Icro vs Beluga Social
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 Social
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 "tweet-like" content. 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 compatible, so your friends can follow you on many popular RSS feed reader apps like NetNewsWire and others available on iOS. Beluga is decentralized. We don't have any servers. So you are the owner of your data, and you can host it wherever you like. To publish your Beluga feed and mini-website, you must have an S3-compatible object storage provider account. We currently support Amazon Web Services S3, Wasabi, Digital Ocean Spaces, Linode Objects, Backblaze B2, and DreamHost, with more to come soon.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Beluga Social at none against Icro's 3. Beluga Social also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Icro's advantage is ratings volume (20 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.4). On price, update cadence, ads 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. Icro sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Beluga Social asks for nothing beyond the download.
Beluga Social 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 Social monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 2, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Icro | Beluga Social |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 2 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Martin Hartl | Blimp, LLC |
Customer experience
Icro
Beluga Social
In-app purchases
Icro
- Small Thank You!$0.99
- Big Thank You!$3.99
- Huge Thank You$8.99
Beluga Social
No in-app purchases
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