I started off using Voyager, swapped to Mlem because of slight differences I preferred. Recently found out Thunder for Lemmy is available on the apple appstore and it instantly became my favorite. I like how unique the ui is compared to other, it seems better suited for browsing and posting on Lemmy, while the others feel better for the initial transition from Reddit. Very suprised it has barely any downloads or reviews when its easily the best Lemmy app on IOS.
Thunder reminds me of the more “modern” alternative front ends for lemmy some sites have while mlem and voyager feel more like the alternative reddit apps (blue alien) and give a similar experience.
On desktop, I’ve been using Friendica.
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I use Voyager on Android. It’s a quality app that just works. On my iPad I use a safari plug in called sink-it.
The user tagging and vote counter is the no.1 Voyager feature for me that isn’t on any other app as far as I know.
I was swapping back and forth between that and mlem for a while, I like the custom interaction bar in mlem. Feels nice to finetune, but voyager just works and has plenty of settings to get the necessary customizations. I like that the issue for me is that they are all good, so I just end up using them all.
I’m a bit confused. Looking at the App Store Sink it appears to only be for Reddit/Twitter and not Lemmy or am I missing something?
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https://www.lemmyapps.com/ has a “rating” column, to be compared with “last release”
Voyager on Android is the best.
Apollo was the best Reddit app on iPhone. Voyager continues its legacy
I loved Apollo! I randomly chose Voyager as my first introduction to Lemmy and it’s been great so far
Boost, it was the perfect Reddit client for me and now it’s the perfect Lemmy client, I didn’t have to sacrifice any aspect of the experience.
God I love you, Boost my beloved 😍
I’m on Android. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I give Steve Jobs a penny.
Steve Jobs is already in hell though, he ain’t getting your money either way
Same here
Thunder on Android. Alexandrite on PC.
Absolutely Thunder for android. Easy, customizable, and is very similar to the app I used for reddit called Relay. Dunno how an apk could be better for using Lemmy.
Boost 🚀💪
Boost on Android for me as well
Same. I used it for so long on reddit that I jumped as soon as the Lemmy version was available.
Same 🚀
Yup, this right here. Will consider the ad-free experience if Lemmy ever grows its fledgling user base.
Hasn’t been updated for a while unfortunately.
Summit is my favorite after testing Thunder, jerboa and Boost.
I’ve tried almost every Android app for Lemmy, and holy heck, do I love Summit the most. It does everything I need it to and more. It looks great. It’s responsive. And the dev is amazing. They respond to bugs, issues, and feature requests lightning fast. No ads. Not FOSS, which is the only thing I’ve seen anyone gripe about.
Been using it almost exclusively for a year or so now, and I can’t praise it enough.
Thank you guys so much 🥲
I seriously worry about coming off creepy or insincere, or else I would shower you with praise more constantly! Your app has made my experience here so much better, and I’m grateful for the things you’ve added to it, sometimes I’m sure, just for me.
You’ve always been really friendly and helpful and lightning fast fixing any issues, and you obviously put a lot of time and work into developing and maintaining the app, and you don’t ask for money or have ads or anything.
None of the other apps are bad or anything, but I still think yours offers the most and the best for me, and how I don’t see Summit near the top of every best Lemmy app posts is crazy to me.
Using Summit on Android. I tried Thunder and Jerboa, but Summit has been the best.
Eternity. As lacking in updates it may be, still woks well, and it is super customizable.
Currently using Voyager on my Android phone. I like it. Quite the upgrade over Boost (which I was using before, as I really liked Boost for Reddit in the before-times).
Don’t like going into Lemmy on PC, though. It looks fugly as hell, and the UI looks like something from the 90s. I wonder if there’s a different way of accessing Lemmy through my browser.
Ton of alternate frontends mentioned here, I like phtn.app, you can loginto multiple accounts from different instances, tesseract is also nice.
Arctic on iOS; prefer it to Voyager, Mlem, and Thunder due to having more customization options.
It also feels more natural. It seems it was actually written in swift. Other apps feel like they were written in some framework, which causes inconsistencies from the rest of iOS.
It’s also in constant development. I’m on the TestFlight and contribute via bug reports if I find any. I love seeing the new updates.
I tried it for a while, but it left the rotation, I barely checked the customization options on that one tho, ill give it another try, when I had media not shwoing up or working on the other apps it still worked in Arctic everytime.
Something that only it seems to have, versus the others I compared it to, is a “headline” view for the feed. It’s essentially an extra compact version of the compact view, putting the post’s community name in line with the upvote, downvote, comment counts and post age. Only saves a bit of space compared to the comparison I made a few minutes ago in trying Thunder’s compact view, but most of all it makes the feed less cluttered, in my opinion.
I enjoy customization more than using stuff sometimes, so I’m really enjoying all the options these apps have, voyagers got relatively less customization but I like that too, kinda like both extremes of heavy customization and being forced to use a certain ui thats been optimized.
Connect for Android was my jam, but now that I’m on Mbin I’m liking Interstellar (which also works with Lemmy).
Connect is the most like the reddit is fun client. How i like to shitpost and see content
I like how the thunder app shows what update the instances you are logged into are on, lemmy.world is so far behind the others lol
Haven’t looked around for a while, but I’ve settled on Voyager.
https://github.com/aeharding/voyager#readme
Sadly, F-Droid tries to share the actual binary not a link to it via F-Droid (a la Google Play).
I have the reference application, Jeroba, installed but I don’t really like it and haven’t seen it updated for a while.
Eternity
