I am very new to Lemmy, and I am using the Eternity app. But I am wondering which one you guys are using, and maybe there are better one’s than Eternity without me knowing
I have tried almost all clients on Android.
Best In my opinion:
- Thunder
- Jerboa
- Raccoon for Lemmy
- Voyager
To me thunder has the best UI and UX overall, even though I prefer the “card view” feed from Raccoon and some functions of Jerboa.
I’ve moved from Boost to Thunder. It’s a great experience so far.
Do you use thunder on iPad? How do you exit from a video link, eg youtube? There is no back or X or gesture.
I would suppose with the same gestures as the image ones but since you mention is not that then I would assume it could work with native iOS gestures? I’m sorry, do not own any Apple devices. I suggest asking on Thunder’s community or making an issue on Github.
Did you rank these in a particular order, or is it just four that you like?
I used Jerboa when I first transitioned from Reddit, but eventually someone recommended Voyager because it is similar to the RiF app I used to use. I like the interface of Voyager more than Jerboa, and I’ve been using it for a while, but I’m still open to checking out other apps.
Did you rank these in a particular order, or is it just four that you like?
In preferred order.
Jerboa has everything you might need related to Lemmy functions, as it is the native app developed by the same Lemmy authors. But I feel the interface is not as good as Thunder’s. And as for Voyager, I dislike the interface because is reminiscent of old iPhone interfaces (even though you can change it something similar to Android). And as far as I remember Thunder’s post’s comments view is better for me. In my opinion Thunder has the better combination of Function, UI and UX.
Yep, tried everything and Thunder is the best for me.
You can’t hide the bottom bar on thunder, can you?
i agree. Thunder is the best. It’s even better than paid apps
Mlem
I’m using voyager. I’m fairly new still but it seems to work quite well.
Voyager.
Me too. Voyager is a fine name but there was something dumb/charming about the name Wefwef.
I’m using Sync to write this comment :)
I switched from sync a while ago because it wasn’t updated anymore.
The dev has in the past taken steps away, but comes back when needed. And despite not being updated in a hot sec it’s still still the best mobile app IMHO.
Yes, I used it for a long time on Reddit. But lemmy did have some new developments that are not supported by sync and I got tired of waiting for the dev to fix it
Interesting, thanks for sharing. I’m returning to Lemmy and got Sync again because I liked it (and paid for no ads) previously.
Ate there specific features you know of that it doesn’t support?
Boost
I am using boost for lemmy for some time now and am very happy with that app. I’ve tried jerboa, summit and thunder before but they felt somewhat incomplete at the time I used them.
At first I used Jerboa, after some time it didn’t work anymore with my old instance. I switched to Voyager for a long time, switched instances as my old one got abandoned and defunct from the owner. After some time Voyager didn’t work anymore with my new instance and now I am using Raccoon.
Thunder, because it works best with accessibility features like VoiceOver and TalkBack: https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder
I use lemmy via mbin in the app interstellar.
I’m using summit. It’s pretty good
Another shoutout to summit, coming from an ex-Sync user. It’s very nice.
And very active
Also Summit. It was the first Android app i saw for it and I just went with it. No complains so far.
Eternity is a solid one, was my main for quite some time until I used Voyager while waiting for Eternity to to update to work with the latest Lemmy at the time, and ended up sticking with Voyager.
I do miss the user avatars though, voyager doesn’t have those.
Had to scroll to the bottom for this Gem!! Eternity is rock solid.
I like and use Thunder. It’s cross platform on iOS and Android so I get the same consistent interface from my iPad and my android phone.
I use Bilbo, mostly for the free Hobbit memes and because the maintainer is a personal close friend of Simon Baxter of Redwall fame
I currently browse around through Quiblr
