Tusky for Mastodon

Team Tusky

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

The worst mobile app for Mastodon, it barely functions correctly, notifications bugged when trying to fetch data so it will leave a permanent notification in your notification bar that can't be dismissed and drain your battery for as long as the application runs in the background until you kill it in the task manager. App is very slow and buggy overall. Constant "Connection Error" messages because it fails to grab data when there's an active connection to the network. DO NOT USE - AVOID USING!

Image scaling is very poor in the main timeline, often leaving blobby messes. I really wish I could easily search through the people I follow and my followers with this app. Weirdly, I can type a user handle into a new post and sometimes find people that way, but that's very cumbersome. There isn't a way to require alt text before posting images, so you'll likely get nagged by other users to add that. The app is also very poor about consolidating notifications, cumbersome with popular posts

I think this is probably the best Mastodon app for Android, and works well with GoToSocial. However, the image viewer is very poor because it doesn't seem to render the full resolution image, resulting in fuzziness if you zoom in. This seems like a trivial fix to me, so it's weird given that the rest of the app is so good.

What's new

Bug fixes & stability improvements