Lemmios vs Sabertooth for Mastodon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lemmios
Explore and navigate the fediverse with this intuitive client. Discover content and communities across different instances in a streamlined manner.
- Browse Lemmy instances
- Discover fediverse content
- Intuitive navigation
- Community browsing
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Lemmios is a client built for Lemmy. Discover and browse through all parts of the fediverse in an intuitive way.
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 review sentiment: Lemmios at 75% against Sabertooth for Mastodon's 0%. Lemmios also leads on ratings volume (10 vs 2). Sabertooth for Mastodon's advantage is rating (4.0 vs 3.5). 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.
Sabertooth for Mastodon holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lemmios has 10 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 75% of Lemmios's written reviews are positive against 0% of Sabertooth for Mastodon's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Lemmios ships an update every 2 weeks, Sabertooth for Mastodon weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 20, 2026 and October 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lemmios | Sabertooth for Mastodon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (10 ratings) | 4.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 31 MB | 37 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Peter Lavallee | Mahan Rahmati |
Customer experience
Lemmios
Sabertooth for Mastodon
In-app purchases
Lemmios
No in-app purchases
Sabertooth for Mastodon
No in-app purchases
Questions
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