Skyscraper for Bluesky App - App Store

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Your penthouse view of Bluesky

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.

Skyscraper is the Bluesky client that feels like it belongs on your device. Scroll your timeline on your schedule, with scroll position saved across sessions and cloud-synced across your devices. Built from the ground up for iOS and iPadOS, Skyscraper is your penthouse view of the Bluesky network. Smooth, fast, and thoughtfully designed to match the way you want an app to feel. The Features You Need: • iCloud sync support keeps your Following feed position in sync across sessions and devices • Full timeline with pinned feeds and custom algorithms • Post with images, videos, GIFs, and alt text • Direct messages and notifications with optional push alerts • Search posts, users, and hashtags • Moderation controls that put you in charge • Profile editing and saved posts Power features that set Skyscraper apart: • Multiple Accounts — Switch between accounts instantly • Post Drafts — Save ideas for later • Account Backup — Export and archive your data • Thread Archival - Share popular threads with friends off Bluesky • Safari Extension — Open bsky.social links directly in Skyscraper • Trending Hashtags — See what's buzzing right now • Unified Timeline — See replies in your following feed • Mute Reposts — Silence repost-happy users without unfollowing • Custom Theme Colors — Make the app fit your personality • Post Translation — Read posts in any language Download Skyscraper and get a better view of the Bluesky. EULA - https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

SEARCH AND FEEDS * Live search: results update as you type, with a running count. * "Save as Pinned Feed" on the search filter panel turns a hashtag or any query with its filters into a column/feed you can return to. Search now defaults to sorting by Latest, and pinning is disabled under Top, since a pinned feed only means something for a chronological sort. Synced across devices via iCloud. THREADS AND REPLY CONTEXT * Replies now show the thread ROOT rather than the immediate parent. Most timeline replies are replies-to-replies, and a mid-thread parent read on its own is a fragment — the root is what the conversation is about. This matches Bluesky. Paired with a "Show full thread" link that opens the posts in between. * The handle a reply opens with is now accent-colored and bold in reply pills and thread continuation rows, so it reads as a mention instead of flat body text. Links and hashtags in that text are colored too. * Self-threads are marked with a dotted outline carrying a "Thread" caption at the top-left and bottom-right, fieldset style. * A thread root now draws a connector down out of its avatar, so it links to the posts below it the way the continuation rows already linked to each other. * Threads of videos play inline. They previously rendered as a column of "Video" buttons with nothing to watch. The button is kept as the fallback when "Show Videos" is off in Settings. * Quoted posts inside thread continuation rows now render as the full quote card instead of a "Quoted post" pill, and tapping the card, its author or its hashtags all work. PHOTOS, VIDEO AND LINK PREVIEWS * Full-screen photos rotate on iPhone. Turning the phone sideways to fill the screen with a landscape photo is the point of full screen, and previously only video could do it. Zoom resets to fit on rotation. * With "Show Full Size Image Previews" on, a wide photo now gets the full content width at its natural height instead of being stretched taller and cropped at the sides — most visible on screenshots of text, which were losing their left and right edges. Tall photos are unchanged, and the setting's off state renders exactly as it did before. * Link card thumbnails are laid out at the standard 1200x630 card ratio rather than a fixed height, so a normal og:image lands uncropped. * GIFs posted as a Giphy page link (what clients other than Bluesky's own picker post) now resolve to the actual animation instead of spinning on a placeholder forever. TIMELINE * Tapping "X reposted" opens the reposter's profile — which is where you'd go to mute their reposts when they flood your feed, or just to see who they are. NOTIFICATIONS * Grouping ("X and 3 others followed you") now happens on the All tab only. On a filtered tab you've already narrowed to one kind of notification, so collapsing hid the very thing you asked to see — the Follows tab now reads as a list of people, and each row goes straight to that profile. * The last segment's icon is now a bell badge instead of an ellipsis. CHAT * Muted conversations now show a bell.slash indicator. BUG FIXES Improved missing "X reposted" headers in the main feed. * Fixed an issue where you would see an inflated "N posts above" badge, which could read in the hundreds or thousands after a cold launch. * Two crashes: a theme object read from inside a toolbar item, and a duplicate identifier when a post both quoted and replied to the post you were viewing. * Tapping "Show full thread" opened the leaf reply pinned to the top of the screen, alone above a blank area with every parent scrolled off above it. The thread now opens with its parents on screen. * The Chat Requests list rendered on pure black instead of the themed background, which stood out against off-black dark styles like Sleeping Panther.

Version 1.5.3

  • Data Linked to You

    The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:

    • User Content
    • Identifiers
  • Data Not Linked to You

    The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:

    • Purchases
    • Usage Data
    • Diagnostics
  • Supported Features

    • VoiceOver

    • Larger Text

    • Dark Interface

    • Differentiate Without Color Alone

Information

Category
  • Social Networking
Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.3 or later.
  • iPhone
    Requires iOS 18.3 or later.
  • iPad
    Requires iPadOS 18.3 or later.
  • Mac
    Requires macOS 15.3 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
  • Apple Watch
    Requires watchOS 11.0 or later.
Languages
English and 4 more
  • English, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Spanish
Age Rating
13+
  • 13+

  • Infrequent
    Profanity or Crude Humor
    Horror/Fear Themes
    Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References

    Contains
    Messaging and Chat
    User-Generated Content
    Social Media

In-App Purchases
Yes
  • Skyscraper Pro - Annual $14.99

  • Skyscraper Pro - Monthly $2.99

Copyright
  • © 2026 Cameron Banga

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