Happy new year! Please enjoy these new features and enhancements in the latest version of Mona:
- Notifications, Messages, and Trending tabs are now fully functional;
- Favorites, reblogs, new follower notifications are automatically grouped;
- Mastodon List features are now fully supported: you can view/create/edit/delete lists, pin lists to tab bar, add people to lists, and remove people from lists.
Push notifications will be supported in the next Mona Beta update.
Mona push notification is now available. Enjoy~
Upcoming new features of Mona Beta: Home Screen widgets and Siri Shortcuts.
Home Screen widgets and Siri Shortcuts are now available.
Today’s Mona Beta update includes new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
• Adds share extension to the system share sheet
• Supports rich notification previewing (requires iOS/iPadOS 13+, macOS 11+)
• Supports showing profile metadata
• Improves compatibility with Pixelfed instances
• Optimizes sign in process
Today’s Mona Beta update includes new features, improvements, and bug fixes.
• Adds an alternative sign in method
• Speeds up user profile loading
• Adds preliminary supports for displaying Mastodon emojis on usernames and posts
• Adds keyboard shortcuts for scrolling one page up/down. You can optionally enable Space Bar Scroll in Advanced Settings
• Supports push notification customizations: badges, sounds, deliver methods
• Supports customizing text color of “verified links“
Today’s Mona Beta update includes improvements and bug fixes.
• Supports viewing edited posts and their edit histories
• Duplicated content warnings on post detail view are now auto expanded
• “Find on Page” is now supported on Notifications and Messages tabs
• Mastodon emojis are now animatable (you can also opt to disable emoji animations in Accessibility Settings)
Upcoming new feature: Edit Post.
Today’s Mona Beta update includes improvements to the post composer:
• Supports “Edit Post”
• Supports manually marking your post as sensitive (or not sensitive)
• Supports poll customization (allow multiple choices, or hide vote number)
• Supports attaching audio file to your post
• Mona’s Share extension now accepts audio files
• Optimizes username autocomplete on post composer
Latest update of Mona Beta:
• Speeds up user profile loading
• Downloads more posts per request
• Adds color customization options in app theme editor, for reading progress, threads, and focus ring
• Adds display settings for hiding number of posts on the reading progress indicator
• Adds a new keyboard shortcut: View > Accounts > Show All Accounts
• Fixes an issue where some posts may be displayed on the wrong position on timeline
• Fixes an issue where earlier notifications may not show up
Latest update of Mona Beta:
• Redesigns link preview card, with faster load time
• Supports follow/unfollow hashtags
• Optimizes the Column View on iPad and Mac
• You can now follow people using a non-current account
• You can now remove user posts from Home timeline, while keeping them on your lists
• Turning on/off notifications for certain users
• Adds a display settings for auto expanding all content warnings
• Adds in-app localization/translation editor
Coming soon in the next update: cross-instance public timeline browsing.
A new version of Mona Beta is now available:
• Introduces Communities tab: browse and interact with posts on public timelines of other Mastodon instances. You can also pin timelines to your Tab Bar
• Supports editing name, bio, and profile metadata (more “Edit Profile” functions will be available later)
• User action “Remove from Home” is now available on all user action menus
• Follow confirmation menu will no longer be displayed if you added just one account in Mona
Today’s Mona Beta update:
• Supports updating profile photo and banner in the app
• Adds more options on the Edit Profile page
• The post composer now respects your account’s preset of post privacy level
• Adds indicators for bot accounts (you could also opt to hide those indicators in Settings > General > User Badges)
• On the user action menu, adds a button for adding people back to Home timeline, if you previously removed them from Home
Upcoming feature: accepting follower requests. Also, public beta will be opened later today.

Public Beta of Mona is available now!

TestFlight link for iPhone and iPad: https://testflight.apple.com/join/xNdgUbh6
Download link for Mac: https://github.com/JunyuKuang/Spring-for-Twitter/releases/download/MonaBeta/MonaBeta.zip

System requirements: iOS/iPadOS 13 or newer, macOS 10.15 or newer

TestFlight - Apple

Using TestFlight is a great way to help developers test beta versions of their apps.

Today’s Mona Beta update:
• Supports Mastodon servers that come with special characters in their domain names, such as https://loðfíll.is
• Always shows sidebar instead of bottom tab bar on Mac, if the Divide View feature is disabled
• Resolves a “crash on launch” issue
Loðfíll.is

loðfíll.is, íslenski mastodon vefþjónninn. Öll velkomin!

Mastodon hosted on loðfíll.is
Today’s Mona Beta update:
• Applies filters that you configured on your Mastodon server
• Theme editor: customize color for post action buttons
• Adds an Advanced setting: Invert Scroll Direction (for Space Bar Scroll)
• Adds an Accessibility setting: Hide “Quote Post” Action (turn on “Separate reblog and quote post actions” first)
• Fixes an issue where turning on Compact Layout on Mac has no effect
• Fixes an issue where sending reply or quote post from system Notification Center may not work
Today’s Mona Beta update:
• Supports iCloud sync for custom themes and accent colors
• Shorten sharing links for app themes, allowing you to share your themes more easily by posting links instead of QR codes
• Supports showing trending posts on your server, and other servers you added on the Communities tab
• You can pin trending pages to your tab bar
• Adds new actions on post and user profile pages: Load from Remote Server: allowing you to browse the complete reply list and user profile posts
Today’s Mona Beta update:
• Adds new customization options in app theme editor for iPhone and iPad: top bar background, sidebar background, unselected tab on sidebar, and status bar text color
• The post action “open in new window“ now opens post from remote server
• Adds user relationship indicator on post view
• Adds an Accessibility option on iPhone and iPad, that moves Send button to the top bar. Enabled by default for VoiceOver users
Available now in Mona Beta:
• De-duplicates reblogs on timeline
• Truncates long posts on timeline
• Shows indicator for media description (alt text)
• Improves follower request handling
• Adds “open in browser“ action to user action menu
• Supports setting alternate lists for multiple accounts on your pinned lists on tab bar
• Makes timeline filters (a bit) smarter
• Adds timeline filter options for mentions, sensitive content, and long posts

On macOS, you can now use Continuity Camera on post composer, to capture and attach photos from your iPhone or iPad. You can now also use the “Services” feature in more places with just keyboard shortcuts.

