Mastoot vs Gowalla App
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
Gowalla App
This app helps you stay connected with your real-world friends by letting you share your favorite places and check in when you go out. It acts as a social map and messenger, designed to bring people together in person.
- Add favorite places to the map
- Check in when you go out
- Find your crew in the real world
- Social map and messenger
- Connect with real friends
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Gowalla makes it fun and effortless to keep up with your friends IRL. ADD YOUR FAVORITE PLACES to the map CHECK IN when you go out FIND YOUR CREW in the real world It’s a social map and messenger that reminds you an app can connect you with your real friends again. Before you go, you should know… • Gowalla was made for you and your REAL friends • Gowalla keeps your location safe and doesn’t share it with randos • Gowalla loves to hear from you so we can make the map better • Gowalla is a bit of a goofball
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Mastoot at 89% against Gowalla App's 27%. Mastoot also leads on rating (4.7 vs 3.5). 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 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 92 and 53 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Mastoot's written reviews are positive against 27% of Gowalla App's.
Mastoot ships an update every 3 days, Gowalla App every 4 days. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Mastoot | Gowalla App |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (92 ratings) — better | 3.5 (53 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.3% of reviews — better | 26.9% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 92 — better | 53 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 4 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 孛 李 | Gowalla Exploration, Inc. |
Customer experience
Mastoot
Gowalla App
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
Gowalla App
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mastoot
No in-app purchases
Gowalla App
No in-app purchases
