This IPhone App Sends Messages to Mastodon, Threads and Bluesky Simultaneously
Social media has gotten weird—well, weirder—since the death of Twitter . Those of us who left X were forced to find our friends on some combination of Bluesky, Mastodon and Threads, and while there is some hope that all of these services will eventually be combined into Fediverse, right now they’re just kind of how connected. The result: many of us spend time publishing the same post on all three services.
Enter Croissant . Created by indie developers Aaron Weg and Ben McCarthy , this sleek iPhone app can connect to Bluesky, Mastodon, and Threads simultaneously, allowing you to post to all sites at once. The idea for the app was born out of McCarthy’s annoyance with the cross-posting process (appropriately).
“I find it very frustrating trying to duplicate posts on different social media platforms,” McCarthy said. “Especially when adding images and alt text, there’s a lot of copying and pasting and searching through the photo picker for the same images over and over again.”
Create, add media and even share messages at the same time.
Croissant allows you to draft a message, add images, and even enter alt text and send it to all three services at once. It also supports creating message threads on all three platforms simultaneously – just click the three dots in the bottom right corner, click “Add to Thread” and keep posting. If this is too cumbersome for you, you can also swipe left while writing a message to create the next message in the thread. This method allows you to draft the entire thread before posting it to all three networks at once—otherwise it would be a painstaking process of copying, pasting, and replying to your own messages.
Croissant itself isn’t a social media app: the app doesn’t link your accounts so you can view or respond to other people’s posts—you’ll still have to do that by opening each individual social app. The idea is to simply reduce the amount of work required to publish three places at once.
How much does a Croissant cost?
Croissant starts at $2.99 per month, or you can pay $19.99 annually or a one-time fee of $59.99. Of course, that’s probably too much for the occasional poster—McCarthy says the target audience is really small business owners and creators “who use social media professionally, but it’s not their full-time job.” If this is you, and you’re already frustrated that you’re spending too much time cross-posting, it’s worth looking into.
As an alternative, consider enabling the Fediverse integration in Threads so that Mastodon users can follow your account there, or connecting your Mastodon and Bluesky accounts . (Like I said: the current era of social media is pretty messy).