Tusky
A lightweight open-source Android client for Mastodon and other fediverse servers.
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About Tusky
Tusky is an Android app for reading and posting on Mastodon, the federated social network. It supports photos, videos, lists and custom emoji, follows Material design guidelines and offers dark, light and black themes.
The app includes notifications and a drafts feature. It is distributed through F-Droid, Google Play and release downloads on Codeberg, where the project also takes bug reports and feature requests. It suits Mastodon users on Android who want a simple, native client.
Strengths
- Supports media, lists and custom emoji
- Dark, light and black themes
- Drafts and notifications
- Available on F-Droid and Google Play
Limitations
- Android only
- Needs an account on a Mastodon or compatible server
Details
- Pricing
- FreeFree and open source under the GPL-3.0 licence.
- License
- GPL-3.0
- Developer
- The Tusky contributors
- Platforms
- Android
- How it runs
- Downloadable app
- Best suited for
- Mastodon users who want a light native Android client
- Categories
- Social networks
- Last verified
- Added
- Provenance
- Facts checked against the developer's own pages and store listings, 1 sources on file.
Alternatives to Tusky
Compare allSoftware that can replace Tusky for an important use case, and what changes if you switch.
Pachli
An open-source Android client for Mastodon and compatible fediverse servers.
Pachli is an open-source Android client for Mastodon and compatible servers such as iceshrimp.net, with regular monthly releases on Google Play, F-Droid and GitHub.
Moshidon
A customizable Material You Mastodon client for Android, forked from Megalodon.
Moshidon builds on the official Mastodon Android app with more customization and Material You design, though a rewrite in progress may change its behaviour.
Fedilab
A multi-account Android client for Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, Pixelfed and PeerTube.
Fedilab is also an open-source Android client but adds multi-account support and covers Pleroma, Friendica, Pixelfed and PeerTube alongside Mastodon.
tooot
An open-source Mastodon client for iOS and Android, started with a focus on the Chinese community.
tooot is an open-source Mastodon client for both Android and iOS, built with Chinese-speaking users in mind, and focuses on Mastodon rather than other platforms.
Raccoon for Friendica
An open source Kotlin Multiplatform client for Friendica and Mastodon accounts.
Raccoon for Friendica is an open-source Kotlin Multiplatform client for Android and iOS that supports Friendica as well as Mastodon, maintained by a single developer account.
Tuba
A GTK desktop client for browsing and posting on Mastodon and the wider fediverse.
Tuba is a GPL-3.0 GTK client for Linux, Windows and Android, adding scheduled posts, polls and admin tools with an adaptive layout for desktops.
Elk
A lightweight open-source web client for Mastodon that runs in the browser.
Elk is an open-source Mastodon web client that runs in the browser, so it works on any device with nothing to install instead of a native Android app.
Openvibe
A mobile app that combines Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads and Nostr timelines into one feed.
Openvibe is a closed-source mobile app for Android and iOS that combines Mastodon, Bluesky, Threads and Nostr timelines into a single feed.
Tusky as an alternative
Listings that name Tusky as an alternative.
Ivory
A Mastodon client for iPhone, iPad and Mac from the makers of Tweetbot.
Tusky is a free GPL-3.0 Mastodon client for Android with themes, drafts and lists, moving you away from Apple platforms.
Phanpy
A minimalistic, opinionated web client for reading and posting on Mastodon from a browser.
Tusky is a lightweight open-source Android client for Mastodon and compatible servers, with themes, drafts and notifications.
Similar software
Related functionality, not necessarily a direct replacement.
Mastodon
Federated microblogging server with no algorithmic feed.
Pleroma
Lightweight fediverse server that runs on very modest hardware.
GoToSocial
A lightweight self-hosted ActivityPub social network server written in Go.
Iceshrimp.NET
A self-hosted ActivityPub microblogging server written in C#, continuing the Iceshrimp project.
Ice Cubes
An open-source Mastodon client for iPhone, iPad and Mac, written in SwiftUI.
Feditext
A free, open source iOS client for Mastodon and Mastodon-compatible fediverse servers.
