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Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

Hello people of the Fediverse! Some of you may have heard that a new Mastodon client, Ivory,  is in development for iOS (and Mac!). This is true! Tapbots is going all in on Mastodon and we hope this place continues to grow and thrive. Tweetbot will continue to be developed alongside Ivory as a lot of code is shared. A new Mac version of Tweetbot and Ivory are also currently in development and we are working hard on getting those towards a public beta state.

388 comments
Truhe

@ivory Tweetbot, Netbot and now Tootbot! 😃

eobet

@truhe @ivory Tootbot is a much better name, as Ivory can have negative connotations…

Liebero

@eobet @truhe @ivory negative connotations like diamonds, gold, and such?

Isn't that a little stretched?

Mr. Funk E. Dude

@liebero3 @eobet @truhe @ivory I was thinking more as in "Poaching". Not wealth.

I like "Tootbot" as well.

AccordionBruce

@eobet @truhe @chrispeters @ivory
It is illegal to cross international borders carrying #ivory. I know people who have had antique musical instruments destroyed because of this

At minimum there would need to be a significant financial support and advocacy for #elephant and #rhino #conservation

Then the name might not encourage the illegal ivory trade by positive association

Otherwise you’re practically naming your app after Illegal #poaching

#environment #wildlife

@eobet @truhe @chrispeters @ivory
It is illegal to cross international borders carrying #ivory. I know people who have had antique musical instruments destroyed because of this

At minimum there would need to be a significant financial support and advocacy for #elephant and #rhino #conservation

Then the name might not encourage the illegal ivory trade by positive association

AccordionBruce

@eobet @ivory
I’m a longtime #Tweetbot user, But not sure if I’d buy an app named #ivory without thinking about it

The opportunity for supporting campaigns against poaching would certainly help

Ivory by Tapbots :emoji_wink:

We're currently testing an alpha version of Ivory for iOS. As we continue to make progress we will expand access to it. Just follow this account and @tapbots to hear about it first!

We truly appreciate all the love and support in this community! Here’s an XDR-sized desktop background (wallpaper) to hold you over. 🐘
d.pr/i/5DCEcP

DLTQ

@tapbots @ivory Looking forward to trying it out, and seeing your design principles and choices in action! Good luck with the alpha! ✨

Shane Qi

@ivory @tapbots How exciting! Let me know when I can help with testing.

Nyaa :mxlinux:

@ivory @tapbots Are there any images of the UI available for public to see yet?

Frank Adler

@ivory @tapbots exciting news! More than happy to help testing it :)

Timothée

@ivory Any chance to get an early stage version to test ?
Thank you for your great work!

Bill Childers

@ivory @tapbots Looking forward to this! Love Tweetbot and your other apps, so this is going to be a very welcome addition.

Jim :donor:

@ivory @tapbots How about a model of the Ivory mastodon for 3D printing? That might give us something to admire while the software takes shape.

John Kordyback

@ivory @tapbots
Tweetbot has been my app of choice for years. Now I’m looking forward to Ivory. Thank you.

Erik Ableson

@ivory
I’ve been a happy Tweetbot user for years and am looking forward to your skills being applied to my new life in the #fediverse

Dukes

@ivory @tapbots This is super exciting news! Looking forward to using Ivory!

Claire

@ivory @tapbots looking forward to hearing more and giving it a try in the future! You always do great work 🐘

Benst

@ivory @tapbots Will it run on Big Sur or is that too old?

Jason

@ivory @tapbots I love how the Tweetbot bird is on top of the elephant 😂

Phil

@ivory @tapbots if you need another tester, I’m the tester for you!

Kurt von Moos :mastodonworld:

@ivory @tapbots that’s AWESOME! Will you be allowing beta testing via TestFlight?

Joshua Hürzeler

@ivory @tapbots Hopefully NO Subscription. There you do not have the excuse of the ongoing cost of the api like twitter due its free of charge on mastodon. So I rather want one time payment and hate apps with subscriptions. For tweetbot I made a excuse and understood it with the reason twitter API usage costs. If you will add subscription to Ivory I won't consider it...

Ryan Hyde

@ivory @tapbots super excited to get to try this. I had to cancel my Tweetbot subscription because, well, you know.

FR_Jess

@ivory @tapbots Can't wait! I’m a early adopter of Tweetbot on both iOS and MacOS and those are my favorites app. I hope the alpha or beta version will be available for some of us.

Jannis Schakarian ✅

@ivory @tapbots When and where is the right place to sign up for beta testing?

Samf

@jsit @tapbots That’s a pretty big canary dropping dead in the Twitter coal mine.

Jay 🎃🕷️🦇👻

@samf It's exciting but I'm taking this to mean that they are taking Mastodon very seriously but are not "all out" on Twitter.

Samf

@jsit Oh, for sure. Sounds like a lot more than just dabbling though!

