I went back to using Jerboa since I got pretty tired of the ads in Sync. I understand why they’re there, but it’s still kinda annoying.
The $20 to go ad free was worth it to me 🤷🏽 Sync is just too good
I find the amount of features and having different settings per account overwhelming, that’s just my opinion though. I’m sure the dev put a ton of hard work into it.
You can backup your settings on one account and restore them under any other accounts you sign in to easily keep the experience consistent.
I’ve got an adblocker
Does it completely remove it or leave a filler space with it showing a visibly blocked ad?
At least for me, they’re gone completely.
Still a filler space for me with Adguard DNS but it doesn’t bother me at all.
Where are the ads? I’ve not seen one, and I don’t have any ad blockers enabled…
I like Voyager a lot. It’s definitely the most Apollo esque. Other than the lack of hide bars on scroll feature. The bars at the bottom and the top can be distracting and I find content looks better when they disappear as you scroll.
So far I’ve only found Avelon to have this feature.
Maybe give Sync a try, it also hides the app bars on scroll and features a very clean and intuitive UI
Thanks for the recommendation! Unfortunately I’m on iOS and Sync isn’t available :(
Eternity is too low on the list imo.
i did not participate in the poll, although i use the default web ui on desktop and eternity on mobile
I’m waiting for Boost since the reddit exodus. I’ve condemned myself to mobile browsing particularly to be loyal to boost and also the enjoy how much better 3rd party clients are when it’s finally live.
I’m also a former boost user, for now I’m using liftoff
Voyager user here - never heard of this poll.
Needs more Eternity … :)
Somehow didn’t know about it before I saw this poll! It’s the best (and FOSS). It runs seamlessly, unlike others I’ve tried, and has crazy customization.
Yeah, I used Infinity for Reddit (bcs BaconReader isnt FOSS) & was so happy when I saw this fork.
Voyager is fantastic. I started with Memmy and settled on Voyager for a while. But I’m trying Avelon right now and it’s smoooooth. The swipe back function works much better on Avelon, and their “Explore” tab is great.
At least on iOS, I prefer Avelon the best as it’s the most iOS native feeling app. A close second for me on iOS is Mlem. Both I still use from their betas, but both are now in the App Store as well, go give them a try if anyone hasn’t already!
maybe its a settings thing but for me voyager keeps showing me posts i’ve already seen even they should be marked as read, while avelon keeps showing me new stuff. otherwise they are both wonderful.
Oooh, shiny. Thanks for the suggestion, it’s beautiful
Avelon is phenomenal. Especially the hide bars on scroll feature. No other app has this. I wonder if it’s hard to develop? I remember the developer of Apollo had quite a few bugs with it in the beginning.
Team Avelon
Adding my thanks for the suggestion too - avelon looks great! I started with Memmy and I moved on to Voyager and Lemmios. Both are great but both have problems. Loving avelon so far!!
I’m using sync until boost comes out
any updates on boost? I’ve been ootl for a while
Nope not that I’ve seen. I’m pre registered on the Play store and just waiting for a notification
If I wasn’t comfortable with Jerboa, I’d at least see what Voyager is like.
Hmm do the servers record user agent stats?
Na, there was a poll up for a few hours that resulted in these results.
Dabs in Sync
How about people who were not able to vote, like me!
I couldn’t vote either!
I saw the initial post and it had closed already.
Have been loving Sync Ultra since release. Recently added Summary feature and link previews are awesome.
What is link preview? Coz that was always a feature no? Or am I misunderstanding?
I like the fact that no client has a majority
You could argue that 25% for sync is quite something, and almost double that of the next largest competitor.
I am using it, it’s okay, not as good as Reddit Is Fun was.
but I have to say I am not as evangelical about pushing open source and lack of telemetry, so I don’t care about unintrusive ads as a free-tier, nor do I care a lot about collecting usage data to improve the app
Hm, I like it way more than RiF.
Try liftoff, it’s as close as possible to RIF.
This can be blessing and a curse.
Hell yeah, sync is the best, and the majority knows it
I’m liking sync, but would like it to be free software
I’m all for paying devs for their work, but I am still finding the pricing for the lemmy version of sync just too high. The ad free purchase is 4 times more than it was for the reddit app. And I get that there are probably less users so he needs to make up the difference, but there’s also way less content on lemmy than there was on Reddit, impacting the value there in my opinion.
This is why Sync mentions get downvoted a lot. Other options have most or all of its features, but none bring ads to Lemmy.
I’d argue that most of the userbase would rather not normalize ads on Lemmy.
While I agree, I think sync takes the award for most non intrusive ads in an app. I don’t think I’ve seen a free ad supported app with less intrusive ads.
I’ve heard that argument before too – but again, no other Lemmy app uses ads. Having them is pretty damn intrusive when the alternative is simply not having them.
Of course, it’s the dev’s prerogative to sell a closed-source product, and their choice to be paid for it. I support that. But the issue gets deeper since Lemmy is ultimately FOSS. Lemmy needs donations to survive. I’d wager that most folks who paid to remove ads from Sync aren’t paying their instance for their bandwidth, so it ends up being an unnecessary stumbling block for the platform.
As a sync user of a few years, it’s important that we don’t bring down other apps while raising our own up. It’s a good thing there’s healthy competition! Sync is great, but that doesn’t mean that other apps aren’t.
I used it for a week just to see what all the fuss was about and I’m fully convinced people only like it because it costs money. It’s not that special.
It doesn’t cost money, you could just pay to remove ads. Unless you want all the super fancy features with premium. I bought sync for reddit years ago but I’m sticking with the regular non-premium with Lemmy.
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The ads on sync really aren’t that annoying at all.
*to you
Can you tell me about your experience with ads on sync? Where did you see them, how often did you see them?
I think a lot of the love for it is that sync was arguably the best android Reddit app for a long time. People like myself have become very comfortable with sync on Reddit, and sync for Lemmy is basically the same thing we are all so comfortable with.
I looked at some of the other alternatives and they just didn’t feel as good to me, but I have also been using sync almost daily for years.
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Sync isn’t polished for lemmy yet, so yeah, there are a few rough edges. Having said that, usually a bad experience is because you didn’t customize it to your liking. There is likely a setting for any UI gripe you may have had. There is even a search feature for setting because it’s so customizable.
Sync isn’t on iPhone. I wish Apollo was adapted for Lemmy
That’s basically Voyager (formerly wefwef) https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/voyager-for-lemmy/id6451429762
It’s great, only missing some small features from Apollo.
I know I have pretty much every Lemmy iOS app on my phone.
Voyager is pretty close. That’s probably why it is ranked so high.
No iOS notifications is a deal breaker for me…
Oh I never even realized that was missing. I haven’t enabled it in any apps though. I just see the "unread replies” dot on the inbox when I open the app.
I’d use it but I can’t log in. My password is probably too long as it’s randomly generated by my password manager.
Fwiw can’t login to sync either. It’s all jerboa for me.
My password is >!long!< too, but idk if it’s as long as yours
Just had the same problem with Boost for Lemmy so I shortened it and it works now (at least in Lemmy)
I always wondered why I couldn’t log in using Voyager either. I also use an auto generated password from my password manager, could be related to lengths or a certain special character.
Shortened my password, works now in Boost for Lemmy
I also had problems logging in with sync. For me, it was the instance input.
Somehow, after i filled out the instance, username & password inputs, the form blanked the instance name when submitting.
I didn’t notice at first.
Entering the instance name again made it work.
