Pipilo 17+
Unique Fediverse experience
Lukasz Rutkowski
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Pipilo is a unique Fediverse app that lets you browse posts on a horizontally scrolling timeline. Each post is displayed within the context of its conversation with replies from people you follow. This results in an elegant, distraction-free interface, making it easy to follow various conversation threads.
Pipilo works with Mastodon, Pixelfed, Pleroma, Akkoma, Friendica, Firefish, Catodon, Iceshrimp, and GoToSocial.
Features:
- Horizontally scrolling timeline with each post appearing in the context of its conversation
- Clean, collapsible threads showing only posts from people you follow, with an option to view replies from everyone
- Notifications grouped by day
- Quote posts
- Rich previews for mentioned links and videos
- Home, local, and federated timelines
- Followed hashtags and custom lists
- Quick search of posts, hashtags, and users
- Full iPad support, with multiple windows allowing you to display different timelines side by side
- Smooth media viewer with intuitive gestures, alt-text descriptions, share functionality, live text selection, and subject lifting
- Advanced video player with native system interface for play/pause, time scrubbing, volume control, and full-screen or PIP mode viewing
- Keyword filters to hide posts behind a warning or remove them from your timelines completely
Premium Features:
- Submit posts with images, videos, media descriptions, and content warnings
- Sync reading position across multiple devices
- Follow new hashtags and users
- Create and edit custom lists
- Add multiple accounts from all supported servers
- Enable push notifications
- Create and edit filters
- Bookmark posts
- Pin timelines
- Create hashtag groups and follow remote instances
Unlock all premium features with a monthly subscription, yearly subscription, or a one-time purchase.
Privacy Policy: https://pipilo.thanel.me/privacy/
Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
What’s New
Version 1.4
- Timeline Pinning - Pin selected timelines to have them easily accessible from bottom sheet on the main screen
- Hashtag Groups - Create timelines for more than one hashtag at once
- Remote Timelines - Observe local timelines of remote instances
- Notifications entry in to bottom bar
### Improvements
- Polished bottom sheet - Multiple resting points and smoother animations
- Improved account switcher with option to reorder accounts
- Improved instance selection view animations
- The app might ask for review after favoriting or boosting a post
- Notifications screen can be closed by swiping down
- Streamlined navigation in timelines screen
- “End of Timeline” screen is no longer included in remaining posts counter
- Reaching “End of Timeline” will automatically check if there are new posts
- Support for annual report notifications
- Improved app performance during navigation
- Improved app performance if its running for a long time
- Hashtag suggestions in hashtag following screen based on what is currently trending
- The app now respects content warnings expansion preference
- Support for trial subscriptions
- Subscription renewal info in premium screen includes renewal price
- iCloud sync status screen
### Bug fixes
- Fixed timelines screen closed when deleting list timeline while viewing it
- Fixed purchase button animation after successful purchase
- Fixed potential crashes when very quickly toggling between go to end action and different timelines
- Fixed posts in user profile might fail to appear after loading
- Fixed unread notifications indicator doesn’t disappear for snac instances
- Fixed unread notifications indicator doesn’t disappear when signing out
- Fixed http links incorrectly opened as https
- Fixed opening by url a post that failed to load opens it in the app again instead of opening externally
- Fixed boosted post might not appear in timeline if multiple people boosted it
Ratings and Reviews
Notifications
It would be five stars but there doesn’t seem to be a way to receive notifications.
EDIT: I changed to 5 stars. Very well made app and responsive developer. The horizontal feed, along with how notifications are handled, makes this a one of a kind mastodon app. Highly recommend.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for the feedback. Notifications are available starting with version 1.1.
Almost Perfect!
I think this is a fantastic way of viewing threaded content, and I can’t wait to use this more!
As a feature request, I’d REALLY like to be able to dismiss sheet modals with the swipe-down gesture. The rest of the gesture-driven UI is EXCELLENT.
Developer Response ,
Thank you, as of version 1.4 all modal screens support swipe-down to dismiss gesture.
App challenges but great tech support
I've logged into my Friendica server (my-place.social) over 10 times, authentication is successful each time. However, there was no way to get back to the app feed without hitting "cancel" from the internal browser, completely losing the authenticated session.
The developer reached out swiftly to offer help. I posted this on a week when there have been a couple family emergencies, so the only reason it's not 100% fixed yet is because I'm slow make use of the offered support -- but the developer is friendly, helpful, professional, patient, and has made easy support resolution available to me that I'm sure will work out well as I make use of more of the resources.
Developer Response ,
Thank you for the info and sorry for the problem. This definitely shouldn’t be happening. Please contact me via mail ([email protected]) with additional information and together we might find the cause of the issue.
Usually the flow looks like this:
When you sign in from the app it opens login page on your instance of choice. Once logged in here, the page redirects you to page where you have to press “yes” to authorize. This will then cause web page to close internal browser and redirect you back to app with necessary info. All of that is happening outside my control.
If it is not working like this for you there might be something preventing it. A few more details might help. What page appears for you instead, does authorization screen appear, where does the webpage redirect you after login? In all the attempts was the flow always the same? Did you try signing out on the webpage first and then trying again? Alternatively you might want to try signing to other services you mentioned first, perhaps only this specific account is problematic?
I’m unfortunately unable to reproduce this problem myself. I created an account on my-place.social and could login to the app correctly.
App Privacy
The developer, Lukasz Rutkowski, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Lukasz Rutkowski
- Size
- 47.6 MB
- Category
- Social Networking
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.4 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.4 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.3 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English, Polish
- Age Rating
- 17+ Unrestricted Web Access
- Copyright
- © 2023 Łukasz Rutkowski
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Monthly Pipilo Premium $0.99
- Yearly Pipilo Premium $9.99
- Lifetime Pipilo Premium $29.99
Supports
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Family Sharing
Some in‑app purchases, including subscriptions, may be shareable with your family group when Family Sharing is enabled.