Comparison

GitFeed vs Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

GitFeed

This app provides a streamlined interface for interacting with your GitHub account. You can view your activity feeds, manage repositories by watching or starring them, follow users, and discover trending projects and popular developers by language.

Highlights
  • GitHub account feeds
  • Watch and star repositories
  • Follow users
  • Trending projects
  • Discover popular developers by language
Read full description

Maybe the most useful Github client in the world for now. Written with Facebook's React-Native. Features: 1. Feeds with your Github's account. 2. Watch, star repos, Follow users. 3. What's trending now. 4. The famous users in someplace with the specific language.

About

Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots

Experience a beautifully designed and highly performant client for the Mastodon social network. Offers extensive customization, multi-account support, and advanced features like content warnings, polls, and powerful filtering.

Highlights
  • Beautiful visual and sound design
  • Blazing fast performance
  • Multiple account support
  • Content warnings and polls
  • GIF search and posting
  • Customizable push notifications
  • Powerful mute and timeline filters
Features
Read full description

Ivory is a brand new app that brings over a dozen years of experience building the award-winning Tweetbot for Twitter, over to the Mastodon network. We obsess over every detail and put good design and experience first. Download and experience it for yourself. If you liked Tweetbot, you’ll love Ivory! We are very excited about the future of Ivory and have so many great plans for it. Here’s what you can expect in Ivory now: ⁃ Beautiful visual and sound design ⁃ Blazing fast performance and super smooth scrolling ⁃ Many theme and app icon options ⁃ Support for multiple accounts ⁃ Create and view content warnings ⁃ Create and participate in polls ⁃ Easily search for and post gifs ⁃ Customizable push notifications and viewable notifications tab ⁃ View post statistics for the day and graph for the week in the stats tab ⁃ Powerful mute filters with regex support ⁃ Ability to follow hashtags and create hashtag lists ⁃ Bookmark posts to refer back to privately ⁃ View local and federated timelines as well as trending posts ⁃ Powerful timeline filters to quickly show/hide posts of different criteria ⁃ Never lose your place in the timeline across Ivory on multiple devices including iOS, iPadOS, and macOS. -- Subscription Details -- • Monthly and annual subscriptions are available • Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase • Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is disabled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period • Automatic renewals will be charged at the same price you were originally charged for the subscription • Subscriptions can be managed or cancelled by going to Account Settings on the App Store after purchase Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://tapbots.net/ivory/privacy/

Screenshots

GitFeed4 screens
Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: GitFeed at none against Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots's 6. GitFeed also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 16.1). Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots's advantage is ratings volume (3.9K vs 2). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. GitFeed asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

GitFeed holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots has 3.9K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of GitFeed's written reviews are positive against 75% of Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots's.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
GitFeed versus Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGitFeedIvory for Mastodon by Tapbots
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.8 (3.9K ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better74.9% of reviews
Number of ratings23.9K — better
Update frequency—Fortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS8.0 — better16.1
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB152 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperKaiwei XieTapbots

Customer experience

GitFeed

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots

All ratings3,933 ratings
Positive95.8%
Neutral1.4%
Negative2.8%
Written reviews350 reviews
Positive74.9%
Neutral8.3%
Negative16.9%

Bugs and requests

GitFeed

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • Inconsistent behavior when scrolling to top of timeline
  • Issues with muting and filtering functionality

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to edit and delete posts
  • Support for more Mastodon features like hashtag tracking
  • Improved notification and moderation tools
  • Misskey and other Fediverse platform support

In-app purchases

None

GitFeed

No in-app purchases

6 purchases

Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots

Subscriptions6
  • Ivory iOS + iPadOS Monthly Sub7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Ivory for macOS Monthly Sub7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • Ivory iOS + iPadOS Yearly Sub7 Days trial$14.991 Year
Show 3 more
  • Ivory for macOS Yearly Sub7 Days trial$14.991 Year
  • iOS, iPadOS + macOS Yearly Sub7 Days trial$24.991 Year
  • macOS, iOS + iPadOS Yearly Sub7 Days trial$24.991 Year

Questions

Is GitFeed free?
GitFeed is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots free?
Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, GitFeed or Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots?
GitFeed is rated higher. GitFeed averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots averages 4.8 from 3.9K ratings.
Do GitFeed or Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots have ads?
Neither GitFeed nor Ivory for Mastodon by Tapbots shows ads.

Other comparisons