Tootoise vs Twidere X
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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.
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.
- 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
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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.
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Verdict
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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and June 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tootoise | Twidere X |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (18 ratings) | 4.3 (33 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 68.0% of reviews — better | 62.5% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 | 33 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Naoki Kuwata | SUJITEKU LIMITED LIABILITY CO. |
Customer experience
Tootoise
Twidere X
In-app purchases
Tootoise
No in-app purchases
Twidere X
No in-app purchases









