9Tail vs Thunder for Lemmy
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
9Tail
A modern social app designed for young adults to share content like photos, videos, and audio. It offers features to manage your feed, create group discussions, and discover personalized content, ensuring a positive and controlled social experience.
- Share photos, videos, and audio
- Start group threads
- Discover content by interest
- Powerful feed filters
- Personalized and positive feed
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9Tail is a modern social app for young adults who want to share without losing control. Post photos, videos, and audio, start group threads, and discover content that matches your interests. Powerful filters help you highlight the things you care about and hide the noise, so your feed stays personal and positive. Whether you’re sharing a quick update or building a community, 9Tail keeps you connected on your terms.
Thunder for Lemmy
An open-source client for exploring the fediverse, offering multi-account support and extensive customization. Navigate communities, posts, and comments with swipe gestures and a Safari extension for seamless linking. Still in early development with more features planned.
- Open source client
- Multi-account support
- Customizable settings
- Swipe gestures
- Safari extension
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Thunder is an open source Lemmy/PieFed client for the fediverse, fully free of advertisements and trackers. Here's a peek at what Thunder offers: - Multi-account support: Login to all your accounts, and switch between them at ease - Fully customizable settings: Choose your own splash of accent, customize your own gestures, and much more - Swipe gestures: Navigate and interact with your favourite communities, posts, and comments all through customizable swipe gestures. - Safari extension: Opens Lemmy links in Thunder Thunder is still very early on in development and many more features are yet to be available!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: 9Tail at 5.0 against Thunder for Lemmy's 3.8. Thunder for Lemmy's advantage is ratings volume (13 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 18.2). On price, update cadence, 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.
9Tail holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Thunder for Lemmy has 13 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
9Tail ships an update every 10 days, Thunder for Lemmy every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 9Tail | Thunder for Lemmy |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 3.8 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 71.4% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 13 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 282 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Michael Simon | Hamlet Jiang Su |
Customer experience
9Tail
Thunder for Lemmy
In-app purchases
9Tail
No in-app purchases
Thunder for Lemmy
No in-app purchases
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