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’m currently using wefwef because it’s the most polished one regarding UI, that I’ve found. The jerboa one didn’t let me sign in via feddit.de because of version mismatch.
But I’m very certain that I’ll switch to Sync for Lemmy once that’s out, as was a very long-time user of Sync for Reddit and it’s UI just was so clean.
I just discovered wefwef and love it.
Also love wefwef and the ui, every time i open it there’s an update or more than one. I used sync for 8 years I believe and can’t wait for it to be on lemmy so I’m sure I’ll also switch.
Ooooh is there going to be Sync for Lemmy? I’m a long time Sync user and I’d love to have it back
Ooooh yeah - https://lemmy.world/c/syncforlemmy
Great to see LJ is back on it!
Another Sync afficionado here - their “We officially don’t do Reddit anymore, look out for us on Lemmy!” banner July 1st is how I got here!
Welcome on board!
I have tried Jerboa, Connect for Lemmy, and Liftoff. Connect for Lemmy is my preferred option now as the UI is cleaner, available at Playstore, enough customisation for me.
Boost for Lemmy is what I am looking out for at the moment.
edit: OK, Thunder is my favorite now 😆
Thunder loading is really slow for me compared to Liftoff or Mlem, I see very few people talking about this
Tried jerboa and it’s perfectly good enough. Threading could use slightly more distinction but its snappy and lightweight.
Also am waiting for Boost for Lemmy though as that was my Reddit app of choice. Time will tell if I end up on it or stick with jerboa
Used Jerboa for a couple weeks, but got sick of the constant crashes. Connect and Liftoff were both better than Jerboa imo
Haven’t had crashes yet, honestly the only complaint so far using Jerboa on a pixel 5 (lemmy.ca instance if those could play a part in potential issues). Is notifications… They seem to be broken similar to how boost was broken with reddit consistently for me.
I have a constant 1 unread, and flipping the status just makes the numbers weirder, but never less than one. It’s like those toggling light puzzles lmao.
Are we the same person? I agree wholeheartedly with this statement. Boost was my Reddit app of choice, my first taste of Lemmy was Jerboa, and the latest updates for Jerboa have been awesome. But I want Boost for Lemmy!
Thunder is my favorite so far but connect is a close second
My favorite reddit apps were boost and relay so I’m very excited for boost coming to lemmy
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
I also like liftoff, but the subscribe button doesn’t seem to work for me. It says I need to log in to that instance which isnt right. If I sub in a different app it shows up fine.
Try removing all instances that you are not logged into from the accounts settings.
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.
Same for me. I was finally able to update jerboa after my instance got to 0.18 and holy shit, it improved so much after just a month. Right now I’d say it’s more polished than wefwef and connect.
Yeah definitely a huge instance after the 18 upgrade!
I fell to my knees in a Walmart when Boost for Lemmy was finally announced. Donate to Ruben here:
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 like Liftoff, didn’t work too well at first but got an update yesterday and since then it’s smooth sailing. Ahoi!
I was a Relay user for years and found that I prefer Connect followed closely by Jerboa.
I’ve also tried Thunder and Liftoff which are both great but the UI/UX of Connect and Jerboa seem to feel more at home for me.
I make an effort to use all four interchangeably but my thumb gravitates to Connect more often than not.
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.
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.
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!
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.
I got my first iPhone a couple of years ago and I am never buying another one. So damn hard just to sideload the good apps
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.
