Mastoot vs MaskerAid
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
MaskerAid
Easily add emoji to your photos to obscure faces or highlight elements. This app automatically detects faces and offers intuitive controls for positioning emoji. It also removes metadata from shared images for enhanced privacy.
- Automatic face detection
- Add and position emoji
- Remove image metadata
- Save and share photos
- Thousands of emoji options
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MaskerAid allows you to quickly and easily add emoji to images. Add emoji for jokes, to call attention to things, hide faces, and more! When you load an image with MaskerAid, it will AUTOMATICALLY detect all the faces in that photo, and obscure them with an emoji. Using MaskerAid, it's quick and easy to obscure the faces of children, shy friends, coworkers, or randos that are in your photos. Additionally, any images you share will automatically have ALL METADATA REMOVED. Privacy is your right, and MaskerAid helps protect it. MaskerAid removes hidden information like where the photo was taken, what device it was taken on, etc. Using the intuitive gestures you'd expect, you can move/resize/rotate emoji to get them centered *just right* over faces and objects. Plus, if you pay for the one-time in-app purchase, you can select from *thousands* of different emoji! Once you've gotten your image just right, you can quickly and easily save it to your Camera Roll, or share it using other apps. MaskerAid is written by one person, Casey Liss, who you may know from the Accidental Tech Podcast (ATP) or Analog(ue) on Relay FM. MaskerAid does not collect your images, and does not collect unnecessary data.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mastoot at none against MaskerAid's 1. Mastoot also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 weeks). MaskerAid's advantage is ratings volume (317 vs 92). On price, rating, review sentiment 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. MaskerAid sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Mastoot asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.7 for Mastoot against 4.8 for MaskerAid. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 92 and 317 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 89% of Mastoot's written reviews are positive against 88% of MaskerAid's.
Mastoot ships an update every 3 days, MaskerAid every 6 weeks. Both last shipped on November 3, 2026.
| Parameter | Mastoot | MaskerAid |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (92 ratings) | 4.8 (317 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.3% of reviews — better | 87.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 92 | 317 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 6 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 孛 李 | Limitliss LLC |
Customer experience
Mastoot
MaskerAid
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
MaskerAid
From 317 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Easy to use
- 🚀 Intuitive interface
- 🔒 Preserves privacy
- 💡 Versatile for fun and practical use
- 🎨 Allows creative photo editing
Room to improve
- 🐛 Difficulty with emoji placement and resizing
- 🔍 Lack of photo zoom/pan functionality
- 💰 Some features locked behind paywall
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
MaskerAid
Reported bugs
2 issues- Inconsistent emoji sizing
- Difficulty moving emojis precisely
Requested features
4 requests- Add undo/redo functionality
- Increase emoji selection
- Implement ML-based emoji suggestions
- Add video support
In-app purchases
Mastoot
No in-app purchases
MaskerAid
- Emoji Unlock$2.99
