Now that the Reddit exodus is about a year old and the client apps have matured, what’s the latest state of the above question?
What app do you use and why? I’m mainly interested in Android but suggestions for other platforms are also welcome. And if you are using multiple platforms, what’s your primary one?
I haven’t really played around with anything else since Sync for Lemmy was released, because I’m perfectly happy with it.
I love the Connect app(Play store link). It’s incredibly feature-rich for being so early in the game.
I cannot understand why anyone would use an app with Ads when connect has none and it’s free! After getting used to no ads, pure content, I would hate to go back.
I used to use boost for Reddit, but I’m securely in the connect camp now.
Another happy connect user!
I used to use that other site with Infinity, which was Infinity for Lemmy first, but over time, became Eternity, so that’s what I’ve been using.
I used boost for Reddit and use Boost for lemmy since day one (of the app) I love it.
Like others I used Liftoff but had to move on when API broke it & dev is getting on with real life stuff.
Moved to Voyager. It’s good but as an android I still find it a bit strange using what looks like iOS interface. I still get a bit lost when uploading a post & usually have to edit it a few times. No biggie, maybe I should post more & get used it it 😃
I still miss the Joey app from the other place.
Sync, all the way. I strictly used Sync for reddit after the first real enshittification (to me) of reddit a couple years back, and once the app was reworked for Lemmy I switched and haven’t looked back.
Like others have said, it looks great, almost fully customizable UI, works really well, and saves your place when you’re scrolling through comments on posts if you back out.
None of the *bin apps I’ve tried seem to really function well just yet, so I mostly just use the default PWA for the Mbin instance I’m on. It works well enough. Though I’d really love a standalone app, especially if it could handle loading URLs to other instances clicked from outside the app; being taken to a community I’m already subscribed to but not being able to vote or comment because the link I clicked went to the original instance instead of the one I’m logged into is annoying.
Jerboa
Using it since it’s the app from a lemmy dev.
It’s decent for my use.
Tho, some option simulating the multireddit option would be good. But it might be becoming a feature request for lemmy than a lemmy app there.Does it save drafts yet? That was my reason to switch to boost.
Don’t know about Jerboa, but Thunder has been saving drafts for a while now.
I hop around periodically through iOS options, I’m using 2 main ones right now: Arctic and Avelon
I think Arctic is the best
Thunder. It feels most similar to what I used back when I was still using Reddit.
I just use the default website in Firefox for Android.
There are dozens of us!
Sync, used it for who knows how long for Reddit, and none of the other options I tried before it was released for Lemmy came anywhere close to feeling as nice to use.
I can’t recommend Sync in good conscience with the update policy. The dev keeps going AWOL for months, even when breaking issues exist.
This was fine when I paid something like 3€, but it’s no longer fine when I pay 20€.
I tried a lot of them when the reddit exodus was new I settled on voyager and alexandrite. Voyager has a great app (which is just the web page converted to an app) alexandrite doesn’t have an app but it’s has the best experience for me.
I personally use Thunder. It looks great.
Also Thunder.
But then, I’m biased af.
Thunder was my first and I loved everything about it except tap-iPhone-lens-area-to-scroll-to-top being absent (or me being an idiot) had me switch.
I should try it again.
I’m on the dev team. Hence my bias :D
You can set the FAB to be a back to top button, and in the feed, tapping the feed tab button again while already on the feed tab, will scroll back to top.
I’m an android user myself, so I’m not sure what the gesture you’re used to entails, but as the code for scrolling back to top is already in, adding another way to trigger it might be simple. You could hop over to the github or the [email protected] community and ask about it.
👍 thank you
Summit is the best option I’ve found, to replace RIF that I used to use back when I was using reddit.
Ouch, so sad only one mention of Summit. I was on Boost for Reddit, and then Liftoff here until that died. Boost development was going slow it felt like, and I just didn’t feel the workflow was what I got used to posting to Lemmy.
Summit felt great to me, has a ton of great features, and the dev is super responsive and has incorporated many of my requests and has fixed bugs I’ve reported very quickly. I love me some Summit for sure and I don’t know why it’s gone relatively unnoticed.
