A free, open-source iOS client for Mastodon, Glitch, GotoSocial, Firefish, Akkoma, and other Mastodon-API-compatible Fediverse instance servers.

Feditext is based on the Metatext project, which has concluded and is no longer maintained. Feditext is updated with Mastodon 4 features and better support for non-Mastodon instances.

If you are interested in joining the TestFlight group, please DM our official Fedi account @[email protected], and follow it for announcements and release notes.

GitHub is used for bug tracking. Search existing issues and create a new one if the issue is not yet tracked. Upstream issues can be referenced in the archived project.

Existing translations for Metatext are in a CrowdIn project. Translation contributions will be welcome again after some more project infrastructure is in place for Feditext.

See the contribution guidelines.

To build Feditext:

• Clone the repository (git clone https://github.com/feditext/feditext.git)
• Run git update-index --skip-worktree Identity.xcconfig to ignore changes to the ID file so you don't commit them
• Change the development team ID and bundle ID base in Identity.xcconfig to your own

All dependencies are managed using Swift Package Manager and will automatically be installed by Xcode.

Push notifications will not work in development builds of Feditext unless you host your own instance of feditext-apns and change the pushSubscriptionEndpointURL constants in IdentityService.swift to its URL.

There is an issue to track this: #15.

• Feditext uses the Model–view–viewmodel (MVVM) architectural pattern.
• View models are clients of a service layer that abstracts network and local database logic.
• Different levels of the architecture are in different local Swift Packages. import DB and import MastodonAPI should generally only be done within the ServiceLayer package, and import ServiceLayer only within the ViewModels package.

Feditext uses the following third-party libraries:

• BlurHash
• CombineExpectations
• GRDB
• SDWebImage
• SQLCipher
• SwiftSoup
• Semver

Feditext uses the following third-party artwork:

• Feditext "ft" logos by Robert George @rrgeorge (CC-BY 4.0)
• ActivityPub logo by mray from activitypub.rocks (CC0 1.0)

Feditext is maintained by:

• @vyr
• @bdube

And of course, we wouldn't be here without Metabolist's incredible work on the original Metatext project.

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