Bluesky and Mastodon in one native client, across all of your Apple devices.
A timeline that never loses your place, with every account you follow merged into one Unified feed. Cross-post to several accounts at once, read RSS and Standard.site in a new Reader tab, and theme every surface in the app. And on the Mac, an app that finally feels like a Mac app.
Free to download. One app, every Apple device you own.
Skyscraper speaks Mastodon, and brings all your accounts together
Skyscraper 1.8 is the biggest release yet: Mastodon support, one Unified timeline for every account, Cross-Post, a Reader for RSS and Standard.site, and a Mac app rebuilt to behave like a Mac app.
Mastodon, right alongside Bluesky
Sign in to Mastodon next to your Bluesky accounts and get the whole thing: your home timeline, notifications, DMs, Explore, lists, bookmarks, favorites, polls, content warnings, custom emoji, scheduled posts and push notifications.
Every account, one timeline
Read every account's Following feed in one combined timeline, with merged Notifications. A badge on each post shows which account it came from, and replies, likes and boosts go out as that account.
Write once, post everywhere
Pick several accounts and post to all of them at the same time, from the app or straight from the share sheet.
A new tab for everything else you read
Follow RSS feeds, Standard.site publications, Micro.blog and YouTube channels in one place. Sync with Feedbin, FreshRSS, Inkwell or NewsBlur, organize with tags, filter to Unread Only, and pull up to go to the next story. Your first RSS feed is free.
Pinboard and Instapaper
Save links to Pinboard and Instapaper, with title, description and tag suggestions from Apple Intelligence.
Windows of their own
Open posts and profiles in their own windows, with one window per composer. Drag and drop in and out, Copy Image, Save Image, Print articles, the Services menu and Open With.
Right-click everything
Context menus on posts, links, mentions, hashtags, images and chat bubbles. New menu bar commands, a Keyboard Shortcuts window, and Settings as Mac-style preference panes.
At home in macOS
A native sidebar with unread badges, a System accent color option, Spotlight, App Intents, Controls, and a Dock badge with live counts.
Never lose a post
Drafts save on your device, and your post comes back after a crash. Undo, drag and drop, camera video, and posting videos in the background are all supported.
Your thread, your rules
Thread authors can hide a reply or detach a quote of their post. Replies keep their context even when the parent post appears lower down.
Find that post again
Search your Likes and Favorites and sort by newest or oldest. Save videos to Photos, and share a profile from its ⋯ menu.
30 languages, and better accessibility
Skyscraper is now translated into 30 languages. VoiceOver, Voice Control and Reduce Motion work better across posts, chat and profiles, and image alt text is read aloud.
Faster, lighter, about 60 MB smaller
Faster launch and less background activity. Your reading position is restored more accurately after a few days away, and iCloud syncs more settings and restores them after a reinstall.
Blocked and Muted, in one place
New Blocked Accounts and Muted Accounts pages. Mute words now apply to notifications, Block and Delete ask before acting, and an Undo banner follows common actions.
Your app, your way
Auto-play GIFs and video with Reduce Motion on, or in Low Data and Low Power Mode. Choose how many posts the medium and large timeline widgets show, hide the New Posts banner, and clear the app badge whenever you like.
iPad, Vision Pro and Apple TV
On iPad, Settings, your avatar and Compose sit in the sidebar. Vision Pro gets readable labels and gaze highlights. Apple TV gets more reliable playback, content filtering and sign-in recovery.
And a long list of fixes
Videos no longer go black when you return to the app. The timeline tells you when Bluesky is down instead of failing quietly, and a deleted post says so and leaves your timeline. Profiles, hashtags, feed previews and Saved Posts now lay out posts like the timeline, custom themes reach more screens, and a handful of rare crashes are gone.
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 Bluesky and Mastodon in one Unified timeline, a Reader tab, and Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets for your timeline, followers, post performance, trending topics, recaps and On This Day.
Mac
Multi-column panels where any column can read as any of your accounts, plus posts, profiles and composers in their own windows. Right-click menus everywhere, a full menu bar, a Keyboard Shortcuts window, vim motions, Mac-style preference panes, a native sidebar with unread badges, Spotlight, Controls and a Dock badge with live counts.
iPad
A proper split view with Settings, your avatar and Compose in the sidebar, a sidebar you can hide and it stays hidden, 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, with content filtering, 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, readable labels, gaze highlights, and sign-in sheets that fit the space.
Everything else Skyscraper does.
A client you use every day earns its keep in the details. Here are most of them.
Mastodon (beta)
- Home timeline, notifications and DMs
- Explore, lists, bookmarks and favorites
- Polls, content warnings and custom emoji
- Scheduled posts
- Push notifications
Unified & Cross-Post
- Every account's Following feed in one timeline
- Merged Notifications
- A badge on each post for the account it came from
- Replies, likes and boosts go out as that account
- Post to several accounts at once, from the app or the share sheet
Reader
- RSS, Standard.site, Micro.blog and YouTube channels
- Sync with Feedbin, FreshRSS, Inkwell or NewsBlur
- Tags, Saved, and an Unread Only filter
- Pull up to go to the next story
- Your first RSS feed is free
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
- Hide the New Posts banner if you'd rather not see it
- 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
- Hide replies and detach quotes on your own posts
- Threadgate-aware reply controls
Composing
- Posts, replies, quotes and whole threads
- Drafts saved on device, and restored after a crash
- Cross-Post to several accounts at once
- Undo, camera video and background video uploads
- 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
- Save videos to Photos
- Auto-play options for Reduce Motion, Low Data and Low Power
- 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
- Merged notifications across every account
- Badge counts that agree with the list, and clear on demand
- 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, including in notifications
- Blocked Accounts and Muted Accounts pages
- Confirmation before Block and Delete, and an Undo banner
- 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
- Bluesky and Mastodon accounts side by side, stored in the Keychain
- Unified timeline across every account
- Mac columns that read as any signed-in account
- Alternate PDS support, including Eurosky
- iCloud sync for settings, feed order, scroll position, chat read state and saved searches, restored after a reinstall
- 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
- Custom themes reach Settings and post text
- System accent color on Mac
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
- Content filtering and sign-in recovery
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
- Choose how many posts medium and large widgets show
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 30 languages
- VoiceOver, Voice Control and Reduce Motion support, with alt text read aloud
- Save links to Pinboard and Instapaper
- Search and sort your Likes and Favorites
- Siri, Shortcuts, Spotlight and App Intents
- 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.
- Bluesky and Mastodon (beta)
- 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
- Reader, with your first RSS feed free
- 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 accounts
- Unlimited feeds in Reader
- 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 or Mastodon and you're reading in seconds.
Requires iOS 18.3 · macOS 15.2 · tvOS 17.6 · watchOS 11 · visionOS 26