Tusker

TL;DR: a competent iOS app for Mastodon with some genuinely nice touches — excited to see where it’s going! Tusker rights all the wrongs of the official Mastodon app: The text view for composing a new toot isn’t all kinds of broken, writing alt text let’s you see and edit what you type, as well as the entire image you’re describing (I know: shocker), and (most importantly) the timeline doesn’t jump around losing your reading position all the time — hallelujah! There are several other nice touches like collapsing long toots, the way conversation threads are displayed, etc. So: Why not 5 stars? Some polish needed: Text contrast is too harsh, especially in night mode (actual white on actual black is really crass). Replies in the timeline should have some sort of indicator that there’s more context. In-line action button icons for favourite and boost should not rely on colour to designate whether you’ve already tapped them (possible alternative: outline vs. filled background with cutout). But for a first release, this is still a really good app. Oh and: if there was a tip-jar type in app purchase, I’d HAPPILY put something in! 😇

I have used almost every Mastodon app and keep settling on Tusker. It has great design and UX and well-thought settings. The UI could be a little better with the option to increase the font size independent of iOS accessibility settings and push notifications would also be welcome. Kudos to the developer and hopefully a little refinement comes to the app in 2024.

Ok #Tusker , ok. This is some strong work. Features I havent seen anywhere else, well organized Settings, and just some really good ideas. LOVE the Digital Wellness settings. Just really thoughtful. What’s Missing : Can only select images or videos from iPhone’s Photos library. Please add iCloud Drive and other alternate sources. Gonna put some funds in their tip jar and hope they add alternate image and video file sources like iCloud Drive. … also the draw something thing! That’s neat and I can see myself using that.

Very big deal that this app supports other forks of mastodon. Couldn’t find it anywhere else.

I have gone through almost every mastodon client and this has got to be the smoothest and most straight forward I've used. I think the only downside is it's slightly less pretty, but functionally, it has everything I want

Well done!

Loving this - fast, threads nicely, takes advantage of my iPad real-estate, very confugurable. Still has minor quirks - I'm not seeing it auto-expand all content warnings, and some media is blurred, even though I turned those both off. But - minor quibbles, I'm sure fixed at some point soon.

iPad specific comments: The layout of the app is more consistent with other iPadOS apps with a left side selection column. Feels familiar and seems much easier to use, IMO.

Got the Twitter blues and looking for a way into this Fediverse thing? Try this app and you’ll figure out Mastodon pretty quickly! The UI seems inspired by some of the nicer Twitter apps from the past which should help make it easier to use. The UI for following additional instances is pretty nice, and there are easy ways to manage the tags and such you’re following (something that’s otherwise not very easy to do in most apps yet). Solid initial release!