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[–] BirdieNumNum 12 points 2 years ago (4 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 years ago

Memmy has been a great fill-in, as has Lemmios. Memmy is probably a little further along, but both are definitely "Apollo-inspired" and both have been nice to use. Still some features missing that I have to come to the site for.

[–] TORFdot0 12 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Voyager is basically that. It’s on test flight or as a PWA on Lemmy.world

[–] Hikiru 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

It’s good but Apollo has a level of polish that won’t be replicated for a while. It looks like Apollo, but it doesn’t 100% feel like it. Apollo for Lemmy would still be better than all of our current options imo.

[–] sijt 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Hopefully the native version, coming soon, will be a bit smoother than the pwa and have better integration with the OS.

It’s probably the best pwa I’ve ever used, but it’s still a pwa. And the native version will still just be a wrapper on the pwa, but it has the potential to be better.

[–] Hikiru 6 points 2 years ago

Still, Apollo was around for a while which means it’s had more time for polish, and it had a lot more users, which meant more support, motivation, and money for development, as well as more people to submit feature requests and bug reports.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Indeed. It was a native app and it was such a polished gem. Christian's vision from the beginning was to make the perfect Reddit IOS app for Reddit and he made it happen.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 2 years ago

Memmy is aiming to be Apollo for Lemmy.

Open-source and ad-free.

[–] zerbey 6 points 2 years ago

If only, perhaps the Apollo developer will do a Lemmy client in time, I think for now he's taking a moment to himself. Memmy is a pretty good iOS client.