Toot! For Mastodon Negative Reviews

Toot! for Mastodon App Complaints & User Negative Comments 2024

Toot! for Mastodon app received 34 complaints, negative comments and reviews by users. Have you ever had a bad experience using Toot! for Mastodon? Can you share your negative thoughts about toot! for mastodon?

Toot! for Mastodon for Negative User Reviews

✓ See new toots link doesn’t work everThat tempting link to see new toots never ever works. Not on iPad, not on iPhone. I have to scroll up to the top every time. Maybe put it somewhere else instead of on top of posts if you can’t make it work. No apps currently work well in every way for Mastodon. Browser still the most functional..DrPippiVersion: 17.5

✓ 1 star for censorshipCensorship. I’m also against that kind of content your are blocking but I don’t think this is to the developers of a decentralized protocol to chose what the user can’t see. I want a refund..WhoisrbknVersion: 16.0

✓ Nice interface but tiny textThe interface is really nice compared to many other mastodon clients. I particularly like the way threading is handled with coloured tracks - very nice. There is also a slightly odd feature that partially rotates the screen - I can’t see any practical use for this, but it v looks nice. However it’s not all good. The default text size is really tiny, it doesn’t appear to scale with your iOS settings, and there is no obvious option within the app to adjust it. Avoid this app if you struggle with tiny text..Boogalooo6871Version: 16.0

✓ A mix of good and not so goodThis is, without a doubt, the most polished Mastodon client going at the moment. Everything about it oozes attention to detail and someone’s deep pride in their work. So obviously maintained by someone who cares about their craft. Sadly though, let down by accessibility issues with fonts and a disappointing “dev knows what’s best for your mental health” approach to (the lack of) badge notifications, which pays not a jot of care to what’s helpful to an individual, or apparently sees people as individuals. I highly recommend if they don’t seem like concerns for you..Davep.orgVersion: 17.1

✓ Beautifully designed but why no icons for common tasks?This app obviously has had a lot of love and work put in to it but I don’t understand why the main actions (boost, favorite, etc) are just text buttons instead of icons. It’s hard to process at a glance, and doubly confusing since this app is made by a company who specifically advertises their icon packs within the app..NexxaiVersion: 16.0

✓ Good w some bugsOverall, good app. I like being able to use multiple servers easily, in my case a ‘standard’ mastodon instance and pixelfed. The problem w using this app for pixelfed is that I get favorite and boost counts below each post, but not the little round profile pic w link as I do for my other server account. So I have to log in via web to interact. Poor user experience. Also: super weird message at the top of my pixelfed feed (not visible though web interface) that I can’t delete or hide — ‘you booped their snoot’ and ‘stop yelling log off at my house.’ Does someone think this is funny?.H_watchVersion: 17.3

✓ Technically sound but a few UX gripesA mostly pleasant experience. This app handles multiple accounts better than any other and is mostly pretty in a quirky way. I enjoy the option to visit a public instance’s local timeline without having an account there, so long as the instance supports it. There’s just a few things that ruin it for me. The lack of a media view is a pretty huge disappointment for me. I like discovering new artists and immediately diving into their work. It’s much harder with this app since I have to linearly scroll through a timeline filled with text posts and boosts. It is lacking on some vision-accessibility options. I couldn’t find a way to reduce motion or turn off some animations. Some of the textures may prove difficult for some people - the yellow/black striped content warnings are particularly strenuous on my eyes and difficult to read. There are also quite a few functions hidden away behind an overburdened “More…” menu, which could possibly be neatly integrated into the UI instead. Overall I would comfortably recommend this app if none of the issues above sound like a problem to you..WeaseldookVersion: 21.1

✓ No auto-play of GIFs?! Really?I actually paid for this app because the Mastodon devs said that auto play of gifswas not possible when viewing Mastodon on a mobile device using a web browser. I buy the app, still no auto play of GIFs. Ugh..NotAnotherDamnAppVersion: 1.2

✓ Aggressively patronizing wording and messagingToo many bugs, and a common patronizing tone in settings text. Not for everyone..SzDurdenVersion: 17.4

✓ An ok app!It’s an ok app & nothing more. Can’t see why anyone would pay for this. It has no more features than most of the free Mastodon apps & it’s buggy on top of that. Is it pretty? Yeah it’s decent but again nothing better than free apps offered. I purchased this after coming over from Twitter & seeing it highly recommended. I just don’t get it? In any case I don’t recommend paying for this..BrigantineVersion: 17.1

