Twidere X vs Mona Classic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Twidere X
This app offers a streamlined social media browsing experience with features like a chronological timeline, in-line media display, and conversation thread viewing. It allows for extensive interface customization, multi-account support, and advanced search capabilities without advertisements.
- Chronological timeline with retweets and comments
- In-line picture, GIF, and video display
- Album mode for image galleries
- Quick display of up to 2 levels of tweet conversations
- Customizable interface (avatar style, dark mode, text size)
- Send tweets with photos, subjects, and locations
- Multiple account support
- Advanced search functionality
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Timeline - See what's new and what's happening! Tweets are sorted by time, support for displaying retweets with comments, and quick display of discussion threads. Pictures, GIFs, and videos are displayed in a completely new design. Complete features to ensure your browsing experience. Album mode - Enjoy the pure picture waterfall on the search and profile page. At the same time, multiple pictures in the timeline and tweets are displayed in an elegant form. Quickly display the discussion thread-Complete view of the discussion! Up to 2 levels of tweet conversations can be quickly displayed in tweets. Customized personalized interface - Perfect personalization features allow users to customize their interface: support for setting avatar style, following system settings to display light or dark mode, and customizing text size. Send tweets - You can send live photos in your tweets, or select images from the photo gallery. Send tweets that include the subject and location. Multiple accounts - Use as many identities as you want! You can add multiple Twitter accounts to Twidere X, ensuring that they don't interfere with each other. Search - Find tweets, media, and users among thousands of information. You can also use advanced search syntax to get more effective information. User Profile Display - New design for user’s homepage display. Subtle display of avatar, profile, and background. Also, the number of users following and follower, click to enter the list. User tweets display - a perfect display of user-related tweets and liked tweets with a quick display of discussion threads. Images are elegantly displayed in album mode. No ads - We do not carry any ads! A cool tweet experience. Twitter is a trademark of Twitter, Inc.
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Twidere X at none against Mona Classic's 9. Mona Classic's advantage is ratings volume (166 vs 33) and review sentiment (71% vs 63%). On price, rating, update cadence 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. Mona Classic sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Twidere X asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Twidere X against 4.4 for Mona Classic. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mona Classic has 166 ratings behind it against 33, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 63% of Twidere X's written reviews are positive against 71% of Mona Classic's.
Twidere X ships an update every 2 weeks, Mona Classic every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Twidere X | Mona Classic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (33 ratings) | 4.4 (166 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | 70.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 33 | 166 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 77 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | SUJITEKU LIMITED LIABILITY CO. | Junyu Kuang |
Customer experience
Twidere X
Mona Classic
Bugs and requests
Twidere X
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
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
Twidere X
No in-app purchases
Mona Classic
- 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
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