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

      • @Jessica@lemmy.worldEnglish
        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!

      • @Jessica@lemmy.worldEnglish
        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

      • @feifei@lemm.ee
        English
        5•2 years ago

        The less headache for the devs, the better. I fully support this decision

  • @Fester@lemm.eeEnglish
    6•2 years ago

    I love seeing the memes devs are choosing for the screenshots for these apps. Well done!

  • @5473MP4RRit@lemmy.worldEnglish
    8•2 years ago

    Just downloaded and will give it a try. Already really like the interface. Replying to a post needs some more obvious buttons, but this is great so far.

  • @Rozz@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    4•2 years ago

    I’m going to try it soon. Any comparisons to Memmy right now? I’m glad there is variety out there now

    • scytaleEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      I personally love the competition between the app developers. Memmy just released a big update yesterday that had a ton of improvements, so I switched from Mlem to Memmy for the day to test it out. It’s a race between who can make the better app and it benefits us the users.

    • Shenandoah RiverEnglish
      5•2 years ago

      Nicer looking comment section. Logical position of subscriptions. Beautiful animation when collapsing posts. Just to mention my favorites.

  • @mv777711@lemmy.worldEnglish
    42•2 years ago

    I like the design and the layouts but there are a few things to improve. The biggest for now is the image viewer. When I click on a post it just opens the post with the title and comments, but not the image itself. I can’t zoom in or anything.

    Overall though it’s very clean and off to a good start.

    • @1eyepatch@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
      6•2 years ago

      This and scrolling lags/choppy after going back. Apart from that for initial launch this looks amazing, also loving those extra icons 👍.

    • EricOPMEnglish
      32•2 years ago

      The image viewer is our #1 priority right now. To zoom you can tap the image once in the post view–we’re working on getting a hotfix out shortly to make that work the intuitive way, where tapping the image in feed opens the quick viewer.

      Longer-term, we’re working on a much more robust, fully-featured media viewer, but it’s a complex piece of code and we want to get it right–it’s slated for our next milestone (1.1, targeted Aug 5).

      • @mcg@lemmy.mlEnglish
        6•2 years ago

        Glad you’re working in the image viewer. As of this release, images don’t even open in the post view. Touching them does nothing.

  • DerinEnglish
    3•2 years ago

    Fantastic work. The app is lovely!

    • 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.

  • @afruitpie@lemmy.worldEnglish
    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.