Great app ! Just got a bug or two
I’ve been searching for a mastodon instance for a while now and I’m glad I found one. I love how customizable the app is, my only problem is that the app won’t avow me to see my notifications or news section
Crashes
app on iPad is crashing out right after opening.
Needs updating
lots of quirky UI bugs. polish it up. please update this wonky app. rendering freezes and gets stuck in horizontal mode if you place the phone down. so many bugs now.
Can't delete or edit posts
Stopped using Ice Cubes since it became impossible to delete or edit posts.
My Favourite Mastodon app by far
It’s great, but could we get a watch version?
Back to crashing on opening
Great app, but yet again it’s reverted to crashing as soon as it opens, making it unusable. Restarting my iPhone hasn’t helped.
I’m running the latest app store version and iOS 26.5.2 on an iPhone 15 Pro Max.
I’m running the latest app store version and iOS 26.5.2 on an iPhone 15 Pro Max.
Finally, a good Mastodon client that isn’t paywalled.
Unlike MOST mastodon apps here on iPhone App Store that just beg for money, this one is actually good and serves its purpose. The UI is super easy to use and I love the customization options they provide unlike any other. This is so perfect I literally shouted it out on my Mastodon page. Thank you so much!!!!
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No news
News doesn’t work for me
Still incredibly buggy
Regularly have to force quit it because the bottom half of the screen becomes unresponsive. Looses my place on exit/return, means I am missing people’s posts.
Now not loading hours and hours of posts. Sorry, I have to give up at this point. It’s just too painful to use.
Now not loading hours and hours of posts. Sorry, I have to give up at this point. It’s just too painful to use.
Great alternative to X and alike
It’s a great alternative to X and similar apps. But here there’s no annoying adverts. Just follow your favourite hashtags or users and off you go. No tracking too :)
Yes, it is the best Mastodon app
I’m going all-in with Mastodon lately and I’ve tried a few apps. This one is by far the best experience. Smooth and intuitive. Placed it on my main Home Screen :)
Good, overall, with a major, and minor, bug
This has all of the features I want and works great, overall, with one massive bug I hate, and a minor issue I don't like.
The major bug, that's been happening for a long time now, is when writing or editing a post, if the phone (iOS) flips orientation, the app stops responding and the text is lost. I have to lock and unlock the phone, then force close (swipe up) the app.
The minor issue is that Case and CamelCase aren't preserved for all hashtags in a post, only the ones in the body of the post (usually).
Hashtags added outside the body text of a post don't preserve their case, and for CamelCase, that's a significant failure for accessibility since screen readers rely on CamelCase to properly transcribe compound hashtags.
The major bug, that's been happening for a long time now, is when writing or editing a post, if the phone (iOS) flips orientation, the app stops responding and the text is lost. I have to lock and unlock the phone, then force close (swipe up) the app.
The minor issue is that Case and CamelCase aren't preserved for all hashtags in a post, only the ones in the body of the post (usually).
Hashtags added outside the body text of a post don't preserve their case, and for CamelCase, that's a significant failure for accessibility since screen readers rely on CamelCase to properly transcribe compound hashtags.
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Janky
Regularly have to force quit it because the bottom half of the screen becomes unresponsive. Looses my place on exit/return, means I am missing people’s posts.
scrolling doesn’t always work
sometimes the app becomes unresponsive to touch/scroll.
Fantastic VoiceOver accessibility
Great voiceover accessibility improvements.
Great app but beware bugs and data going to OpenAI
Current bugs (Apr 2026):
- leaving app in background and coming back doesn’t keep your place/writing, e.g. if you click away on a blog post or to check something while making a post, and come back you then can’t find the post to like it because you’ve moved or you’ve lost your composition.
- poll notifications don’t show what you voted for.
Otherwise improves substantially upon the official functionality allowing so much control of your feed. You can really dive down to a personalised display now - lists with groups of tags, customisation of the main buttons, pinning stuff easily - or not if you don’t want this - the defaults are pretty sensible too. So much, and no subscription!
One other negative is one accidental click on something with a robot icon and, with no warning or consent dialogue, and you’ve suddenly sent your data to OpenAI (the current version doesn’t have an AI ‘off’ slider, which is a big minus compared to previously). Slightly improved by recent addition of at least a text warning under ‘bot’ icon.
- leaving app in background and coming back doesn’t keep your place/writing, e.g. if you click away on a blog post or to check something while making a post, and come back you then can’t find the post to like it because you’ve moved or you’ve lost your composition.
- poll notifications don’t show what you voted for.
Otherwise improves substantially upon the official functionality allowing so much control of your feed. You can really dive down to a personalised display now - lists with groups of tags, customisation of the main buttons, pinning stuff easily - or not if you don’t want this - the defaults are pretty sensible too. So much, and no subscription!
One other negative is one accidental click on something with a robot icon and, with no warning or consent dialogue, and you’ve suddenly sent your data to OpenAI (the current version doesn’t have an AI ‘off’ slider, which is a big minus compared to previously). Slightly improved by recent addition of at least a text warning under ‘bot’ icon.
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Great app
Better than the actual Mastodon one!
Great app but beware bugs and data going to OpenAI
Current bugs (Mar 2026):
- leaving app and coming back doesn’t keep your place, e.g. if you click away on a blog post and come back you then can’t find the post to like it because you’ve moved.
- poll notifications don’t show what you booted for.
Otherwise improves substantially upon the official functionality allowing so much control of your feed. You can really dive down to a personalised display now - lists with groups of tags, customisation of the main buttons, pinning stuff easily - or not if you don’t want this - the defaults are pretty sensible too. So much, and no subscription!
One negative is one accidental click on something with a robot icon and, with no warning or consent dialogue, and you’ve suddenly sent your data to OpenAI (the current version doesn’t have an AI ‘off’ slider, which is a big minus compared to previously). Slightly improved by recent addition of at least a text warning under ‘bot’ icon.
- leaving app and coming back doesn’t keep your place, e.g. if you click away on a blog post and come back you then can’t find the post to like it because you’ve moved.
- poll notifications don’t show what you booted for.
Otherwise improves substantially upon the official functionality allowing so much control of your feed. You can really dive down to a personalised display now - lists with groups of tags, customisation of the main buttons, pinning stuff easily - or not if you don’t want this - the defaults are pretty sensible too. So much, and no subscription!
One negative is one accidental click on something with a robot icon and, with no warning or consent dialogue, and you’ve suddenly sent your data to OpenAI (the current version doesn’t have an AI ‘off’ slider, which is a big minus compared to previously). Slightly improved by recent addition of at least a text warning under ‘bot’ icon.
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slowly improving
v2 now usable
unread toots counter still buggy
expanding hidden or condensed toots in a thread very likely to result in random scroll to somewhere…
really really needs to anchor current view
unread toots counter still buggy
expanding hidden or condensed toots in a thread very likely to result in random scroll to somewhere…
really really needs to anchor current view
Unstable and unreliable
The first few months of using Ice Cubes was honestly really great, but after a few months the app became more and more prone to seemingly random and incredibly frequent crashing. Viewing others' profiles crashes the app. Scrolling down my list of followers crashes it. Switching between tabs crashes it. Updating settings crashes it. Even opening the app and loading my timeline crashes it. It's depressing how one of the best-designed and most useful Mastodon clients became so unusable for me. I hope this can be fixed soon.
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