Mercury for Mastodon

Description of App

Introducing Mercury, a customisable client for the Mastodon social network!

Notable features of Mercury: - Customise swipe gestures to shortcut actions you perform often - Choose a custom theme to personalise the app to your tastes with automatic dark mode switching - Listen to audio uploaded to the Fediverse - Save a list of hashtags that you would like to follow - Add descriptions to images and GIFs that you upload - Support for custom emoji when posting a status - Open Twitter and Reddit links in popular native apps - Create custom timeline filters - Translate status text - Bookmark statuses - Schedule statuses - Manage lists - Multiple account support - All without ads

Version

1.3.2

Free or Paid

Free With In-App Purchase

Apple Watch Support

No

Device(s) App Was Tested On

iPhone

iOS Version

13.6

Accessibility Comments

This app has customizable router actions for all timelines. Everything is native IOS so is fully accessible, as well.

VoiceOver Performance

VoiceOver reads all page elements.

Button Labeling

All buttons are clearly labeled.

Usability

The app is fully accessible with VoiceOver and is easy to navigate and use.

Other Comments

The developer is very active on Mastodon and is more than happy to take accessibility feedback in a number of ways.

Developer's Twitter Username

Mastodon only.

Recommendations

1 people have recommended this app

Most recently recommended by Robert Kingett 4 years 2 months ago

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Comments

By Firefly on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 - 03:32

I tried to sign up for mastodon, through the mercury app, it took me to a website I put in the required information, but it keeps wanting me to match the requested form and I’m not sure what I am supposed to do I tried multiple things, my wife even tried to help me.

By Robert Kingett on Tuesday, August 25, 2020 - 03:32

The main instance may be closed to new members. Below are 2 links. It would be best to visit the below on a computer, not a mobile device.

Join Mastodon instances

Or you could try the instance I'm in now. That link is below. Think of Mastodon like email. You join an instance, not one central social network. Pick an instance you like. Anyone can talk to each other across instances.

Again, do all of this on the computer, not a mobile device.

Mastodon invite link

By Dave Nason on Friday, November 25, 2022 - 03:32

Member of the AppleVis Editorial Team

So generally speaking, any links that are in a toot are accessible via the actions roter menu, alongside hashtags and other options.
However I’m finding that sometimes this is not the case. On some occasions, where there is a link in the ttoot, the link is not appearing in the rotor.
Can anyone else confirm this or know why it’s happening?
Thanks,
Dave