Hi, [email protected] community! It’s been exciting seeing the Lemmy apps ecosystem continue to evolve, with all sorts of options emerging. Whether you’re a seasoned resident of the Fediverse or a newcomer, we’d love to hear about your experiences and expectations for the future.
- Which Lemmy apps have you tried?
- Do you have any favourites? If so, what sets them apart from the others?
- Are there upcoming apps you’re looking forward to releasing?
- What other functionality would you like to see from a Lemmy app?
Thunder has the best UX out of all apps I’ve tried, and it’s not even close. And I’m fairly certain I’ve tried all of them.
Thunder would be the obvious one for me but the lack of a swipe action to return to the fees from a post is a showstopper for me.
Yeah, that’s the one thing for me as well, so I’ve been using liftoff since it has the functionality, I will move over to sync when it gets released though.
I’m also a big Sync fan.
Connect is closing the gap quickly, and has not supplanted Liftoff as my daily driver.
My problem with connect is that if I touch a comment it changes colour to cyan and makes the text unreadable, apart from that it’s pretty decent.
Is it available on the app store?
You can find Thunder on their Github or using the IzzyOnDroid repo.
There’s also a full list of the apps and where to get them over here.
Cool thanks. I’ve never tried side loading anything on my phone before. I might give it a whirl for fun.
Enjoy! The amount of dev support for Lemmy is pretty exciting.
It has good ui, I love it too. But its inability to sort comments on post is dealbreaker for me… or am I missing the updates/features? 😅🙏
For now, I use Liftoff and web-ui…
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Jerboa’s improved a lot lately, but I’ve also been using Connect when it has problems. When the Lemmy versions of popular Reddit apps come out, I might switch to one of them since I expect them to be more refined out of the gate.
The thing I think I want the most is a clone of RIF’s comment navigation. Being able to easily skip through long threads is a feature I didn’t realize I’d miss, but I used it all the time on there. Jerboa kind of has it now, but it doesn’t let you move up through child comments and the “active” comment is always at the top of the screen.
My top three are Wefwef, Thunder and Jerboa.
Lemming in 4th place when it catches up!
And well I guess things will change when Boost and Sync for Lemmy arrive.
I started by using Jerboa but switched to Thunder and am loving it.
Jerboa was great too but it had some weird issues (like default homepage wouldn’t apply, no matter what I selected as the default in settings it would default to local).
I wish thunder let me have vote/reply buttons instead of swipe gestures but it’s not too bad.
Well, Thunder keeps improving day by day, so be sure to keep an eye on it.
I also like Thunder more than Jerboa, but until this day Jerboa keeps to be more usable, maybe Liftoff and Jerboa are the most useful right now, aside the stock PWA.
Thunder keeps improving day by day, so be sure to keep an eye on it.
This fact makes it hard to pick a favorite at this point. Thunder used to be my favorite out of the bunch, but I have been enjoying Liftoff the most the past few days. I agree, we should keep checking out each app periodically before settling on anything.
Yep I have the same exactly. Also I use the actual website too as it’s the best one for foldables that I can see
I don’t have a foldable phone, but I can see it being the superior experience for them, and let’s be honest, is less likely to fail with this early app phase 😅
I’ve tried all the apps in the play store but haven’t found one that lets me doomscroll horizontally by swiping right. Anyone know if I’m just a idiot or do none of them have that functionality?
I’m currently using wefwef because it’s the most polished one regarding UI, that I’ve found. The jerboa one didn’t let me sign in via feddit.de because of version mismatch.
But I’m very certain that I’ll switch to Sync for Lemmy once that’s out, as was a very long-time user of Sync for Reddit and it’s UI just was so clean.
I just discovered wefwef and love it.
Also love wefwef and the ui, every time i open it there’s an update or more than one. I used sync for 8 years I believe and can’t wait for it to be on lemmy so I’m sure I’ll also switch.
Ooooh is there going to be Sync for Lemmy? I’m a long time Sync user and I’d love to have it back
Ooooh yeah - https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy
Great to see LJ is back on it!
Another Sync afficionado here - their “We officially don’t do Reddit anymore, look out for us on Lemmy!” banner July 1st is how I got here!
