# Mastodon — user reviews > 886 indexed App Store user reviews of Mastodon by Mastodon GmbH, rated 4.50/5 from 13,481 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mastodon/id1571998974/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/mastodon/id1571998974.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 10,102 · 4★ 1,874 · 3★ 791 · 2★ 243 · 1★ 471 ## What do users think of Mastodon? Overall sentiment: positive **Pros** - 👍 Friendly and welcoming community - 🚀 Decentralized and free from corporate control - 🔒 No data collection or ads - 🤖 Good alternative to Twitter - 💡 Ability to self-host servers **Cons** - 🐛 Crashes and stability issues - 🤔 Confusing onboarding and server selection - 📱 Limited functionality compared to web version - 🔍 Difficulty finding and following people - 🕰️ Slow or delayed notifications **Commonly reported bugs** - Can't log in or create account - Keyboard freezes during editing - Inconsistent behavior when switching accounts - Notifications not working as expected **Most requested features** - Add local and federated timelines - Improve search and discovery features - Implement edit and delete post functionality - Add support for animated GIFs - Provide better accessibility options ## Newest reviews (14 of 886) ### 2/5 — Buggy and limited *2026-08-25, version 2026.07* 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? ### 3/5 — Buggy and limited *2026-08-09, version 2026.06* 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. ### 2/5 — Not ready for prime time *2026-07-13, version 2026.05* Buggy, slow, “too many requests” errors unfortunately. ### 3/5 — Buggy and limited *2026-07-04, version 2026.04* 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. ### 2/5 — Getting a lot of timeouts *2026-06-30, version 2026.04* Had to install Ice Cubes to avoid them ### 2/5 — Search results suck *2026-06-25, version 2026.04* 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. ### 4/5 — Good client with very few bugs *2026-06-08, version 2026.03* 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 . ### 2/5 — HTTP 503 errors! *2026-05-22, version 2026.03* Why so many? Can't use its iOS app in my updated iPhone 17! ### 3/5 — Love it in theory *2026-04-12, version 2026.02* I love the idea behind it and want to support it - but in practice, the app struggles, the UI is not great, and navigation is a chore Please address some of these issues to help grow the platform ### 3/5 — The local feed disappeared *2026-04-09, version 2026.02* I liked having the option to switch feeds, but can no longer find this. ### 4/5 — Decent *2026-04-08, version 2026.02* I wish posting on instances was more intuitive. Like I don’t get the file sharing to post videos thing still so I tend to not. Also I wish there was a button for emojis like Tusky. ### 2/5 — Feature regression hampers use *2026-03-29, version 2026.02* Recent updates make the app slightly prettier, but you can no longer long-press media to get usable sharing (like copying an image). The built-in sharing seems buggy (sharing a picture shares its full URL and Alt text, but not the image‽). When the cache of posts runs dry, the extremely long drag-and-hold to reload is buggy and inconsistent. Hoping developers will read and act on feedback here, as there does not seem to be any way to submit through the app. ### 1/5 — Just awful slow buggy app *2026-03-19, version 2025.07* This app is slow, does not refresh the timeline or notifications promptly. Has frustrating basic problems with text entry. This is like somebody's first iOS app. Mastodon on iOS should just be a website and not need this weak app if they managed the basic column layout better. ### 2/5 — Buggy *2026-03-14, version 2026.01* Scrolling bugs out on so many pages ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — apple butted in with a new password generator and glitched out my account as i was making it. *2026-08-20, version 2026.07* now i have a account with you i can’t access somewhere in the void ### 1/5 — Dead platform *2026-07-31, version 2026.06* 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. ### 1/5 — "Privacy" *2026-07-03, version 2026.04* "Privacy" ### 1/5 — Unusable on 18.7.x *2026-06-12, version 2026.04* 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. ### 1/5 — very slow and clunky and buggy *2026-05-17, version 2026.03* 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 ### 1/5 — Never turn your phone sideways *2026-05-15, version 2026.03* 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. ### 1/5 — Can’t create an account *2026-05-15, version 2026.03* Just useless can’t even create a account it doesn’t work ### 1/5 — App Good, Unhinged people, not good *2026-04-26, version 2026.02* The App itself is great, it's gotten so much better over the years but I had to get off of it, there's so many unhinged people on this thing it's all the leftovers from Tumblr that are on here. I mean, like, everybody has a right to do whatever they want to do, but seriously man, let's grow up, 45-year-olds with anime avatars and 1800 different pronouns, get real people, how an I supposed to take ANYTHING you say seriously, then you have hundreds of posts from thousands of angry man hating femenist Karen's that get mad at "mansplainer's" and one example is one man simply helped a woman with a flat tire get off of the busy highway with a flat tire change she was not able to do, and the way of showing appreciation to his actions is by her talking trash about him on social media calling him a mansplainer because he may have pointed out something to her during that roadside rescue that could help her in the future in case someone does not stop to help . . . so you just have people on here that are the worst of the worst, I can't read these kinds of things anymore with my morning coffee, or ever anymore. I'm sorry but unfortunately for a well crafted app it hosts a collection of the worst thoughts from the worst people in the world, so for me personally I can't take it and it has NOTHING to do with the app developers, it's the people that use the app, it's just like X, another loony bin, just on the other side of the spectrum. If you're able to tolerate snarky, narcissistic, self involved virtue signalling morons, then, by all means download the app and sign up. ### 1/5 — Politically biased app - avoid *2026-03-28, version 2026.02* Heavily biased app that routinely silences creators for not following their agenda. Definitely one to avoid. ### 1/5 — Just awful slow buggy app *2026-03-26, version 2026.02* This app is slow, does not refresh the timeline or notifications promptly. Notifications appear in iOS but are missing from in the app itself. It has frustrating basic problems with text entry. Does not allow cut and paste. Loses what you were writing if you switch to another app and back, and on and on. This is like somebody's first iOS app, it is terrible. Mastodon on iOS should just be a website and not need this terrible app if they managed the basic column layout better. Mastodon management, maybe just do that and eliminate the team producing this terrible app. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Amélioration *2026-08-16* 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 :) ### 5/5 — Great *2026-06-25, version 2026.04* 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. ### 5/5 — Great Decentralized Social Media *2026-06-23, version 2026.04* Its great ### 5/5 — Email if it was Twitter *2026-06-09, version 2026.04* 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. ### 5/5 — Great app. *2026-03-29, version 2026.02* Great app. ### 5/5 — Now this is a platform where I can be safe *2026-03-01, version 2026.01* Well in my honest opinion i think this is a social media plateform where you are safe from herrasment, cyber bullying and stalking perfect for people that want to post their projects and things that they love or find interesting. ### 5/5 — Now this is a platform where I can be safe *2026-02-05, version 2026.01* Well in my honest opinion i think this is a social media plateform where you are safe from herrasment, cyber bullying and stalking perfect for people that want post their projects and things that they love or find interesting. ### 5/5 — Super *2026-01-23, version 2026.01* Super może będzie popularna i nie będzie technokapitalizmu ### 5/5 — Damit gelingt der Wechsel weg von US-Tech *2026-01-19* Ja Mastodon ist nicht mehr neu aber erst wenn es auch für die große Masse der User*innen geeignet ist (keine IT Kenntnisse notwendig, State-of-the-art Usability) hat es eine Chance eine relevante Alternative zu den US-Techs zu sein und das ist mit dieser App gelungen. Es fehlen noch ein paar Details z.B. wenn man aufs Home-Symbol drückt springt der Feed zum neuesten Eintrag und die Ladezeit ist ungewohnt länger aber akzeptabel - sprich die Abstriche sind überschaubar und damit hat es eine echte Chance. Ich kann es nun Leuten auch empfehlen die sich nicht ständig wie ich mit Software und IT beschäftigen. Weiter so! ### 5/5 — lagg *2025-12-29, version 2025.10* the lag issue --- *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 2026-09-06.*