It’s here!

Download Mlem for Lemmy on the App Store

Please note: it may take a couple minutes for it to be available in all regions. We just pressed the button.

Mlem for Lemmy is out of beta and live on the App Store!

Thank you to everybody who tested our app and submitted feedback, whether through TestFlight or a GitHub issue or a post on the community. Your insight has been an integral part of making this app what it is, and we look forward to working with you to make it even better in the months to come.

The past month and a half of hard work has been an amazing journey, but this is just the beginning. We hope you give it a download and join us as we strive to bring you the best mobile Lemmy experience we can.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

  • @[email protected]English
    1•2 years ago

    Is there a way to search for posts? Seems like the search tab is just communities?

    Also, while using this to post this comment, I was confused on where I was typing because the post itself took up most of the screen, def gotta get used to that

    • @[email protected]English
      2•2 years ago

      Is there no edit comment in lemmy?

      Also small thing I found was I couldn’t go to my comment from my profile tab

    • EricOPMEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      We’re working on fleshing out the search tab, and it should have posts and users in the next major release.

      That’s useful feedback on the post composer–we’ll look into making that clearer. Thanks!

  • AngelEnglish
    29•2 years ago

    Congrats! even though it has only been such a short time, It has been amazing seeing this project grow.

  • @[email protected]English
    3•2 years ago

    downloaded, 5-star rated, reviewed

    congrats and good luck!

    I’m glad to have a fully ios native app available

    • Shenandoah RiverEnglish
      1•2 years ago

      So much this. I was tempted to leave the fediverse due to missing content. But this release convinced me to stay and wait for Lemmy to grow.

  • Shenandoah RiverEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    Congratulations! Wonderful release. For me it‘s feature complete. Nice to have would be a dark gray mode and an option to see downvotes, but that‘s not a must-have. I love it as it is and deleted the other Testflight clients.

  • @[email protected]English
    27•2 years ago

    Congrats! I’m excited that Mlem is built in SwiftUI instead of a cross-platform framework. Native-built apps are usually so much better.

    • Oliver LoweEnglish
      9•2 years ago

      Me too! The differences really become apparent when more features are added. Battery life I notice. Also just the way the thing feels; I can intuit where things are in the app because I already know how to use my iPhone.

    • EricOPMEnglish
      35•2 years ago

      Yes! We will continue using TestFlight to try out our beta features, so if you want the cutting (and maybe buggy) edge of our development, stay on there. If you just want the stable, reliable app, the App Store version is your friend.

      • scytaleEnglish
        9•2 years ago

        I’m staying on beta to get first dibs on the coming improvements. lol. Congrats on the official app store release!

      • @[email protected]English
        4•2 years ago

        Oh I know. I’ve just been burned many times in the past with upgrading iOS on older phones so I generally avoid it these days until I have a compelling reason to upgrade. Forced obsolescence and all that

    • EricOPMEnglish
      38•2 years ago

      There are a couple smaller reasons, but the big one is that we use NavigationStack to handle our core view navigation–it’s a truly monumental improvement over the old NavigationView, and lets us do things like build an iPad version without rewriting all our nav stuff, but it is unfortunately only compatible with iOS 16+.

      I know that’s probably not a super satisfactory answer, but I’d rather be transparent than spin some PR nonsense at you.

      • DeezEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        Does that mean an iPad view is on the cards?

        • EricOPMEnglish
          7•2 years ago

          Yes! We’re planning to get it into beta as part of our 1.2 milestone, which should start development early August

          • DeezEnglish
            2•2 years ago

            Great news, looking forward to it!

      • @[email protected]English
        8•2 years ago

        Thanks for the quick reply! I just wanted to confirm it wasn’t something superficial. I’ll look into updating and see what the performance hit looks like