# Scatto for Pixelfed — Share with everyone, or a few.

> Share with everyone, or a few. (iPhone/iPad app by Vinzenz Greger.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/scatto-for-pixelfed/id6796387680 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Vinzenz Greger](https://appshunter.io/developer/6796387683)
- Category: Social Networking, Photo & Video
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 17.0 · 20 MB
- Languages: American English, Basque, French (France), German (Germany), Italian, Polish, European Spanish
- Released: 2026-08-29
- Data updated: 2026-09-03
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/scatto-for-pixelfed/id6796387680/reviews.md

## What is Scatto for Pixelfed?

Scatto is a fast, native iOS client for Pixelfed — the photo-sharing network built on the open fediverse (ActivityPub). A decentralized alternative to the big media platforms: your photos, your feed, in your hands.

Built for speed: browse your home, local, and global timelines with smooth scrolling and edge-to-edge photos.

Share photos with your loved ones or with fellow photo enthusiasts — either way, you own your content. Scatto is free and open source. 

New to Pixelfed?
Create a free account on any Pixelfed server — for example scatto.social or pixelfed.social or one of the many other instances — and sign right in.

FEATURES
• Fast, clean photo uploads — capture or pick from your library
• Post video, converted on device so it plays everywhere
• Crop and filter your photos before you post — including fun filters like Lo-Fi and 16-color (experimental)
• Your post appears instantly while it uploads in the background
• Home, local, and global timelines
• Like, comment, boost, and bookmark
• Follow people and manage your profile
• Push notifications for likes, comments, follows, and boosts, on servers that support them
• Stories (experimental, off by default) — share a moment that lasts 24 hours
• Direct Messages (experimental, off by default)
• Report, block, and mute — keep your feed yours
• Home Screen widgets — the latest photos from your timeline, a QR code that opens your profile
• Share extension — post to Pixelfed from other apps
• Multiple accounts
• Tag the place — nearby cities suggested from your photo, matched on your device
• Available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, and Basque

ABOUT PUSH NOTIFICATIONS
Push needs an interface that most Pixelfed servers, including
pixelfed.social, don't provide yet. If your server is one of them, Scatto tells you so in Settings — you'll still see every like, comment and follow inside the app, and the icon badge keeps updating in the background, but nothing will arrive while Scatto is closed.

Scatto works with any Pixelfed instance. It's open source and doesn't track you.

Scatto is an independent app and is not affiliated with Pixelfed.

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| A pretzel | $1.99 | one-time |
| A coffee | $3.99 | one-time |
| A pizza | $8.99 | one-time |



## Version history (last 3 releases)

### 2.8.0 — 2026-09-03

PRIVATE MESSAGES
Your Pixelfed account has always had a message inbox. Scatto can now open it.

• An inbox, plus a separate Requests tab for people you don't follow — so a
first message from a stranger never lands in the middle of your conversations.
• Send text and photos. Delete your own messages, mute a conversation, and
block or report the other person from inside the thread.
• Start one from a search, or from the Message button on someone's profile.
• Unread conversations are marked, and Messages sits beside the bell.

Off by default — switch it on in Settings ▸ Experimental.

WHAT MESSAGES ARE, AND ARE NOT
• They are not end-to-end encrypted. They live on your instance, and whoever
runs it can read them. That is how Pixelfed messages work everywhere; Scatto
says it in the conversation instead of leaving you to assume otherwise.
• One to one only. Pixelfed has no group threads, so neither does Scatto.
• Whether a message rings depends on your server. Instances that support
message pushes will notify you; on the rest, Scatto picks messages up when you
open it. A message filed as a request stays silent by the server's own rule.

THE LAYOUT SWITCH MOVED
Single column or grid now lives in Settings ▸ General, between Theme and Menu
position — a choice you make once rather than a button you carry everywhere.
Its old toolbar slot holds Messages.t messages

### 2.7.1 — 2026-08-30

ADD A PLACE, THE EASY WAY
• Posting now suggests nearby places, read from your photo's own location data — or from your device, if you allow it. Matching happens on your phone against a built-in place list: your coordinates are never uploaded, only the place you pick is published.
• Same-named places are told apart by geography, not luck.

COMMENTS, GROWN UP
• Every comment now has a visible Reply button, in your accent color.
• Double-tap a comment to like it. Press and hold for everything else — reply, boost, bookmark, and more.
• You can now edit your own comments.

SMALL THINGS YOU'LL FEEL
• Like counts on posts you're looking at update by themselves.
• Notification sounds play softly over your music instead of pausing it.
• A slow start now explains what it's doing instead of showing a silent logo — and never keeps you waiting long: your feed appears from the last snapshot while Scatto catches up.
• If your server has a hiccup, Scatto tells you, keeps you signed in, and heals itself the moment the server is back.

### 2.6.1 — 2026-08-29

No release notes.

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