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AppRecs rating 4.0. Trustworthiness 87 out of 100. Review manipulation risk 34 out of 100. Based on a review sample analyzed.
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Ratings breakdown
5 star
69%
4 star
0%
3 star
0%
2 star
6%
1 star
25%
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87% trustworthiness score from analyzed reviews
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69% positive sampled reviews
About Mona 7 for Mastodon
All Mastodon features that everyone expects:
• Browse timelines like Home, List, and Profiles
• Reply, repost, favorite, bookmark posts with ease
• Explore trending posts and news, plus Local and Federated timelines
iCloud Sync:
• Sync your reading positions, mute list, user notes, drafts, search history, accent colors, and custom app themes across your iPhone, iPad, and Mac, privately and securely
• Optionally disable some features from automatic syncing
User Notes:
• Privately set aliases, notes and username colors for Mastodon accounts
• User Notes list: browse, organize and edit all your notes in one place
Game Controller:
• Control the app and browse posts with a compatible game controller, such as a Playstation DualSense/DualShock, Nintendo Switch, Xbox or MFi controller
• Customize button functions via in-app settings
• Set extra functions for Adaptive Triggers on the Playstation DualSense controller
Privacy:
• Mona does not collect any personal information
• Your account tokens are protected by on-device Keychain
• Your network connections to Mastodon servers are protected by HTTPS
Other Mona features:
• A stunning new experience with the Liquid Glass design
• Post with HDR photos and Live Photos
• Use Genmoji and custom emojis in your posts
• Column View takes full advantage of the big screen on iPad and Mac, shows multiple views at once and allows you to navigate between views fluently and efficiently
• Check recent posts on your home screen or notification center with widgets
• Adjustable text spacing and text sizes
• Share a post as picture
• Open multiple windows on iPad and Mac
• Automatic video and GIF playback on timelines
• Retrieve missing posts with “Load from Remote Server”
• Push notifications
Tab Bar (Mona Ultra feature):
• Pin your frequently visit pages to the tab bar
• Drag tabs into the order you prefer
• Rename your tabs
• Change your tab icons (more than a thousand of icons for you to choose)
• Show/hide tab names
Post Actions (Mona Ultra feature):
• Drag actions into the order you prefer
• Configure actions as swipe options: swipe a post horizontally to perform an action
• Optionally hide some or all action buttons from post cards, while keeping them accessible via context menu, swipe options, keyboard shortcuts, and VoiceOver rotor
Accent Color (Mona Ultra feature):
• Configure different Accent Colors for Light and Dark mode
• More than 10 built-in colors for you to choose
• Design and set custom colors
Theme Editor (Mona Ultra feature):
• Customize the app’s color scheme
• Design and set custom themes
• Advanced color settings allow you to fine-tune colors for different level of views
• Export and share your custom themes
• Import custom themes shared by other people
Font Customization (Mona Ultra feature):
• Configure different fonts for body text and headings
• Select from a variety of build-in fonts
• Supports custom fonts installed by third-party apps
Other Mona Ultra features:
• Add multiple accounts: you can also opt to favorite, repost, quote post, or follow using a non-current account
• Automatically translate posts on the timeline
• Filter and mute: filter timelines based on post category and content; hide posts with certain words; hide posts from certain people
• Customize push notifications based on notification category
• Export and import settings: easily transfer your custom settings between multiple devices
Customer support:
• Mastodon: @MonaApp@mastodon.social
• Email: theSpringApp@gmail.com
Terms of use:
https://apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
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Reviews for Mona 7 for Mastodon
wraithequestrain
Same Old Bugs, New Purchase
It has mostly the same bugs and lack of features as Mona 6. (E.g. 1. the number indicating replies to a post and the actual replies displayed is off. Toot! displays everything, and is still a one-time purchase that was just updated and refreshed. 2. Private notes, mutes/filters and scroll/read positions are only saved in the app locally so they aren’t saved in the server.) But it now is a rental service, or costs an additional ten or twenty dollars depending on how duped the customer was previously. So what’s the benefit of this for the customer compared to the old version? Is this just a “new revenue generation” play? Seems like it.
cleverdevil
Bait and switch - Never again will I trust this developer or recommend their apps.
I have been a user of Mona and the now-defunct Spring for years. It’s a great app and I have enjoyed the customization and top-notch user experience. I liked Mona enough to pay for Mona Pro Max, a one-time purchase at the top tier of the pricing for this app. Fast forward to today, when the developer has launched a new version of Mona updated for the new iOS design language. Guess what? The app now requires a subscription or a hefty “one time purchase” option for Mona Pro Max purchasers at $19.99, which is over double the price I already paid for Mona Pro Max. It’s even framed as a “discount” for existing Pro Max users, which is laughable. I already paid “one time” and now you’re offering a new “one time” purchase at over double the price, and now I know that there is no such thing as “one time” pricing with this developer. They’ll simply bump the version number and shake me down for more money. I understand that it’s not easy for an indie developer to make money without an effective monetization strategy, but choosing a poor strategy is the developer’s fault, not the user’s. They knew full well that they were charging a one-time fee, and are now trying to extort additional funds from loyal and happy users. It’s frankly insulting. Well, it’s not going to work on me. While twenty bucks isn’t all that much money in the grand scheme of things, the complete violation of trust and deceptive practices are enough for me to never purchase or use any apps from this developer ever again. They’ve sent a clear message to their user base — deal with shakedowns and lies, or go away. So, here is my clear message back — I’m gone. Good luck winning over new customers when they read the inevitable mountain of one star reviews that you’re going to earn.
