I’ll add more apps to this list as they are released.
Since all these apps are being constantly updated, I’ll also include the version number. Please don’t let my post stop you from using any of these apps. My complaints will probably be fixed very, very soon.
Summit v0.1.22 (Day 1): The app is pretty neat since they added inboxes halfway through my day. The app feels pretty neat overall. It will be much better once they add profiles. I just wish they had an infinite scrolling feature. The community selection feels kinda wonky though.
Connect v1.0.73 (Day 2): This is probably the best app for Android right now; but I obviously can’t tell since I haven’t even tried half of them yet. Nothing feels missing from this app. It’s great and has all the features I could want from a Lemmy client. The only issue I had was that some communities sometimes don’t appear in the hamburger menu. I check up on my Stephen King community every few hours but I often have to search for it to find it. Overall an amazing app.
fennec v0.0.4 (Day 3): Overall a pretty neat app. It doesn’t have too many formatting options; no button for adding pics to comments. The reversed voting buttons were kinda annoying and sometimes when a post had too many comments or votes, or when I was deep into a comment thread, it wouldn’t show the upvote button. Also idk if it’s just me being dumb but I can’t figure out how to edit posts…
Thunder v0.2.1 11 (Day 4): It’s a decent app. I don’t really have much else to say about it. My only complaint is that you can’t add images to comments and posts. If you don’t really care about that it’s a good choice for your main app.
Lemming 1.0.0-alpha05 (Day 5): It feels different from the others apps I’ve tried so far (probably just because of the unusual hamburger menu) but it’s great. Profiles and inboxes are missing but i liked the UI colors quite a lot which made scrolling through it fun for me. Also, swiping to upvote requires a very small swipe on this app so I used it quite a lot whereas I literally never used it on the other apps. Pretty great and it’s probably gonna be one of the best when inboxes and profiles are added.
I’ve used Jerboa for a while, but now I’ve switched to Liftoff. Loving it so far! Great interface, no lags, and better customization possibilities. Plus, compared to a lot of other apps, it’s free software
What’s the difference?
Is there a way to hide posts you’ve interacted with/voted/whatever?
You mean like in an RSS reader? Not that I’m aware of
I used Jerboa but switched now also, subtle but experience seems slightly smoother
I tried liftoff but for me it’s super slow / freezes.
I just want to know where that cute piggy wallpaper came from :3
Jerboa recently was down for a few days when the Lemmy instance updated. It isn’t an issue now but was unusable at that point.
Keep us posted
I’ve tried Jerboa, Summit and Liftoff but my daily is wefwef because it has the most complete interface.
Anyone have one that was like Reddit’s “Bacon Reader”? That was my go-to app for the site.
Interesting, I pinned your post.
the thing i’m finding with the apps is that as the backend is upgraded/patched/changes the apps all respond differently to those changes. on top of that, updates to the apps themselves can cause erratic behavior. i’m looping thru 4 right now just trying to find something consistent.
I’m gonna keep the most promising ones downloaded to keep up with the new updates
Liking Connect so far myself.
you should try subscribing to your home feed in an rss reader for a day too, it’s a great feature of lemmy and discourages scrolling forever
I love RSS, but was not aware you could do it with Lemmy. Can you get the link from one of the apps? I’m currently testing Connect if that helps.
On the web site, when on the list. There’s an RSS icon to the right of the feed selection controls. Clicking that will give you an RSS feed of your current selection (i.e. Subscribed, Sort By Active)
I’m kinda new to the more complex stuff of lemmy. What is this RSS? I know the symbol and saw it on much stuff but never really figured out what it does.
RSS isn’t specific to Lemmy. It’s a standard that has existed for a long time. It stands for Really Simple Syndication (or also apparently RDF Site Summary). It’s a way for websites, blogs, link aggregators, news sites, anything really that has content that updates, to provide a simple, platform agnostic method for users to subscribe to that changing content.
You would use an RSS reader, or maybe some software that isn’t specifically an RSS reader but supports RSS subscriptions (Outlook is an example of an email client that you can add RSS subscriptions to), then your RSS reader takes care of fetching updates, and you have a perpetually updating feed of your subscribed RSS content in one spot. An RSS feed item usually has a link, some text, and sometimes other content. So you can read a summary, follow the link to read the whole thing, etc.
For Lemmy, you can subscribe via RSS to your Subscription, Local or All feed, with whichever sort you want. But you can also subscribe to specific users’ comments to be notified whenever they make another comment.
Oh so I get a summary based on parameters I select beforehand? And that’s more than side wide? I’m sorry if I missintepret something English is sadly not my first language
It’s different for different RSS feeds. I haven’t tried the feeds on Lemmy, but I would assume that they contain a link to the post, plus the content of the text for that post if there is any. So you could read the post and decide if you want to click through to interact.
I just had a quick look at what’s included in the Lemmy RSS feed. Each item in the feed has a Title, Link and Description. The description appears to give a summary of the post, the number of comments and upvotes it’s received, and links to the content.
The core concept for RSS to understand though is that an RSS reader is a link aggregator where the links come from different feeds you subscribe to from all over the net. If you see an RSS icon, you can copy the link and past it into your reader to add a new subscription and be notified when there are updates without having to visit the site in your browser unless you see something that interests you and you want to click through to read and interact with.
Oh that’s really interesting. I maybe will look deeper into it. Thanks a lot for explaining
Awesome, thank you!
I keep trying all of them but keep coming back to Jerboa. It uses it’s screen space most efficiently (even with all the customisations of the others) and for me seems to work the best.
Edit: Connect is probably the next best one I’ve tried on Android (and potentially better functioning than Jerboa), but the font is too bold however small I make it.
Also connect doesn’t seem to be open source, that is sad.
Can’t find thunder on the Playstore, so far it’s either connect or liftoff. Connect works better but liftoff looks better. But I really hope boost for Lemmy will be released soon
You can download the latest releases on github. It’s still very much an alpha, but I think it flows the best of any app I’ve tried.
You can get Thunder from GitHub.
Thanks, looks really nice I’ll try it out
I downloaded Thunder from Neo-Store.
You’re able to preregister on the Google play store
Can you send the link? I can’t find it.
Thank you
Omg yes, ty 😀
I keep hoping for Infinity for Reddit to port to “for Lemmy”/“for kbin”, but the original dev has no interest (they’re converting to a paid model) and so far no one’s seriously thought about forking it.
So I’ve just been sticking with the mobile webpage. And honestly, it’s not that bad. I’m using a few userscripts (mobile Firefox for the win) to clean it up just a tad, and it’s honestly pretty good.
Well then, I guess I have more apps to download. I like your piggies. Makes me want to watch invader zim.
It’s the new Pokemon, Lechonk! Wallpaper is from the official Pokemon Instagram.
Connect was the smoothest switch from sync for me, they also just added haptic feedback
