Comparison

status.log vs Mona 27 for Mastodon

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • View latest statuses
  • Upload and view photos
  • Update status for addresses
  • Browse statuslog profiles
  • Respond to statuses
  • Discover addresses in directory
Features
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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

About

Mona 27 for Mastodon

This app offers a highly customizable and personalized experience for the Mastodon social network. Enjoy smooth scrolling, native design, and advanced features like user notes, game controller support, and extensive theme customization. It's designed for privacy and accessibility, with full VoiceOver optimization.

Highlights
  • Highly customizable interface
  • User notes and aliases
  • Game controller support
  • iCloud sync for settings
  • Advanced theme and accent color editor
  • Column View for iPad/Mac
  • Widgets for home screen
Features
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Meet Mona, the default Mastodon app for everyone. Enjoy buttery-smooth scrolling, native design, and powerful customization options. It delivers a truly personal Mastodon experience and is fully optimized for VoiceOver. All Mastodon features that everyone expects: • Browse timelines like Home, List, and Profiles • Reply, repost, favorite, bookmark posts with ease • Explore trending posts and news, plus Local and Federated timelines Mona features: • A stunning user interface with the Liquid Glass design • Check recent posts and trending news on your home screen or notification center with widgets • Sync your reading positions, mute list, user notes, drafts, search history, accent colors, and custom app themes across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, privately and securely • Push notifications • Share a post as picture • Open multiple windows on iPad and Mac Privacy: • Mona does not collect any personal information • Your account tokens are protected by on-device Keychain • Your network connections to Mastodon servers are protected by HTTPS Other Mona features: • Post with HDR photos and Live Photos • Use Genmoji and custom emojis in your posts • Column View takes full advantage of the big screen on iPad and Mac, shows multiple views at once and allows you to navigate between views fluently and efficiently • Adjustable text spacing and text sizes • Retrieve missing posts with “Load from Remote Server” • Privately set aliases, notes and username colors for Mastodon accounts • User Notes list: browse, organize and edit all your notes in one place • Control the app and browse posts with a compatible game controller, such as a Playstation DualSense/DualShock, Nintendo Switch, Xbox or MFi controller • Customize game controller’s button functions via in-app settings Tab Bar (Mona Ultra feature): • Pin your frequently visit pages to the tab bar • Drag tabs into the order you prefer • Rename your tabs • Change your tab icons (more than a thousand of icons for you to choose) • Show/hide tab names Post Actions (Mona Ultra feature): • Drag actions into the order you prefer • Configure actions as swipe options: swipe a post horizontally to perform an action • Optionally hide some or all action buttons from post cards, while keeping them accessible via context menu, swipe options, keyboard shortcuts, and VoiceOver rotor Accent Color (Mona Ultra feature): • Configure different Accent Colors for Light and Dark mode • More than 10 built-in colors for you to choose • Design and set custom colors Theme Editor (Mona Ultra feature): • Customize the app’s color scheme • Design and set custom themes • Advanced color settings allow you to fine-tune colors for different level of views • Export and share your custom themes • Import custom themes shared by other people Font Customization (Mona Ultra feature): • Configure different fonts for body text and headings • Select from a variety of build-in fonts • Supports custom fonts installed by third-party apps Other Mona Ultra features: • Add multiple accounts: you can also opt to favorite, repost, quote post, or follow using a non-current account • Automatically translate posts on the timeline • Filter and mute: filter timelines based on post category and content; hide posts with certain words; hide posts from certain people • Customize push notifications based on notification category • Export and import settings: easily transfer your custom settings between multiple devices Customer support: • Mastodon: @MonaApp@mastodon.social • Email: theSpringApp@gmail.com Terms of use: https://apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula

Screenshots

status.log4 screens
Mona 27 for Mastodon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: status.log at 100% against Mona 27 for Mastodon's 43%. status.log also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.3) and in-app purchases (none vs 7). Mona 27 for Mastodon's advantage is price (Free vs $2.99) and update cadence (weekly vs every 4 months). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Mona 27 for Mastodon is free to download; status.log costs $2.99 up front. Mona 27 for Mastodon sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. status.log asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

status.log holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 14 and 67 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of status.log's written reviews are positive against 43% of Mona 27 for Mastodon's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

status.log ships an update every 4 months, Mona 27 for Mastodon weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
status.log versus Mona 27 for Mastodon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterstatus.logMona 27 for Mastodon
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (14 ratings) — better4.3 (67 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better43.1% of reviews
Number of ratings1467 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationPaidFree with in-app purchases — better
Best chart rank#125 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size73 MB311 MB
Age rating12+17+
Developer433 LabsJunyu Kuang

Customer experience

status.log

All ratings14 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Mona 27 for Mastodon

All ratings67 ratings
Positive83.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.4%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive43.1%
Neutral3.9%
Negative52.9%

In-app purchases

None

status.log

No in-app purchases

7 purchases

Mona 27 for Mastodon

Subscriptions2
  • Mona Ultra (1 Month)14 Days trial$2.991 Month
  • Mona Ultra (1 Year)14 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time5
  • Small Tip$2.99
  • Generous Tip$6.99
  • Amazing Tip$9.99
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  • Mona Ultra$39.99
  • Mona Ultra$49.99

Questions

Is status.log free?
status.log costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Mona 27 for Mastodon free?
Mona 27 for Mastodon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, status.log or Mona 27 for Mastodon?
status.log is rated higher. status.log averages 5.0 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Mona 27 for Mastodon averages 4.3 from 67 ratings.
Do status.log or Mona 27 for Mastodon have ads?
Neither status.log nor Mona 27 for Mastodon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, status.log or Mona 27 for Mastodon?
status.log ships an update every 4 months, and Mona 27 for Mastodon weekly. Most recently, status.log was updated on October 25, 2026 and Mona 27 for Mastodon on October 22, 2026.

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