Comparison

Planetary Social vs Skymarshal

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

Head to head
About

Planetary Social

A peer-to-peer social media platform focused on personal connections and censorship resistance. It prioritizes user ownership of content and relationships, operating without algorithms or advertisements. Compatible with other Secure Scuttlebutt protocol apps, it works both online and offline.

Highlights
  • Peer-to-peer data sharing
  • Censorship resistant network
  • User ownership of content
  • No advertisements or algorithms
  • Offline and off-grid functionality
  • Open source
  • Compatible with Secure Scuttlebutt apps
Features
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Peer to peer social media for humans, not algorithms. Planetary passes data from friend to friend, creating a network that is personal, censorship resistant, and minimizes abuse and spam. Planetary gives you ownership over your relationships and content, and is compatible with any app using the Secure Scuttlebutt protocol. In Planetary there are no advertisements or artificial intelligence algorithms trying to make you feel a certain way. Your content lives on your device and the devices of those around you, it isn't owned or controlled by a corporation. Experience social networking where you're the customer, not the product. Unlike most social media, Planetary: - Does not sell your data. - Is naturally spam-resistant. - Compatible with other apps including Manyverse, Patchwork, Patchfox, feedless, and more. - Works off-grid and offline. - Allows you to take your friends with you if you decide to move to another client. - Is open source! No one company should own the Internet’s public spaces, which is why we’re building on —and contributing back to— the open source Secure Scuttlebutt ecosystem. Their core technologies let us recreate a social network experience, but in a decentralized way that no one organization can dominate.

About

Skymarshal

Features
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Skymarshal is an independent cleanup utility for your account on Bluesky. Search every post, reply, repost, and like you've ever made, then tidy it in bulk, with the kind of confirmations a permanent deletion deserves. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Bluesky Social PBC. Skymarshal is a third-party tool; all trademarks belong to their owners. Built for power users who've been around long enough that "delete one post at a time" stopped being acceptable. CONTENT MANAGEMENT - Search every post, reply, repost, and like you've ever made: keyword, content type, date range, engagement count, alt-text, presence of media. - Inline media thumbnails so you can remember exactly which post you're looking at before you act. - Swipe to delete one at a time, or Select All from a search result and delete a hundred at once. - Multiple confirmation steps. Permanent deletions deserve them. - Rate-limit aware: bulk deletes pause and retry instead of hammering the network and getting throttled. FOLLOWING CLEANUP - Pull the full list of accounts you follow and check each one against six automation signals: mass-following, no posts, missing profile bits, suspiciously round numbers, very-new accounts flooding follows, and bad ratios. - Flag inactive accounts (no posts in N days, configurable). - Flag unverified handles without treating them as deleted or automated. - Sort by follower ratio, account age, post frequency, mutuality, or influence tier (mega, macro, micro, nano). - Bulk unfollow with the same rate-limit safety net the bulk delete uses. DYNAMIC SEARCH - Filter to "with media" or "without media." - Search alt-text alongside post text; finds that capybara post even when you didn't write the word "capybara." - Combine date range + engagement bounds to surface "dead threads" (low engagement) or "old bangers" (high engagement, distant past). FIVE PRIVATE WIDGETS - Worth Joining surfaces rising posts from people who regularly engage with you, balancing that relationship with current post momentum. - Follow Snapshot shows follower, following, and inactive-account counts. - Your Top Post clearly shows engagement on one of your own posts. - Follower Trend keeps a simple recent-count sparkline on your Home Screen. - Join In puts one timely conversation on your Home or Lock Screen. - Widgets read a snapshot written by the app after a scan. The extension makes no network requests of its own and adds no new tracking. PRIVACY - Sign in with an app password, not your main password. Generate a disposable one in your account settings and revoke it whenever you like. - No usage analytics or tracking. No third-party SDKs of any kind. - No Skymarshal account and no server I host. The app talks directly to Bluesky's endpoints. It sends no usage data to me or any service I run. WHO IT'S FOR Power users with thousands of posts. Journalists. Public-facing accounts. Anyone who wants their archive on their terms. Light users will find it overkill. That's fine. Skymarshal is the second tool you reach for when the first one isn't enough. WHAT IT'S NOT Not a social client. You can't post from Skymarshal. Not a network-growth tool. Just careful, bulk cleanup of the archive you already made. Made by Luke Steuber. Questions: skymarshal@lukesteuber.com

Screenshots

Planetary Social4 screens
Skymarshal4 screens

Verdict

The call

Planetary Social and Skymarshal are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Planetary Social ships an update every 9 days, Skymarshal every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Planetary Social versus Skymarshal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPlanetary SocialSkymarshal
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (37 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews37.5% of reviews—
Number of ratings37 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 9 days — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size53 MB7 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperVerse Communications IncLanguageCraft

In-app purchases

None

Planetary Social

No in-app purchases

None

Skymarshal

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Planetary Social free?
Planetary Social is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Skymarshal free?
Skymarshal is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Planetary Social or Skymarshal have ads?
Neither Planetary Social nor Skymarshal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Planetary Social or Skymarshal?
Planetary Social ships an update every 9 days, and Skymarshal every 2 weeks. Most recently, Planetary Social was updated on October 24, 2026 and Skymarshal on October 24, 2026.

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