Welcome on board!
I’ve got Connect and Liftoff installed and I can’t figure out how to view all my subscriptions in a feed in Connect. Am I just tired or is this a pending feature? Thanks in advance!
A swipe on the left side of the screen will reveal your subscriptions.
Also, when you swipe from the left you can see Frontpage, Local, and All. Select Frontpage. That will show you only the what you are subscribed to.
Jerboa, Summit, Connect, Liftoff, Lemmotif, Thunder, Wefwef
My favourites are Connect and Liftoff. And in the last couple of days Jerboa had a good catch-up run.
I mean they ALL evolved a good deal in the last 2 weeks, it’s just amazing. Thank you, devs!Upcoming? Yes. Sync. I’ve used it for Reddit for like 6 years. I miss it very, very deeply.
I have tried these:
- Jerboa
- wefwef
- Liftoff
- Connect
- Thunder
After spending some time with each one, I’ve settled on Liftoff. It has the cleanest, nicest and most configurable UI (IMO), and most things just work. The developer is also actively fixing bugs and making improvements. It’s not perfect, but none of them are yet.
I’ve come from Boost, which pretty much was perfect, and Liftoff seems the closest to it. It will be interesting to see what the Lemmy version of Boost is like.
Same here
I also like liftoff, but the subscribe button doesn’t seem to work for me. It says I need to log in to that instance which isnt right. If I sub in a different app it shows up fine.
Try removing all instances that you are not logged into from the accounts settings.
Does anyone know of apps with proper spoiler parsing like the Lemmy websites have? It’s made looking at threads for games/shows pretty annoying, and I don’t really want to go with the PWA route because I frequently search questions on my phone and don’t want my Lemmy history crowding up my browser history
Edit: I’ve tried jerboa, connect, and liftoff so far, and none of them seem to have it. I also realized my comment is unclear, I specifically mean comment spoiler tags with :::
You might want to consider using another browser dedicated to it, or going for Hermit or Native Alpha. Personally, I like Kiwi Browser(Chrome based) and Fennec (Firefox-based) - both support browser extensions/add-ons.
Use Native Alpha
honestly the web app is enough for me until Sync arrives.
I tried Jerboa and it was okay. I’m now using Connect and it is fantastic!
Using Jerboa atm
I’ve been using a few myself and keep going back to Jerboa. I’ll keep tooling around but that’s my pick so far as well.
I really hope some of these are working on ensuring compatibility with both lemmy and kbin platforms. I expected they’d just work, because ActivityPub, as I assumed the backends where more alike than similar, but since kbin.social accounts don’t seem to be able to login, I suspect there will be more work necessary than this end user thought.
I have tried Jerboa, Connect for Lemmy, and Liftoff. Connect for Lemmy is my preferred option now as the UI is cleaner, available at Playstore, enough customisation for me.
Boost for Lemmy is what I am looking out for at the moment.
edit: OK, Thunder is my favorite now 😆
Tried jerboa and it’s perfectly good enough. Threading could use slightly more distinction but its snappy and lightweight.
Also am waiting for Boost for Lemmy though as that was my Reddit app of choice. Time will tell if I end up on it or stick with jerboa
Are we the same person? I agree wholeheartedly with this statement. Boost was my Reddit app of choice, my first taste of Lemmy was Jerboa, and the latest updates for Jerboa have been awesome. But I want Boost for Lemmy!
Used Jerboa for a couple weeks, but got sick of the constant crashes. Connect and Liftoff were both better than Jerboa imo
Haven’t had crashes yet, honestly the only complaint so far using Jerboa on a pixel 5 (lemmy.ca instance if those could play a part in potential issues). Is notifications… They seem to be broken similar to how boost was broken with reddit consistently for me.
I have a constant 1 unread, and flipping the status just makes the numbers weirder, but never less than one. It’s like those toggling light puzzles lmao.
Thunder loading is really slow for me compared to Liftoff or Mlem, I see very few people talking about this
Thunder is my favorite so far but connect is a close second
My favorite reddit apps were boost and relay so I’m very excited for boost coming to lemmy
