Pipilo vs feather for Mastodon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pipilo
This app offers a unique social media experience by displaying posts in a horizontally scrolling timeline, showing conversations and replies from followed users. It provides a clean interface for following threads and supports various Fediverse platforms.
- Horizontally scrolling conversational timeline
- Collapsible threads from followed users
- Notifications grouped by day
- Rich link and video previews
- Home, local, and federated timelines
- Keyword filters for content moderation
- Advanced media and video player
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Pipilo is a unique Fediverse app that lets you browse posts on a horizontally scrolling timeline. Each post is displayed within the context of its conversation with replies from people you follow. This results in an elegant, distraction-free interface, making it easy to follow various conversation threads. Pipilo works with Mastodon, Pixelfed, Pleroma, Akkoma, Friendica, Firefish, Catodon, Iceshrimp, and GoToSocial. Features: - Horizontally scrolling timeline with each post appearing in the context of its conversation - Clean, collapsible threads showing only posts from people you follow, with an option to view replies from everyone - Notifications grouped by day - Quote posts - Rich previews for mentioned links and videos - Home, local, and federated timelines - Followed hashtags and custom lists - Quick search of posts, hashtags, and users - Full iPad support, with multiple windows allowing you to display different timelines side by side - Smooth media viewer with intuitive gestures, alt-text descriptions, share functionality, live text selection, and subject lifting - Advanced video player with native system interface for play/pause, time scrubbing, volume control, and full-screen or PIP mode viewing - Keyword filters to hide posts behind a warning or remove them from your timelines completely Premium Features: - Submit posts with images, videos, media descriptions, and content warnings - Sync reading position across multiple devices - Follow new hashtags and users - Create and edit custom lists - Add multiple accounts from all supported servers - Enable push notifications - Create and edit filters - Bookmark posts - Pin timelines - Create hashtag groups and follow remote instances Unlock all premium features with: - One-time purchase - Monthly subscription - Yearly subscription Privacy Policy: https://pipilo.thanel.me/privacy/ Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
feather for Mastodon
Enhance your social media experience with a highly customizable client. Manage multiple accounts, personalize your interface with themes and custom tabs, and streamline interactions with swipe gestures. Enjoy advanced features like keyword muting and real-time timeline streaming.
- Multi-account support
- Customizable themes and tabs
- Swipe actions for post interactions
- Advanced keyword muting
- Real-time timeline streaming
- High-functionality posting screen
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feather for Mastodon is an app that renews your Mastodon experience. It pursues comfort and customization, offering a Mastodon world that fits perfectly in your hands. ◆◇ Unlock Infinite Possibilities with Multi-Account Support ◇◆ Do you have multiple accounts? With its multi-account support, feather allows you to instantly check all your timelines. ◆◇ Stylish Themes ◇◆ feather currently offers 10 stylish themes. You can easily set them according to your preferences at any time. ◆◇ Customize Tabs for Your Own Unique Mastodon Experience ◇◆ Add a variety of timelines to your tabs, not just Home, including hashtags and lists, and create your own Mastodon app. You can explore Mastodon, perfectly tailored to your preferences. ◆◇ Customizable Swipe Actions ◇◆ feather does not place buttons such as favorites and boosts on each post in order to display many posts on the screen. Instead, you can quickly perform these actions by swiping left or right on the posts. Swipe actions are customizable, so you can set them to frequently used actions according to your preference. You can also perform actions with other accounts by long-pressing the favorite or boost button. ◆◇ High-functionality Posting Screen ◇◆ feather supports a wide range of Mastodon posts, allowing you to smoothly express your thoughts and communicate more effectively. These features are supported: - Account switching - Draft function - Image attachment - Scheduled posts - Voting function - @(mention), #(hashtag), emoji input completion - NowPlaying with currently playing music, artwork input - Post re-editing ◆◇ Enhanced Keyword Mute ◇◆ feather offers a more advanced keyword mute feature compared to Mastodon's standard mute, allowing you to keep your timeline clean. You can configure the following detailed settings: - Specify keywords using regular expressions - Include usernames in the mute targets - Flexibly apply mutes to specific timelines ◆◇ Following Customized Server Functions ◇◆ It also supports the features of servers that have been uniquely extended, like fedibird.com (such as reactions). While it does not support all features, we plan to gradually follow-up based on user requests. ◆◇ Supports streaming of timelines ◇◆ Streaming of Home, Hashtag, Local, and Federated timelines is supported. By enabling streaming, you can view new posts in real time without having to do a pull refresh. ◆◇ Special Experience with Supporter Plan ◇◆ Are you seeking a clean Mastodon experience without ads? By joining the Supporter Plan, you can remove ads. Additionally, we plan to add new features exclusive for supporters in the future. Currently available supporter-exclusive features: - Removal of banner ads - Receive push notifications for favorites, boosts, etc. - Why? You can change pull-to-refresh into bacon. Download feather for Mastodon now, and freely, joyfully, and fully immerse yourself in the world of Mastodon!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Pipilo at none against feather for Mastodon's shown. Pipilo also leads on review sentiment (75% vs 56%). On price, update cadence, 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. Pipilo sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and feather for Mastodon sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Pipilo ships an update every 3 weeks, feather for Mastodon every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pipilo | feather for Mastodon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 55.6% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 28 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Lukasz Rutkowski | covelline, LLC. |
Customer experience
Pipilo
feather for Mastodon
In-app purchases
Pipilo
- Monthly Pipilo Premium7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- Yearly Pipilo Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- Lifetime Pipilo Premium$29.99
feather for Mastodon
- Supporter Plan (Monthly)$1.991 Month
- Supporter Plan (Yearly)$19.991 Year
Questions
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