TheDesk mobile client vs Beluga
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TheDesk mobile client
This social networking app allows users to view up to six Mastodon timelines concurrently. It includes standard streaming functionality for real-time updates.
- View up to 6 timelines simultaneously
- Standard streaming included
- Mastodon client
- Real-time updates
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Mastodon client. Up to 6 timelines can be viewed simultaneously at the same time. Streaming is included as standard.
Beluga
Publish your thoughts and share them with friends and followers. This app allows you to post self-hosted tweets with photos and links, creating a mini-website for easy sharing. It functions as a decentralized feed reader/writer, compatible with popular feed readers.
- Publish self-hosted tweets
- Include photos and links
- Generate a mini-website
- JSON Feed and RSS compatible
- Decentralized data ownership
- Cross-device sync
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Publish your thoughts and keep your friends and followers informed of what you are up to. This app is ideal for publishing self-hosted tweets with photos and links. All your posts are added to your Beluga feed, and a mini-website is generated and published so you can easily share with everyone, even people that don’t use the app. You can think of Beluga as a feed reader/writer. All Beluga feeds are JSON Feed and RSS compatible, so your friends can follow you on many popular feed reader apps like NetNewsWire and others available on iOS and macOS. Beluga is decentralized. We don’t have any servers. So you are the owner of your data, and your self-hosted tweets live wherever you like. Beluga runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Your devices stay in sync through your own site, so you can post from any of them and pick up right where you left off. To publish your Beluga feed and mini-website, you must have a web server or an account with a hosting provider. We currently support SFTP, WebDAV, Neocities, Netlify, GitHub Pages, Bunny.net, and S3-compatible object storage like Amazon Web Services S3, Cloudflare R2, Wasabi, Digital Ocean Spaces, Linode Objects, Backblaze B2, DreamHost, and many others.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Beluga at 5.0 against TheDesk mobile client's 2.0. TheDesk mobile client's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 27.0). On price, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Beluga holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.
TheDesk mobile client ships an update every 3 days, Beluga every 6 months. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TheDesk mobile client | Beluga |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 2.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days — better | Every 6 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 27.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 49 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ryuki Yoshikawa | Blimp |
Customer experience
TheDesk mobile client
Beluga
In-app purchases
TheDesk mobile client
No in-app purchases
Beluga
No in-app purchases
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