Mastoot vs Rootzu
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
Rootzu
This app connects church members to foster lasting community through interest-based groups and event participation. Leaders can easily organize groups, manage members, and maintain connections between services. It aims to build relationships that make a church feel like home.
- Join interest-based groups
- Discover upcoming events
- Build lasting relationships
- Organize church groups
- Manage church members
- Keep community connected
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Rootzu helps churches move people from Sunday attendance to real, lasting community. Members join groups based on their interests, see upcoming events, and show up to activities — building the kind of relationships that make your church feel like home. For church leaders, Rootzu makes it easy to organize groups, manage members, and keep your community connected between Sundays. Community isn't built in a service. It's built in the moments in between.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Rootzu at 5.0 against Mastoot's 4.7. Mastoot's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 9 days) and ratings volume (93 vs 5). 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.
Rootzu holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mastoot has 93 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Mastoot ships an update every 3 days, Rootzu every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mastoot | Rootzu |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (93 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 93 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 9 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 孛 李 | Social Summary, Inc. |
Customer experience
Mastoot
Rootzu
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
Rootzu
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mastoot
No in-app purchases
Rootzu
No in-app purchases
