https://phanpy.social is a pretty incredible Mastodon client. Entirely web based, looks great on mobile and desktop, you can configure your shortcuts that appear above or below the river of news.
Some screenshots from my own account: good notifications page, different kinds of toots get a different status, plus Boosts are shown in their own carousel.
I've heard one developer made all this, it's pretty incredible.
The best feature in Phanpy is the Catch-Up. Say you sleep and come back to Mastodon the next day. Set your Catch-Up to the past 8 hours and you'll get a summary of the most important things you missed while you were gone. It's incredible a web app can do this when no other Mastodon client offers anything similar.
@mathowie 100% true. In fact I just found your thread on the catch-up timeline and am responding from Phanpy! It’s so meta it hurts 🤓
I love the UX of @ivory – that’s my main daily driver and I’m a happy paying customer. But I’m constantly torn between being overwhelmed by the number of boosts and quote tweets, yet not being able to turn them off completely because of the odd gem that makes it worth it. So Phanpy is a great complimentary sidekick.
@alabut@mathowie@ivory Ivory was my main daily app too but having Phanpy on all my devices works better for me. All these features like Catch Up, make my daily use here better. Ivory locks me to only Apple devices which makes it hard to stay in sync on other devices.
I stopped using Ivory and won't renew my subscription when it ends.
@jnv@mathowie@ivory yeah, I can see going that way if you want one app to rule them all and to be cross-platform. I’m happy with my setup though – app diversity and single platform.
@mathowie how does it handle the backlog in the timeline?
Like, with ivory it just tells me how many unread posts I have, and I… scroll. I would almost never use this feature, so I am struggling to understand what makes it so great.
@lkanies the whole catchup feature means you don't have to read absolutely every single post, you can just look at a summary and move on. If that isn't a feature you need, that's fine, it works great for my needs.
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