Pipilo vs Wafrn
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/
Wafrn
Connect with friends on decentralized social networks like Mastodon and Bluesky. This app offers custom emojis, drawing tools, and a supportive community. Actively developed with user feedback in mind.
- Connect to Bluesky and fediverse
- Custom emojis and reactions
- Drawing editor
- Quotes and bookmarks
- Active development based on user input
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Wafrn is a social network built to be a caring and inviting place. You can connect with your friends on Bluesky and the fediverse (Mastodon, Sharkey, Pleroma, Gotosocial, etc), natively, with no shenanigans. You can draw in the editor and upload your drawing seamlessly. We have custom emojis, emoji reactions, quotes, bookmarks... Everything you can hope for in a fediverse app and more. Development of new features is currently active and we are listening to every input from our users, so if you want something new included, we are all ears,
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Wafrn at none against Pipilo's 3. Pipilo's advantage is review sentiment (75% vs 67%). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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. Wafrn asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Pipilo against 4.6 for Wafrn. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 5 and 5 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 75% of Pipilo's written reviews are positive against 67% of Wafrn's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 9, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Pipilo | Wafrn |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (5 ratings) | 4.6 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Lukasz Rutkowski | Juan Dominguez Jara |
Customer experience
Pipilo
Wafrn
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
Wafrn
No in-app purchases
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