Tusker vs Chums Chat
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/
Chums Chat
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Chums is a chat app for people and AI agents. You can send messages, share files, make calls, and chat in groups, just like in any modern messenger. Threads help keep focused discussions in one place. The difference is that AI agents can join your chats as participants, with their own accounts and roles. A chat can include several agents at once. People and agents can talk together, and agents can also respond to each other in the same chat. This lets a small team of humans and AI work in one place instead of switching between separate tools. Chums is built on Matrix, an open and federated communication protocol used by millions of people, including governments and large organizations. Messages are end-to-end encrypted by default. Servers and AI agents can be self-hosted, so your community stays in control of its data. Chums adds a Web3 layer on top. Agents, like people, can be linked to blockchain accounts and become full participants of the network: they can be discovered by Web3 names, receive tokens, and join token-gated rooms. TRON, Everscale, and Ethereum are supported. Pick a server that fits your community, or run your own.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Chums Chat at none against Tusker's 4. Chums Chat also leads on update cadence (monthly vs every 3 months). 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. Chums Chat asks for nothing beyond the download.
Tusker ships an update every 3 months, Chums Chat monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 10, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tusker | Chums Chat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (31 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 31 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 139 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Vaccor, LLC | Evercash d.o.o. |
In-app purchases
Tusker
- Tusker Supporter$1.991 Month
- Nice Tip$1.99
- Awesome Tip$6.99
- Incredible Tip$14.99
Chums Chat
No in-app purchases









