Icro vs Beluga
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Icro
This app provides a streamlined way to interact with micro.blog and WordPress hosted sites. View timelines, mentions, and discover content, while also posting updates and replying to conversations. It offers features like saving reading positions and muting unwanted content.
- View timelines, mentions, and discover sections
- Post to micro.blog and WordPress sites
- Reply to users and view conversations
- Save reading position
- Cache older posts
- Mute/Blacklist users and keywords
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Icro, an easy to use and fast micro.blog client. View your timeline, mentions, favorites and the discover section. Post to micro.blog hosted sites or own Wordpress sites. Reply to users and view ongoing conversations. Icro also saves your reading position and caches older posts for a richer timeline. Mute/Blacklist users and keywords by adding them to your blacklist in Profile/Settings. This is a 3rd party client!
Beluga
Share your thoughts and updates with friends and followers through a "tweet-like" feed. It generates a mini-website for easy sharing, even with non-users, and supports RSS feed readers for broader reach. This decentralized app ensures you own your data.
- Tweet-like content publishing
- Personalized mini-website generation
- JSON Feed compatibility
- Decentralized data ownership
- RSS feed reader integration
- Multiple S3-compatible storage support
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Publish your thoughts and keep your friends and followers informed of what you are up to. This app is ideal for publishing self-hosted tweets with photos and links. All your posts are added to your Beluga feed, and a mini-website is generated and published so you can easily share with everyone, even people that don’t use the app. You can think of Beluga as a feed reader/writer. All Beluga feeds are JSON Feed and RSS compatible, so your friends can follow you on many popular feed reader apps like NetNewsWire and others available on iOS and macOS. Beluga is decentralized. We don’t have any servers. So you are the owner of your data, and your self-hosted tweets live wherever you like. Beluga runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Your devices stay in sync through your own site, so you can post from any of them and pick up right where you left off. To publish your Beluga feed and mini-website, you must have a web server or an account with a hosting provider. We currently support SFTP, WebDAV, Neocities, Netlify, GitHub Pages, Bunny.net, and S3-compatible object storage like Amazon Web Services S3, Cloudflare R2, Wasabi, Digital Ocean Spaces, Linode Objects, Backblaze B2, DreamHost, and many others.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Icro at every 2 months against Beluga's every 6 months. Icro also leads on ratings volume (20 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 27.0). Beluga's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.8). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Beluga holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Icro has 20 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Icro ships an update every 2 months, Beluga every 6 months. Both last shipped on November 12, 2026.
| Parameter | Icro | Beluga |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (20 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Martin Hartl | Blimp |
Customer experience
Icro
Beluga
In-app purchases
Icro
No in-app purchases
Beluga
No in-app purchases
