Farcaster vs Weave (for Typefully)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Farcaster
A decentralized social network where users control their identity and data. Connect with a global community by creating a profile, posting public messages, and engaging in private conversations. Experience a new way to socialize online.
- Decentralized social network
- User-controlled identity
- Create public profile
- Post public messages
- Send private messages
- Discover users and profiles
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Sign up requires an in-app purchase. Farcaster is a new type of social network. It's decentralized, like email, which means you control your account and identity. It's an ever-growing community of interesting, curious people from all over the world. Connect with others by creating a profile and posting public messages. What can you do with Farcaster: - Create a Farcaster account and public profile - Post and reply to public messages - Send private messages to friends - Find other users and visit public profiles You can keep updated by following us on (@farcaster) or on X (@farcaster_xyz). If you need to contact support, please send an email to support+ios@neynar.com.
Weave (for Typefully)
Write, schedule, and publish content to multiple social platforms from a single, intuitive interface. Seamlessly manage posts for Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, X, and LinkedIn with platform-specific character counts and easy thread creation. Schedule posts using natural language commands.
- Publish to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, X, LinkedIn
- Platform-specific character counters
- Easy thread creation with visual connectors
- Natural language scheduling
- Plain English scheduling options
- Write once, publish everywhere
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Weave is a native iOS app for Typefully users A proper native iOS app for Typefully. Write, schedule, and publish to all your social platforms from one beautiful interface built specifically for iPhone and iPad. ## Write once, publish everywhere Publish to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, X, and LinkedIn simultaneously. The platform picker shows your actual @username for each connected account ## Threads that just work Triple-newline to split a post into a new thread item. Each post gets its own character counter that's aware of which platform has the tightest limit. A visual thread connector between posts makes the structure obvious at a glance. ## Schedule in plain English "Tomorrow at 3pm", "in 2 hours", "next Tuesday at 9am" all work! Type it in plain English and it'll just work. Of course, there's also a classic date picker or you can use Typefully queue system. ## Completely free No ads. No in-app purchases. No subscriptions. You do, obvs, need a Typefully account. Requires iOS 26 or later and a Typefully account. Privacy Policy: https://birchtree.productions/apps/weave/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Weave (for Typefully) at 100% against Farcaster's 51%. Weave (for Typefully) also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 16) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Farcaster's advantage is ratings volume (1.1K vs 2) and update cadence (every 5 days vs every 2 weeks). On price, ads and device support 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. Farcaster sells 16 one-off in-app purchases. Weave (for Typefully) asks for nothing beyond the download.
Weave (for Typefully) holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Farcaster has 1.1K ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 51% of Farcaster's written reviews are positive against 100% of Weave (for Typefully)'s.
Farcaster ships an update every 5 days, Weave (for Typefully) every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 11, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Farcaster | Weave (for Typefully) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.1K ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.6% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 92 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Merkle Manufactory | Matt Birchler |
Customer experience
Farcaster
Weave (for Typefully)
Bugs and requests
Farcaster
Reported bugs
5 issues- Registration issues
- Inability to upload photos
- Crashes and app instability
- Problems with in-app purchases
- Sync issues between devices
Requested features
5 requests- Multi-language support
- Improved notifications
- Expanded content sharing options
- Better integration with web3 tools
- Enhanced analytics and metrics
Weave (for Typefully)
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Farcaster
- Warpcast Gas Fee$1.00
- Warpcast Gas Fee$2.00
- Warpcast Gas Fee$3.00
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- Onchain Gas Fee$5.00
- Onchain Gas Fee$9.00
- Warpcast Gas Fee$12.00
- Onchain Gas Fee$18.00
- Warpcast Gas Fee$24.00
- Onchain Gas Fee$27.00
- Warpcast Gas Fee$36.00
- Onchain Gas Fee$45.00
- Warpcast Gas Fee$48.00
- Onchain Gas Fee$54.00
- Warpcast Gas Fee$60.00
- Warpcast Gas Fee$72.00
- Warpcast Gas Fee$80.00
Weave (for Typefully)
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Farcaster free?
Is Weave (for Typefully) free?
Which has better reviews, Farcaster or Weave (for Typefully)?
Do Farcaster or Weave (for Typefully) have ads?
Which is updated more often, Farcaster or Weave (for Typefully)?
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