Description
Indigo is a brand new app that combines Bluesky and Mastodon into a single, unified timeline.
It can be tough to keep up with your social circles when they’re not all in one place, but Indigo makes it a breeze.
Indigo has a modern user interface that helps make common interactions faster and less disruptive, doing its best to provide you all the information you need, without getting in your way. Here’s some of the things we focused on:
CROSS POSTING
Indigo lets you post to Bluesky and Mastodon simultaneously so none of your followers misses a thing you post. It’s fast, simple and lets you add alt-text without having to change views.
TIMELINE
Indigo’s timeline combines your Bluesky and Mastodon timeline into a single feed, with subtle indicators for which service a post is coming from. The goal is for you to forget about the technical underpinnings and just enjoy all the people you follow in one place.
Indigo automatically detects when two accounts you follow are posting the same thing across both services and combines them into a single post, so you don’t have to read everything twice.
POST DETAILS
Indigo features an innovative new approach to post detail views that automatically detects threads, making them easier to read all at once. And you can quickly tap the thread ribbon to view all the replies to a given post.
You can also quick reply to posts without changing views too.
NOTIFICATIONS
Indigo’s Notification view shows you all your notifications from both services in one place. Mentions, Replies, and Quotes are highlighted while Favs and Reposts are grouped together to reduce clutter.
CONVERSATIONS
Indigo supports Bluesky’s direct messages and also provides a conversation interface to Mastodon private posts.
PLATFORMS
Indigo runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac, so you can stay up to date on whatever device suits you best. Your accounts are synced, as is your timeline position, so jumping between devices is seamless. There’s no Apple Watch support, because no one should be reading social media on their watch and there’s no Vision Pro support because they’re stupidly expensive.
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PRICING
Indigo is free to download and try out, but interacting with posts and creating posts requires payment. Our premium tier is called Ultraviolet and has monthly, annual and one-time purchase options.
Prices are regional, based on a purchasing power index and are based on the US prices, which are:
$4.99 per month
$34.99 per year
$119.99 one-time purchase
Please note that the one time purchase may not include all future features in perpetuity as ongoing and that the services, Bluesky and Mastodon, may change what features are available without notice.
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We’ve been working on Indigo for quite a while now, and we’re very proud of how it’s turned out. That said, there are a million features we had to leave out of this first release, but we’re very exited to add more features and functionality as quickly as we can.
Ben & Aaron
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Terms of Service
https://soapboxsoftware.net/indigo/terms.html
Privacy Policy
https://soapboxsoftware.net/indigo/privacy.html
Nouveautés (v1.3.1)
Single Service Plan
We’ve added a lower-cost annual subscription option for users of just one service, Bluesky or Mastodon We hope this makes Indigo accessible to a much wider audience.
Apologies to any existing users only on one service; sometimes plans change. Feel free to adjust your subscription and you can avail yourself of the lower pricing for your next renewal.
Feeds, Lists & Timeline Carousel
You can now create custom lists within Indigo, pair lists across services, and add lists and feeds to a new timeline carousel, giving you quick access to your favourite timelines. Timelines in the carousel will update automatically and can take advantage of timeline filters and mutes.
Magic Mentions
We’ve redesigned the interface for mentioning accounts, making it more intuitive and easier to find who you’re looking for.
Paired Profiles
You can now manually create Paired Profiles. Instead of solely relying on Indigo’s crosspost detection, you can create a Paired Profile from two accounts, or use a placeholder name if a person is only on one service.
Muting
We’ve made a whole bunch of improvements to muting. You can now mute Paired Profiles, which applies to both accounts across services. Muting can optionally apply to notifications, can be temporary or indefinite, and you can choose whether mutes are dampened or completely hidden.
Mutes are also easier to create, you can do so by long pressing on a profile photo, or from a profile page.
Scroll Position Sync
Timelines now (once again) automatically update based on synced scroll positions across your devices. You can disable this if you prefer.
Profile Editing
You can now update your avatar image, banner image, display name, profile text, and profile links from within Indigo.
Bluesky OAuth Support
At long last, Indigo supports OAuth sign in for Bluesky. Bluesky’s OAuth implementation does require regular re-authentication (we expect up to every 3 months), and you will have to authenticate on every device.
Bluesky Labellers
Indigo now supports Bluesky labellers, which are third party tools that can provide additional information about accounts.
Other Features
* Support for Bluesky’s new video size allowances.
* Support for Bluesky's new 10-image galleries
* Open links when pasted into Search
* Use Escape Key to close Media Windows
* Tenor GIF support
* Load more Replies at once (25 instead of 10)
* Crosspost pairings are more resilient to being split apart
Improvements
* Crosspost detection has been improved
* Fetching replies in Post Detail views is faster
* Fetching embed Quote Posts is more reliable
* Added Profile Photos to some Notification Post types
* Improvements to filtering of Bluesky threads
* Follow State is updated more proactively
* Search Results now prioritise accounts based on interaction
* Improved caching, disk usage, and memory usage
* More consistent Interaction Counts across contexts
* Sub-second sorting of posts
* More accurate follower and following counts in some contexts
* Improved detection of handles in post content
Bug Fixes
* Fixes to Search Results layout
* Fixes to the macOS Search Bar and Toolbar
* Fixes for Delete and Edit of Bluesky replies
* Fixes for UI hiding in Media View
* Fixes for closing Media View
* Fixes for Mac Media View positioning
* Fixes for Timeline scroll jumping
* Fixes for Launching with stale data
* Fixes for Media Only Post Layout
* Fixes for Media in Direct Messages
* Fixed some layout issues in Post Detail replies
* Various minor UI fixes for consistency.