FocusMastodon vs Smoke
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
Smoke
Summary of Smoke * Aliases. Preserve your contacts. * Almost zero-dependency software. * Application lock. * Argon2id and PBKDF2 key-derivation functions. * Automatic, oscillatory public-key exchange protocol, via SipHash. * BSD 3-clause license. * Completed. * Content is recorded via authenticated encryption. * Decentralized. TCP, and UDP multicast and unicast. * Does not require Internet connectivity. * Does not require registration. Telephone numbers are not required. * Encrypted communications. * Eventful tasks. Limited polling. * F-Droid. * Fiasco forward secrecy. * Future-proof software. * Introduces Cryptographic Discovery. Cryptographic Discovery is a practical protocol which creates coordinated data paths. * Juggling Juggernaut Protocol! * Manufactured tool tips! * McEliece Fujisaka and Pointcheval. * Message structures do not explicitly expose contents. Header-less protocols! Some messages do include type information. * Mobile servers via SmokeStack. * Obfuscation of resident secret keys. * Optional foreground services. * Optional silence over the wires. * Original implementation of SipHash. * Ozone destinations: private and public repositories. * Post offices for messages of the past. * Private servers. * Public and private public-key servers. * Rainbow digital signature scheme. * Reliable distribution of archived messages. * Reliable distribution of deliverable text messages. * SPHINCS digital signature scheme. * SSL/TLS through SmokeStack. * Semi-compatible with Spot-On via Fire. * Share files with TCP utilities such as Netcat. * SipHash-128. * Smoke and mirrors. * Software congestion control. * Software manual included. * Steam, reliable file sharing. TCP over the Echo! * Steamrolling, or, real-time broadcasting of inbound Steams to fellow participants. * Super McEliece: m = 13, t = 118.
| Feature | FocusMastodon | Smoke |
|---|---|---|
| License | GPL-3.0-only | MIT |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHub | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | Media PlayerMessagingVideoBrowserSocial | MessagingBrowser |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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