Scatto for Pixelfed vs STACKIT
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Scatto for Pixelfed
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Scatto is a fast, native iOS client for Pixelfed — the photo-sharing network built on the open fediverse (ActivityPub). A decentralized alternative to the big media platforms: your photos, your feed, in your hands. Built for speed: browse your home, local, and global timelines with smooth scrolling and edge-to-edge photos. Share photos with your loved ones or with fellow photo enthusiasts — either way, you own your content. Scatto is free and open source. New to Pixelfed? Create a free account on any Pixelfed server — for example scatto.social or pixelfed.social or one of the many other instances — and sign right in. FEATURES • Fast, clean photo uploads — capture or pick from your library • Post video, converted on device so it plays everywhere • Crop and filter your photos before you post — including fun filters like Lo-Fi and 16-color • Your post appears instantly while it uploads in the background • Home, local, and global timelines • Like, comment, boost, and bookmark • Follow people and manage your profile, follow hashtags • Push notifications for likes, comments, follows, and boosts, direct messages, on servers that support them • Stories (experimental, off by default) — share a moment that lasts 24 hours • Direct Messages, reactions to messages, group messages • Collections — browse and fill your Pixelfed collections, and drop a post into one while you write it; new collections are created on your server's website • Report, block, and mute — keep your feed yours • Home Screen widgets — the latest photos from your timeline, a QR code that opens your profile • Share extension — post to Pixelfed from other apps • Multiple accounts • Tag the place — nearby cities suggested from your photo, matched on your device • Add EXIF (optional under settings) camera info to the post • Available in English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, Polish, and Basque ABOUT PUSH NOTIFICATIONS Push needs an interface that most Pixelfed servers, including pixelfed.social, don't provide yet. If your server is one of them, Scatto tells you so in Settings — you'll still see every like, comment and follow inside the app, and the icon badge keeps updating in the background, but nothing will arrive while Scatto is closed. Scatto works with any Pixelfed instance. It's open source and doesn't track you. Scatto is an independent app and is not affiliated with Pixelfed.
STACKIT
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Squads that fill — and nights that actually happen. The four minutes after a squad fills are where it dies. Everyone has a seat, nobody has a voice, tags get read out one character at a time, somebody is on the wrong platform, and somebody never turns up. Every other app stops at the chat window. STACKIT closes that gap. THE PART NOBODY ELSE BUILT Are you actually in? The moment a room fills it asks everyone once, one tap, and shows 3 of 4 in until it is four. Whoever goes quiet gets one nudge, and a seat nobody claims is handed back to the queue instead of holding four people hostage. Nobody reads out a friend code. The app already knows which ID each game uses and already has everybody's, so the room hands you exactly the one you need and nothing else. A lobby that refuses to start short. A scheduled session that is under-strength at kickoff refills itself from people searching right then. HOW IT WORKS 1. Say what you are on for. The game, the mode, the rank you play at, how many you need. Leave it standing and it keeps looking while you get on with something else. 2. The board fills the seats. You see who is on right now at your rank on your platform, and they see you. No posting into a channel and hoping. 3. The room opens itself. The moment the last seat lands everybody is already talking, in a voice room that exists before anyone asks for one. THE SAME PEOPLE, NEXT WEEK Standing nights. A squad can hold Thursday at nine, every week, with everyone saying whether they are coming — and saying no this week never reads as leaving. Match on when you are free. Every app matches game, rank, region and platform. None of them match the thing that actually decides whether a group survives: which evenings you both have. Bring your people. Connect Discord and find who from your servers is already here. No bot, nothing posted, nothing read, and server names are never stored. A record, not a rating. A player's page opens with nights played, teammates met, rooms that landed and no-shows — what happened, not how people felt. VOICE THAT LEAVES NOTHING BEHIND Squad voice runs directly between the phones in the room. The audio never passes through a server, is never recorded, and nothing is left over once the room empties. EVERY GAME IS FREE The whole catalogue is free to everybody, and so is the whole night — the check-in, the tags, the refill. Pro adds reach: four searches at once, every server, hunting on with the app shut, and the full list of people rather than the first three. Privacy policy: https://stackit-umber.vercel.app/privacy.html Terms of service: https://stackit-umber.vercel.app/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: STACKIT at daily against Scatto for Pixelfed's every 3 days. STACKIT also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Scatto for Pixelfed sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and STACKIT sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Scatto for Pixelfed ships an update every 3 days, STACKIT daily. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Scatto for Pixelfed | STACKIT |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | Daily — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 39 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Vinzenz Greger | THOMAS JUNIOR MODESTE |
In-app purchases
Scatto for Pixelfed
- A pretzel$1.99
- A coffee$3.99
- A pizza$8.99
STACKIT
- STACKIT Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
- STACKIT Pro Annual$29.991 Year









