Comparison

Mona 27 for Mastodon vs Zerogram

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. Enjoy smooth scrolling, native design, and advanced features like user notes, game controller support, and extensive theme customization. It's designed for privacy and accessibility, with full VoiceOver optimization.

Highlights
  • Highly customizable interface
  • User notes and aliases
  • Game controller support
  • iCloud sync for settings
  • Advanced theme and accent color editor
  • Column View for iPad/Mac
  • Widgets for home screen
Features
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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

Zerogram

This is a free, independent Telegram client designed for blind and low-vision users. It offers full compatibility with screen readers, allowing seamless communication through chats, groups, and channels.

Highlights
  • Screen reader compatibility
  • Secure login
  • Full chat functionality
  • Voice message recording
  • Media and document sharing
  • Message management
  • Customizable appearance
Features
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Zerogram is an independent Telegram client designed for blind and low-vision users. Built with Telegram’s official open-source TDLib library, it works with your Telegram account and conversations. VoiceOver labels, hints and actions help you navigate chats, groups, channels and bots; read, reply to, edit and forward messages; send voice messages, photos, videos and files; and use supported calls and live streams. Explore chat folders, search, translation, notification sounds, storage settings and appearance options. Zerogram supports 15 interface languages. The app is free to download. Adding multiple accounts is available as an optional in-app purchase. Zerogram is an independent app and is not the official Telegram application.

Screenshots

Mona 27 for Mastodon4 screens
Zerogram3 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Zerogram at none against Mona 27 for Mastodon's 7. Zerogram also leads on review sentiment (71% vs 44%) and update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). Mona 27 for Mastodon's advantage is ratings volume (65 vs 11) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads and iOS requirement 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 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Zerogram asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for Mona 27 for Mastodon against 4.3 for Zerogram. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mona 27 for Mastodon has 65 ratings behind it against 11, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 44% of Mona 27 for Mastodon's written reviews are positive against 71% of Zerogram's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mona 27 for Mastodon ships an update weekly, Zerogram every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 17, 2026 and October 18, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard6 real differences · 4 level
Mona 27 for Mastodon versus Zerogram: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMona 27 for MastodonZerogram
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.3 (65 ratings)4.3 (11 ratings)
Positive reviews44.0% of reviews71.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings65 — better11
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size312 MB192 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperJunyu KuangMERIC KARACA

Customer experience

Mona 27 for Mastodon

All ratings65 ratings
Positive83.1%
Neutral0.0%
Negative16.9%
Written reviews50 reviews
Positive44.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative52.0%

Zerogram

All ratings11 ratings
Positive72.7%
Neutral18.2%
Negative9.1%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive71.4%
Neutral14.3%
Negative14.3%

In-app purchases

7 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-time5
  • Small Tip$2.99
  • Generous Tip$6.99
  • Amazing Tip$9.99
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  • Mona Ultra$39.99
  • Mona Ultra$49.99
None

Zerogram

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mona 27 for Mastodon free?
Mona 27 for Mastodon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Zerogram free?
Zerogram is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Mona 27 for Mastodon or Zerogram?
Mona 27 for Mastodon and Zerogram are both rated 4.3 out of 5 on the App Store, from 65 and 11 ratings respectively.
Do Mona 27 for Mastodon or Zerogram have ads?
Neither Mona 27 for Mastodon nor Zerogram shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mona 27 for Mastodon or Zerogram?
Mona 27 for Mastodon ships an update weekly, and Zerogram every 2 days. Most recently, Mona 27 for Mastodon was updated on October 17, 2026 and Zerogram on October 18, 2026.

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