Comparison

Tootoise vs Twidere X

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

Head to head
About

Tootoise

A straightforward client for the Mastodon social network, allowing users to manage multiple accounts, interact with timelines, and customize their experience. It offers robust post management features, including editing and pinning, along with privacy controls like muting and blocking.

Highlights
  • Manage multiple Mastodon accounts
  • View and post to timelines
  • Create and edit post lists
  • Pinning and bookmarking posts
  • Mute, block, and report users
  • Customizable theme colors
  • Edit posts
Features
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Tootoise is a simple Mastodon client. ## You can do this - View and post timeline - Add and switch multiple accounts - List display, creation and editing - Add, remove and list favourites - Add, remove and list bookmarks - Display notifications list (Not push notifications) - Display and input of custom emoji - Post information about the song you are currently listening to - Sharing from other applications (Safari, etc.) - Use with iPad multitasking function (SplitView, SlideOver) - Change theme color - Absolute time display - Pinning posts - Mute, block, report, filter - Search (As per server specifications) - Display and vote on poll - Edit a post (Some functions are not yet supported.) - Setting and displaying the ALT attribute (alternate text) ## These are not possible - Push notifications - Streaming - Create a poll - Relative time display The text size can be changed from the iOS Settings view. You can check the license of the library etc. used in this App by tapping the app icon in iOS settings.

About

Twidere X

This app offers a streamlined social media browsing experience with features like a chronological timeline, in-line media display, and conversation thread viewing. It allows for extensive interface customization, multi-account support, and advanced search capabilities without advertisements.

Highlights
  • Chronological timeline with retweets and comments
  • In-line picture, GIF, and video display
  • Album mode for image galleries
  • Quick display of up to 2 levels of tweet conversations
  • Customizable interface (avatar style, dark mode, text size)
  • Send tweets with photos, subjects, and locations
  • Multiple account support
  • Advanced search functionality
Features
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Timeline - See what's new and what's happening! Tweets are sorted by time, support for displaying retweets with comments, and quick display of discussion threads. Pictures, GIFs, and videos are displayed in a completely new design. Complete features to ensure your browsing experience. Album mode - Enjoy the pure picture waterfall on the search and profile page. At the same time, multiple pictures in the timeline and tweets are displayed in an elegant form. Quickly display the discussion thread-Complete view of the discussion! Up to 2 levels of tweet conversations can be quickly displayed in tweets. Customized personalized interface - Perfect personalization features allow users to customize their interface: support for setting avatar style, following system settings to display light or dark mode, and customizing text size. Send tweets - You can send live photos in your tweets, or select images from the photo gallery. Send tweets that include the subject and location. Multiple accounts - Use as many identities as you want! You can add multiple Twitter accounts to Twidere X, ensuring that they don't interfere with each other. Search - Find tweets, media, and users among thousands of information. You can also use advanced search syntax to get more effective information. User Profile Display - New design for user’s homepage display. Subtle display of avatar, profile, and background. Also, the number of users following and follower, click to enter the list. User tweets display - a perfect display of user-related tweets and liked tweets with a quick display of discussion threads. Images are elegantly displayed in album mode. No ads - We do not carry any ads! A cool tweet experience. Twitter is a trademark of Twitter, Inc.

Screenshots

Tootoise4 screens
Twidere X3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Tootoise at 12.0 against Twidere X's 16.0. On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Tootoise against 4.3 for Twidere X. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 33 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 68% of Tootoise's written reviews are positive against 63% of Twidere X's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
Tootoise versus Twidere X: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTootoiseTwidere X
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (18 ratings)4.3 (33 ratings)
Positive reviews68.0% of reviews — better62.5% of reviews
Number of ratings1833 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better16.0
Further details — not scored
Size23 MB92 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperNaoki KuwataSUJITEKU LIMITED LIABILITY CO.

Customer experience

Tootoise

All ratings18 ratings
Positive83.3%
Neutral5.6%
Negative11.1%
Written reviews25 reviews
Positive68.0%
Neutral16.0%
Negative16.0%

Twidere X

All ratings33 ratings
Positive84.8%
Neutral9.1%
Negative6.1%
Written reviews32 reviews
Positive62.5%
Neutral18.8%
Negative18.8%

In-app purchases

None

Tootoise

No in-app purchases

None

Twidere X

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tootoise free?
Tootoise is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Twidere X free?
Twidere X is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tootoise or Twidere X?
Tootoise and Twidere X are both rated 4.3 out of 5 on the App Store, from 18 and 33 ratings respectively.
Do Tootoise or Twidere X have ads?
Neither Tootoise nor Twidere X shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tootoise or Twidere X?
Tootoise ships an update every 2 weeks, and Twidere X every 2 weeks. Most recently, Tootoise was updated on September 22, 2026 and Twidere X on June 10, 2026.

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