Summit. Reminds me of Sync on Reddit 5 years ago
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Voyager, reminds me a bit of Apollo for Reddit and has a good webapp for desktop usage.
Thunder
https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder
The killer feature for me is swipe gesture navigation. Most apps do not have that. If anything, they might have a "swipe in from the edge of the screen" gesture, but that is not the same as being able to swipe from any point onscreen to go back.
It also supports PieFed.
Voyager.
I used "Reddit is Fun" for years on Reddit but when it came time to switch to Lemmy I picked Voyager (wefwef at the time) because the UI was the most similar. I tried many of the other popular apps and I was happy with most of them, but Voyager was (and is) my favorite.
It's simple. Lots of text. Easy to use. Looks nice.
Boost mainly. Then I found it struggles getting posts in the "hot" feed so I'll switch to Voyager for that.
Edit: I forgot to add why. I used boost for Reddit and I really like the UI. It's very customizable.
I went from Android to iOS due to reasons and this is one of the few apps I truly miss. Voyager comes close, but I was willing to pay for Boost when I was using it for Reddit.
I've stuck with Boost for like...8 years now? It does everything I need it to so I stick with it.
Voyager. I'm not sure why. Never thought about trying others but now I'm curious.
Jerboa.
I dunno, it was on F-Droid and it's really simple and lightweight, like its namesake critter. I'm sure there's some more full featured options out there. (Voyager's gestures kept throwing me off I think lol)
But I don't hear a lot of people talking about this one much! Wonder why...
It was the first one I used and I never bothered with anything else. It works great
Can't set a default sort for comments which is absolutely crazy. You have to resort every comment section you click into.
(Voyagerβs gestures kept throwing me off I think lol)
I disabled all gestures in Voyager. I also found them annoying.
Connect. First one I happened to try, it works well, gets good updates, and is Canadian
Summit
I went jerboa->sync->interstellar->summit
Every other one gave me a reason to switch, though I don't remember why I left interstellar
I usually use the official Lemmy client in the browser, because it is minimalistic and fast on any device
Blorp.
Itβs the only client I have found that loads all images, regardless of source. When I used voyager, about half of the images didnβt load.
loads all images, regardless of source
Is it certain websites that were the problem, or file formats, or something else?
Probably because of Anubis protection. When the whole "AI scrapes the internet over and over so servers get flooded to death" (effectively an unintended DDoS attack) thing got wild, several websites incl image hosts enabled Anubis, which somewhat works in a browser, but often not so great in apps. Possibly it's the apps fault for [not] setting the correct headers or whatever.

A web browser. Why limit myself with an app, when Firefox can do anything I want?
Jerboa
Heard that it was an app from a Lemmy dev.
Tried it and it was simple enough.
I have three Lemmy clients on my phone: Blorp, Summit and Voyager. However, I mostly use Voyager. I think it's the best app for Lemmy that I've tried so far. It's the one I'm most comfortable with.
what does it give you over using your browser to access lemmy on your phone?
On phones, I generally find the usability worse on a browser than on an app.
for most things -- yes.
but lemmy is fully functional w/o the apps and why i ask this question -- what am i missing by using a browser instead?
i've tried the apps myself and couldn't find a reason to justify keeping it around since most of them keep my user password.
- Boost on old (2013) android phone. very convenient coming from RedReader on android
- Voyager on recent android phone. it's good but kinda slow because it's web-based
- Arctic on iOS (iPod Touch 7G). Mlem doesn't support iOS 15, Voyager is slow/doesn't fit small screen properly
I use boost because it was what I used for reddit and it has a good swipe view.
No joke, I use my self-hosted Friendica instance as a PWA and browse Lemmy/PieFed threads from there. I even get notifications for new topics via Firefox.
Phone, it's connect or summit, depending on which phone. I like summit's looks better on oled screens. Otherwise it's connect
I was using Sync for Lemmy until a week or two ago. It was nice and familiar because that was my reddit app of choice prior to api-gate, but for some reason it kept frequently erroring out and not showing posts or images. I switched to Voyager and so far it's been pretty good
I was a sync user for many years on Reddit. Then also I paid for the subscription on Lemmy. The app stopped being updated so I left. It had been around a year at the time since anyone heard from the dev.
I havenβt checked back. Whatβs the latest? Still got the βLJ does this but he always comes back! Heβs so great!!β crowd; or has everyone jumped ship?
Eternity. I used Infinity for reddit and it's the best UI and FOSS
Is Eternity still maintained? On fdroid the last version is from 2 years ago.
I don't think it is and it sucks because I'm so used to swipe to go back.
I don't think it is, but it still works.
Except a specific image format, I'm not sure which one. But on certain specific images, the whole app hangs for a couple of seconds, and then crashes.
Thunder. It was the first I found when leaving Reddit and it had been a good experience so I've not looked at other ones.
Fuck apps, anything that can be done in a browser will be done in a browser for me
Blorp
Not sure why but I just find it so likable like RIF once was for Reddit!
Used to be Memmy for Lemmy. That's gone, so I've been using Arctic and the web.
This just inspired me to download the source code for Memmy for Lemmy. Whether I spend time updating it for personal use or not, at least I have it if I need it. Sorta like how I plan to keep a derivative of Pocket going if I decide Wallabag isn't enough (also code available on github).
I've been on Summit for a bit, but it doesn't seem to have push notifications, or if it does I can't make them work, so I'm thinking about switching back to Boost. I prefer the appearance of Summit, though.
Eternity even though it's no longer developed it has all the features I want that the others don't have.
Voyager + Thunder - Don't have comment navigation with volume buttons.
Summit - Can't set it to show the content of the collapsed parent comment.
Jerboa - Can't set a default comment sort, literally have to resort every time you click into comments.
Im using voyager with peel that lets you run webapps as contained native apps.
Voyager, because I need a replacement for Reddit after they booted me (not saying why, just know it was complete horseshit), and I heard Lemmy was the next-best thing, and Voyager was the best-rated in the iOS App Store.
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