Tusker vs Metatext
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tusker
This app offers a flexible and customizable client for the Mastodon social network and compatible services. It provides advanced features like notification grouping, timeline syncing across devices, and extensive personalization options for a tailored social media experience.
- Notification grouping
- Timeline sync with iCloud
- Customizable timelines with filters
- Extensive user preferences
- Digital wellness options
- Multiple account support
- Modern Mastodon features
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Tusker is a free and flexible client for the Mastodon social network and other compatible services. Features: • Notification grouping: Combine favorite, boost, and follow notifications into a single row to get a more glance-able view of your notifications. • Timeline sync: Keep your timeline position across all your devices using iCloud. • Customize timelines: Pick which timelines (including lists, hashtags, and public instance timelines) are pinned to your home tab, and apply filters to hide posts you're not interested in. • Tweak your experience: Tusker has a wide variety of preferences to allow you to customize how you use the app. From changing the appearance and interactions, to configuring how content warnings work, Tusker supports it all. • Digital wellness options: Tusker has a variety of preferences to help you manage how you use social media, including by turning infinite scrolling off or showing all images in grayscale. • Accessibility: VoiceOver, Voice Control, Dynamic Type, and more are all fully supported. • Multiple accounts: Sign in to multiple accounts and quickly switch between them. • Modern Mastodon features: Edit posts, view quotes, view trending posts/hashtags/links, translate posts, and more. • Broad software compatibility: Tusker also has builtin support for the Glitch and Hometown variants of Mastodon; as well as Pleroma/Akkoma, a Mastodon alternative; and PixelFed, a photo-sharing social network. Mastodon is part of the fediverse, a free, open source, and decentralized social network. From your home server, communicate and interact with people on any other server using the ActivityPub protocol. Learn more at joinmastodon.org. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Metatext
This is a free, open-source client for the Mastodon social network. It offers robust features like multiple account support, advanced emoji handling, and timeline management. Designed with accessibility in mind, it ensures a private and ethical social media experience.
- Multiple account support
- Searchable custom emoji picker
- Timeline position memory
- Mastodon lists and filters
- VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support
- Private, no tracking
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Metatext is a free, modern, open source, and accessible Mastodon client. Features: - Multiple accounts: You can add multiple accounts and even use several accounts simultaneously with iPad multitasking. - Emoji: Metatext has a searchable custom emoji picker and supports animated custom emoji. - Timeline management: Metatext remembers your home timeline position and can load gaps in either direction - Mastodon features: Metatext supports most Mastodon features including lists, profile directory, and syncing filters - Accessibility: Metatext supports VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, dark mode, and motion reduction. - Private: No tracking or any information shared with third parties. What is Mastodon? It's the social network of the future: No ads, no corporate surveillance, ethical design, and decentralization. Check out joinmastodon.org for more info. Follow @metabolist@mastodon.social for updates!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Metatext at none against Tusker's 4. Metatext also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 months) and ratings volume (275 vs 30). Tusker's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (91% vs 71%). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Tusker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Metatext asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tusker holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Metatext has 275 ratings behind it against 30, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 91% of Tusker's written reviews are positive against 71% of Metatext's.
Tusker ships an update every 3 months, Metatext every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 23, 2026.
| Parameter | Tusker | Metatext |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (30 ratings) — better | 4.4 (275 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better | 70.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30 | 275 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Vaccor, LLC | Metabolist, LLC |
Customer experience
Tusker
Metatext
Bugs and requests
Tusker
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Metatext
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inconsistent behavior when refreshing feed
- Issues with custom emoji rendering in display names
- Problems with logging out and managing multiple accounts
Requested features
5 requests- Add edit post functionality
- Implement hashtag following
- Improve notification system with badge counts
- Add dark mode option
- Enhance media handling (full-size images, video playback)
In-app purchases
Tusker
- Tusker Supporter$1.991 Month
- Nice Tip$1.99
- Awesome Tip$6.99
- Incredible Tip$14.99
Metatext
No in-app purchases








