delightful-activitypub-development/watchlist-for-client-apps.md

This is a list of client apps that can be used with fediverse servers apps. It includes both web apps that are not the default UI (eg Pinafore, Brutaldon), and native apps for desktop or mobile OS. The list is sorted according to which server(s) or server>client protocol(s) it is compatible with.

note: The main purpose of this list is to help people find a maintained app suitable for their day-to-day use. However, if source code is available for abandoned apps, a section will be added for that at the end of the list, so people know we haven't just overlooked them, and in case development restarts.

Diaspora

Mobile

Android

• Dandelion* - On F-Droid

Funkwhale

Mobile

Android

• Otter - music player implementing the Funkwhale AP (instead of Subsonic)

GNU social

Mobile

Android

• AndStatus - On F-Droid, where it pitches itself as "a multiple accounts client for multiple Social networks, including GNU social, Mastodon, Twitter and Pump.io."

Hubzilla

Mobile

Android

• Nomad - On F-Droid

Mastodon

note: Mastodon's bespoke server>client protocol also used by Pleroma, so any client designed to work with Mastodon ought to work with both.

Web apps

• Brutaldon - hosted demo

• Cuckoo - hosted demo - inspired by the late G+

• Halcyon - hosted instances

• Pinafore - hosted demo

Native apps

Mobile

Android

• AndStatus (see GNU social section above)

• Fedilab - On F-Droid

• Fedilab Lite - On F-Droid

• Husky - On F-Droid

• FreeTusky - On F-Droid

• Tusky - On F-Droid

• Twitlatte - On F-Droid

iOS

• Mast

• Metatext (Fedi account, site): A free, open-source iOS Mastodon client. GPL-3.0, Swift

Desktop

• Tootle - desktop - supports GNU/Linux, designed for ElementaryOS. On Pleroma support: "I've received some reports that it worked, but it required a manual auth token generation" - BleakGrey, Tootle developer

• WhaleBird - desktop - supports GNU/Linux (.deb and .rpm). "Yes, I can use Pleroma on Whalebird." WhaleBird developer

CLI

• Gomphotherium: Gomphotherium (/ˌɡɒmfəˈθɪəriəm/; "welded beast"), a command line Mastodon client. GPL-3.0, Go

• Goot: A terminal-based mastodon client written in Go. (planned) -, Go

PeerTube

Mobile

• Thorium - As of Dec, 2018, still in beta and missing many features. On F-Droid

• P2Play - On F-Droid

• TubeLab - On F-Droid

Pixelfed

Mobile

• Resin (Fedi account) - The PixelFed client you won't get addicted to GPL-3.0, Javascript

Android

• Pixeldroid - first alpha released in May 2020

Pleroma

note: Pleroma implements Mastodon's bespoke server<>client protocol, but they've also implemented the ActivityPub server<>client protocol, so these apps may or may not be compatible with Mastodon.

Web apps

• Soapbox. Code available here: https://gitlab.com/soapbox-pub/

Unknown - to research

• ✒️ Tempest-Client: Tempest Progressive Web Frontend (uses Mastodon API) MIT, Typescript

• Tootdon - maybe a dead project?

• Twidere - mainly a Titter client, mentions "StatusNet", maybe compatible with OStatus (GNU social, Friendica)?

• Whalebird (site): An Electron based Mastodon, Pleroma and Misskey client for Windows, Mac and Linux. MIT, Typescript

Sources

The Mastodon project wiki has a list of Mastodon compatible apps. There are some Diaspora clients on F-Droid

It's Dead Jim ...

Abandoned projects.

• MouseApp - Abandoned with a suggestion to use "Mastalab", now Fedilab, On F-Droid as MouseApp