Comparison

Pipilo vs Mutable for Safari

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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/

About

Mutable for Safari

Take control of your online browsing experience by muting unwanted content across multiple social media platforms. Customize keyword lists to blur, hide, or replace posts, or even substitute them with cute animal images.

Highlights
  • Mute content across multiple social media sites
  • Create custom keyword mute lists
  • Blur, hide, or replace posts
  • Replace posts with animal images
  • Works on Twitter/X, Facebook, Reddit, and more
Features
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Take control of the websites you browse every day and eliminate the content you don't want to see! Mutable helps you mute unwanted content across multiple sites at once. Just pick the keywords you want to hide and Mutable will blur, hide, or replace any posts it finds containing those terms! Features: - Control what you see (and what you don't) across multiple social media sites at once! - Create keyword mute lists that work across Twitter/X, Facebook, Mastodon, Reddit, and Bluesky, and more! - Choose between blurring out posts, blurring with a preview, or hiding them altogether - You can even replace posts with cute images of kittens, puppies, or hedgehogs for that additional serotonin!

Screenshots

Pipilo4 screens
Mutable for Safari4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mutable for Safari at none against Pipilo's 3. Mutable for Safari also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.6) and device support (4 vs 2). Pipilo's advantage is update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 6 months) and review sentiment (75% vs 64%). On price, ads and iOS requirement 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. Pipilo sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Mutable for Safari asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Mutable for Safari holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 15 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Pipilo's written reviews are positive against 64% of Mutable for Safari's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Pipilo ships an update every 3 weeks, Mutable for Safari every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on August 23, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Pipilo versus Mutable for Safari: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPipiloMutable for Safari
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (5 ratings)4.9 (15 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews — better63.6% of reviews
Number of ratings515 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeks — betterEvery 6 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size75 MB15 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperLukasz RutkowskiIdrees Hassan

Customer experience

Pipilo

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Mutable for Safari

All ratings15 ratings
Positive93.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews11 reviews
Positive63.6%
Neutral18.2%
Negative18.2%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Pipilo

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly Pipilo Premium7 Days trial$0.991 Month
  • Yearly Pipilo Premium7 Days trial$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime Pipilo Premium$29.99
None

Mutable for Safari

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Pipilo free?
Pipilo is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mutable for Safari free?
Mutable for Safari is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Pipilo or Mutable for Safari?
Mutable for Safari is rated higher. Pipilo averages 4.6 out of 5 from 5 ratings, while Mutable for Safari averages 4.9 from 15 ratings.
Do Pipilo or Mutable for Safari have ads?
Neither Pipilo nor Mutable for Safari shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Pipilo or Mutable for Safari?
Pipilo ships an update every 3 weeks, and Mutable for Safari every 6 months. Most recently, Pipilo was updated on August 23, 2026 and Mutable for Safari on September 24, 2026.

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