AndStatus

Yuri Volkov (yvolk)

About this app

AndStatus is an Open Source multiple accounts client for multiple Social networks, including Mastodon, ActivityPub (Client to Server), GNU social and Pump.io.
AndStatus can combine your feeds from all networks into one Timeline,
and it allows you to read and post even when you are offline.

For Android v.7.0+ devices.

Differentiating features of AndStatus:

1. Many accounts in different Social networks. You may have several accounts in each, write/reply as any "You" and share between accounts and networks.
2. You don't need to be online to read timelines and to post your updates: drafts and unsent posts are kept even after reboot. They will be sent when your device is Online.
3. Convenient tree-like "Conversation view".
4. "Global search" allowing you to search public notes in all networks with one query.
5. Lists of Friends and Followers, presented as User Lists and as Timelines (with the latest note by each User).
6. Notes (tweets)/avatars/attached images are periodically synced in a background, when your device has a good connection. By default, attachments are downloaded via Wi-Fi only.
7. Cached data may be stored for years or for several days only - it's your choice.
8. Backup accounts and notes and Restore them on any of your devices. Own your data!
9. Free and without ads, community supported.

See a Change Log for descriptions of all features of AndStatus with links to their discussions:
http://andstatus.org/changelog.html

Ratings and reviews

Seems like a good app thought it does not work smoothly for me. The app wont stop syncing and tweets loading is laggy. Idk what is wrong with the app. Given how the app seems to favor offline rather than online, I left it synchronising for hour and even then the new content loading is always laggy. Idk what is wrong. Another down size is the inability to load gif. The app depends an a os native or third party image viewer. I was unable to watch gif nor vid on twitter.

It barely manages to read the feeds. Most times it just gets stuck re-reading in a tight loop. And doesn't let you interact. The UI is generally terrible. Putting most actions behind multiple modal dialogues.

I expected it to be a working lightweight Twitter wrapper similar to Frost but I don't really know how to describe this. It's like a barebone white background text wrapper with a horrible UI and UX. It loaded posts very slowly and avatars took forever to load. Loaded avatars are blurry. Navigation was not intuitive. I'm giving it 1 extra star for being open source but otherwise there's no way i'd think of using this app in its current state.

What's new

Twitter is no longer supported