Comparison

Mastoot vs Mona Classic

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Home timeline access
  • Notification management
  • Explore trending content
  • Search for users and posts
  • Local and federated timelines
  • Direct messages
  • Favorites and bookmarks
Features
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Mastoot is a simple client app for Mastodon. Features: • Home • Notifications • Explore • Search • Local timeline • Federated timeline • Messages • Favorites • Bookmarks

About

Mona Classic

This app offers extensive customization for a popular social network, allowing users to reorder actions, set swipe gestures, and personalize notes for other users. It also features iCloud sync, game controller support, and privacy-focused design.

Highlights
  • Customizable post actions and swipe gestures
  • iCloud sync for settings and data
  • Private user notes and aliases
  • Game controller support
  • Full-screen and column view modes
  • Customizable themes and accent colors
Features
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Mona is a highly customizable Mastodon app with VoiceOver optimization and native design. Post Actions • Drag actions into the order you prefer • Configure actions as swipe options: swipe a post horizontally to perform an action • Optionally hide some or all action buttons from post cards, while keeping them accessible via context menu, swipe options, keyboard shortcuts, and VoiceOver rotor iCloud Sync • Sync your mute list, user notes, reading positions, drafts, search history, accent colors, and custom app themes across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, privately and securely • Optionally disable some features from automatic syncing User Notes • Privately set aliases, notes and username colors for other Mastodon users • User Notes list: browse, organize and edit all your notes in one place Game Controller (require iOS 14, iPadOS 14, macOS 11 or a newer system) • Control the app and browse posts with a compatible game controller, such as a Playstation DualSense/DualShock, Nintendo Switch, Xbox or MFi controller • Customize button functions via in-app settings • Set extra functions for Adaptive Triggers on the Playstation DualSense controller Privacy • Mona does not collect any personal information • Your account tokens are protected by on-device Keychain • Your network connections to Mastodon servers are protected by HTTPS Other Mona features: • Full Screen mode on iPhone let your timeline content fill the entire screen once you start scrolling • Column View takes full advantage of the big screen on iPad and Mac, shows multiple views at once and allows you to navigate between views fluently and efficiently • Check recent posts on your home screen or notification center with widgets • Search posts on the Timeline • Adjustable text spacing • Adjustable and adaptive text sizes • Option to display post source on timeline (e.g. Mona for Mac) • Share a post as picture • Open multiple windows on iPad and Mac • Customizable text translation experience • Automatic video and GIF playback on timelines • Supports changing app icon on iPhone, iPad, and Mac • Turn on/off content scaling on Mac for extra screen estate or sharper text • Autocomplete for post composer • Push notifications • Lock the app with Face ID or Touch ID • Mona Pro and Mona Pro Max available as one-time in-app purchases, with 14-day free trial Tab Bar (Mona Pro feature) • Pin your frequently visit pages to the tab bar • Drag tabs into the order you prefer • Rename your tabs • Change your tab icons (more than a thousand of icons for you to choose) • Show/hide tab names and button shapes Accent Color (Mona Pro feature) • Configure different Accent Colors for Light and Dark mode • More than 10 built-in colors for you to choose • Design and set custom colors Theme Editor (Mona Pro feature) • Customize the app’s color scheme • Design and set custom themes • Advanced color settings allow you to fine-tune colors for different level of views • Export and share your custom themes • Import custom themes shared by other people Font Customization (Mona Pro feature) • Configure different fonts for body text and headings • Select from a variety of build-in fonts • Supports custom fonts installed by third-party apps Other Mona Pro features: • Full-featured post composer: write longer posts, attach pictures and videos, create polls, schedule post, and automatic thread conversion • More post actions: including favorite, repost, quote post, add bookmark, and translate • Add multiple accounts: you can also opt to favorite, repost, quote post, or follow using a non-current account • Filter and mute: filter timelines based on post category and content; hide posts with certain words; hide posts from certain people • Customize push notifications based on notification category • Export and import settings: easily transfer your custom settings between multiple devices Customer support: • Mastodon: @MonaApp@mastodon.social • Email: theSpringApp@gmail.com

Screenshots

Mastoot3 screens
Mona Classic4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mastoot at none against Mona Classic's 9. Mastoot also leads on update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks) and rating (4.7 vs 4.4). Mona Classic's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and iOS requirement (13.1 vs 16.0). On price, ratings volume 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Mona Classic sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Mastoot asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mastoot holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 92 and 166 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 89% of Mastoot's written reviews are positive against 71% of Mona Classic's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mastoot ships an update every 3 days, Mona Classic every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Mastoot versus Mona Classic: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMastootMona Classic
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (92 ratings) — better4.4 (166 ratings)
Positive reviews89.3% of reviews — better70.5% of reviews
Number of ratings92166 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.013.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB77 MB
Age rating17+17+
Developer孛 李Junyu Kuang

Customer experience

Mastoot

All ratings93 ratings
Positive93.5%
Neutral4.3%
Negative2.2%
Written reviews75 reviews
Positive89.3%
Neutral5.3%
Negative5.3%

Mona Classic

All ratings166 ratings
Positive85.5%
Neutral2.4%
Negative12.0%
Written reviews146 reviews
Positive70.5%
Neutral7.5%
Negative21.9%

User reviews

Mastoot

From 92 App Store ratings

What 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

Mona Classic

From 166 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Highly customizable
  • 👍 Smooth and polished UI
  • 🚀 Fast and responsive
  • 💡 Excellent accessibility support
  • 👍 Robust multi-device sync

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and freezes
  • 🔒 Basic features locked behind paywall
  • 🔒 Expensive for a Mastodon app
  • 🐛 Sync issues between devices
  • 🐛 Notification issues

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

Mona Classic

Reported bugs

3 issues
  • Locking up after viewing full-screen photos
  • Replies not loading properly
  • Inconsistent behavior with server-side features

Requested features

4 requests
  • Ability to mute individual posts
  • Improved thread viewing experience
  • More app icon options
  • Custom notification sounds

In-app purchases

None

Mastoot

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

Mona Classic

One-time9
  • Mona Pro Max (14-day trial)Free
  • Small Tip$2.99
  • Generous Tip$6.99
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  • Amazing Tip$9.99
  • Upgrade to Mona Pro Max$9.99
  • Mona Pro for Mac$11.99
  • Mona Pro for iPad$11.99
  • Mona Pro for iPhone$11.99
  • Mona Pro Max$29.99

Questions

Is Mastoot free?
Mastoot is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mona Classic free?
Mona Classic is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mastoot or Mona Classic?
Mastoot is rated higher. Mastoot averages 4.7 out of 5 from 92 ratings, while Mona Classic averages 4.4 from 166 ratings.
Do Mastoot or Mona Classic have ads?
Neither Mastoot nor Mona Classic shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mastoot or Mona Classic?
Mastoot ships an update every 3 days, and Mona Classic every 3 weeks. Most recently, Mastoot was updated on October 20, 2026 and Mona Classic on October 27, 2026.

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