Reviews of Ice Cubes for Mastodon

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List of user reviews and ratings for Ice Cubes for Mastodon

Total ratings

4.80 (Rating count: 1,966)

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Review summary

Users praise Ice Cubes for Mastodon as highly customizable, fast, and feature-rich, with a sleek native feel and strong support for multiple accounts and cross-instance following. However, recurring issues include crashes (often on open or while scrolling), an unreliable unread counter, and timeline glitches when expanding posts or loading more content, which can jumble the feed and cause missed posts. Overall, many reviews call it the best Mastodon mobile client, but stability and UI glitches remain the main drawbacks.

Pros

Highly customizable UI and display options
Fast, smooth performance with a native feel
Rich feature set that outperforms the official Mastodon app
Strong multi-account and cross-instance support
Pleasant, easy-to-use UI/UX

Cons

Frequent crashes (on open or while scrolling)
Unread counter is unreliable and resets unpredictably
Timeline expansion/load more issues causing scrolling/jumble

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User Reviews

Recent rating average: 3.10

All time rating average: 4.80

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12% (7)

Date	Author	Comment
2026-08-15	Be*****	I’ve been searching for a mastodon instance for a while now and I’m glad I found one. I love how customizable the app is, my only problem is that the app won’t avow me to see my notifications or news section
I’ve been searching for a mastodon instance for a while now and I’m glad I found one. I love how customizable the app is, my only problem is that the app won’t avow me to see my notifications or news section
2026-08-12	So*****	app on iPad is crashing out right after opening.
app on iPad is crashing out right after opening.
2026-08-07	te*****	lots of quirky UI bugs. polish it up. please update this wonky app. rendering freezes and gets stuck in horizontal mode if you place the phone down. so many bugs now.
lots of quirky UI bugs. polish it up. please update this wonky app. rendering freezes and gets stuck in horizontal mode if you place the phone down. so many bugs now.
2026-08-07	am*****	Stopped using Ice Cubes since it became impossible to delete or edit posts.
Stopped using Ice Cubes since it became impossible to delete or edit posts.
2026-07-05	Ni*****	News doesn’t work for me
News doesn’t work for me
2026-05-31	Ak*****	I’m going all-in with Mastodon lately and I’ve tried a few apps. This one is by far the best experience. Smooth and intuitive. Placed it on my main Home Screen :)
I’m going all-in with Mastodon lately and I’ve tried a few apps. This one is by far the best experience. Smooth and intuitive. Placed it on my main Home Screen :)
2026-05-28	Ri*****	This has all of the features I want and works great, overall, with one massive bug I hate, and a minor issue I don't like. The major bug, that's been happening for a long time now, is when writing or editing a post, if the phone (iOS) flips orientation, the app stops responding and the text is lost. I have to lock and unlock the phone, then force close (swipe up) the app. The minor issue is that Case and CamelCase aren't preserved for all hashtags in a post, only the ones in the body of the post (usually). Hashtags added outside the body text of a post don't preserve their case, and for CamelCase, that's a significant failure for accessibility since screen readers rely on CamelCase to properly transcribe compound hashtags.
This has all of the features I want and works great, overall, with one massive bug I hate, and a minor issue I don't like. The major bug, that's been happening for a long time now, is when writing or editing a post, if the phone (iOS) flips orientation, the app stops responding and the text is lost. I have to lock and unlock the phone, then force close (swipe up) the app. The minor issue is that Case and CamelCase aren't preserved for all hashtags in a post, only the ones in the body of the post (usually). Hashtags added outside the body text of a post don't preserve their case, and for CamelCase, that's a significant failure for accessibility since screen readers rely on CamelCase to properly transcribe compound hashtags.
2026-05-15	dj*****	sometimes the app becomes unresponsive to touch/scroll.
sometimes the app becomes unresponsive to touch/scroll.
2026-03-04	At*****	Better than the actual Mastodon one!
Better than the actual Mastodon one!
2026-02-22	wh*****	v2 now usable unread toots counter still buggy expanding hidden or condensed toots in a thread very likely to result in random scroll to somewhere… really really needs to anchor current view
v2 now usable unread toots counter still buggy expanding hidden or condensed toots in a thread very likely to result in random scroll to somewhere… really really needs to anchor current view