *2025-10-07, version 1.7.0* It’s random, sometimes a feed view displays, most of the time it’s blank. Not sure what update, ios26 or this app broke things. Also profile and notifications are blank. ### 1/5 — App broken in iOS 26 *2025-09-30, version 1.7.0* Don’t bother until it’s fixed. Plenty of black screens with no buttons or way out short of force quitting ### 1/5 — No longer works (iOs26 *2025-09-24, version 1.7.0* Only Feeds view works: Search, Post, Notifications, and Profile all bring up blank windows ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Wonderful *2026-06-05, version 2.0.0* This is fantastic on the Ipad - and totally free!!! ### 5/5 — Videos pleaseeee *2024-09-18, version 1.5.1* Great app just needs videos! ### 5/5 — No longer needs an invite *2024-02-07, version 1.4.2* So excited bluesky no longer needs an invite to join! This is one of the best iPhone apps for bluesky! The translations are awesome ! ### 5/5 — Best Bluesky app *2024-02-06, version 1.4.1* Could use a few design tweaks to the icon to reflect the new logo and some more colour in the UI, but this is by far the most feature-complete iOS Bluesky app. Includes a number of features the official app lacks, including superior DeepL translations and GIF autoplay. ### 5/5 — good alternative app *2024-01-26* graysky offers some customizations and settings the bsky app doesn’t, but imo the main benefit is how much faster and lighter it runs. the one big downside for me is the readability. the ss font is kind of hard to read and there’s too much space between lines. in general higher contrast lines on the edges of elements would be helpful too. but a great app nonetheless **Developer response:** Thank you - I’ll look into improving readability ### 5/5 — Bluesky that actually feels like an iOS app <3 *2024-01-10, version 1.2.3* Finally! The main bluesky app is a UI mess, weird back button placements, strange decisions and a high contrast hard to read mess, and feels like a janky website not a native experience. I was ready to give up on the platform until I found graysky! Feels right as home on iOS, with real tab bars and normal iOS navigation (like what is the half high profile view of the main app, that swiping down doesn’t dismiss? A normal swipe back here folks!). Thank you dev for your hard work! ### 5/5 — The app is now accessible with voiceover *2023-11-01, version 1.1.2* Thank you For fixing the Accessibility issues. Now, I like it better than the official app. ### 5/5 — Great App *2023-11-01, version 1.1.2* Great beautifully designed app. Perfect for BlueSky users. But would like to see an offical Mac app released instead of having to use the iPad app. Also would be nice if it is possible to know what version of the app was being used like the old twitter apps use to like Twiter for iPhone, Talon for Twitter, Fenix for iPhone etc. Would be nice to see Graysky for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Android, etc. ### 5/5 — Delightful app *2023-10-31, version 1.1.2* This is a really nice iOS client for Bluesky. Feels a lot smoother performance wise and more intuitive than the standard app. ### 5/5 — A great client alternative to the official app. *2023-10-21, version 1.1* It’s a good polished client and offers and refreshing alternative to the official BlueSky App. The ability to add GIFs is superb!!! I will say, using this app certainly facilitates the transition out of our poor and defunct Twitter. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-10.*