Raccoon for Friendica is a free and open source mobile-first Friendica client.

Friendica is a really outstanding social plaftorm, featuring powerful characteristics which make it unique in the federated world:

• rich text editing, long posts, support for titles and spoilers;
• native support for ActivityPub groups;
• direct messages;
• a media gallery where you can manage photos and albums;
• the possibility to organize your contacts in circles;
• the ability to quote (cross-post) other people's posts;
• RSS feed import;
• an integrated event calendar;
• and, of course, much more (see the official documentation)…

The web interface is great to access all of these features but on a mobile device there are different constraints for usability and readability, so it comes in handy to have an app to use the most important functions of the platform.

Main app features:

• timeline view with ability to switch feed type (public, local, subscriptions, user-made lists);
• post detail, i.e. opening a conversation in its context and see the replies, number of re-shares and people who added it to favorites;
• user detail with ability to see posts, post and replies, pinned posts and media, subscribe for notifications from a user, follow/send a request or unfollow them, see all following/followers of a given user;
• support for ActivityPub groups (i.e. distribution lists), with the ability to open threads in forum-like (or Lemmy-like) mode;
• see trending posts, hashtags, links and (if you are logged) following recommendations;
• follow/unfollow an hashtag and view all the posts containing a given hashtag;
• post actions (re-share, favorite, bookmark) and – for own ones – edit, delete or pin to profile;
• global search hashtags, post and users containing some specific terms;
• customize the application appearance with color themes, font face and size, etc;
• login using OAuth2 (or, on Friendica, legacy login with username and password);
• view and edit one's own profile data;
• view incoming notifications and filter the list of notifications;
• manage one's own follow requests and accept/reject each one of them;
• view the list of one's own favorites, bookmarks and followed hashtags;
• create a post/reply with image attachments (and alt text for each attachment), spoiler and (only on Friendica) title formatting content in HTML, BBCode (on Friendica) or Markdown (on Mastodon);
• schedule a post for a future date (and change the schedule date) or save it to local drafts;
• report posts/users to administrators for content moderation;
• mute/unmute, block/unblock users and manage the list of muted/blocked users;
• manage one's own circles (user-defined lists), which on Friendica can also be used as a publishing target;
• see polls in read-only mode;
• multi-account with easy ability to switch between accounts (and, in anonymous mode, to switch instance);
• send direct messages (only on Friendica) to other users and see conversations;
• manage one's own photo gallery (only on Friendica);
• view one's own calendar (only on Friendica) in read-only mode.

Anti-Features:

• Tracking (the application tracks and reports your activity to somewhere – usually either without your consent, or by default (i.e. you’d have to actively disable it)):
  ⇒ The app uses Sentry, which is enabled by default.