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. 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.
- 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
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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
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
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
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.
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.
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.
| Parameter | Mona 27 for Mastodon | Zerogram |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (65 ratings) | 4.3 (11 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 44.0% of reviews | 71.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 65 — better | 11 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 312 MB | 192 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Junyu Kuang | MERIC KARACA |
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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
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- Mona Ultra$39.99
- Mona Ultra$49.99
Zerogram
No in-app purchases
Questions
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