The invention discloses a transverse time-of-flight cluster mass selector and a use method thereof, and adopts a pair of parallel plate electrodes to replace a complex structure consisting of three groups of electrodes, namely a cluster ion forward deflection region, a free flight region and a reverse deflection region, in an existing universal cluster time-of-flight mass selector, so that the structure of the selector is greatly simplified. A simple linear relation exists between the cluster mass selected by the selector and the acceleration and deceleration pulse voltage amplitude applied to the parallel plate electrode, so that the cluster mass can be selected by simply adjusting the pulse voltage amplitude, the selector is visual, simple and easy to debug and operate, the mass resolution is constant, and the calibration is rapid. By reasonably setting the time logic of the voltage pulse, the cluster mass selection can reach a high passing rate of 50%. In addition, the electric field distribution structure restrains the ions from converging towards the axis, and compared with the electric field distribution configuration, causing ion divergence, of the current universal cluster time-of-flight mass selector, the quality of the beam is better improved.