Hvr vs Mastoot
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hvr
Create and publish your own website as easily as posting to social media. Engage in conversations on any webpage, discover communities, and curate your online experience by following people and sites. Earn revenue as a Sitepartner.
- Publish to your own website
- Comment on any webpage
- Discover communities
- Curated feeds
- Sitepartner program
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Create and post to your own website: - Publish to your site as quickly as you post to social media. - Be followed and discovered at the online space you control. Start and join conversations on any webpage: - Comment on any website with text, images, videos, and more. - Share your comments with followers and anyone on Hvr. Discover communities at sites you love: - Chat about a site’s content with people who share your interests. - Keep up with any new comments across your favorite sites. Less searching, more finding: - Follow people and websites to get the best of the web curated for you. - Explore your Personalized For You feed and chronological Following Feed. Partner with Hvr: - Earn commissions and recurring revenue as a Sitepartner. - Gain followers and increase engagement on your site.
Mastoot
Access your Mastodon social network feed with this straightforward client. Manage your home timeline, notifications, explore trending content, and interact with messages and bookmarks.
- Home timeline access
- Notification management
- Explore trending content
- Search for users and posts
- Local and federated timelines
- Direct messages
- Favorites and bookmarks
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Mastoot is a simple client app for Mastodon. Features: • Home • Notifications • Explore • Search • Local timeline • Federated timeline • Messages • Favorites • Bookmarks
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Mastoot at every 3 days against Hvr's every 9 days. Mastoot also leads on ratings volume (93 vs 12). Hvr's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 89%). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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 — 4.8 for Hvr against 4.7 for Mastoot. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mastoot has 93 ratings behind it against 12, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Hvr's written reviews are positive against 89% of Mastoot's.
Hvr ships an update every 9 days, Mastoot every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and August 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hvr | Mastoot |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (12 ratings) — better | 4.7 (93 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 89.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 12 | 93 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.6 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 64 MB | 6 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | HVR Technologies | 孛 李 |
Customer experience
Hvr
Mastoot
In-app purchases
Hvr
No in-app purchases
Mastoot
No in-app purchases
