Comparison

try! vs Tusker

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

Head to head
About

try!

Connect with a global community focused on Swift Development. Share advanced knowledge and techniques to enhance Swift craftsmanship. This event fosters collaboration among talented developers worldwide.

Highlights
  • Global developer community
  • Swift Development advancements
  • Knowledge sharing
  • Advanced techniques
  • Collaboration opportunities
Features
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try! Conference is an international community gathering about the latest advancements in Swift Development. The event is about bringing together talent from all around the world to collaborate and share advanced knowledge and techniques to improve Swift craftsmanship.

About

Tusker

This app offers a flexible and customizable client for the Mastodon social network and compatible services. It provides advanced features like notification grouping, timeline syncing across devices, and extensive personalization options for a tailored social media experience.

Highlights
  • Notification grouping
  • Timeline sync with iCloud
  • Customizable timelines with filters
  • Extensive user preferences
  • Digital wellness options
  • Multiple account support
  • Modern Mastodon features
Features
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Tusker is a free and flexible client for the Mastodon social network and other compatible services. Features: • Notification grouping: Combine favorite, boost, and follow notifications into a single row to get a more glance-able view of your notifications. • Timeline sync: Keep your timeline position across all your devices using iCloud. • Customize timelines: Pick which timelines (including lists, hashtags, and public instance timelines) are pinned to your home tab, and apply filters to hide posts you're not interested in. • Tweak your experience: Tusker has a wide variety of preferences to allow you to customize how you use the app. From changing the appearance and interactions, to configuring how content warnings work, Tusker supports it all. • Digital wellness options: Tusker has a variety of preferences to help you manage how you use social media, including by turning infinite scrolling off or showing all images in grayscale. • Accessibility: VoiceOver, Voice Control, Dynamic Type, and more are all fully supported. • Multiple accounts: Sign in to multiple accounts and quickly switch between them. • Modern Mastodon features: Edit posts, view quotes, view trending posts/hashtags/links, translate posts, and more. • Broad software compatibility: Tusker also has builtin support for the Glitch and Hometown variants of Mastodon; as well as Pleroma/Akkoma, a Mastodon alternative; and PixelFed, a photo-sharing social network. Mastodon is part of the fediverse, a free, open source, and decentralized social network. From your home server, communicate and interact with people on any other server using the ActivityPub protocol. Learn more at joinmastodon.org. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

try!4 screens
Tusker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: try! at none against Tusker's 4. try! also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months) and rating (5.0 vs 4.7). Tusker's advantage is ratings volume (30 vs 2). On price, 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. Tusker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. try! asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

try! holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tusker has 30 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of try!'s written reviews are positive against 91% of Tusker's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

try! ships an update every 4 days, Tusker every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
try! versus Tusker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parametertry!Tusker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better4.7 (30 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better90.9% of reviews
Number of ratings230 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple Watch — betteriPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS11.0 — better15.0
Further details — not scored
Size39 MB18 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperNatalya MurashevVaccor, LLC

Customer experience

try!

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

Tusker

All ratings32 ratings
Positive96.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%

In-app purchases

None

try!

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

Tusker

Subscriptions1
  • Tusker Supporter$1.991 Month
One-time3
  • Nice Tip$1.99
  • Awesome Tip$6.99
  • Incredible Tip$14.99

Questions

Is try! free?
try! is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tusker free?
Tusker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, try! or Tusker?
try! is rated higher. try! averages 5.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Tusker averages 4.7 from 30 ratings.
Do try! or Tusker have ads?
Neither try! nor Tusker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, try! or Tusker?
try! ships an update every 4 days, and Tusker every 3 months. Most recently, try! was updated on November 2, 2026 and Tusker on November 3, 2026.

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