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.

I'm liking this app way more than the official Mastodon app (which was rushed out) specifically because it makes it very easy to view the different timelines: people I follow; people in my instance; the federated timeline; and then specific lists I've made. It feels a lot like the Twitter app (esp if, in settings, you choose always expand CWs and always show media) The one feature I'd love is to be able to add and edit lists from this app (right now can only do it on the web interface)

What's new

- New App icon
- You can now follow hashtags
- Support for Android 13
- set the language of a post
- set the focus point of an image
full changelog: https://github.com/tuskyapp/Tusky/releases/tag/v20.0-beta.1