Tusker vs Mutable for Safari
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/
Mutable for Safari
Take control of your online browsing experience by muting unwanted content across multiple social media platforms. Customize keyword lists to blur, hide, or replace posts, or even substitute them with cute animal images.
- Mute content across multiple social media sites
- Create custom keyword mute lists
- Blur, hide, or replace posts
- Replace posts with animal images
- Works on Twitter/X, Facebook, Reddit, and more
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Take control of the websites you browse every day and eliminate the content you don't want to see! Mutable helps you mute unwanted content across multiple sites at once. Just pick the keywords you want to hide and Mutable will blur, hide, or replace any posts it finds containing those terms! Features: - Control what you see (and what you don't) across multiple social media sites at once! - Create keyword mute lists that work across Twitter/X, Facebook, Mastodon, Reddit, and Bluesky, and more! - Choose between blurring out posts, blurring with a preview, or hiding them altogether - You can even replace posts with cute images of kittens, puppies, or hedgehogs for that additional serotonin!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mutable for Safari at none against Tusker's 4. Tusker's advantage is review sentiment (91% vs 64%) and update cadence (every 3 months vs every 6 months). 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. Mutable for Safari asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Tusker against 4.9 for Mutable for Safari. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 30 and 15 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of Tusker's written reviews are positive against 64% of Mutable for Safari's.
Tusker ships an update every 3 months, Mutable for Safari every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tusker | Mutable for Safari |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (30 ratings) | 4.9 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 90.9% of reviews — better | 63.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 30 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 15.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vaccor, LLC | Idrees Hassan |
Customer experience
Tusker
Mutable for Safari
In-app purchases
Tusker
- Tusker Supporter$1.991 Month
- Nice Tip$1.99
- Awesome Tip$6.99
- Incredible Tip$14.99
Mutable for Safari
No in-app purchases
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