Mastodon is an open-source and free self-hosted social networking system similar to Twitter, where people can use to share news and posts privately.
With Mastodon you can share text posts, images, audio and video posts, the same way as you do with Twitter. Moreover, you can add polls, and private content with warnings and embedded links and media.
In this post, you will find the best open-source and free Mastodon clients, for Windows, Linux, macOS, Android and iOS.
1. Elk
Elk is a free and open-source Mastodon web-client. It is built using Vue, and comes with a user-friendly responsive interface.
2. IceCubesApp (iOS, macOS)
IceCubesApp is a freature-rich open-source application for accessing the decentralized social network Mastodon. It is built in SwiftUI, making it fast, lightweight, and easy to use. The app allows users to connect to any Mastodon instance, browse timelines, interact with other users, and post updates and media.
It is multiplatform, working on iOS, macOS, and iPadOS, with a dedicated UI featuring a sidebar on macOS and iPadOS.
3. Ebou
Ebou is a cross-platform Mastodon client written in Rust that groups new toots by author and displays them in a UI similar to modern messengers. It also has a conversation view for seeing replies in context. While still experimental, missing features will be added over time.
Features
Timelines
Super Minimal Notifications (only Mentions and Ebou doesn’t remember which ones you already saw)
Posting (including Video / Image attachments via Dragging and Dropping images onto window)
Conversations in a nice nested tree view
Boost, favorite, reply, bookmark
Lists
Your favourites / bookmarks
Profiles
Settings
Minimal Search
Followers / Follows
Some settings
4. Tokodon
Tokodon is a free and open-source client for Mastodon and other decentralized servers that use its API, including Pixelfed.
Features
Real-time notifications, including background push notifications (using KUnifiedPush.)
Direct messages.
Editing & deleting toots.
Multiple accounts and cross-account actions.
Searching for users, hashtags and posts.
Moderation tools like viewing a server's accounts, email blocks and more.
5. Mastodon for Android
This is the official Android app for Mastodon social network.
6. Mammut (Android)
This is a multi-account Mastodon client for Android with offline support, theming capabilities, and full support for custom emoji.
7. Semaphore (Web)
Semaphore is an accessible, simple, and fast web client for Mastodon. It can be found at semaphore.social, with beta releases at beta.semaphore.social. For updates and support, follow @[email protected]. Check the user guide for basic usage and the admin guide if Semaphore cannot connect to your instance.
8. Metatext (iOS)
Metatext is an exceptional, free, and open-source iOS Mastodon client.
9. Tut - a Mastodon TUI
Tut is a Mastodon TUI (Text User Interface) inspired by vim, offering features similar to the web client. Use 'C' to create a new toot and 'N' to view notifications.
10. Shitter (Android)
This is another Lightweight Android app for Mastodon.
Features
access to posts, users, lists and trending hashtags
real timelines (chronological/reverse chronological order)
Gakki is a third-party client of Mastodon developed using React Native (currently only available for Android).
12. Gomphotherium
Gomphotherium is a command line Mastodon client that offers a CLI and TUI interface. It is designed to be used within tmux as a sidebar-style program and is open to accepting PRs for contributions and maintenance support.
Platforms
Windows
Linux
macOS
13. Toot (CLI)
Toot is a powerful command-line and TUI tool designed for seamless interaction with Mastodon instances.
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16. TheDesk
TheDesk is a free and open-source Mastodon client for PC that offers numerous features for Windows, Linux, macOS, and the web.
17. SubwayTooter (Android)
SubwayTooter is a free and open-source Mastodon client app for Android phone/tablet.
Features
Multiple account
Multiple column with freely rearrangement
Pseudo account that can read instance timeline without login
Cross account action that can fav/boost/reply toots or follow users over accounts/instances
Emoji same glyphs as the PC browser version
Custom emoji fully supported
Tablet mode that shows multiple columns at once
Many filters media TL, app mute, word mute, regex filter, etc.
Auto CW that folds very long texts automatically
Push notification (Google Play service required. if not found, this app uses pull notification 15 min period.)
Relatively fast support for Mastodon's new feature
18. Next Mastodon
Next Mastodon is an impressive self-hosted web-based Mastodon client developed using the powerful Next.js framework and the reliable Vercel platform.
19. Sweetfish
Sweetfish is a Mastodon client for X11/Linux, based on the fork from Salmon. It uses Qt5 as a framework and can potentially be built and run on macOS, BSD, or Windows. The software is licensed under LGPLv3.
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