Comparison

SkyPost vs Deck³

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

Head to head
About

SkyPost

Enhance your social media experience with advanced timeline management, post scheduling, and integrated RSS feeds. Communicate securely with end-to-end encrypted chat and leverage AI companions for content creation. Personalize your interface with extensive theming options.

Highlights
  • Multi-column timeline view
  • Delayed and scheduled posts
  • Custom link cards
  • Built-in RSS/Atom feed reader
  • Encrypted direct messaging
  • On-device AI chat companions
  • Home and lock screen widgets
Features
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SkyPost is a power-user client for Bluesky, built for people who actually live on the timeline. MULTI-COLUMN TIMELINE See your Following feed, Discover, custom feeds, and alerts side-by-side. Up to four columns at once on iPad — drag to reorder, pin your favorites, scroll independently. The desktop-class Bluesky experience that's been missing on iOS. NEXT-LEVEL COMPOSER • Delayed preview posts — stage a post at the top of your timeline for 1–2 minutes before it publishes, so you can catch the typo before the world does • Scheduled posts — write now, publish later • Custom link cards with editable title, description, and thumbnail • Tag groups, follower search, thread drafts, image alt-text reminders BUILT-IN RSS READER Subscribe to any RSS or Atom feed — or any YouTube channel — and read inline, or merge stories straight into your Bluesky timeline as RSS pills. Stop tab-switching. ENCRYPTED DIRECT MESSAGES End-to-end encrypted chat between SkyPost users, with photos, voice notes, custom sound clips, and a personal meme library that syncs across all your devices via iCloud. AI CHAT COMPANIONS Built-in AI assistants powered by on-device Apple Intelligence on supported hardware. Brainstorm posts, draft replies, or just chat. HOME SCREEN & LOCK SCREEN WIDGETS Quick-glance widgets for your latest RSS items, custom Bluesky feeds, a dice roller, and a daily hangman game. THEMING & PERSONALIZATION Custom app backgrounds, accent colors, font scaling, and dark-mode-aware materials throughout. SKYPOST PRO A single subscription unlocks the full multi-column timeline, RSS reader, delayed previews, AI companions, the meme library, and all power-user tools. • Monthly $1.99 • Yearly $19.99 with a 7-day free trial Cancel anytime in Settings → Apple ID → Subscriptions. Bluesky and the AT Protocol are open. SkyPost is an independent client — not affiliated with Bluesky Social, PBC. Privacy policy: https://skypost.app/privacy Terms (Apple standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Deck³

Features
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Deck³ turns Bluesky into a deck of live(ish) columns on your iPhone and iPad. Home timeline, a custom feed, a list, notifications, DMs: all open at the same time, updating in real time, for people who live chronically online. And for people who loved Tweetdeck when it was a thing. On iPad the columns sit side by side, and the deck scrolls when you open more than the screen holds. On iPhone one column fills the screen, the tab bar covers home, notifications, search, messages and your profile, and the rest of the deck is one swipe from the left edge. Easy as that. Your columns - Open what you want: home, saved feeds, lists, search, bookmarks, notifications, messages, profiles. - Drag a column to reorder it. Close what you don't need. - Pause a column to hold it still while you read. Refresh just that one, or the whole deck. Live, no interruptions Your home timeline livestreams posts by default. A new post shows up the second it goes out, and if you've scrolled down it waits behind a "new posts" pill instead of shoving everything down and making you lose your place. Any search can become a live column too: a hashtag, a topic, whatever your heart desires, arriving in real time. Writing posts - Replies, quotes and reposts in a real text editor, so you can actually land the irony of italics or the punch of bold or the... linky of linkness? - @mentions and #hashtags that autocomplete as you type. - Images with alt text. Video and links show up as cards, not a bare ugly URL. - Drafts saved on the device and synced with your account. - You decide who can reply and what language a post goes out in before you hit publish. Feeds, lists and discovery - See what's trending, browse feeds worth trying, and save the good ones straight into your deck. - Build lists, read them as columns, add or remove people right from a profile. - Bookmark a post and it sits in its own column until you decide what the hell to do with it. - Open a starter pack and follow everyone in it at once. - Tap a like or repost count and every name behind it shows up, with a badge next to anyone who follows you back. Activity on your terms - Choose which kinds reach you: likes, reposts, follows, mentions, quotes, replies. - Narrow any of them to just the people you follow. - Ask to be pinged the moment a specific account posts. - It all syncs with your Bluesky account, so it holds wherever you sign in. Direct messages Read and answer your DMs without leaving the app. A tab on iPhone, a column next to everything else on iPad. Moderation - Report a post or an account. Block, mute, or silence an entire thread. - Tune your filters and the labelers you subscribe to. - Every choice syncs back to your account. Made for the thing in your hand - Post straight from the Shortcuts app. - Shake to undo a like, a repost or a bookmark. - Plug a keyboard into an iPad and j and k move through posts, o opens a thread, r replies, l likes, ⌘N starts a new post. - Light, dark or automatic. Five accent colors. A layout that respects your text size and Reduce Motion. More than one account Sign in with as many accounts as you have. Each one keeps its own columns, and you choose which one you're posting as. About your data Your login lives in the device Keychain, and the app only talks to Bluesky, plus one anonymous usage service that shows me which features people actually use. - No personal data collected. No unique identifier tied to you or your account. - Nothing in that usage data can be traced back to a person. - No ads. No third-party code selling anything about you. - You can switch it off entirely in Settings, if you'd rather I didn't see it. Deck³ is an independent client. Bluesky didn't build it and doesn't endorse it. You'll still need a Bluesky account to sign in.

Screenshots

SkyPost4 screens
Deck³4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Deck³ at none against SkyPost's 3. On price, update cadence, ads 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. SkyPost sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Deck³ asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SkyPost ships an update every 6 days, Deck³ every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 9 level
SkyPost versus Deck³: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSkyPostDeck³
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 6 daysEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB18 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperTodd LambertRafael Silva

In-app purchases

3 purchases

SkyPost

Subscriptions2
  • SkyPost Pro Monthly7 Days trial$1.991 Month
  • SkyPost Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Unlock Horror Pack$1.99
None

Deck³

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is SkyPost free?
SkyPost is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Deck³ free?
Deck³ is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do SkyPost or Deck³ have ads?
Neither SkyPost nor Deck³ shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SkyPost or Deck³?
SkyPost ships an update every 6 days, and Deck³ every 4 days. Most recently, SkyPost was updated on October 24, 2026 and Deck³ on October 25, 2026.

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