Comparison

Tusker vs Mutable for Safari

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Notification grouping
  • Timeline sync with iCloud
  • Customizable timelines with filters
  • Extensive user preferences
  • Digital wellness options
  • Multiple account support
  • Modern Mastodon features
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/

About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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!

Screenshots

Tusker4 screens
Mutable for Safari4 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

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.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

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.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Tusker versus Mutable for Safari: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTuskerMutable for Safari
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (30 ratings)4.9 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews — better63.6% of reviews
Number of ratings30 — better15
Update frequencyEvery 3 months — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS15.015.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB15 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperVaccor, LLCIdrees Hassan

Customer experience

Tusker

All ratings32 ratings
Positive96.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative3.1%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive90.9%
Neutral0.0%
Negative9.1%

Mutable for Safari

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive63.6%
Neutral18.2%
Negative18.2%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Tusker

Subscriptions1
  • Tusker Supporter$1.991 Month
One-time3
  • Nice Tip$1.99
  • Awesome Tip$6.99
  • Incredible Tip$14.99
None

Mutable for Safari

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tusker free?
Tusker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mutable for Safari free?
Mutable for Safari is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tusker or Mutable for Safari?
Mutable for Safari is rated higher. Tusker averages 4.7 out of 5 from 30 ratings, while Mutable for Safari averages 4.9 from 15 ratings.
Do Tusker or Mutable for Safari have ads?
Neither Tusker nor Mutable for Safari shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tusker or Mutable for Safari?
Tusker ships an update every 3 months, and Mutable for Safari every 6 months. Most recently, Tusker was updated on October 23, 2026 and Mutable for Safari on October 24, 2026.

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