Experience Bluesky with a native client, across all of your Apple devices.
A timeline that never loses your place, threads that read like conversations, group chats, long-form Publications, widgets for your Home Screen, and a theme engine that repaints every surface in the app. Now with an ambient window into your feed for the biggest screen in the house.
Free to download. One app, every Apple device you own.
Skyscraper comes to Apple TV, and to your Home Screen
Skyscraper 1.7 and 1.7.1 add a sixth platform, a full set of widgets, a Mac app that feels at home on a keyboard, and a long list of fixes that make the timeline hold still while you read.
Introducing Skyscraper for Apple TV
Nobody reads a timeline from the couch, so Skyscraper for Apple TV isn't the phone app blown up to fill the screen. It's an ambient window into your feed that you can leave running all evening. You can watch it closely or just glance at it now and then. Pick a feed, choose a mode, and it keeps pulling in new posts for as long as it's on.
One post at a time
A single post sits centered and readable while soft shapes drift behind it. Photos, videos, text posts, quote posts and link cards all get their turn, and it moves on by itself.
A wall of pictures
Your feed's photos and videos as a grid, four across. Captions appear on the tile you're focused on, and a click fills the screen.
Your feed, as a TV station
Videos play back to back with sound and no black gaps between clips. A small caption introduces each one, then fades away. As it plays, it keeps going further back through the feed for more.
Follow a hashtag or an account
Play your Following feed or any saved feed, or build a channel from one account or one hashtag. Recent picks stay one click away. Sign in with an app password; there's no typing a password with the arrow keys.
From the TV to your phone
Click any post to get a QR code. Scan it and the post opens in Skyscraper on your iPhone. Link posts get a second code for the article itself.
Skyscraper on your Home Screen and Lock Screen
Timeline, Timeline Photo, Followers, Latest Followers, Recent Activity, Post Performance, Saved Posts, On This Day, Trending, Trending Topics, and Weekly and Monthly Recaps. Pick the ones you want and your Bluesky shows up without opening the app.
Made for the keyboard
Standard shortcuts, arrow keys to open and leave posts, a new Post menu, and ↑/↓ in Chats and Notifications. Paste or drag images and videos straight into the composer.
Every column, any account
Any column can read as any account you're signed in to. Put two accounts' feeds side by side; each one loads, scrolls and refreshes on its own, and likes, reposts and replies go out as that column's account. There's also an account switcher in the sidebar.
Find something good to read
Publications now has its own entry in Explore. Browse Following, Popular, Trending and Cam's Picks, search for publications, and see which writers you already follow on Bluesky. Articles open in the in-app browser.
A trending ticker
A scrolling ticker of the hashtags climbing on Bluesky right now, at the top of Explore.
Alt text from the share sheet
Add alt text to images you share into Skyscraper, or have Apple Intelligence write it in your post's language.
Light and dark, per theme
A custom theme can carry separate palettes for light and dark mode, and both sync across your devices.
The post you're reading stays put
New posts arriving at the top, rows merging in mid-list, switching feeds and coming back: the post you're reading stays where it is until you move it. Compact Media Thumbnails fit more on screen, and you can set them separately on iPhone, iPad and Mac.
Watch, iPad, and six new languages
Apple Watch now does a better job of fetching posts, keeping you more up to date on the go. The iPad sidebar remembers that you hid it. Hashtags work in any script, so #日本語 now posts as a real tag. And Skyscraper now speaks Simplified Chinese, Polish, Hungarian and more, 14 languages in all.
One app. Six platforms. No compromises borrowed from the others.
The Mac build isn't the iPhone app in a window, the iPad build isn't the iPhone app stretched, and the Apple TV app isn't a timeline you squint at from across the room. Each one gets the navigation its platform expects.
iPhone
The full client, tuned for one hand, with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for your timeline, followers, post performance, trending topics, recaps and On This Day.
Mac
Multi-column panels with saved layouts and width presets, where any column can read as any of your accounts. A real menu bar with a Post menu, standard keyboard shortcuts, vim motions, drag-in and drag-out media, a Settings window, a Dock menu and a Share Extension.
iPad
A proper split view with a sidebar you can hide and it stays hidden, feed like counts in the sidebar, post content laid out at the row's real width, and a floating feed selector that doesn't collide with your replies.
Apple TV
An ambient window into your feed in three modes: Oscillate for one post at a time, Media Wall for a grid of pictures, and Channel for videos back to back with sound. Play any feed, one account or one hashtag, and send a post to your phone with a QR code.
Apple Watch
Your feed, post detail, likes and reposts, plus a recent-post complication. It fetches fresh posts on its own, even when the iPhone app isn't open.
Vision Pro
A native visionOS build with its own text size and spatial layout, labelled buttons, and a composer that attaches photos reliably.
Everything else Skyscraper does.
A client you use every day earns its keep in the details. Here are most of them.
