Sabertooth for Mastodon vs Rift Chat
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
Rift Chat
Connect with communities, friends, and groups through real-time chat and voice channels. Enjoy private direct messages with end-to-end encryption for secure conversations. This platform offers a focused communication space without advertisements or user tracking.
- Create or join Shards
- Talk in channels
- Direct messages
- Voice chat
- End-to-end encryption for DMs
- Ad-free experience
- No behavioral tracking
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Rift is a chat and voice app for communities, friends, and real-time hangouts. Create or join Shards, talk in channels, message friends in DMs, and hop into voice. Direct messages use end-to-end encryption so Rift cannot read your DM text. Built for people who want a focused place to talk without ads or behavioral tracking, loaded with features and versatility.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Rift Chat at 100% against Sabertooth for Mastodon's 0%. Rift Chat also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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.
Rift Chat holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of Sabertooth for Mastodon's written reviews are positive against 100% of Rift Chat's.
Sabertooth for Mastodon ships an update weekly, Rift Chat every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 4, 2026 and November 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sabertooth for Mastodon | Rift Chat |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 0.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 2 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 105 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Mahan Rahmati | Rift Communications LLC |
Customer experience
Sabertooth for Mastodon
Rift Chat
In-app purchases
Sabertooth for Mastodon
No in-app purchases
Rift Chat
No in-app purchases
Questions
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