this post was submitted on 04 Jul 2023
384 points (97.5% liked)

Asklemmy

43472 readers
1812 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy πŸ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Sticky so that we have one place to discuss.

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] Lowlands 143 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Memmy seems like a solid choice, very active development. It has been offered to Apple review last week and should appear in the appstore soon.

[–] ivenoidea 42 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I second Memmy. I’ve tried the others available currently, including wefwef and Memmy is my favorite. wefwef is second, but an actual native app still feels better imo.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 year ago

Agreed. I love wef wef but still has some weirdness being a web app. Memmy is my favorite installed app.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Another Memmy user here - if you’re a fan of Apollo Memmy is the perfect substitute!

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (8 replies)
[–] [email protected] 113 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Not a native app, but i’m using the wefwef web app, and it’s pretty awesome and getting multiple updates a day.

It’s a web based clone of Apollo

https://wefwef.app/

[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Wefwef looks nice and I really want to like it but I keep tapping the back button and getting sent all the way back to my communities list, and therefore losing my spot in the scroll. It's getting old really fast.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I second wefwef. Incredible app, very close to Apollo.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Any plans to make it an iOS app that you know of?

Memmy is great too!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

It's a PWA which means you can install it on any phone

load more comments (1 replies)
load more comments (7 replies)
[–] [email protected] 77 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (7 children)

There's a comprehensive list of Lemmy apps being curated here.

Right now I'm using Liftoff on Android.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 year ago

+1 for Liftoff

[–] xilophor 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like using liftoff, especially the everything feed since I have multiple lemmy accounts

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments (5 replies)
[–] [email protected] 66 points 1 year ago (23 children)

https://wefwef.app is amazing. PWA and hence cross-platform.

load more comments (23 replies)
[–] kuneho 61 points 1 year ago (12 children)

for Android I think Connect for Lemmy is the best around. also, it gets literally better day to day since the dev is following the app's community and fixes bugs, implements things from there super rapidly.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By far the best interface on android so far. Looking forward to Sync for Lemmy and Boost for Lemmy as well.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago

Using it right now. Very nice interface, especially comment field

I love the formatting tools

that are placed at the bottom

And enable easy text fancification

load more comments (10 replies)
[–] [email protected] 48 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] [email protected] 18 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using Sync for a couple of hours and already uninstalled Liftoff and Connect hahaha. Don't get me wrong they're both great, but Sync is that much better

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same, already paid for year's subscription too. I used Sync for reddit and trust the developer to make a quality app.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] seacocker 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's unbelievably polished for a first release. Not 100% feature complete mind you, but it's mind blowing the dev pull this off.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It inherits all the lessons learned with Sync for Reddit until it died.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 34 points 1 year ago (5 children)

For me personally, Jerboa is the best Android Lemmy app that I've tried, and I have tried several of them. I'll just be glad when Sync for Lemmy is released.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Yeah I like Jerboa. Development has been pretty fast too.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

It was previously my least favorite android option, but Jerboa is coming together nicely.

I also have Thunder and liftoff installed. I bounce between all 3.

I'll most likely be jumping to Boost if/when that comes out because I'm just so used to it.

[–] Zahille7 9 points 1 year ago

I kinda like jerboa because it reminds me a bit of Sync. The dev for sync is actually making a Lemmy app though, so I'll probably switch to that one when it comes out.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (9 children)

Boost is coming to Lemmy? Where can I follow for info on that? That was the app I used for Reddit, and while Jerboa has similar features it's not quite the same for me. Especially the swipe gestures...

Also, surprisingly, Boost is still working for me fot Reddit. I'm still waiting for it to crash.

load more comments (9 replies)
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Really liking thunder, now that it can view profiles and edit comments.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Android user here, I'm quite happy with Connect for Lemmy

The official community is at /c/lemmyconnect

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago (4 children)

'Connect' seems to be quite good.

load more comments (4 replies)
[–] meetpateltech 15 points 1 year ago

You can checkout all lemmy clients here:

https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/

[–] [email protected] 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Android user here. Liftoff is unmatched in terms of its visual presentation.

[–] _cerpin_taxt_ 7 points 1 year ago

I love the look of Liftoff. I just wish it had the functionality of Connect.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Well the app is currently in the earlier phases of development but i think more people should know that there is currently an attempt at porting slide for reddit to lemmy. here is the releases from the repository https://github.com/bqv/slide/releases, but its very early in development

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] LemmyStartNow 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Been using Liftoff and I'm enjoying it so far, after using/trying Thunder, Jerboa, Wefwef, lemmotif

load more comments (6 replies)
[–] mrlavallee 12 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

A bit biased since I am the creator, but using Lemmios has been pretty sweet!

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

for me liftoff is the least buggy and runs smoother than thunder or jerboa

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk, i use Eternity (Infinity Fork).

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] iMike 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
load more comments (3 replies)
[–] subspaceinterferents 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Loves me some Boost. Boost is the moost.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

For Android I'm finding Liftoff to be the best comparison to RIF so far.

However, I I am waiting to check out Boost. But for now, I've stopped using the other 2 big ones (Connect and Jerboa) altogether in favor of Liftoff.

[–] NBCooks 8 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I have tested all of the IOS apps available and I like wefwef and MLEMapp the best. Both seem intuitive to use and have the handy list of subscribed communities easily available for individual scrolling.

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] DrQuint 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Butting in again to complain that most apps STILL auto-load images in comments with no way to disable it.

A travesty.

I want to move away from voyager, I really do. But I can't as long because I just know someone will post that 720x38900px tall zelda fanart and ruin a whole thread. Or goatse.

[–] mypasswordis1234 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
load more comments (1 replies)
[–] AndreyAsimow 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

After trying (imho) all android app, for me, Connect works the best.

I think it depends on one's taste which app is the "best".

load more comments (3 replies)
[–] MakeItCount 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

Jerboa seems great to me

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Not out yet, but the (IMO) unquestionably best Reddit app, Boost, is currently being ported to Lemmy - follow here for updates: https://lemmy.world/c/boostforlemmy

load more comments (2 replies)
[–] CoolSouthpaw 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On Android, definitely Sync. Yes, it has ads, but they're way less obnoxious than the ones on the official Reddit app, so I will keep putting up with them and u/Spez can go fuck himself.

load more comments (1 replies)
[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago

I have about 6 installed. Connect is good. Liking Infinity right now. Jerboa is really good, but I like to have comments sorted by top as a default which is doesn't do...yet.

Really, I'm waiting for Boost, but likely jump between a few for now.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I have tried all of the ones on Android.

Wefwef / Voyager is extremely impressive for what it is - webapp

However it and all of the other android apps glitch a lot. I'm on a pixel 7 pro so it's not a legacy hardware issue either

Sync is by far the best app by a large margin. Everything has a high degree of polish. UX design is perfect, though I may be biased since I've been using it for reddit for the past decade.

Sync only has ads on the post pages, may be once every 10-15 posts. No ads on the comment page. Honestly it's got the little Google ads that are not a big deal at all

If you'd like you can remove ads for $30 but honestly it's not a big enough issue at all

load more comments (2 replies)
load more comments
view more: next β€Ί