On iOS, with extended support for iOS 12, Mona Beta can now be used on iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, and iPhone 6 Plus, making the Mastodon experience accessible to even more people around the world.

Today’s update also adds preliminary support for non-Mastodon instances.

iCloud reading position sync is now enabled on the latest Mona Beta update. Please update the app on all your devices, because the new sync engine is not compatible with old versions of Mona Beta. This update also resolves a VoiceOver focus issue on Mac.
@MonaApp This is so useful and I can’t believe that nobody except Mona and Ivory has built it!
@MonaApp Awesome can’t wait to try it.
@MonaApp
@mammoth & @IceCubesApp please also launch this feature 🥺
@MonaApp Is there a way to force update the Mac version?
@jasonrak Menu bar > Mona Beta > Check update
@MonaApp One other question - do changes to themes or theme colors specifically automatically sync between devices? So if I go into a theme and tweak a color and save it will that theme automatically update on my iPad? Or do I need to export settings from iPhone and then import settings on my iPad to have the iPad access the updates theme?
@MonaApp Now enabled? Hadn’t it been enabled for months?
@MonaApp You are great 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻
@MonaApp I’m curious about the support for non-Mastodon instances. Does this include GoToSocial? What non Mastodon Servers are supported now?
@343max Non-Mastodon servers that support Mastodon API.

@MonaApp

> Today’s update also adds preliminary support for non-Mastodon instances.

Does this mean you can post to #ActivityPub services like micro.blog from Mona?

@infotexture As long as they support Mastodon API.
@MonaApp I got the sync issue of iCloud error with latest update.
@bryanwu You need to sign in to iCloud in the Settings app and enable the iCloud Drive feature.
@MonaApp @bryanwu i also have problems with the icloud sync. it doesn't seem to work anymore since the last update. settings are all enabled.
@MonaApp @bryanwu the icloud sync settings say that everything has been synchronized, but it doesn't work…
@bre4ch3r @MonaApp Same here😵‍💫
@bryanwu @bre4ch3r iCloud position sync is not working in current version. Will be fixed in the next update.
@MonaApp As someone with four devices still on iOS 12 in the household, thank you so much for the extended support!
@MonaApp “De-duplicates reblogs on timeline” -> this is an awesome feature!! Can’t wait.
@randolph34 @MonaApp Agreed. That and truncating longer posts will be real nice improvements to have. Looks to be another superb update on the way.
@MonaApp Really pleased to see the addition of an alt text indicator.
@MonaApp @MonaApp doesn’t feel like a beta at all. When will it be available in the App Store?
@Krit @MonaApp I can’t wait to give my money to @MonaApp !!!!
@Krit @MonaApp Have to agree... 👏. I've tested and tried all of the available apps / betas; and - to date - #Mona is winning in terms of UI / theme options ...and is pretty much there with functionality too!
Love the fact that I can actually connect my pixelfed.social account!
@MonaApp Your pace is blistering. Absolutely incredible.
@MonaApp Please also include the defect I reported, where if you position the cursor at the start of a word then press the # button, it needlessly adds a space between the # and the word forcing you to have to delete that space in order for the word to turn into a hashtag.
@MonaApp can you consider adding timeline sync with the Mastodon sync API?
@MonaApp I'm looking forward to de-duplicate reblogs!
@MonaApp I’m still holding out for pinned timeline (i.e. Local timeline) position sync’ing and a fix for no notifications on macOS.
@MonaApp Thanks for implementing my alt text indicator suggestion! 😊
@MonaApp Very nice! Looking forward to it.
@MonaApp I hope you have indicator of language for post in plans. I use three languages and without this feature continue using web interface instead of the app. I just don’t know which language app uses as default
@MonaApp Holy smokes! De-duplication?? That's the primary missing feature I've found so far! 🙀
@MonaApp Looking forward to it!
As a feature request, would it be possible to sync muted users (and ideally also user notes) to the server? I noticed that users I mute in Mona don't appear muted in the web ui or other apps
@MonaApp Long waiting dedup reblog finally here!!!!
@MonaApp Woohoo! Exciting stuff!
@MonaApp Is there a setting to control de-duplication? I can’t find one. Thanks.
@paulpap No settings. It’s done automatically.
@MonaApp Ok, thanks. I quite like it on by default, but I suspect some will prefer to be able to toggle it. Also, is there a time window within which dupes will be removed? For example, a 2 day window is quite nice, since it would allow to see older reblogs that I may have seen at some point already but happy to see again after a certain period of time.
@MonaApp Is de-dupe just for Home timeline or does it also apply to Lists? Thanks.
@MonaApp is there a way to disable reblog deduplication?
@MonaApp “Truncates long posts on timeline”
Love this feature! Can we also set the max lines shown? To me a post >10 lines is already very long as it takes half of my mobile screen. Yet the “Show More” indicator only appears for posts >16 lines from my end.
@MonaApp 咱们要上架了吗,目前应该足够稳定了
@MonaApp Now we just need a quicker way to see updates to custom themes without going alllll the way out then clicking and long pressing multiple times to get back into the editor. #Mona #app