✓ Maintained, but bad UXSo this is probably the most actively maintained Mastodon apps, and I want to say yes, it’s good Unfortunately, the developer has some really, really weird ideas about what good UX is, like refusing requests to add indicators for notifications, or toggles to turn off image animation, or other niceties of a modern social networking app..RynnterruptVersion: 1.14

✓ Not good enough.There are some implementation decisions here that just work against the user. Basic timeline filters are missing, for example, but the worst offence is the photo picker. The photo picker presents a grid of your entire library, with no sorting, filtering, or way to access albums or other organisation. It also defaults to the oldest photo in your library, so if you wanna post that photo you literally just took, you’ve got tens of gigabytes of photos to thumb scroll through. The interface has so many small flaws (the wheel to swipe between instances interferes with basic accessibility functionality like reachability) that I just can’t recommend anyone download this app..Hipster WerewolfVersion: 17.1

✓ Not my appPurchased and tried Toot! for a couple weeks, but have too many complaints and went back to my old fav app. Some are personal preference, some are more general, but the gripe list includes: No swipe actions on posts in timeline (eg left to star, right to reply). Many excessive animations that can’t be turned off. UX customization options are low in general. Post privacy isn’t easy to see in the timeline. When creating a new post, I have to scroll a page length down for privacy and CW options, causing me to forget them regularly. “Load more” system doesn’t make sense to me - hard to find posts between now and last logon. Would like to see it work more like Mastoot. Gives 3 options to create a toot (text, image, video) when I really just want a text box with some nearby media upload buttons. Text posts don’t always format the way you expect after posting.CytoplasmLawyerVersion: 21.1

✓ A few lacking featuresIt’s a nice, polished and fast app but needs a few basic features added. Like the ability to disable the viewing of alt text. On some images the alt text is so verbose it covers the entire image and there’s no way I can find to dismiss it without closing the image too. Just in general the settings also feel bare bones compared to other mastodon iOS apps..AriocVersion: 20.0

✓ Doesn’t Show Mastodon.social as an option when signing inNot good, please resolve.NavysparkerVersion: 1.1

✓ Doesn’t support self-hosted serversThis client is catered towards people trying to choose their public instance. But wouldn’t find my self-hosted server even given the full URL..AVNKRVersion: 18.0

✓ Overly complicated UI, annoying default soundSo I tried this for a full day and found it to be worse than the default app. The interface is overly complicated and forces you to juggle menus to find specific features that should be laid out in a single screen. The worst is the new post interface and the separation of image vs. text. Too many “cute” animations and dissolves between screens, far too much thought went into the default sound..VoodooMurphyVersion: 17.1

✓ Was doing great...Update: now crashing harder and faster on iOS 15.4.1 Please for the love of sanity UPDATE!!! So unstable. I love this app. Pls fix it.🥲 ...until iOS14 attacked. I can't functionally access my photos for posting. Whatever protocol it's using to access albums is trash and adds extra steps to sharing images. Just...let me pick my photos and tell me if there's a limit. Whatever you did is the worst UX for photo sharing I've ever had. I'm having to airdrop my pics to send them through desktop. Please fix it. The search function is kinda butts too..RaantuvaVersion: 16.0

✓ Solid Mastodon client with some glaring annoyancesProbably the biggest annoyance being that the issue link is broken - looks like the author migrated off GitHub (good move!) but forgot to update the support link in the app itself. Beyond that: * notifications are badly broken by design, and the author has no interest in fixing them * search function is hidden in a menu when it should be directly accessible * large alt texts on images obscure the image itself, and there’s no way that I’ve found to hide them (either temporarily or permanently).PtmonksVersion: 18.0

✓ Form over functionPro: clean, stable, pretty UI with many options Con: lots of non-optional animations slow down user experience, finding local and federated feeds difficult.CenprimeVersion: 16.0

✓ Some basic UX issues for scrollingPlease just add infinite scrolling on "now" without the suboptimal "show more" features below: 1. Selecting "show more" is really easy to miss, and I have to press it all the time as I scan down the feed. 2. Once you miss pressing "show more" the units shift from "Xm" to "Ymn" which I assume is supposed to mean months, typically mo and hard to see either way. The unit is actually useful here but not standard. Consider "min" and "mo" or "m" and "months". 3. Scrolling back up to find "show more" is quite easy to miss, so much that I start to look for the splitting point where the top right units shift from "mn" back to "m" 4. Confusing mechanic where the direction you show more from is based on where you came from, so when you overshoot (always), you then have to scroll back, next you have to slightly go forwards again to reorient the direction you want to scroll. 5. Oh sorry, you accidentally hit "show more" the wrong direction. Please progress back to step 3, scroll up hunting for the seam, and try again. Otherwise no complaints but this kills the core usability for me..Works...Version: 21.1