Timeline
- A UIKit collection-view engine built for smooth scrolling
- Your reading position kept to the pixel, across tabs, feeds and launches
- The post you're reading stays put as new posts arrive
- Live scroll sync between devices over iCloud
- An accurate "posts above" counter
- Pinned feeds, custom feeds, lists and saved searches
- Floating feed selector, with menus on the gear and avatar
- Full-size image previews that don't crop wide photos
- Compact Media Thumbnails, set per device
- Show more like this / Show less like this
- Relative timestamps, or the actual clock time
Threads & replies
- Replies open from the thread root, not a mid-thread fragment
- "Show full thread" for everything in between
- Quoted posts rendered in full inside reply context
- Mentions, links and hashtags colored like mentions
- Self-threads numbered, outlined and collapsed
- Edit your own reply without it leaving its thread
- Threadgate-aware reply controls
Composing
- Posts, replies, quotes and whole threads
- Drafts synced through Bluesky's own draft API
- Up to 10 photos, alt text, GIF picker and video
- Mention and hashtag autocomplete, with Unicode hashtags
- Paste or drag images and videos in, and paste screenshots
- Alt text from the share sheet, or written by Apple Intelligence
- Per-post languages and a character counter
- Translate what you've written before you post it
- Share Extension, plus an "Open in Skyscraper" Safari extension
Media
- A full-screen viewer that rotates, zooms and saves
- On-device OCR for the text inside a screenshot
- Native GIF playback — no hidden web views
- Video with one player at a time and audio that behaves
- Link cards laid out at the real 1200×630 ratio
- Apple Music, Spotify and Bandcamp embeds
- Share any post as an image
Chat
- Group chats, replies and tapback reactions
- Peek at a conversation without marking it read
- Drafts, spell check, muting and conversation export
- Read state merged across devices over iCloud
- Granular chat notification settings
- Send a post straight into a DM
- Join group-chat invite links in the app
Notifications
- Push for mentions, replies, likes, reposts, quotes and follows
- Activity subscriptions for accounts you follow closely
- Grouping on All, plain lists on filtered tabs
- Per-type filter tabs that fetch their own kind
- Badge counts that agree with the list
- This Week's Activity recap
Discovery
- Trending stories carousel and a trending-hashtag ticker in Explore
- Trending hashtags, filterable by language
- Live search that updates as you type
- Advanced filters, saveable as a pinned feed
- Feed browser showing how many people like each feed
- Starter packs, lists and Find Friends
- LIVE badges that open the stream
Moderation
- Mute words, reposts, replies and quote posts
- Repost mutes that sync back to Bluesky
- View Labels: what, who and when
- Content language filters
- Block from the timeline, notifications or a hashtag feed
- Report posts and accounts
Accounts & sync
- OAuth with DPoP-bound tokens, or app passwords
- Multiple accounts, stored in the Keychain
- Mac columns that read as any signed-in account
- Alternate PDS support, including Eurosky
- iCloud sync for feed order, scroll position, chat read state and saved searches
- Account Data: browse your repository in lexicon or plain English
- Full HTML and JSON backup of your posts
Stats & recaps
- Activity heatmaps for posts, favorites and follows
- Posting streaks
- Week, month and year recaps
- Your most-liked and most-reposted posts
- Newest followers, most popular follows, mutuals
Personalization
- Fully custom color palettes, saved and named
- Community Themes browser
- 15 app icons, including Midnite
- Dual accent colors and action-icon styles
- Per-platform text size
- Light and dark, or a palette of your own for each
Apple TV
- Oscillate: one post at a time, over a drifting backdrop
- Media Wall: a focusable grid of photos and videos
- Channel: videos back to back, with sound
- Play Following, a saved feed, one account or a hashtag
- QR codes that open a post on your iPhone
- Keeps refreshing, and stays signed in, all night
Widgets
- Timeline and Timeline Photo
- Followers and Latest Followers
- Recent Activity and Post Performance
- Saved Posts and On This Day
- Trending and Trending Topics
- Weekly and Monthly Recaps
Publications
- Full standard.site articles in the feed
- Its own entry in Explore
- Following, Popular, Trending and Cam's Picks
- Search, and the writers you already follow
- Articles open in the in-app browser
Everything else
- Localized into 14 languages
- VoiceOver actions throughout
- Polls, starter packs and list management
- Inline post translation
- Developer Notes, in-app tips and a changelog
- Email your logs when something goes wrong
Free to use. Pro if you want more.
The app is free, and the parts you need to read Bluesky all day are free with it. Pro exists so it can keep being built.
Free
Everything you need to actually read Bluesky.
- The full timeline, threads, custom feeds and lists
- Posting, replies, quotes, whole threads and drafts
- Direct messages and group chats
- Search, Explore and trending stories
- Community Themes — browse and apply any shared palette
- Media, OCR, Share as Image and Publications
- Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets
- Every platform — iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Watch, Vision Pro
Skyscraper Pro
Monthly or yearly. Cancel whenever.
- The theme engine — build, name and save your own palette
- Custom accent colors, app icons and profile icon styles
- Unlimited Bluesky accounts
- Edit your profile, avatar and bio
- Push notifications for replies, likes and mentions
- Start new DM conversations
- Archive your account as HTML and JSON
- Filter trending hashtags by language
- Submit your themes to the community browser
A toolkit for the rest of Bluesky.
Things that don't belong in a phone app, built anyway.
Terminal client
A full TUI client for Bluesky on macOS. Browse your timeline, post and reply without leaving the terminal. Install it with Homebrew.
Get the TUI clientTrending hashtags
A live leaderboard of what's climbing on Bluesky right now — this hour, today, this week or this month.
See what's trendingKeyword alerts
Get an email when a keyword shows up on Bluesky. Watch your name, your brand, or a conversation you don't want to miss.
Set up alertsAccount backups
Download a full backup of any public Bluesky account — posts, followers and following, as HTML or JSON. Two free backups a day.
Back up an accountThe dev blog
What broke, what we learned, and what the numbers actually say. ATProtocol write-ups, Bluesky growth data and the occasional post-mortem.
Read the blogOpen in Skyscraper
A Safari extension that routes bsky.app links into the app, so a link someone sent you opens where you actually read.
Included with the app
Get Skyscraper
One free download for iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple TV, Apple Watch and Vision Pro. Sign in with Bluesky OAuth and you're reading in seconds.
Requires iOS 18.3 · macOS 15.2 · tvOS 17.6 · watchOS 11 · visionOS 26