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I like Jerboa for android and Voyager for iOS
Voyager also exists for android and is a little quicker
Are you trying to restart the lemmy app war? We finally just rid ourselves of the constant memes.
See the topic description: Sticky so that we have one place to discuss. This saves removing multiple posts about mobile apps per day. The post has been stickied for over two months now; pretty sure it predates the memes.
Been using Liftoff and I’m enjoying it so far, after using/trying Thunder, Jerboa, Wefwef, lemmotif
I also ended up using liftoff for now, but only today I realised that it apparently does not do notifications??
Please tell me I am wrong.
They plan on adding notifications in the near future, in case you were still curious
Definitely am. Thank you for answering!
No worries! Would love to see more people join Liftoff!
Also really liking liftoff. Tried a bunch of others and it honestly just works so much better than the others. Waiting for boost for lemmy though.
Really like Liftoff myself as well!
Summit is pretty raw in places but it’s fast and simple. The developer is putting out updates every few days and actively taking user feedback on c/summit. I’m going to stick with it.
2 months later and there’s still not a satisfying answer. I would have hoped 1 or 2 apps would have risen to the top by now, but it’s still just a scattershot of people suggesting like 8-10 different ones. There’s no consensus.
I don’t want to download an app and get all set up only for development on it to suddenly halt. Then I’d either have to switch again, or be stuck with one that’s forever missing features.
Too many new apps popped up in too short of time. Some of them are bound to fail or be abandoned. Some of them are likely to have been hacked together by amateurs and contain gaping security or functionality flaws.
Does anyone have a suggestion with more substance than “I like this app because it’s the one I downloaded”?
Sync for lemmy
If you like smoothness and swipieness then you need to try Summit (Android).
It doesn’t provide much value if you want to also moderate communities and all. It can a clean experience but it does lack a lot of basic features that are available on the web versions of any instances.
I’m really liking Memmy on iOS. It takes some inspiration from Apollo.
I’m constantly trying out all the ones I can find but so far connect is the only one where I can customise the colours. I love me a sepia theme!
Luckily it’s also great in other ways.
Connect also seems the most rif-like, so it’s a clear win for me
My exact thoughts
Not a native app, but i’m using the wefwef web app, and it’s pretty awesome and getting multiple updates a day.
It’s a web based clone of Apollo
Little update for anyone stumbling across this: it’s now called Voyager (https://vger.app) and is also available as a native app (web wrapper, but still):
- iOS: App Store Link
- Android: Google Play Store
Same here. I never thought I’d love a webapp so much, but here I am…
As a web app developer… ouch! Web is good now!
I genuinely believe web is the future, with the way new OSes are made every day
Yeah the biggest problem with web is a general lack predictability with the platform. Different screen sizes, browsers, versions, etc etc. Hard to build for all of those without some concessions but I like the progressive web app approach with wefwef (which I just ‘installed’ and this is rad!)
Any plans to make it an iOS app that you know of?
Memmy is great too!
They are actually planning on submitting to the App Store, but it’s still going to be a pwa
It’s a PWA which means you can install it on any phone
Great app!
Wefwef is now Voyager and has native apps for iOS and android as well as web app (WEP) and yes it’s still the best option imo
I second wefwef. Incredible app, very close to Apollo.
Wefwef looks nice and I really want to like it but I keep tapping the back button and getting sent all the way back to my communities list, and therefore losing my spot in the scroll. It’s getting old really fast.
Me too - it has weird quirks that at this stage may be turning potential users away.
To be fair though, it’s something that’s been put together very quickly. I think it’s had 2 updates even just in the last 24hrs, to resolve some of these teething problems (and accidentally introducing more). I’m happy to stick with it and be patient; it’s still in beta and would be unreasonable to expect a fully functional product at this point.
Some frustrations will also be coming from the decentralised nature of Lemmy. I’ve noticed issues with using my lemmy.world account or looking for content on lemmy.world from a different instance, and this isn’t really a fault of wefwef or anyone to be honest (as .world is really struggling with excess load atm). It’s early days, it’s going to be rough, we just need to be patient and mindful.
Yeah that’s a good point, I do see updates are coming fast 🙂 I won’t give up on it.
PWA always have a ton of UI quirks that make them hard to use. It’s a cool idea and I wish they would take off but they just aren’t there and I’m not sure wefwef will be able to overcome that, as good as it looks.
Not sure if same on iPhone but wefwef.app is great on android. Tried jerboa, connect and liftoff, this one is a pwa and it works quite well.
I seem to have scrolling issues with wefwef on IOS. Memmy which is currently in Testflight is much smoother most of the time
+1 for Liftoff. I’ve got 4 apps and wefwef pwa going and I keep finding myself going to Liftoff more and more frequently.
Hmm. Trying latest liftoff, some slowness vs pwa but it seems to get all the images with no issues. Time will tell I guess in which ones to stick with.
Yeah nothing is quite perfect yet, and I’m figuring out my priority features as I keep going. The future is bright though.
memmy is awesome
Android user here. Liftoff is unmatched in terms of its visual presentation.
I find Jerboa scrolls nicer. And it seems stable now.
Interesting; I fled Jerboa because its scrolling wasn’t smooth. I’m using primarily Liftoff now because it looks and feels so good and works for everything I need. Its search function also allows filtering for posts, users, and communities, a feature which Connect does not have.
Been using Jerboa and Connect side by side for a couple of days now. I think I’ve landed on Jerboa but I’m still not sure. Going to give both a ride for another week and see how I feel. They’re both different in good ways and I’m super excited to see where the devs take them.
I love the look of Liftoff. I just wish it had the functionality of Connect.
New Lemmy user here. I have two points of improvement I’d like to note, but am not sure where the actual ‘responsibility’ lies.
- It would be great to be able to mass-block communities from lists, rather than tiresomely do them one -at-a-time from ‘All’.
It would also be useful to see the list for subscribing, as I don’t know what’s out there until I see it. Sometimes I can’t think of something to search for until I see it.
Perhaps this lies more with individual apps/ clients rather than the Lemmy ecosystem…?
- May I suggest that communities entirely consisting of bots re-posting Reddit links is, uh, unhelpful?
Anyone?
connect.
This, I’ve been using Jerboa for a while despite the bugginess it had the most features, wefwef was the most stable but had clear ios design decisions, connect seems like a good in-between right now that’s reminding me of sync
