Icro vs Ice Cubes for Mastodon
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!
Ice Cubes for Mastodon
This application provides a fast and beautiful way to interact with the Mastodon social network. Connect to any instance, manage your timelines, engage with posts, and customize your experience with advanced features and AI assistance.
- Connect to any Mastodon instance
- Timeline browsing and filtering
- Push notifications
- Quote toot and embed links
- List organization
- AI tools for composing and image descriptions
- Multi-account support
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Ice Cubes is a fast, reliable, and beautiful Mastodon client. You can connect to any Mastodon instance and use the various features this app offers. - Browse your home, federated, and local timeline. - Push notifications. - Timeline sync. - Favorite, bookmark, boost, share, and even quote any toot! - Great iPad support with a column dedicated to notifications. - You've read it right, this app offers a quote toot feature, Ice Cubes will also embed any other toot link so the content is easily readable. - Organize your timeline with lists, add and remove users from lists, and create new lists! - Filter your timeline by your lists, followed tags, and more. - The timeline is also live. This app is connected to the powerful streaming API of Mastodon so that you won't miss any content! - You can even pin other instance's local timelines, and you can keep up with all your communities from the same account. - Tag groups: Create a custom timeline with multiple tags. - Explore, search, and discover new content with a powerful explore tab. - Dedicated tab for your direct message. - Profile editing: you can edit all the info of your profile right within Ice Cubes. - Multi accounts support and easy switch between your accounts. - A lot of customization options. - AI Tools Integration, you can get a little help from your AI friend when composing your toot; it can help you correct your text or even shorten it! - The AI Helper can also generate image descriptions for you. - And much more to discover within the app. Bonus: It's completely open source. You can have a look at the code here: https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp to learn more, and maybe even follow along! Terms: https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp/blob/main/TERMS.MD Privacy Policy: https://github.com/Dimillian/IceCubesApp/blob/main/PRIVACY.MD
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Ice Cubes for Mastodon at every 5 days against Icro's every 2 months. Ice Cubes for Mastodon also leads on ratings volume (2K vs 20). Icro's advantage is monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases) and review sentiment (100% vs 78%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 and Ice Cubes for Mastodon sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Icro against 4.8 for Ice Cubes for Mastodon. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ice Cubes for Mastodon has 2K ratings behind it against 20, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Icro's written reviews are positive against 78% of Ice Cubes for Mastodon's.
Icro ships an update every 2 months, Ice Cubes for Mastodon every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Icro | Ice Cubes for Mastodon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (20 ratings) — better | 4.8 (2K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 78.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 20 | 2K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 147 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Martin Hartl | Thomas Ricouard |
Customer experience
Icro
Ice Cubes for Mastodon
Bugs and requests
Icro
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Ice Cubes for Mastodon
Reported bugs
4 issues- Feeds not loading properly
- Duplicate account issues
- Error when loading pages
- Partial/incomplete timeline loading
Requested features
5 requests- Option to disable auto-play for videos
- Ability to sync timeline position across devices
- Improved text editing and cursor behavior
- Customizable swipe gestures
- Ability to rearrange bottom bar buttons
In-app purchases
Icro
- Small Thank You!$0.99
- Big Thank You!$3.99
- Huge Thank You$8.99
Ice Cubes for Mastodon
- Monthly supporter subscription$0.991 Month
- Small Tip$0.99
- Nice Tip$2.99
- Generous tip$6.99
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- Insane tip$13.99
Questions
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