Comparison

Mona 27 for Mastodon vs Vorail

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

Head to head
About

Mona 27 for Mastodon

This app offers a highly customizable and personalized experience for the Mastodon social network. It features a sleek interface, extensive theme and font options, and advanced controls for managing posts and timelines. Optimized for accessibility, it ensures a smooth and intuitive user journey.

Highlights
  • Highly customizable interface
  • Native Mastodon features
  • Widgets for home screen
  • Cross-device sync
  • Game controller support
  • Advanced theme and font editor
  • Mona Ultra subscription features
Features
Read full description

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

About

Vorail

Connect with others through spoken audio, sharing stories and conversations without relying on text or photos. This audio-first community fosters genuine human connection by emphasizing listening and talking. It also offers dedicated peer-to-peer support for the low-vision and blind community.

Highlights
  • Audio-first social connections
  • Voice message sharing
  • Meaningful conversations
  • Private voice messaging
  • Peer-to-peer support for low-vision/blind community
  • AI-powered voice interaction
Features
Read full description

Human connection based on listening & talking to, instead of looking at. Vorail is an audio-first social community that brings people together through the power of the human voice. Instead of relying on text or photos, users connect by asking questions, sharing stories, and leaving voice messages in a welcoming and supportive environment. Vorail provides an engaging space to make friends, join meaningful conversations, and share everyday experiences entirely through spoken audio. Most people meet by sight. We believe there's a better way. On Vorail AI you meet others through their voices, their questions, and what they bring to a conversation. Not through pictures. The real beauty of a person comes through when you are able to really listen. Ask a question, answer someone else's, or start a private conversation. Everything happens in real voices, yours and theirs. Come hear what you've been missing. Human connection is more than reading text and viewing photos. Interacting through voice is how to connect publicly with a community and privately through direct messaging. Experiencing vision loss, or new to blindness? Speak with someone who has been there. Vorail offers 24/7 peer-to-peer support. Being blind is not the end of the world. There is a place for you here, home of the global low-vision and blind community. Subscription information: Vorail AI requires a subscription to use. Monthly is $9.99 per month with a one-week free trial. Annual is $99.99 per year with a one-month free trial. There is also a 99 cent community pass for members who cannot afford membership. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://vorail.com/terms.html Privacy Policy: https://vorail.com/privacy.html

Screenshots

Mona 27 for Mastodon4 screens
Vorail3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Vorail at 100% against Mona 27 for Mastodon's 43%. Vorail also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.4) and update cadence (daily vs weekly). Mona 27 for Mastodon's advantage is monetization model (freemium vs subscription) and ratings volume (71 vs 13). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Mona 27 for Mastodon sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Vorail sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Vorail holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.4. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mona 27 for Mastodon has 71 ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Mona 27 for Mastodon's written reviews are positive against 100% of Vorail's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mona 27 for Mastodon ships an update weekly, Vorail daily. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Mona 27 for Mastodon versus Vorail: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMona 27 for MastodonVorail
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.4 (71 ratings)4.9 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews43.1% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings71 — better13
Update frequencyWeeklyDaily — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size311 MB37 MB
Age rating17+12+
DeveloperJunyu KuangVorail, Inc

Customer experience

Mona 27 for Mastodon

All ratings69 ratings
Positive84.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative15.9%
Written reviews51 reviews
Positive43.1%
Neutral3.9%
Negative52.9%

Vorail

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews8 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

5 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-time3
  • Small Tip$2.99
  • Generous Tip$6.99
  • Amazing Tip$9.99
3 purchases

Vorail

Subscriptions3
  • Sponsor a member$4.991 Month
  • Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • Annual1 Month trial$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Mona 27 for Mastodon free?
Mona 27 for Mastodon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vorail free?
Vorail is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mona 27 for Mastodon or Vorail?
Vorail is rated higher. Mona 27 for Mastodon averages 4.4 out of 5 from 71 ratings, while Vorail averages 4.9 from 13 ratings.
Do Mona 27 for Mastodon or Vorail have ads?
Neither Mona 27 for Mastodon nor Vorail shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mona 27 for Mastodon or Vorail?
Mona 27 for Mastodon ships an update weekly, and Vorail daily. Most recently, Mona 27 for Mastodon was updated on November 9, 2026 and Vorail on November 10, 2026.

Other comparisons