Hi, !android@lemdro.id community! It’s been exciting seeing the Lemmy apps ecosystem continue to evolve, with all sorts of options emerging. Whether you’re a seasoned resident of the Fediverse or a newcomer, we’d love to hear about your experiences and expectations for the future.
- Which Lemmy apps have you tried?
- Do you have any favourites? If so, what sets them apart from the others?
- Are there upcoming apps you’re looking forward to releasing?
- What other functionality would you like to see from a Lemmy app?
I have tried these:
- Jerboa
- wefwef
- Liftoff
- Connect
- Thunder
After spending some time with each one, I’ve settled on Liftoff. It has the cleanest, nicest and most configurable UI (IMO), and most things just work. The developer is also actively fixing bugs and making improvements. It’s not perfect, but none of them are yet.
I’ve come from Boost, which pretty much was perfect, and Liftoff seems the closest to it. It will be interesting to see what the Lemmy version of Boost is like.
Same here
On Jerboa. Probably need to give connect a shot at some point just to experience it. But I’ll almost certainly switch to Boost once it drops. Absolutely hooked on that for reddit for many years and it’s such an awesome client I’m sure it’s dev, Ruben Mayayo, will do no less for Lemmy.
I fell to my knees in a Walmart when Boost for Lemmy was finally announced. Donate to Ruben here:
So far I’ve only tried Connect and Liftoff, with Connect being the better of the two.
However, being a serious Sync user for Reddit, once that app is ready for Lemmy, I’m sure there won’t be any other alternative.
Thunder has the best UX out of all apps I’ve tried, and it’s not even close. And I’m fairly certain I’ve tried all of them.
Is it available on the app store?
You can find Thunder on their Github or using the IzzyOnDroid repo.
There’s also a full list of the apps and where to get them over here.
Cool thanks. I’ve never tried side loading anything on my phone before. I might give it a whirl for fun.
Enjoy! The amount of dev support for Lemmy is pretty exciting.
Thunder would be the obvious one for me but the lack of a swipe action to return to the fees from a post is a showstopper for me.
Yeah, that’s the one thing for me as well, so I’ve been using liftoff since it has the functionality, I will move over to sync when it gets released though.
I’m also a big Sync fan.
Connect is closing the gap quickly, and has not supplanted Liftoff as my daily driver.
My problem with connect is that if I touch a comment it changes colour to cyan and makes the text unreadable, apart from that it’s pretty decent.
I am a former Baconreader user. Connect, with just a few options tweaks, is very close to what Baconreader was. I’m enjoying it.
I tweaked Connect to look similar to RiF, which is what I used for Reddit. I’m really enjoying it so far.
Once I switched Connect to dark mode, I felt like I was right back IN Baconreader. Just need a home screen widget and it’ll be like nothing changed. ♥
connect doesn’t seem to let me subscribe to other instances outside of beehaw though? or I’m missing something?
Click the three dots and click subscribe while viewing a community on another instance. You can also subscribe from the left bar. Under your feeds and subscriptions, you can see top communities and subscribe. You can also search at the top of the left bar.
honestly the web app is enough for me until Sync arrives.
I’ve tried: Liftoff, WefWef, and Thunder.
Sticking with Liftoff for now as I like the UI more than WefWef while Thunder back gestures not working is a real deal breaker. Have found pros/cons of all of them and none has seemed perfect for me quite yet.
Waiting for Sync, as that was my Reddit app of choice.
I’ve tried jerboa, thunder, wefwef, connect and liftoff. I was having some problems, but they may have been more related to the instance I was on.
In the last couple days, I’ve been mostly gravitating to wefwef and liftoff. I’d say wefwef is my favorite, but how it handles the back gesture on android is annoying.
I’ve also been pretty satisfied with wefwef for the most part, although posts fail to load sometimes and I see random errors (not sure if this is on wefwef or Lemmy.world).
The UI, features, and infinite scrolling is great, hoping they can provide a material theme soon rather than iOS but I’m getting used to it tbh.
Jerboa’s improved a lot lately, but I’ve also been using Connect when it has problems. When the Lemmy versions of popular Reddit apps come out, I might switch to one of them since I expect them to be more refined out of the gate.
The thing I think I want the most is a clone of RIF’s comment navigation. Being able to easily skip through long threads is a feature I didn’t realize I’d miss, but I used it all the time on there. Jerboa kind of has it now, but it doesn’t let you move up through child comments and the “active” comment is always at the top of the screen.
Connect is currently updating so rapidly that it might remain on my phone even after Sync, Boost, and Artemis launch.
It’s pretty remarkable how active development has been for a few apps thus far.
Agreed. I’m loving it.
I’m making a web app at the moment for personal use. So far, you can scroll posts, sort, filter, upvote, downvote, view one comment page, view a user’s posts, view a community’s posts, subscribe / block users and communities… and that’s about it
Ironically, since it doesn’t have the blur NSFW post feature yet, it’s a much better client for browsing NSFW communities than established clients :D
Absolutely not ready for prime time yet; there’s no deployment, you have to build it from source and it you can’t even comment. https://github.com/NatoBoram/Leanish
Nice, I look forward to seeing how it comes along! Let me know when it’s more functional and I can also add it to our sticky post.
I have something: https://natoboram.github.io/Leanish/lemmy.world/c/leanish@lemmy.world
There’s no Android build yet since it’s easier to just focus on features first and deployment later, but I do plan on having a SSR build, a PWA build and an Android build.
From the screenshot it looks like you can type in the page number? That’s pretty neat
It’s honestly something I have always wanted from Reddit. You know that moment when you open a post, do stuff, go back and then suddenly you lost your scroll position and you have to go back to where you were and it takes so much time that you just close the app? Yeah, fuck that.
I’m thinking about infinite scrolling in a way that edits the page number automatically so that you can go back even if you reload the page, but it’s definitely not a priority at the moment. I’d rather add basic features like commenting and posting first. And maybe basic mod tools, since it’s always something that third-party apps lack for some reason.
I have Liftoff, Jerboa, Connect, and Summit installed. That is my current preferred order but they are all making like multiple updates daily so I’m keeping tabs on them all. I’m also looking forward to Boost.
Damn! A few days ago there was only jeroba. So many now! I really liked wefwef.
Am looking forward to the boost port. That will do it for me.
Boost is my jam. So glad he decided to make the move to Lemmy
It’s pretty exciting!
I really hope some of these are working on ensuring compatibility with both lemmy and kbin platforms. I expected they’d just work, because ActivityPub, as I assumed the backends where more alike than similar, but since kbin.social accounts don’t seem to be able to login, I suspect there will be more work necessary than this end user thought.
Voyager/wefwef is the best one rn honestly, even if the design language is iOS
Waiting for Sync and Boost 🙏🙏
