Mast is a beautiful Mastodon app built with iOS design guidelines in mind. It’s as feature-packed as it is gorgeous. The stunning timelines make reading the latest content a joy. Mast is also fully optimised for iOS 13 with dark mode and context menu support. It also has Today Extensions, Share Extensions, iMessage Stickers, a Watch app, Siri Shortcuts, and an iPad app. I hope you enjoy using Mast. “What is Mastodon?”, you may ask. It’s a federated and decentralised social network. Think of it as email, where you can choose your provider, yet talk with almost anyone from anywhere regardless of their choices. The instances on Mastodon give users freedom to find their community, whilst allowing everyone to talk with each other with the level of visibility that they want. The content warning feature makes it safer, and the increased character count makes it far more expressible. It’s what microblogging should have always been. (Requires a Mastodon account) I'm constantly evolving and crafting Mast to create the perfect Mastodon app for you. If you have any suggestions or feedback, I'd love to hear it!
Lousy App
I was happy to find this app in the App store for Mastodon. After paying and installing I faced a number of problems. 1. Adding a second account seemed to block the search icon. 2. Changes to the account profile never updated in the app. When clearing the cache didn't work, 3. Deleting Accounts b. The process to do this is not intuitive or transparent. When I finally did figure this out it was still buggy. a. I finally found no other option but to delete the accounts to re-add to get the profile updates. Not a great experience overall. I intend to ask for a refund, the app was horrible and when you compare it to free options such as HyperSpace Desktop, The Desk or Whalebird they fall very behind in terms of design and usability.
Interesting Choices
I liked the columnar presentation here, but I incorrectly assumed I could customize the columns. You cannot. There is also a bit of UI cruft (like a tab bar) in the View Menu and some aspects of great Mac OS apps (like ⌘ comma opening prefs) don't work here.
How do you turn on the dark mode?
Help
Mac version is buggy
Can't even got Dark Mode turned on.
Weird issue on start
There's a really weird issue on start in Ventura where the form dialog to give an instance domain is _way_ off to the right, and so it's not visible unless you maximize the view port, but that's not obvious
Crashes - Unusable
Crashes when adding image to scheduled toot on iPad, every single time. unusable in current state.
I'd heard good things, namely that it was worth the $$
It's not. Don't bother. Stick with one of the free third party apps.
Crash and bug fixes
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