ZeroFox Alerts vs Mastodon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ZeroFox Alerts
This app provides real-time alerts for digital risks facing your organization across social media, mobile platforms, and the dark web. It helps you gain visibility, ensure control, and automate protection against threats to your brand and business, allowing you to take action from anywhere.
- Real-time threat alerts
- Social media risk monitoring
- Dark web threat detection
- Automated protection
- Actionable remediation capabilities
- Brand and VIP protection
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Protect your brand and business from social and digital risks wherever you are. ZeroFox notifies you to threats facing your organization on social media, mobile platforms, surface, deep and dark web and more. Whether you’re in the office, in a meeting, offsite or at an event, ZeroFox keeps you informed and protected with real-time, actionable alerts. From within the app, access alerts and take action to remediate potential threats to your brand or business. With ZeroFox, you’ll never miss a critical alert. Gain visibility. Immediately see beyond your perimeter to detect more threats faster, before they impact your business, brand and VIPs. Ensure control. Dramatically reduce your risk with artificial intelligence-driven analysis, custom policy rules, real-time alerts and remediation capabilities. Automate protection. Eliminate threats in real-time with automated alerts delivered to your mobile device so you can act quickly and effectively. Take action from anywhere. ZeroFox’s mobile app provides the powerful protection of the ZeroFox platform at your fingertips, wherever and whenever you need it. With ZeroFox, you can protect your brand and business wherever you are, all from your mobile device.
Mastodon
Connect with others on a decentralized social network. Share posts, images, and videos in chronological order without algorithms or ads. Discover new content and participate in conversations across the fediverse.
- Chronological feed
- No algorithms or ads
- Discover new users and topics
- Post with images, videos, and polls
- Create custom lists
- Filter content
- Cross-platform communication
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Mastodon is the best way to keep up with what’s happening. Follow anyone across the fediverse and see it all in chronological order. No algorithms, ads, or clickbait in sight. This is the official iOS app for Mastodon. In our app, you can: EXPLORE ■ Discover new writers, journalists, artists, photographers, scientists and more ■ See what’s happening in the world READ ■ Keep up with people you care about in a chronological feed with no interruptions ■ Follow hashtags to keep up with specific topics in real time CREATE ■ Post to your followers or the whole world, with polls, high quality images and videos ■ Participate in interesting conversations with other people CURATE ■ Create lists of people to never miss a post ■ Filter words or phrases to control what you do and don’t want to see AND MORE! ■ Login and switch between multiple accounts ■ No spoilers! You can put your posts behind content warnings A POWERFUL PUBLISHING PLATFORM You no longer have to try and appease an opaque algorithm that decides if your friends are going to see what you posted. If they follow you, they’ll see it. If you publish it to the open web, it’s accessible on the open web. You can safely share links to Mastodon in the knowledge that anyone will be able to read them without logging in. Between threads, polls, high quality images, videos, audio, and content warnings, Mastodon offers plenty of ways to express yourself in a way that suits you. A POWERFUL READING PLATFORM We don’t need to show you ads, so we don’t need to keep you in our app. Mastodon has the richest selection of 3rd party apps and integrations so you can choose the experience that fits you best. Thanks to the chronological home feed, it’s easy to tell when you’ve caught up on all updates and can move on to something else. No need to worry that a misclick will ruin your recommendations forever. We don’t guess what you want to see, we let you control it. PROTOCOLS, NOT PLATFORMS Mastodon is not like a traditional social media platform, but is built on a decentralized protocol. You can sign up on our official server, or choose a 3rd party to host your data and moderate your experience. Thanks to the common protocol, no matter what you choose, you can communicate seamlessly with people on other Mastodon servers. But there’s more: With just one account, you can communicate with people from other fediverse platforms. Not happy with your choice? You can always switch to a different Mastodon server while taking your followers with you. For advanced users, you can even host your data on your own infrastructure, since Mastodon is open-source. NON-PROFIT IN NATURE Mastodon is a registered non-profit in the US and Germany. We are not motivated by extracting monetary value from the platform, but by what’s best for the platform. AS FEATURED IN: TIME, Forbes, Wired, The Guardian, CNN, The Verge, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Gizmodo, PCMAG.com, and more.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Mastodon at 13K against ZeroFox Alerts's 12. ZeroFox Alerts's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.5) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.6). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads 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.
ZeroFox Alerts holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mastodon has 13K ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 50% of ZeroFox Alerts's written reviews are positive against 48% of Mastodon's.
ZeroFox Alerts ships an update every 2 months, Mastodon monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 1, 2026 and September 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ZeroFox Alerts | Mastodon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (12 ratings) — better | 4.5 (13K ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 48.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 13K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 110 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | ZeroFOX | Mastodon GmbH |
Customer experience
ZeroFox Alerts
Mastodon
Bugs and requests
ZeroFox Alerts
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Mastodon
Reported bugs
4 issues- Can't log in or create account
- Keyboard freezes during editing
- Inconsistent behavior when switching accounts
- Notifications not working as expected
Requested features
5 requests- Add local and federated timelines
- Improve search and discovery features
- Implement edit and delete post functionality
- Add support for animated GIFs
- Provide better accessibility options
In-app purchases
ZeroFox Alerts
No in-app purchases
Mastodon
No in-app purchases
Questions
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