✓ Can’t change size of textI would not have paid money for this if I had realised that I can’t make the text legible. The other features seem adequate, but I can’t really tell. Disappointed..Blue BilbyVersion: 16.0

✓ Not a fan of the wheel to change timelinesI enjoy using Toot except the wheel to change timelines. I often use the phone in my left hand and can’t reach the wheel on the right with my thumb. When swiping the wheel with my right thumb, I often accidentally minimize the app as system interprets the swipe as a swipe up instead. In addition, I find the transition animation kind of jarring. I would love to have an alternative to timeline changing..AaronMTVersion: 18.2

✓ Alright app with slightly batty devsIt does it’s job well, in fact it’s probably my favorite client app thus far. However while I do appreciate the option they included to “”Filter Awful Survers, filter out any toot originating from a white supremacist server. (Currently, only Gab.)”” I personally dislike how it’s automatically selected. It almost felt as if they were trying to parent us and say what we are and aren’t allowed to view using the app. I would have rated this app higher if it weren’t for them quite literally pushing their views (That you can turn off after going through the settings.) onto us. Perhaps in the future they’ll learn to consider others (However wrong) opinions and turn off the ‘automatic’ setting. Maybe just a pop-up notification would show when we first start the app that says something like “If you want to limit seeing Toots from offensive servers you can turn on a “Filter Awful Servers” option..DwightnerVersion: 1.10.2

✓ No accessibility options for text sizeThis app has a lot of potential but if you need larger fonts on your device don’t buy this app. Wait for the developer to add accessibility options then it will be great..LjpukVersion: 17.0

✓ Nice and seamless but…I’ve been comparing Mastodon apps all day and decided to try toot! I’m not sure I’ll keep using mostly because: -Words instead of symbols for comments, boosts, and likes. Words are visual clutter and the brain works hard to constantly process them. There’s nothing wrong with simple symbols. -Ability to see # of boosts and likes when scrolling. You may say that’s not important, but that’s pushing your views on others. The option to toggle it on or off would be nice. -Automatically displaying replies without the option to turn them off. Those are usually out-of-context personal exchanges. Yes my account is public, but people don’t want to see me saying “thank you” or “cool!” every time I comment. I love the feature to change the notification tone — I just don’t think it worked on my phone. Maybe a brief glitch..LvlytbinaVersion: 17.4

✓ Has all the features, but garish design is off-puttingI paid for this as I read a comparison of Mastodon apps and this had loads of features. I have regrets, though, to be honest. I don't like the visual design or OTT animations, e.g. the pink stars etc. It feels obtrusive and kind of sickly. I don't find it that intuitive to use either. Sorry!.Catherineom77Version: 18.2

✓ Accessibility options would help (:I love everything about it – if the dev could add options for enlarging text, it would make it easier for me to use. Well done!.Dajia CmajdalkaVersion: 16.0

✓ Alt text makes this unusableThere are lots of things to like about this app (such as that the developer doesn't collect data on users) and I wanted to like it but the way it handles alt text (which is very common in the Fediverse) makes it unusable. Alt text completely covers the picture you're trying to look at. I get it that some people need alt text but I want to see the image, not the text..RhetTbullVersion: 21.1

✓ Disappointing.Was looking for a mastodon client and heard name said. Would net even find my server. Turns out others were suggesting tooot (notice 3 o’s). I would take a refund as this is borderline squatting on a name..LauxmythVersion: 16.0

✓ Doesn’t workGreat paid 4 quid for an app that seems to just stick on some random window - no setting no sign it please refund.Timjag72Version: 1.0

✓ Not actively developedThe app is great. The problem is that Mastodon the platform has had lots of updates. Yet this app doesn’t seem to be actively developed. There hasn’t been any app updates for over a year..ShabbVersion: 16.0

✓ Please support Dynamic Text or text size optionsIt’s a nice app as the other reviews say and it’s great that the developer is working on it again. My only feedback is that there is no way to change text size. Dynamic Text has no effect and there is no option in the app to change text size. Accessibility options or support for features like Dynamic Text in iOS are essential for those of us with poor eyesight. It is difficult for me to use this app and I’m not sure I can continue, although I would like to..Jm-4Version: 17.1

✓ Fun Design, but needs some important QoL updatesThe animations are delightful. The way it shows threading works great and is super intuitive. Issues on ios16: - video only plays. No tracking or pausing. - CW toots still take up a large amount of the screen and should probably only unroll. Too large of a click area and could accidentally reveal, and the click area to hide is much smaller..Nybble_and_bitsVersion: 16.0

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