Tootoise vs Wafrn
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.
Wafrn
Connect with friends on decentralized social networks like Mastodon and Bluesky. This app offers custom emojis, drawing tools, and a supportive community. Actively developed with user feedback in mind.
- Connect to Bluesky and fediverse
- Custom emojis and reactions
- Drawing editor
- Quotes and bookmarks
- Active development based on user input
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Wafrn is a social network built to be a caring and inviting place. You can connect with your friends on Bluesky and the fediverse (Mastodon, Sharkey, Pleroma, Gotosocial, etc), natively, with no shenanigans. You can draw in the editor and upload your drawing seamlessly. We have custom emojis, emoji reactions, quotes, bookmarks... Everything you can hope for in a fediverse app and more. Development of new features is currently active and we are listening to every input from our users, so if you want something new included, we are all ears,
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Wafrn at 4.6 against Tootoise's 4.3. Tootoise's advantage is ratings volume (18 vs 5) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 15.1). 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.
Wafrn holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 18 and 5 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 68% of Tootoise's written reviews are positive against 67% of Wafrn's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Tootoise ships an update every 2 weeks, Wafrn every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tootoise | Wafrn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (18 ratings) | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 68.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 18 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 23 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Naoki Kuwata | Juan Dominguez Jara |
Customer experience
Tootoise
Wafrn
In-app purchases
Tootoise
No in-app purchases
Wafrn
No in-app purchases
