Mona for Mastodon vs Zerogram
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mona 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 7, 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 iCloud Sync: • 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 • Optionally disable some features from automatic syncing User Notes: • Privately set aliases, notes and username colors for Mastodon accounts • User Notes list: browse, organize and edit all your notes in one place Game Controller: • Control the app and browse posts with a compatible game controller, such as a Playstation DualSense/DualShock, Nintendo Switch, Xbox or MFi controller • Customize button functions via in-app settings • Set extra functions for Adaptive Triggers on the Playstation DualSense controller 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: • A stunning new experience with the Liquid Glass design • 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 • Check recent posts on your home screen or notification center with widgets • Adjustable text spacing and text sizes • Share a post as picture • Open multiple windows on iPad and Mac • Automatic video and GIF playback on timelines • Retrieve missing posts with “Load from Remote Server” • Push notifications 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 — Accessible Telegram Client Zerogram is a completely free, independent Telegram client designed from the ground up for blind and low-vision users. It is built on Telegram's official open-source library (TDLib), so it works with your real Telegram account and your real chats. Why Zerogram? Full compatibility with the VoiceOver screen reader is the app's core design goal. Every button, every message, every screen is crafted with clear labels, hints, and rotor actions. Messages are read as "who, when, what" with a single tap; voice messages are announced with their duration, and play, pause, and seek are offered as rotor actions. Key features: - Secure login with phone number and two-step verification - Full communication with chats, groups, channels, and bots - Record and send voice messages (tap or press-and-hold) - Send photos, videos, and documents; open documents inside the app - React to, reply to, edit, and forward messages - Search people across your chats and Telegram's public directory - Notifications, mute, archive, pin - Dark theme, adjustable text size, chat wallpapers - 7 languages: Turkish, English, German, Spanish, Italian, Arabic, French Your privacy comes first. Zerogram collects no data from you; all your communication happens directly with Telegram's servers over the same infrastructure. No ads, no tracking, no middleman. Zerogram is developed by Meriç Karaca, in the belief that everyone deserves to communicate equally.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Zerogram at none against Mona for Mastodon's 7. Zerogram also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs weekly). Mona for Mastodon's advantage is rating (4.3 vs 4.0) and ratings volume (63 vs 7). On price, 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 for Mastodon sells 7 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Zerogram asks for nothing beyond the download.
Mona for Mastodon holds the better App Store score, 4.3 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mona for Mastodon has 63 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 43% of Mona for Mastodon's written reviews are positive against 33% of Zerogram's.
Mona for Mastodon ships an update weekly, Zerogram every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on September 28, 2026 and September 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mona for Mastodon | Zerogram |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (63 ratings) — better | 4.0 (7 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 42.9% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | 7 |
| 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 | 189 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Junyu Kuang | MERIC KARACA |
Customer experience
Mona for Mastodon
Zerogram
In-app purchases
Mona 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
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