FocusMastodon vs HexDroid IRC
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
FocusMastodon
★★★★★Main Features★★★★★ - Clean and beautiful Material Design UI - Extremely Customizable – themes, font related customizations – basically everything you’d ever wish to be able to customize, it’s all there for you. Tailor your perfect experience - Background sync - Powerful mute filters - Night mode - Support for 2 accounts，Each account’s syncability can be controlled by you in the Settings of the app - Fully customizable tabs - Use our awesome readability-style browser for the best web experience of any app - Play Mastodon videos and GIFs without leaving your timeline - Native YouTube, Mastodon GIF, and Mastodon video playback - Widgets to view the home timeline, mentions, and unread counts
HexDroid IRC
HexDroid is a modern, lightweight IRC client for Android that lets you connect to your favourite IRC networks, join channels, chat with friends, and stay up to date with a clean, fast Material Design UI.Features:Multiple network support - connect to several IRC networks simultaneouslyIRCv3 capabilities - message-tags, server-time, echo-message, SASL authentication, and moreTLS/SSL support - secure connections with optional client certificatesAuto-connect and auto-join - automatically connect to networks and join channels on startupSASL authentication - PLAIN, EXTERNAL (client cert), and SCRAM-SHA-256 mechanismsPost-connect commands - run custom commands after connectingCharacter encoding support - auto-detect or manually set encoding (UTF-8, windows-1251, etc.)Nick highlighting and notifications - get notified when someone mentions youChannel and private message loggingIgnore list - filter out unwanted messagesLag indicator - monitor connection qualityClean Material Design 3 interfaceHexDroid is free and open source software, licensed under GPLv3.
| Feature | FocusMastodon | HexDroid IRC |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-only | GPL-3.0-only |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | GitHubIzzyOnDroid |
| Categories | Media PlayerMessagingVideoBrowserSocial | MessagingBrowser |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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