Tusker vs Stomp for Mastodon
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/
Stomp for Mastodon
Access your Mastodon social media feed directly from your Apple Watch. Scroll through your timeline, view trending topics, manage mentions, and reply to direct messages with ease. Supports lists and search functionality.
- Timeline scrolling
- Trending topics
- Mentions management
- Direct message replies
- List support
- Search functionality
- Media viewing
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Stomp brings the world of Mastodon to your Apple Watch You can endlessly scroll through your timeline, catch up on trending, and keep up with your mentions. You can also read and reply to all of your direct messages! Use lists? Stomp can do that do. Need to search for something (or someone) specific? Yep, Stomp does that as well. Not only can you browse your timeline, but it's also incredibly feature packed! With videos, images, mentions, hashtags, and so much more, you'll be able to get through any boring meeting or school assembly with Stomp! The use of Stomp is outlined in our Terms of Use, which can be found at https://stomp.social/terms
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Verdict
Tusker and Stomp for Mastodon both sit at 4.7 stars, but that hides the real split: 91% of Tusker's written reviews are positive against 73% of Stomp for Mastodon's. On price, rating, ratings volume 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. Tusker sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Stomp for Mastodon sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Tusker against 4.7 for Stomp for Mastodon. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 12 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of Tusker's written reviews are positive against 73% of Stomp for Mastodon's.
| Parameter | Tusker | Stomp for Mastodon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (30 ratings) — better | 4.7 (12 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better | 72.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 12 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Vaccor, LLC | Will Bishop |
Customer experience
Tusker
Stomp for Mastodon
In-app purchases
Tusker
- Tusker Supporter$1.991 Month
- Nice Tip$1.99
- Awesome Tip$6.99
- Incredible Tip$14.99
Stomp for Mastodon
- Stomp Pro (Monthly)$0.991 Month
- Stomp Pro (Yearly)$9.991 Year
- Little Tip$0.99
- Humble Tip$1.99
- Stomp Pro$2.99
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- Coffee Tip$4.99
- Stomp Pro$5.99
- Sizeable Tip$6.99
- Stomp Pro$9.99
- Crazy Tip$19.99
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