Mastoot vs Metatext
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mastoot
Access your Mastodon social network feed with this straightforward client. Manage your home timeline, notifications, explore trending content, and interact with messages and bookmarks.
- Home timeline access
- Notification management
- Explore trending content
- Search for users and posts
- Local and federated timelines
- Direct messages
- Favorites and bookmarks
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Mastoot is a simple client app for Mastodon. Features: • Home • Notifications • Explore • Search • Local timeline • Federated timeline • Messages • Favorites • Bookmarks
Metatext
This is a free, open-source client for the Mastodon social network. It offers robust features like multiple account support, advanced emoji handling, and timeline management. Designed with accessibility in mind, it ensures a private and ethical social media experience.
- Multiple account support
- Searchable custom emoji picker
- Timeline position memory
- Mastodon lists and filters
- VoiceOver and Dynamic Type support
- Private, no tracking
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Metatext is a free, modern, open source, and accessible Mastodon client. Features: - Multiple accounts: You can add multiple accounts and even use several accounts simultaneously with iPad multitasking. - Emoji: Metatext has a searchable custom emoji picker and supports animated custom emoji. - Timeline management: Metatext remembers your home timeline position and can load gaps in either direction - Mastodon features: Metatext supports most Mastodon features including lists, profile directory, and syncing filters - Accessibility: Metatext supports VoiceOver, Dynamic Type, dark mode, and motion reduction. - Private: No tracking or any information shared with third parties. What is Mastodon? It's the social network of the future: No ads, no corporate surveillance, ethical design, and decentralization. Check out joinmastodon.org for more info. Follow @metabolist@mastodon.social for updates!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mastoot at 4.7 against Metatext's 4.4. Mastoot also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 71%). On price, ratings volume, update cadence 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Mastoot holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 92 and 275 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Mastoot's written reviews are positive against 71% of Metatext's.
Mastoot ships an update every 3 days, Metatext every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mastoot | Metatext |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (92 ratings) — better | 4.4 (275 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.3% of reviews — better | 70.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 92 | 275 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 31 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 孛 李 | Metabolist, LLC |
Customer experience
Mastoot
Metatext
User reviews
Mastoot
From 92 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Fast and responsive
- 👍 Clean and simple UI
- ✨ Native iOS look and feel
- 📂 Supports multiple accounts
- 🔄 Timeline sync across devices
Room to improve
- ⏳ Videos take time to load
- 🚫 No visual clue for video loading
- 📉 App no longer updated
- ❌ No support for new Mastodon features
- ❓ Unknown reasons for not supporting certain social media outlets
Metatext
From 275 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Simple and reliable
- 👍 Intuitive and easy to use
- 🚀 Fast and responsive
- 🔒 No data collection or ads
- 👍 Great Mastodon client
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy and crashes frequently
- 🐛 Glitchy notifications and loading issues
- 🔋 Battery drain issues
- 🔍 Lacking in search and discovery features
- 🔍 Limited customization options
Bugs and requests
Mastoot
Reported bugs
12 issues- Videos take time to load with no visual clue
- Stopped using certain social media outlets
- Cannot post screenshots (Unsupported Type)
- Login not working
- Cannot download posts
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- Cannot see own timeline or mentions
- App crashes when scrolling feed (mentioned in comparison to default app)
- Cannot see image descriptions of pictures
- Cannot see pinned toots
- Cannot choose how image is cropped
- Pop-up hidden by keyboard on iPad Mini login
- Clicking #hashtag in profile goes to web app login instead of in-app search
Requested features
25 requests- Visual clue for video loading
- Support for new Mastodon features
- Ability to see image descriptions while composing
- Ability to work with lists
- Auto-play for animated GIFs
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- Quote tweet functionality (image generation)
- Favoriting and boosting at the bottom of toots
- Character counter
- Access to extra emojis
- Ability to read alt text
- Notification badge
- Hashtag button on main keyboard
- Ability to see user's following list
- Ability to post screenshots
- Support for animated emoji
- Emoji picker
- Gesture support
- Turn off user boosts
- Edit/rewrite toots
- Pin toots
- Image cropping options
- Configure default visibility for messages
- Set app as a share target
- Easy one-click/two-click account switcher
- Translate to Spanish
Metatext
Reported bugs
3 issues- Inconsistent behavior when refreshing feed
- Issues with custom emoji rendering in display names
- Problems with logging out and managing multiple accounts
Requested features
5 requests- Add edit post functionality
- Implement hashtag following
- Improve notification system with badge counts
- Add dark mode option
- Enhance media handling (full-size images, video playback)
In-app purchases
Mastoot
No in-app purchases
Metatext
No in-app purchases
Questions
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