Mastodon

3.6
7.61K reviews
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Rated for 12+
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About this app

Mastodon is the best way to keep up with what’s happening. Follow anyone across the fediverse and see it all in chronological order. No algorithms, ads, or clickbait in sight.

This is the official Android app for Mastodon. It is blazing fast and stunningly beautiful, designed to be not just powerful but also easy to use. In our app, you can:

EXPLORE

■ Discover new writers, journalists, artists, photographers, scientists and more
■ See what’s happening in the world

READ

■ Keep up with people you care about in a chronological feed with no interruptions
■ Follow hashtags to keep up with specific topics in real time

CREATE

■ Post to your followers or the whole world, with polls, high quality images and videos
■ Participate in interesting conversations with other people

CURATE

■ Create lists of people to never miss a post
■ Filter words or phrases to control what you do and don’t want to see

AND MORE!

■ A beautiful theme that adapts to your personalized color scheme, light or dark
■ Share and scan QR codes to quickly exchange Mastodon profiles with others
■ Login and switch between multiple accounts
■ Get notified when a specific person posts with the bell button
■ No spoilers! You can put your posts behind content warnings

A POWERFUL PUBLISHING PLATFORM

You no longer have to try and appease an opaque algorithm that decides if your friends are going to see what you posted. If they follow you, they’ll see it.

If you publish it to the open web, it’s accessible on the open web. You can safely share links to Mastodon in the knowledge that anyone will be able to read them without logging in.

Between threads, polls, high quality images, videos, audio, and content warnings, Mastodon offers plenty of ways to express yourself in a way that suits you.

A POWERFUL READING PLATFORM

We don’t need to show you ads, so we don’t need to keep you in our app. Mastodon has the richest selection of 3rd party apps and integrations so you can choose the experience that fits you best.

Thanks to the chronological home feed, it’s easy to tell when you’ve caught up on all updates and can move on to something else.

No need to worry that a misclick will ruin your recommendations forever. We don’t guess what you want to see, we let you control it.

PROTOCOLS, NOT PLATFORMS

Mastodon is not like a traditional social media platform, but is built on a decentralized protocol. You can sign up on our official server, or choose a 3rd party to host your data and moderate your experience.

Thanks to the common protocol, no matter what you choose, you can communicate seamlessly with people on other Mastodon servers. But there’s more: With just one account, you can communicate with people from other fediverse platforms.

Not happy with your choice? You can always switch to a different Mastodon server while taking your followers with you. For advanced users, you can even host your data on your own infrastructure, since Mastodon is open-source.

NON-PROFIT IN NATURE

Mastodon is a registered non-profit in the US and Germany. We are not motivated by extracting monetary value from the platform, but by what’s best for the platform.

AS FEATURED IN: TIME, Forbes, Wired, The Guardian, CNN, The Verge, TechCrunch, Financial Times, Gizmodo, PCMAG.com, and more.
Updated on
9 Oct 2024

Data safety

Safety starts with understanding how developers collect and share your data. Data privacy and security practices may vary based on your use, region and age The developer provided this information and may update it over time.
This app may share these data types with third parties
Personal info
No data collected
Learn more about how developers declare collection
Data is encrypted in transit
You can request that data be deleted

Ratings and reviews

3.6
7.34K reviews
Mark Banner
4 October 2024
Having used fedilab in the past, I thought I'd try it the "official" app and it has been... disappointing. The UI is way too busy, and at the same time very lacking and disfunctional. When it collapses posts because there are many, and you expand it, you are then forced to scroll down and try and find where you had got to before. Alt text doesn't show easily, you have to hit small buttons. Can't bookmark posts on one click. Threads don't have any indication of who is responding to what.
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Julian Treasure
28 September 2024
it's a functional social media app but: no federated timeline, no markdown support, no emoji reactions, no bookmark organization, no app theming, no post drafts, character/media limits, no ui for direct messages, etc. some of that is client specific, some is mastodon specific but all add up to a generally solid experience that feels like it's missing something (especially coming from elsewhere). also I've never been a fan of inline tags but everybody does it so what are you gonna do
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Mastodon
28 September 2024
Could you elaborate what features you are missing from the app to justify the negative rating?
Kyle Doering
17 September 2024
Need to add the feature to allow push notifications when specific accounts post. Love the chronological post order but you can easily miss a post from a favorite account. When I favorite or boost a post while in the notifications section, it immediately updates the count but doesn't display the colored in star or highlighted boost icon until later or you refresh the feed/post. It works properly in your home/explore feeds and the post. The way comments/convos in posts are organized still meh.
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Mastodon
17 September 2024
You now have the option to click the "bell button" on someone's profile to be notified whenever they post.

What's new

- Posts with rich formatting from other fediverse platforms will now render beautifully!
- Fixed issue with opening links to other websites
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