Brian Hough

@ivory 🎉🎉🎉 best news I’ve heard all week! Thank you!

Steve Dinn

@ivory Will you ever do an Android app? Or I am just holding my breath for nothing?

Brendan@Tapforms

@steve it would be a complete rewrite as they use all the native iOS and macOS frameworks to build their apps. And they're a small team so I can't imagine an Android version ever being a thing. I wouldn't hold my breath.

Steve Dinn

@tapforms That's what I thought the answer would be. I'm still sad though. I used TweetBot back in the day when I was still an Apple user. It was the best of the bunch.

Michael Randall

@ivory Looking forward to this. The only reason I'd moved away from Tweetbot recently was that the Mac version seemed to be falling behind, so this is good news all round. Haven't found a Macstodon client I've liked so far, but Ivory looks very cute.

James Britton

@ivory that’s a cute goddamn graphic, can’t wait to use the app!

Keith

@ivory It cannot come soon enough! I’ve used every version of Tweetbot, so I’m excited! (And the Mac support is also great because i have yet to find a mac client I like.)

Chris Peters

@ivory I think the name is going to be problematic as ivory now represents a rare beauty that can only be acquired through illegal killing. What about Tusk?

Andy

@ivory I’m very excited for this. Tweetbot is an excellent twitter client so I have faith that Ivory will be just as good.

Mike :pensive_party_blob:

@ivory This is great news! I can't wait to try it. I'll also happily beta test.

⟦ˈmartiːn ˈʃtaɪ̯n⟧ :tblogo:

@ivory When will it start to arrive for the public (testing)?

Mark Kilborn

@ivory Cool news. Looking forward to it. Any chance of Hive getting coverage as well?

Jay 🎃🕷️🦇👻

@markkilborn #Hive doesn't really work like that. It's a proprietary silo without an open API, not intended for third-party clients.

Mark Kilborn

@jsit Bummer, but thanks for the info. I'll definitely be using the Mastodon tool :)

Jan Lund Thomsen

@ivory That little blue bird in the top right looks a tad nervous. And with good reason too.

Justin Connolly

@ivory Very very much looking forward to this - an app of @tapbots quality will make all the difference.

Cyber Yuki

@ivory BTW don't forget to implement the captioning images feature, is vital for sight-impaired users in here who need screen readers.

Dan V Peterson

@ivory @mark @paul would absolutely love to help test and provide feedback/bug reports when you're ready!

Dan V Peterson

@ivory @mark @paul hoping maybe Ivory won’t end up as the final name. I know how hard naming is, “ivory” just brings up a lot of negative connotations in my mind with it’s links to poaching and all of the atrocities associated with that.

Dimitry

@danvpeterson @ivory @mark @paul I Agree but name it original is not easy like : Social Instance, TheNetwork, TootBoost, ElephantRooms …..

David Harrison

@ivory Very much looking forward to seeing what you’ve done.

mb

@ivory exciting news! Please allow swiping between the 3 timelines in iOS…

Jake Jarvis :jake:

@ivory didn’t know elephants could be adorable 🐘

Jodsclass 🏴‍☠️☕

@ivory This is great. As a long time tweet bot user, I'd love to get my hands on Ivory. You guys do epic work.

Mathias

@ivory @ivory @tapbots *hand raised* Pick Me Pick Me Pick Me!
If you need someone to test muffles, I'm there for you.

Mark Jardine :misc_mtb:

@mattmarenic still working on it until the day the public api shuts down, Twitter goes down, or everyone leaves twitter. 🙃

Matt Marenic

@mark haha. Well that ain’t happen so soon. I guess. Lool. I just hope mastodon will be better than app.net. I’m one of old user that know that you have app for that too 😎

Jolie 🏳️‍⚧️

@ivory great. I used your bird app for years before moving to this better place.

Mauro (mograph.social Admin)

@ivory just in time when I was letting my Tweetbot subscription happily expire at the end of the year :)

Jean François Porchez

@ivory as subscriber of Tweetbot I welcome this news. But does there is way to build an app who integrates the two timeline: Mastodon + Twitter?

(((Jann Gobble)))🏳️‍🌈

@ivory The name really is thoughtless and insensitive, y'all... I love the idea of the app and would use it EXCEPT for the name! You all KNOW what that conjures up!

Richard Smykla

@ivory as a long time user of Tweetbot, I’d love to be included in the beta testing process for Ivory. Glad to see you working on a Mastodon client.👍🏼

Chris

@ivory Ivory is such a great name for a Mastodon app!

fyrfli 🇯🇲 ☕️

@ivory@tapbots.social Just Mastodon? Or will it be able to authenticate other platforms as well?

Travis

@ivory This is the best news I have heard all day!

Brian Fagioli

@ivory @metabolist can the Mac/iPad/iPhone app be one app so we just buy once please? iPad version for apple silicon Mac is fine. We don’t need a dedicated Mac app.

