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The only good apps are Thunder on Android and Arctic on iOS, change my mind
Edit: Eternity is pretty great as well, I used to use Infinity on Android back in the Reddit days
I use Voyager on Android.
I know that this is stupid and petty, but I dislike Voyager, because it's essentially a web app. I prefer native or near-native apps (things like Flutter or React Native). I tried it out and it's pretty nice UI/UX-wise, but I still prefer Arctic on iOS, because it's an actual native app written in SwiftUI, and thus closer to Apollo for Reddit (which Voyager tries to imitate).
I am not an iOS user in any way. Does Voyager actually look/feel different than a native Swift app in any way? Or does it just bother you to know, in the back of your mind, that it is not native?
That's why I said that this is stupid and petty, but the thought alone makes my blood boil. And it's not the same as with normal Electron apps on desktop, I also hate those, but for different reasons. Voyager looks just like a native iOS app, which makes this even worse for me, as I'm allergic to this kind of HTML/CSS/JS imitation of native UI libraries. Something about it just feels so wrong to me as a developer, I don't know.
But I recommend you don't actually listen to me, just use whatever you like.
I've been very happy with Summit on Android.
Edit: changed link to app website
Summit is severely overlooked. Dev fixes many bug reports same/next day as well.
Where is the source code? Is it closed source? As I see only releases are on github
It is closed source. People keep asking if it will be made open source, and the dev doesn't necessarily seem opposed to it. I don't recall the reasons they gave, nor would I likely understand them as someone who is not a developer, but there are threads on it on [email protected]. They are generally very open to discussing things if you might have solutions for them.
Summit has been the closest in look and feel to my beloved old baconreader (RIP).
Summit is such a nice app I haven't even considered changing in over a year.
It's unfortunately proprietary :(
What's wrong with Jerboa? Been using it since I left reddit, seems perfectly fine to me.
I tried it over and over, found the UI and UX to be pretty poor, and the app is pretty buggy. It had an issue for months that caused comments to sometimes be posted twice or more, it was incredibly annoying.
Jerboa was the first app I tried when there were essentially no other Lemmy apps. It worked ok in the very beginning, but then went horribly jank and turned into an almost unusable, buggy mess. Voyager was being developed at the time (then wefwef) and switching to it was like a breath of fresh air. It actually just freaking worked and wasn't a glitchy mess as opposed to the other apps in development at the time.
If Jerboa has improved a lot since then, then that's great! But I'd wager that I'm probably not the only one who was deeply turned off by this during its nearly broken phase of development. Voyager just worked and continues to just work, so I haven't had any reason to try to switch back.
What about raccon for Lemmy and connect?
Never tried Raccoon, but I used Connect for a while, it's not bad, but unfortunately proprietary :(