Tusky for Mastodon

Conny Duck

About this app

Tusky is a lightweight client for Mastodon (https://joinmastodon.org/), a free and open-source social network server. It supports all Mastodon features, like photos, videos, lists, custom emojis and is designed according to material guidelines.
You can choose between a dark and a light theme in Tusky. It has notifications and a drafts feature.
Tusky is free and open source software licensed under the GPL-3.0. The source code is available at https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky

Ratings and reviews

Overall Tusky is a pretty good app but there is one thing that bugs the hell out of me: if you are trying to scroll vertically and your finger moves sideways even a single millimeter, it suddenly switches to another screen. This is just an annoyance to me, I can only imagine it makes this app impossible to use for anyone with fine motor control difficulties.

Still needs work on the basics. Timeline content loading fails to retain current position-need to scroll down to find where one left off after load. Lacks all but basic customization. Insists on always showing image alt text. Why? Disjoint workflow for settings. "Back" returns to timeline instead of last menu level. Can't fix header position; windowshading is distacting. Perhaps the best app for quickest account switching.

A couple little bugs need to be worked out. The delayed timer for posting doesn't work. It's a wonderful feature, but I've tried it three times and it has failed to work. Also, in the followers column, it doesn't tell you if you're following them back like how it does on the website. Another thing, when I post a video from YouTube, the app takes you to YouTube instead of playing the video inside the app. I like the website better for this. Otherwise, it seems okay.

What's new

Tusky 21.0

- Support for post editing
- New setting to control preferred reading direction
- Larger media previews and a new overlay to indicate media with description
- It is now possible to add accounts to lists from their profile
and much more