9Tail vs Croissant
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.
Croissant
Effortlessly share content across multiple social platforms simultaneously. This app allows you to compose posts with images and hashtags, create multi-part threads, and save drafts for later. Customize your experience with unique icons and color themes.
- Simultaneous cross-posting
- Support for Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon
- Image and hashtag support
- Thread creation
- Draft saving
- Customizable themes
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It's a social network explosion! And you can now post to all of them in one app. Croissant solves that oh-so-2024 problem of wanting to post to all these great new social networks — Threads, Bluesky, Mastodon. Now you can, in one shot. Croissant makes cross-posting buttery smooth. Features: * Set up your social media accounts, choosing from Threads, Bluesky or Mastodon * Write posts using our composer, allowing you to attach images, hashtags, at-mentions. * Create threads by chaining multiple posts together. * Save drafts for later editing or sending. * Make Croissant your own with custom app icons and colour themes! Looking for features or support? Contact me at support@croissantapp.com. Privacy Policy: https://croissantapp.com/privacy.html Terms of User: https://croissantapp.com/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: 9Tail at none against Croissant's 3. 9Tail also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.6). Croissant's advantage is ratings volume (198 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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. Croissant sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. 9Tail asks for nothing beyond the download.
9Tail holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Croissant has 198 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
9Tail ships an update every 10 days, Croissant fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 22, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | 9Tail | Croissant |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.6 (198 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 62.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 198 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.2 — better | 18.5 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 282 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Michael Simon | Innoveghtive Inc. |
Customer experience
9Tail
Croissant
Bugs and requests
9Tail
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Croissant
Reported bugs
5 issues- Threads login issues
- Mastodon login issues
- Bluesky login issues
- Duplicate accounts created
- Posting failures and lost work
Requested features
6 requests- Add support for more social networks (e.g. Twitter, WordPress, LinkedIn)
- Ability to group accounts
- Scheduled posts
- Customize account names/nicknames
- Integrate with Shortcuts
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- Add timeline viewing and interaction
In-app purchases
9Tail
No in-app purchases
Croissant
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Annual$19.991 Year
- Lifetime$59.99
Questions
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