Mona 27 for Mastodon vs Zerogram
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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 the Mastodon features you expect: • Browse timelines like Home, Lists, and Profiles • Reply to, repost, favorite, and 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 in 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 an image • Open multiple windows on iPad and Mac Privacy: • Mona does not collect any personal information • Your account tokens are protected by the on-device Keychain • Your network connections to Mastodon servers are protected by HTTPS Other Mona features: • Post HDR photos and Live Photos • Use Genmoji and custom emojis in your posts • Column View takes full advantage of the large screens on iPad and Mac, showing multiple views at once so you can move between them smoothly 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 button functions in the app’s settings Tab Bar (Mona Ultra feature): • Pin your frequently visited pages to the tab bar • Drag tabs into the order you prefer • Rename your tabs • Change your tab icons (choose from more than a thousand icons) • Show or 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 the context menu, swipe options, keyboard shortcuts, and the VoiceOver rotor Accent Color (Mona Ultra feature): • Set different accent colors for Light and Dark Mode • Choose from more than 10 built-in colors • 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 levels of views • Export and share your custom themes • Import custom themes shared by other people Font Customization (Mona Ultra feature): • Set different fonts for body text and headings • Select from a variety of built-in fonts • Use custom fonts installed by third-party apps Other Mona Ultra features: • Add multiple accounts, and favorite, repost, quote, or follow using an account other than the current one • Automatically translate posts on the timeline • Filter and mute: filter timelines by post category and content, and hide posts containing certain words or from certain people • Customize push notifications by notification category • Export and import settings: easily transfer your custom settings between devices Customer support: • Mastodon: @MonaApp@mastodon.social • Email: theSpringApp@gmail.com Terms of use: https://apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
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.
- Screen reader compatibility
- Secure login
- Full chat functionality
- Voice message recording
- Media and document sharing
- Message management
- Customizable appearance
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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.
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Verdict
Mona 27 for Mastodon and Zerogram both sit at 4.4 stars, but that hides the real split: 73% of Zerogram's written reviews are positive against 43% of Mona 27 for Mastodon's. Zerogram also leads on monetization model (free vs freemium) and update cadence (daily vs weekly). Mona 27 for Mastodon's advantage is ratings volume (71 vs 16). On price, rating, 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. Mona 27 for Mastodon sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month and Zerogram sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.4 for Mona 27 for Mastodon against 4.5 for Zerogram. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 71 and 16 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 43% of Mona 27 for Mastodon's written reviews are positive against 73% of Zerogram's.
Mona 27 for Mastodon ships an update weekly, Zerogram daily. Both last shipped on November 13, 2026.
| Parameter | Mona 27 for Mastodon | Zerogram |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.4 (71 ratings) | 4.5 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 43.1% of reviews | 72.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 71 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 312 MB | 194 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Junyu Kuang | MERIC KARACA |
Customer experience
Mona 27 for Mastodon
Zerogram
In-app purchases
Mona 27 for Mastodon
- Mona Ultra (1 Month)14 Days trial$2.991 Month
- Mona Ultra (1 Year)14 Days trial$19.991 Year
- Small Tip$2.99
- Generous Tip$6.99
- Amazing Tip$9.99
Zerogram
- Multiple Accounts$9.99
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