Users can also “demo” the app for free without committing to a subscription.Īs Tweetbot’s revenue was cut to zero by Twitter’s API changes, apps like Ivory only have a future if consumers are willing to adopt Mastodon and subscribe to alternative clients. These subscriptions are available in the Ivory app at present, and enable some of the power user features like configuring which notifications you want to receive, among other things. Haddad says the Premier tier was added mainly because people were asking to pay more money to help the company out, but it plans to include a few perks for those people in the future, including possibly, things like extra icons or wallpapers. The latter includes all the features in the Pro subscription, and will later include a few extras, the company says. A “Premier” subscription is also available for $24.99 per year. The App Store lists these as costing either $1.99 per month or $14.99 per year. The app will generate revenue, as Tweetbot did, by way of in-app subscriptions. However, the company says it has much more to still add to the app, including things like tools for editing your profile or editing your posts (take that, Edit Tweet button!), as well as others for reading the alt/description text for media, improved hashtags, support for custom instance emoji, an improved notifications tab with better filtering, improved nav bar and a feature to suppress duplicate posts. The app additionally promises fast performance, smooth scrolling and an attractive user interface and sound design.įor a debut release, Ivory is already a fairly robust client. In addition to the filters, themes and icon choices, users can configure the navigation buttons at the bottom of the screen to show them what they want to see, by pressing down on buttons to switch between tabs for different areas of the app like bookmarks, favorites, statistics, your profile, notifications, lists, search and more. Ivory also allows users to personalize the app in other ways. ![]() This could appeal to Mastodon’s older users, as well, who may want to mute and avoid some of the posts shared by Mastodon newcomers who are bringing Twitter’s culture to the platform, leading to unwanted posts without content warnings in their timelines. There are other thoughtful touches designed to appeal to power users, too, like hashtag tracking, mute filters with regex support and timeline filters that let you show or hide posts that meet certain criteria you set. That helped attract interest in the up-and-coming apps like Ivory and others being built by former Twitter third-party app developers, including Mammoth. However, some Mastodon newcomers didn’t like the official native mobile app - especially after using the faster, more polished Twitter native mobile app or those from third parties, like Tweetbot. As of December, Mastodon had grown to 2.5 million monthly active users across some 8,600 different servers or, in Mastodon lingo, “instances.” That led to a flurry of interest in new apps and other Twitter alternatives, like Mastodon. Though not quite as simple to use or understand as Twitter, Mastodon has gained traction in the months following Elon Musk’s acquisition of Twitter.Īs Twitter’s new owner implemented controversial changes and the site’s performance degraded at times, some people had begun looking for a new home to post short updates, as they did on Twitter. But instead of serving as a client for Twitter’s network, the company has now embraced the promising open source platform Mastodon. Tapbots founder Paul Haddad told TechCrunch that Ivory’s App Store release was approved just yesterday, but the company had a few technical issues to address around subscriptions before publicizing the launch.įor longtime Tweetbot users, Ivory will offer a familiar experience. ![]() However, by launching publically on the App Store, Tapbots is able to put Ivory into more people’s hands after filling up the limited number of TestFlight slots it had for its test version. ![]() The “Early Access” label is a subtitle that Tapbots put on its release to indicate there will still be features missing as it debuts, the company told us. Hoping to fill the void that Tweetbot leaves behind, the company is now making its anticipated Mastodon client app Ivory available on the App Store as an Early Access release. Tapbots, the makers of popular third-party Twitter app Tweetbot that was recently killed by Twitter’s API changes, is releasing its next new product.
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