Beluga vs Sabertooth for Mastodon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Beluga
Share your thoughts and updates with friends and followers through a "tweet-like" feed. It generates a mini-website for easy sharing, even with non-users, and supports RSS feed readers for broader reach. This decentralized app ensures you own your data.
- Tweet-like content publishing
- Personalized mini-website generation
- JSON Feed compatibility
- Decentralized data ownership
- RSS feed reader integration
- Multiple S3-compatible storage support
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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.
Sabertooth for Mastodon
Access the decentralized fediverse social network, connecting with users across different servers. Share photos, videos, and posts, and discover new communities. Customize your experience with content warnings and blocking tools.
- Access the fediverse
- Connect across instances
- Share photos and videos
- Explore public timelines
- Content warnings
- Muting and blocking
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Sabertooth puts the power of the fediverse social network in your hand. Access a universe of user-created content and join the decentralized conversation from anywhere. Connect with friends near and far by following users across instance boundaries. Share your perspective through photos, videos, and short-form posting. Discover new voices and communities by exploring public timelines. Customize your experience with content warnings, muting, and blocking. Stay in control of your digital life. Harness the strength of open protocols and ethical design. Sabertooth allows you to tap into the fediverse and join the Mastodon social network through an intuitive, cross-device experience. The future of social media, in your hand. What is the Fediverse? The fediverse is a network of decentralized, interoperable social media servers. Each server runs open source software that implements shared protocols like ActivityPub. This enables users on different servers to follow each other and interact across the fediverse.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Beluga at 5.0 against Sabertooth for Mastodon's 4.0. Sabertooth for Mastodon's advantage is update cadence (weekly vs every 6 months) and iOS requirement (17.0 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 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
Beluga ships an update every 6 months, Sabertooth for Mastodon weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 12, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Beluga | Sabertooth for Mastodon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.0 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 27.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Blimp | Mahan Rahmati |
Customer experience
Beluga
Sabertooth for Mastodon
In-app purchases
Beluga
No in-app purchases
Sabertooth for Mastodon
No in-app purchases
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