Comparison

Tusker vs Wafrn

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

Wafrn

Connect with friends on decentralized social networks like Mastodon and Bluesky. This app offers custom emojis, drawing tools, and a supportive community. Actively developed with user feedback in mind.

Highlights
  • Connect to Bluesky and fediverse
  • Custom emojis and reactions
  • Drawing editor
  • Quotes and bookmarks
  • Active development based on user input
Features
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Wafrn is a social network built to be a caring and inviting place. You can connect with your friends on Bluesky and the fediverse (Mastodon, Sharkey, Pleroma, Gotosocial, etc), natively, with no shenanigans. You can draw in the editor and upload your drawing seamlessly. We have custom emojis, emoji reactions, quotes, bookmarks... Everything you can hope for in a fediverse app and more. Development of new features is currently active and we are listening to every input from our users, so if you want something new included, we are all ears,

Screenshots

Tusker4 screens
Wafrn4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wafrn at none against Tusker's 4. Wafrn also leads on update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 3 months). Tusker's advantage is review sentiment (91% vs 67%) and ratings volume (30 vs 5). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Wafrn 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 4.6 for Wafrn. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tusker has 30 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 91% of Tusker's written reviews are positive against 67% of Wafrn's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tusker ships an update every 3 months, Wafrn every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Tusker versus Wafrn: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTuskerWafrn
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (30 ratings) — better4.6 (5 ratings)
Positive reviews90.9% of reviews — better66.7% of reviews
Number of ratings30 — better5
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB44 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperVaccor, LLCJuan Dominguez Jara

Customer experience

Tusker

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

Wafrn

All ratings5 ratings
Positive80.0%
Neutral20.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews3 reviews
Positive66.7%
Neutral33.3%
Negative0.0%

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

Wafrn

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tusker free?
Tusker is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Wafrn free?
Wafrn is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tusker or Wafrn?
Tusker is rated higher. Tusker averages 4.7 out of 5 from 30 ratings, while Wafrn averages 4.6 from 5 ratings.
Do Tusker or Wafrn have ads?
Neither Tusker nor Wafrn shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tusker or Wafrn?
Tusker ships an update every 3 months, and Wafrn every 3 weeks. Most recently, Tusker was updated on November 3, 2026 and Wafrn on November 4, 2026.

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