Mastodon User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience48.3% of reviews
Neutral18.8% of reviews
Negative experience32.9% of reviews

~ Based on 888 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Mastodon Safe?

Mastodon appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Mastodon is 90/100.

This assessment is based on 13,481 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

88.8% of ratings point to a safe experience
5.9% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.3% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 13,481 App Store ratings for Mastodon.

Is Mastodon Legit?

Mastodon appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Mastodon is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

It works, kind of

This app has some pretty glaring bugs. In particular, the timeline and notifications don’t update automatically, sometimes requiring multiple manual refreshes.

It’s alright

No easy/clear way to switch between servers without logging in and out. I’d prefer something like discord where you can see your profiles and also be logged into them all potentially

Buggy and limited

Every time I use this app there are bugs in functionality. Some features missing that I need to visit the mobile site to do. It’s ok to start your journey or if you don’t expect much. Eventually you will stay on the mobile site or find a new app. On another note, the Android version is much better and maybe a different team works on that one.

Update 2026.08.25 The scrolling in this app is horrendous more so. What is going on? Is it so hard to make this app work on newer iPhones?
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apple butted in with a new password generator and glitched out my account as i was making it.

now i have a account with you i can’t access somewhere in the void

Amélioration

Lorsqu’on clique sur la photo d’un post, on a encore les autres sections (posts, hashtags, News et for you) alors qu’on aimerait simplement avoir juste la photo et zoomer dans ces éléments qui dérangent. Ça serait sympa de les enlever quand on clique sur une photo :)

Buggy and limited

Every time I use this app there are bugs in functionality. Some features missing that I need to visit the mobile site to do. It’s ok to start your journey or if you don’t expect much. Eventually you will stay on the mobile site or find a new app. On another note, the Android version is much better and maybe a different team works on that one.
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Dead platform

My favorite Twitter contender, but sadly there’s just no activity. Many posts just fail to load at all. They need to impose a character limit to stop all the 18-page podcast synopses. Scrolling is a nightmare. But really there’s no point without actual active users.

Not ready for prime time

Buggy, slow, “too many requests” errors unfortunately.

Buggy and limited

Every time I use this app there are bugs in functionality. Some features missing that I need to visit the mobile site to do. It’s ok to start your journey or if you don’t expect much. Eventually you will stay on the mobile site or find a new app.

"Privacy"

"Privacy"

Getting a lot of timeouts

Had to install Ice Cubes to avoid them

Search results suck

Can someone explain to me what is the logic of having search results come up on a small floating window. I’m already on a mobile device of a small screen, why would you use an even a smaller window for results? Just use the whole damn screen.

Great

Great community and one that I definitely recommend. I wish there was an option to change the icon back to the pre liquid glass look.

Great Decentralized Social Media

Its great

Unusable on 18.7.x

Client is unusable on 18.7.x. Can’t unfollow people. Scrolls all over the place when looking at message attachments. Stop trying to be cute with the UI and just make sure things are working.

Email if it was Twitter

It’s funny to think what email would look like if it was made today. Instead of multiple email providers that all coexist on the same network, it would be a singular giant corporation. That single corporation gets to decide how emails are sent, who they’re sent to, and what can be in them. It’s a miracle that email isn’t like this, but that’s what many platforms do. Mastodon is doing what email does, but for micro blogging.
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Good client with very few bugs

Overall this is a solid mastodon client, which implements all the features that I need very well. I've been using it for quite some time and it's nice and reliable.

One issue I will raise is that there is a tendency for the feed to get visually shifted around/jumpy , sometimes when I open a piece of media and then close it, the active area of the app jumps away from what I was looking at.

There are also some issues scrolling backwards, scrolling back up to look at something that I was looking at earlier. The client will jump and skip, I'm not sure what's causing that, but I will say it's a bit frustrating as it seems to happen often.

Keep up the great work. with a few more tweaks this app will be rock solid .
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HTTP 503 errors!

Why so many? Can't use its iOS app in my updated iPhone 17!

very slow and clunky and buggy

the app is not able to process much data at once, the number of steps for any action is excessive, prone to freezing and seemingly impossible to use a different instance or server. major improvements needed asap.

additionally the notification tab is now nonfunctional

Never turn your phone sideways

A long standing bug that’s been there for years is that if you don’t keep your phone perfectly vertical, it tries and fails to rotate causing the entire app to become unusable until you force close the app.

I have no idea why he doesn’t just deactivate rotation in the app. That feature has never worked.
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