Mastoot vs Hooj
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
Hooj
This app connects college students by centralizing campus life. Discover events, buy and sell items with peers, and stay updated on campus happenings. It's designed to streamline your college experience, making it easier to engage with your community.
- Discover campus events
- Connect with students and organizations
- Buy and sell items with peers
- Stay updated on campus news
- Centralized campus experience
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Hooj is your campus, all in one place. Discover what's happening on campus, find events, buy and sell with students around you, and connect with your college community. DISCOVER WHAT'S HAPPENING See what students are sharing, discover events around campus, and keep up with what's happening at your school. CONNECT WITH CAMPUS Find students and organizations, follow people you know, and stay connected to your college community. CAMPUS MARKETPLACE Buy and sell directly with other students. Find furniture, electronics, textbooks, clothing, tickets, dorm essentials, and more—all within your campus community. MADE FOR COLLEGE Hooj brings the things you already do on campus into one place—whether you're looking for something to buy, trying to sell something you no longer need, finding something to do, or seeing what's happening around you. Your campus. Your community. Hooj.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Mastoot at every 3 days against Hooj's fortnightly. Mastoot also leads on ratings volume (92 vs 2). Hooj's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). 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.
Hooj holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mastoot has 92 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Mastoot ships an update every 3 days, Hooj fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mastoot | Hooj |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.7 (92 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 89.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 92 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 6 MB | 108 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | 孛 李 | HOOJ LLC |
Customer experience
Mastoot
Hooj
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
Hooj
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mastoot
No in-app purchases
Hooj
No in-app purchases
