# Ice Cubes for Mastodon — user reviews > 327 indexed App Store user reviews of Ice Cubes for Mastodon by Thomas Ricouard, rated 4.80/5 from 1,921 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ice-cubes-for-mastodon/id6444915884/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ice-cubes-for-mastodon/id6444915884.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,647 · 4★ 181 · 3★ 42 · 2★ 24 · 1★ 27 ## What do users think of Ice Cubes for Mastodon? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 🚀 Seamless transition from Twitter - 👍 Customization options - 🚀 Smooth and fast - 👍 Highly configurable - 👍 Excellent Mastodon client - 👍 Great UI and design - 👍 Comprehensive features - 👍 Dedicated apps and multi-account support - 👍 Wonderful app, constantly improving - 👍 Fantastic app, open source - 👍 Polished, feature-rich, and efficient **Cons** - 🐛 Annoying button sounds - 🐛 Unstable network performance issues - 🐛 Occasional crashes and performance problems - 🐛 Difficulty switching between accounts - 🐛 Scrolling issues and timeline jumps **Commonly reported bugs** - Feeds not loading properly - Duplicate account issues - Error when loading pages - Partial/incomplete timeline loading **Most requested features** - Option to disable auto-play for videos - Ability to sync timeline position across devices - Improved text editing and cursor behavior - Customizable swipe gestures - Ability to rearrange bottom bar buttons ## Newest reviews (14 of 327) ### 4/5 — Great app ! Just got a bug or two *2026-08-15, version 2.1.3* 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 ### 3/5 — No news *2026-07-05, version 2.1.3* News doesn’t work for me ### 2/5 — Still incredibly buggy *2026-06-24, version 2.1.3* 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. ### 4/5 — Good, overall, with a major, and minor, bug *2026-05-28, version 2.1.3* 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. ### 2/5 — Janky *2026-05-22, version 2.1.3* 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. ### 4/5 — scrolling doesn’t always work *2026-05-15, version 2.1.3* sometimes the app becomes unresponsive to touch/scroll. ### 4/5 — Great app but beware bugs and data going to OpenAI *2026-04-05, version 2.1.3* 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. ### 4/5 — Great app but beware bugs and data going to OpenAI *2026-03-01, version 2.1.3* 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. ### 3/5 — slowly improving *2026-02-22, version 2.1.3* 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 ### 2/5 — App Does not Open In Default browser. *2026-01-19, version 2.1.3* Lots of issues with this app. Hamburger menu or (…) does nothing. Second and most concerning is that it ignores opening outside links in the default web browser app. I don’t want links opening to Safari. Not the greatest navigation either with everything buried in drop down menus. Another one for the bin. ### 2/5 — Was fast now Slooww *2026-01-17, version 2.1.3* Maybe the latest updates are to blame. I used to love this app. ### 4/5 — Please STOP telling me that I’ve posted a new post. It just gets in my way. *2026-01-12, version 2.1.3* Please STOP telling me that I’ve posted a new post. It just gets in my way. ### 3/5 — Few Issues *2026-01-12, version 2.1.2* I like this a lot, but the display settings reset every time I close the app. ### 4/5 — How *2026-01-09, version 2.1.2* Get back to previous version????????????? ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Crashes *2026-08-12, version 2.1.3* app on iPad is crashing out right after opening. ### 1/5 — Needs updating *2026-08-07, version 2.1.3* 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. ### 1/5 — Can't delete or edit posts *2026-08-07, version 2.1.3* Stopped using Ice Cubes since it became impossible to delete or edit posts. ### 1/5 — Unstable and unreliable *2026-02-03, version 2.1.3* 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. ### 1/5 — Unusable *2026-01-12, version 2.1.3* As above ### 1/5 — Unusable *2026-01-09, version 2.1.2* As above ### 1/5 — Vibecoded Garbage *2025-12-22, version 2.0.9* I'm sorry, but this is completely unusable. It's full of bugs some smaller, some massive enough to render it completely unacceptable. ### 1/5 — AI slop that is so ugly. *2025-10-23, version 2.0.7* I have been using this app for a few years now, and it is so bloated it is practically unusable. And don’t follow the developer on mastodon as all he does is fight with people and proclaim AI as the future. ### 1/5 — Unable to retoot and post images in order *2025-10-16, version 2.0.6* There are other reviews mentioning that they can't post images in order so I'll skip this one, another problem I encountered is that I can no longer retoot whatever I like? I can still do that on Mastodon, I just can't rt some posts I saw on this damned app ### 1/5 — timeline still broken *2025-10-10, version 2.0.5* v2 broke the timeline the hideous “load more” buttons have high likelihood of losing your place latest update broke resume, seemingly completely UX lighter-darker is now randomly wrong ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — My Favourite Mastodon app by far *2026-07-18, version 2.1.3* It’s great, but could we get a watch version? ### 5/5 — Back to crashing on opening *2026-07-10, version 2.1.3* 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. ### 5/5 — Finally, a good Mastodon client that isn’t paywalled. *2026-07-08, version 2.1.3* 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!!!! ### 5/5 — Great alternative to X and alike *2026-06-07, version 2.1.3* 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 :) ### 5/5 — Yes, it is the best Mastodon app *2026-05-31, version 2.1.3* 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 :) ### 5/5 — Fantastic VoiceOver accessibility *2026-05-03, version 2.1.3* Great voiceover accessibility improvements. ### 5/5 — Great app *2026-03-04, version 2.1.3* Better than the actual Mastodon one! ### 5/5 — Crashes on opening *2026-01-25, version 2.1.3* UPDATE 2: Now it’s crashing whenever I try to scroll down in my timeline. UPDATE: Uninstalling and reinstalling fixed the crashing issue, but reverted all my settings to the defaults. 🙁 Love the app, but as of 2026-01-24 it’s crashing as soon as it opens, making it unusable. Restarting my iPhone didn’t help. I’m running the latest app store version on iOS 26.2 running on an iPhone 15 Pro Max. ### 5/5 — Beautiful, Polished Mastodon Client *2026-01-08, version 2.1.2* This Mastodon client is very slick. It scrolls smoothly and has tons of useful features. Also, it’s free and open source. Definitely worth downloading and trying if you’re looking for a Mastodon app. ### 5/5 — Great UI *2026-01-06, version 2.1.1* Have been using Ice Cube for a good bit of time and am very happy with the technology. Very customizable. Best Mastadon UI I’ve used. --- *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 2026-08-29.*