Write.as vs Mona 27 for Mastodon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Write.as
This app offers a private and simple platform for writing and publishing your thoughts. No sign-up is required; just start writing and share your content with a unique link, or keep it for personal notes. It prioritizes user privacy by not collecting personal information.
- Simple writing interface
- Publish posts with unique links
- Private journaling
- No sign-up required
- Share thoughts easily
- Keep personal notes
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Share your thoughts, keep your privacy. Write.as is a simple writing tool and publishing platform. There's no sign up — just open the app, write something, and publish. Published posts get a secret, unique link on Write.as. Once it's there, you can easily send that link to others, or keep it to yourself. In either case, you stay private because we don't collect personal information about you. Use Write.as to share your thoughts, write a long tweet, make a blog post without the blog, or just keep notes for yourself — Write.as is simple and flexible enough to be your go-to writing app whenever an idea strikes, and always opens to a blank page to start writing on immediately. If you have feedback or are interested in helping us translate this app into your local language, reach out to us anytime at hello@write.as.
Mona 27 for Mastodon
This app offers a highly customizable and personalized experience for the Mastodon social network. Enjoy smooth scrolling, native design, and advanced features like user notes, game controller support, and extensive theme customization. It's designed for privacy and accessibility, with full VoiceOver optimization.
- Highly customizable interface
- User notes and aliases
- Game controller support
- iCloud sync for settings
- Advanced theme and accent color editor
- Column View for iPad/Mac
- Widgets for home screen
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Meet Mona, the default Mastodon app for everyone. Enjoy buttery-smooth scrolling, native design, and powerful customization options. It delivers a truly personal Mastodon experience and is fully optimized for VoiceOver. All Mastodon features that everyone expects: • Browse timelines like Home, List, and Profiles • Reply, repost, favorite, bookmark posts with ease • Explore trending posts and news, plus Local and Federated timelines Mona features: • A stunning user interface with the Liquid Glass design • Check recent posts and trending news on your home screen or notification center with widgets • Sync your reading positions, mute list, user notes, drafts, search history, accent colors, and custom app themes across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, privately and securely • Push notifications • Share a post as picture • Open multiple windows on iPad and Mac Privacy: • Mona does not collect any personal information • Your account tokens are protected by on-device Keychain • Your network connections to Mastodon servers are protected by HTTPS Other Mona features: • Post with HDR photos and Live Photos • Use Genmoji and custom emojis in your posts • Column View takes full advantage of the big screen on iPad and Mac, shows multiple views at once and allows you to navigate between views fluently and efficiently • Adjustable text spacing and text sizes • Retrieve missing posts with “Load from Remote Server” • Privately set aliases, notes and username colors for Mastodon accounts • User Notes list: browse, organize and edit all your notes in one place • Control the app and browse posts with a compatible game controller, such as a Playstation DualSense/DualShock, Nintendo Switch, Xbox or MFi controller • Customize game controller’s button functions via in-app settings Tab Bar (Mona Ultra feature): • Pin your frequently visit pages to the tab bar • Drag tabs into the order you prefer • Rename your tabs • Change your tab icons (more than a thousand of icons for you to choose) • Show/hide tab names Post Actions (Mona Ultra feature): • Drag actions into the order you prefer • Configure actions as swipe options: swipe a post horizontally to perform an action • Optionally hide some or all action buttons from post cards, while keeping them accessible via context menu, swipe options, keyboard shortcuts, and VoiceOver rotor Accent Color (Mona Ultra feature): • Configure different Accent Colors for Light and Dark mode • More than 10 built-in colors for you to choose • Design and set custom colors Theme Editor (Mona Ultra feature): • Customize the app’s color scheme • Design and set custom themes • Advanced color settings allow you to fine-tune colors for different level of views • Export and share your custom themes • Import custom themes shared by other people Font Customization (Mona Ultra feature): • Configure different fonts for body text and headings • Select from a variety of build-in fonts • Supports custom fonts installed by third-party apps Other Mona Ultra features: • Add multiple accounts: you can also opt to favorite, repost, quote post, or follow using a non-current account • Automatically translate posts on the timeline • Filter and mute: filter timelines based on post category and content; hide posts with certain words; hide posts from certain people • Customize push notifications based on notification category • Export and import settings: easily transfer your custom settings between multiple devices Customer support: • Mastodon: @MonaApp@mastodon.social • Email: theSpringApp@gmail.com Terms of use: https://apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Write.as at none against Mona 27 for Mastodon's 7. Write.as also leads on review sentiment (62% vs 43%) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.0). Mona 27 for Mastodon's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 9 months) and rating (4.3 vs 4.1). On price, ratings volume, ads and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Mona 27 for Mastodon sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Write.as asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mona 27 for Mastodon holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 50 and 67 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 62% of Write.as's written reviews are positive against 43% of Mona 27 for Mastodon's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Write.as ships an update every 9 months, Mona 27 for Mastodon weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Write.as | Mona 27 for Mastodon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (50 ratings) | 4.3 (67 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 61.8% of reviews — better | 43.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 50 | 67 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 311 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Musing Studio LLC | Junyu Kuang |
Customer experience
Write.as
Mona 27 for Mastodon
In-app purchases
Write.as
No in-app purchases
Mona 27 for Mastodon
- Mona Ultra (1 Month)14 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Mona Ultra (1 Year)14 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Small Tip$2.99
- Generous Tip$6.99
- Amazing Tip$9.99
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- Mona Ultra$39.99
- Mona Ultra$49.99
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