Mastoot vs CounterSocial
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
CounterSocial
This platform offers a unique social network experience free from trolls, abuse, ads, and fake news. It actively counters foreign influence operations and disinformation by empowering users to control the content they see. User data is never mined or sold.
- Zero-tolerance for trolls and abuse
- No ads or promoted content
- Combats fake news and disinformation
- Crowd-powered by users
- User data is not mined or sold
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A unique social network. No trolls. No abuse. No ads. No fake-news. No foreign influence operations. CounterSocial is the first Social Network Platform to take a zero-tolerance stance to hostile nations, bot accounts, trolls and disinformation networks who are weaponizing OUR own social media platforms and freedoms to engage in influence operations against us. And we're here to counter it. CounterSocial is 100% crowd powered by it's users, and does not run ads or 'promoted content'. Our users data is not mined or sold for any purpose.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Mastoot at 4.7 against CounterSocial's 4.2. Mastoot also leads on review sentiment (89% vs 71%). CounterSocial's advantage is ratings volume (490 vs 93) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: CounterSocial has 490 ratings behind it against 93, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Mastoot's written reviews are positive against 71% of CounterSocial's.
| Parameter | Mastoot | CounterSocial |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (93 ratings) — better | 4.2 (490 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 89.3% of reviews — better | 70.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 93 | 490 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | 孛 李 | Jay Bauer |
Customer experience
Mastoot
CounterSocial
User reviews
Mastoot
From 93 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
CounterSocial
From 490 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Smooth and stable app
- 🔒 Secure and private platform
- 👍 Welcoming and friendly community
- 👍 No bots, trolls, or ads
- 👍 Ability to curate own feed
Room to improve
- 🐛 Occasional technical issues during growth periods
- 🔒 Strict content moderation may be seen as limiting by some
- 🔍 Limited search and discovery features
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
CounterSocial
Reported bugs
2 issues- Verification email not received
- App crashes or freezes on some devices
Requested features
3 requests- iPad app support
- Improved search and discovery tools
- Expanded customization options
In-app purchases
Mastoot
No in-app purchases
CounterSocial
No in-app purchases
