Pachli for Mastodon

Pachli for Mastodon is an open-source Android application for using Mastodon and similar servers. It belongs to the Internet category and provides a way to read and participate in conversations from a mobile device. It is intended for people who use Mastodon and want tools for reading, responding to, and publishing posts.

Users can read, reply to, filter, favourite, and boost posts. The app can translate posts written in other languages, and it keeps a local cache of the timeline for reading when the device is offline. Posts can be saved as drafts for completion later, while other posts can be written in advance and scheduled to send later. Multiple accounts can be used for reading and posting, and multiple themes are available.

Pachli is designed with a focus on making all functionality available to people with accessibility needs. This makes accessibility part of the app’s stated product focus rather than a separate use case. Its account, timeline, translation, drafting, and posting functions bring common Mastodon activities together in one Android client.

MirrorNest mirrors the official Pachli build directly on its own storage. The mirrored build is scanned for malware before publishing, providing a catalog-based way to obtain the official build. The project is open source, with its source available at https://github.com/pachli, while Android is the platform listed for this distribution.