Pipilo vs Aria for Misskey
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Pipilo
Experience a unique social media feed with a horizontally scrolling timeline that displays posts within their conversation context. Easily follow discussions, manage notifications, and enjoy rich media previews. Offers premium features for enhanced posting and account management.
- Horizontally scrolling conversation timelines
- Collapsible threads with follow-only option
- Grouped daily notifications
- Rich link and video previews
- Home, local, and federated timelines
- Keyword filters for content moderation
- Advanced media viewer with gestures
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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/
Aria for Misskey
This app provides a user-friendly interface for the federated social media platform Misskey. It supports most of Misskey's core features, allows seamless switching between multiple accounts and servers, and offers extensive customization options for a personalized experience.
- View various timelines
- Post notes and edit clips
- Manage lists and antennas
- Swipe to switch accounts
- Familiar UI based on official client
- Highly customizable settings
- MFM note decoration support
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Aria is a client app for Misskey, a federated social media platform. Supports most of Misskey's features Aria supports most of the functions available in Misskey, including viewing various types of timelines, posting notes, editing clips, lists or antennas, etc. Swipe to switch between multiple accounts (of multiple servers) Aria makes it easy to view different timelines by saving the timelines you want to view as tabs. Adding any account's timeline to a tab makes it easy to follow topics across servers. Based on the design of the official Misskey Web client The user interface is designed to look familiar, similar to the official Misskey front-end. It also supports note decoration with MFM. Highly customizable Numerous settings, such as reaction display size and display of user icons, can be changed and adjusted to your liking. Also, you can change the theme to decorate the application with your favorite colors.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Aria for Misskey at none against Pipilo's 3. Aria for Misskey also leads on update cadence (every 9 days vs every 3 weeks) and device support (4 vs 2). Pipilo's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 47%) and rating (4.6 vs 4.2). On price, ratings volume, 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
Both are free to download. Pipilo sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Aria for Misskey asks for nothing beyond the download.
Pipilo holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 4.2. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of Pipilo's written reviews are positive against 47% of Aria for Misskey's.
Pipilo ships an update every 3 weeks, Aria for Misskey every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on November 7, 2026 and November 8, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pipilo | Aria for Misskey |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better | 4.2 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 46.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 114 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lukasz Rutkowski | Takehito Yasui |
Customer experience
Pipilo
Aria for Misskey
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
Aria for Misskey
No in-app purchases
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