Raccoon for Friendica

Your gateway to the Friendica social network — connecting people without corporate control.

Raccoon for Friendica screenshot

Features

  • Full Friendica experience: Access all main Friendica features from your mobile device
  • Material Design: Clean, modern interface following design guidelines
  • Multi-Account support: Switch between different instances seamlessly
  • Kotlin Multiplatform: Built with modern Android development practices

The Friendica advantage

Friendica is more than just another social network — it’s a platform that respects your digital rights:

  • Own Your Data: your posts, your connections, your rules
  • No Algorithmic Manipulation: see posts in chronological order
  • Interoperability: connect with Mastodon, Diaspora, and other networks
  • Community Hosted: run by communities, not corporations

Download

What makes Raccoon special?

  • Tour mode: explore the Fediverse without creating an account
  • View multiple timelines (local, federated, followed, custom lists)
  • Traditional navigation (vertically scroll the message timeline)
  • Simplified navigation (horizontally swipe between posts)
  • Support for long posts, formatting, titles and spoilers
  • Formatting toolbar and message preview
  • Smart insertion of alt-text for attachments
  • Intuitive topic view for ActivityPub groups (Friendica, Lemmy, Gup.pe)
  • View post details
  • Direct messages
  • Multimedia gallery
  • Circle and list management
  • Social view of blog RSS feeds
  • Integrated event calendar
  • UI customization (colors, font size, post length, “distraction-free” mode, etc.)
  • Save drafts or schedule message publishing
  • Multi-account
  • Explore in “guest mode”: view public timelines of other servers
  • Settings import/export
  • 100% compatible with Mastodon and Mastodon Glitch-Soc version (long and formatted posts)
  • View trending posts, hashtags and follow suggestions
  • Manage follow requests
  • Create post and user reports to moderators
  • Mute/block users, set custom rate limits and exclude terms from your timelines
  • Polls (read-only on Friendica)
  • Profile editing
  • Edit and delete your posts
  • Translate posts to your language
  • and, of course, much more!

Getting Started

  1. Find a Friendica node: Choose from hundreds of community-run servers
  2. Create your account: Sign up on your chosen instance
  3. Download: Get the app from your preferred source
  4. Start connecting: Find friends, join groups, and start engaging with the Fediverse!

Contributing

Help make Raccoon for Friendica even better:

Community

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Further reading