Pratik Patel

@ivory Could you make sure that #accessibility best practices are observed and that the new app is fully accessible to disabled people? Amazing work has been done by apps like Twitteriffic and Spring. I'd like to see similar work done on this new app.

Raygan Kelly :hatbird:

@ivory I'm really glad to hear that this is coming for both iOS and Mac! Tweetbot *is* Twitter for me.

Anthony Castelli

@ivory where do I sign up!!! Would love to get in on the iOS and macOS beta!!

Mike

@ivory a great thing about Mastodon is that everyone can edit their posts. There is an extra space in yours.

Mycroft 🍫🐰

@ivory I'm not an iOS user so I have no horse in the race, but are you limiting your app to interact only with Mastodon or do you have sights on other extremely similar open projects like Akkoma, Calckey, etc?

Noah Mittman :oh_no_bubble:

@ivory soooooooo... ivory is pretty problematic -- it is literally a term invented to objectify the dentine material of animal teeth and tusks for commerce, and represents a lot of bad stuff in colonized spaces (ivory trade, ivory tower, etc.).

I would take some time and seriously think about if this is something you want to stick with.

Mr. Funk E. Dude

@ivory A list of feature I think most people would like to see...

Load last position in timeline.

Split Notifications between "All" and "Mentions"

A dedicated DM panel.

The ability to change font size. ( big one for me )

The ability to use all of the features native to the web client such as "edit".

The ability to copy text to allow for the Iphones translation menu.

I'm sure there are more but I think this is a good list to start with.

Kara Shallenberg

@ivory @gannet oh this is wonderful news! I’ve been using Tapbots apps since the Olden Days. I think Convertbot was the first. It made me sad to delete Tweetbot.

yetzt

@ivory don't make it a subscription, pretty please?

Jocelyn 🏳️‍⚧️ (she/her)

@ivory I’m really excited for the app, but to me that name first brings elephant poaching to mind, which is upsetting…

Dave Samojlenko

@ivory @tapbots Amazing news! Can’t wait to see what you’ve got!

Aaron Hall

@ivory @jd omg yes!!!!!!!! I’m 100% sold based on my use of TweetBot

Sobral

@ivory , may we dream of a combined app with a merged timeline?

John Keller

@ivory I was already looking forward to your app since @paul made his first oblique posts. Now I feel like a kid waiting for Christmas. Contrary to the popular expression, I *can* wait – because I understand what it means to make something to your own high standards. But I’m enjoying the journey and look forward to the stories that you’ll share along the way!

Mike McNamara

@ivory I don’t think I’ve been this excited about a piece of software since… well probably since Tweetbot 😜

Sam Granieri

@ivory I'd absolutely love to beta test this. I love using your twitter apps

Erin Banks

@ivory @vmstan I love tweetbot, so I’m thrilled to hear this!

sashk 🇺🇦

@ivory nice name, nice logo. can't wait to get my hands on it. take my money.

Dave Guarino

@ivory So wonderful to see this! I'll be very excited to try it out in the future. :) (Also what a delightful desktop background!!)

Adam Fields

@ivory Fantastic news. Will there also be an iPad version?

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Saad Mahamood

@ivory Very looking forward to this. Seeing a highly polished Mastodon client will make me very happy!

Matt Haughey 🦣

@ivory I would happily pay $20 to get onto the TestFlight for Ivory. I can't be the only one!

Scott Wright 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

@mathowie @ivory
Very true.
I'm gonna pretend we're playing poker and instead of raising you $10 I'm just gonna go all in.
@paul Take my money, please.

SupposeNot

@ivory I would love it if I could control the scrolling direction for new roots in my home feed (I.e., down, not up… so that later toots appear below earlier ones).

Daniel Andrews

@ivory so, so happy to hear a Mac client is on the way too.

Sridhar

@ivory would be happy to be part of beta testing

Mike 🇨🇦🇳🇱

@ivory good news. Bad name. I’ll assume you’ll work it internally. Looking forward to seeing it come along.

Jason Silverman, MD :verified:

@ivory Pretty excited to see this! Looking forward to seeing this on iOS and macOS!

Lomig
@ivory What would be over nice would be a client that also covers Pleroma-specific things (threads and emoji reactions mostly). A real love letter for the Fediverse.
Christian Kugler

@ivory Will I be able to throw money at you in the public beta?

Florian Hehlen

@ivory any reason why we need an app? Mastodon as a #wpa works pretty well. Why not improve that or create an alternative #webapp ?

Heather Rose Jones

@ivory Delighted to hear this. Tweetbot was the reason I was always a bit bewildered by complaints about twitter’s behavior, since Tweetbot was 99% of my interaction and didn’t have the same issues. Looking forward to having the same great user experience for Mastodon!

André

@ivory Looking great! But why not „just“ add Mastodon support to Tweetbot? Maybe even with deduplication for cross-posts.

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