status.log vs Tusks for Mastodon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
status.log
This app allows users to view and update statuses, upload photos, and interact with profiles from the omg.lol platform on their iPhone and iPad. It provides a streamlined experience for managing your social presence and discovering new connections.
- View latest statuses
- Upload and view photos
- Update status for addresses
- Browse statuslog profiles
- Respond to statuses
- Discover addresses in directory
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The best way to use omg.lol on your iPhone and iPad! • View everyone's latest status • Upload and view photos with some.pics • Update the status for each of your addresses • Browse someone's statuslog profile • Response to statuses • Discover interesting addresses in the omg.lol directory
Tusks for Mastodon
This app focuses on creating and managing threaded posts for Mastodon, prioritizing narrative continuity over a traditional timeline. It helps users blog and write longer content by making it easy to create and follow threads, with features for organization and drafting.
- Create and manage threaded posts
- Blog-like posting experience
- Drafting and follow-up support
- Pin threads for quick access
- Hide irrelevant posts
- Unique thread titles
- Search that ignores interactions
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Tusks makes posting to Mastodon feel like publishing to your blog. This is a Mastodon client with no timeline — just your posts. More specifically, it’s built around threads. Starting a new thread is just as easy as making a single post. But that’s not what makes it special. Tusks actively discourages posting into a vacuum, therefore losing valuable context. This is achieved by making it effortless to continue threading narratives. Each post becomes an update to a bigger story. This priority shift should make your account a higher quality follow. So, who is it for? To be clear, if you don’t post and are not interested in writing, then not you. Otherwise… • If you post regularly, then you. • If you blog, then you. • If you want to write (more), then you. Also: if you post occasionally, then Tusks could encourage you to post more. # Features Tusks show your posts as well as any of your follow-ups to the original post (to be clear, you won’t see any users replies, or your interactions with users). There are several features to help with organizing and publishing. • Pin threads for quick access. • Hide posts that you don’t expect to follow-up, so your list is always relevant. • You can set unique titles for each thread for faster recall. • Search ignores irrelevant posts (i.e. interactions with users). • Write as much as you want in one-go and press a button to split it up into multiple posts. In addition, drafting is a first-class feature. You can draft new threads, and as many follow-ups to already published posts. # Availability Tusks has iOS, iPadOS and macOS clients. A lot of work has gone into optimising for each form factor, so they always feel at home. All your drafts, pins and labels will be synced across your devices too. # Pricing Tusks has all features enabled for free users, except for one. If you want to publish content to Mastodon, you’ll need to upgrade to Tusks Pro — this is available through an in-app purchase. No subscription required. All payments will be charged to your Apple ID account at the confirmation of purchase. # Privacy Tusks takes your privacy very seriously. It does not store any personal data — it stays completely private. The full privacy policy & terms of use can be read here: https://midnight-beanie-ccb.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-3b45102d741e4a9fa15d8e398839cef0?pvs=4.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Tusks for Mastodon at Free against status.log's $2.99. Tusks for Mastodon also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 4 months). status.log's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 1). On ads, device support 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
Tusks for Mastodon is free to download; status.log costs $2.99 up front. Tusks for Mastodon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. status.log asks for nothing beyond the download.
status.log holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 4 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of status.log's written reviews are positive against 67% of Tusks for Mastodon's.
status.log ships an update every 4 months, Tusks for Mastodon every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | status.log | Tusks for Mastodon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (14 ratings) — better | 4.5 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 66.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 14 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Free with in-app purchases — better |
| Best chart rank | #124 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 73 MB | 16 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 433 Labs | Bardia Golriz |
Customer experience
status.log
Tusks for Mastodon
In-app purchases
status.log
No in-app purchases
Tusks for Mastodon
- Tusks Pro$4.99
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