Skyscraper for Bluesky App - App Store

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Your penthouse view of Bluesky

Free · In‑App Purchases

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 • Custom themes so the app looks and feels the way you want • Available on all of your devices, from your phone to your watch, to your laptop, with shared and synced settings • Full timeline with pinned feeds and custom algorithms • View Standard.Site posts natively in-app • Powerful discovery features with extensive search and trending topics • 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/

Release 1.7.1 brings Skyscraper to your Home Screen and Lock Screen with widgets, makes the Mac app feel right at home on a keyboard, and fixes a long list of bugs. ## NEW - Widgets for your Home Screen and Lock Screen: Timeline, Timeline Photo, Followers, Latest Followers, Recent Activity, Post Performance, Saved Posts, On This Day, Trending, Trending Topics, and Weekly and Monthly Recaps. - Introducing Skyscraper for Apple TV! Watch your feeds on the big screen, play videos, and follow a hashtag or an account. - Explore has a scrolling ticker of trending hashtags. - Lists show whether they're pinned to your feeds. - Saved Posts loads your whole list, and Unsave All clears it. - Share sheet: add alt text to shared images, or generate it with Apple Intelligence, in your post's language. - Compact Media Thumbnails can be set separately on iPhone, iPad and Mac. - Mac: standard keyboard shortcuts, arrow keys to open and leave posts, a new Post menu, and ↑/↓ in Chats and Notifications. - Mac: paste or drag images and videos into the composer. - Publications (Standard.site) load faster. - The manager has Following, Popular, Trending and Cam's Picks tabs, plus search. - On the Publications feed, a ? button replaces the avatar, and sites open in the in-app browser. - Polish and Hungarian localizations, plus string and translation updates. ## IMPROVED - Apple Watch: opening the app fetches fresh posts, even when Skyscraper isn't open on your iPhone. - iPad: larger compact thumbnails, narrower quoted posts in wide layouts, and the sidebar remembers if you hid it. - Thread replies use distinct colors on Mac, and threads continue past the first level. - Icons and chat screens follow your theme everywhere. ## FIXED - The Following feed updates more reliably in some unusual situations. - Switching feeds or accounts no longer shows the previous one's posts or notifications. - Logging out of one account takes you to Home on the remaining account and stops its notifications. - Tapping like, repost or bookmark twice in a post's detail view now undoes it. - Editing a quote post keeps the quote. - Lists that fail to load no longer vanish from your feed order, and removed feeds stay removed. - Translated posts no longer revert as you scroll. - Chat: older messages no longer vanish on refresh, and the newest stays visible above the keyboard. - Composer: alt text and pasted images survive edits, and Button Shapes no longer pushes your post off-screen. - Profile: switching tabs quickly no longer mixes posts, and new names and avatars show right away. - Search stops refreshing when you're not looking, and muted accounts stay hidden. - Adding someone to a list no longer adds them twice. - Closing a link opened from a sheet no longer closes the sheet too. - Long names in Notifications no longer run under badges. - Custom themes sync their light and dark palettes across devices. - Apple Watch: large images no longer crash the app. - Fixed crashes when opening a deleted or blocked thread. - Mac: videos and quoted posts no longer clip the action bar, and the sign-in window opens in front. - Vision Pro: choosing a photo in the composer works reliably.

Version 1.7.1

  • 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 15.2 or later.
  • Apple Vision
    Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
  • Apple TV
    Requires tvOS 17.6 or later.
  • Apple Watch
    Requires watchOS 11.0 or later.
Languages
English and 13 more
  • English, Dutch, French, German, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Swedish
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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