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[–] Tehhund 44 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (2 children)

Voyager: https://vger.app/. Also available as an Android and iOS app.

[–] Brkdncr 12 points 7 months ago

Been using voyager for a while and haven’t found a reason to change.

[–] FuglyDuck 5 points 7 months ago

I second voyager. It's what i'm using on iOS now.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver 30 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Boost!

Great custom options. From the colored split of comments and the option to customize colors of font of title and content. (Much easier to read upon scroll).

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)
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[–] njordomir 30 points 7 months ago (2 children)

There is no best. My recommendation is to download a bunch, then uninstall them one by one until you end up with the one that you like best. I settled on my favorite, and I had to give up some great apps with great features to get there. What do you value in a forum-style app?

[–] Today 12 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] njordomir 4 points 7 months ago

Just tried it again. Feels good. I might run them in tandem for a bit.

[–] enryu 10 points 7 months ago (2 children)

That is exactly what I did haha. Ended up with Eternity.

[–] njordomir 6 points 7 months ago

That's what I use. Didn't want to influence your decision, but there's no harm in revealing it after the fact. I do feel like I missed out on some cool features from the other apps I tried, but Eternity was the complete package.

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[–] 200ok 29 points 7 months ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago

I love sync and it's been my go to app for a decade across reddit and Lemmy, but I find it's advertising and pro features far more frustrating now than ever before.

The dev also takes long breaks but I don't mind this as his work while he's active is really really good and fast.

If you already use revanced manager for YouTube or other apps, there is an ad free patch for an older version of sync which has an easy APK to seek out, which is recommend.

[–] Magister 21 points 7 months ago (1 children)

For android, Sync is excellent, I even bought it, so no ads.

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

Sync is amazing. Not FOSS, but amazing nonetheless!

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago

I'm also happy with Sync. I paid as well.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 7 months ago

Boost for lemmy. No contest. Nice, clean unique and smooth UI, better discoverability and seems built by a person who cared than a person who stole from a 2013 android app wrapper and pasted the lemmy website

[–] Cosmonaut_Collin 17 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I dig Jerboa. It's my favorite free Lemmy app.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago
[–] [email protected] 16 points 7 months ago

I personally like Thunder. Jerboa felt too limited for me.

[–] eran_morad 14 points 7 months ago

Voyager looks and feels like Apollo did. Fuck reddit, btw.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 7 months ago (4 children)

Voyager for a good app that has an iOS look. Jerboa uses Material design, if you prefer that, but to doesn't work as well.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Idk if jerboa even has instance blocking in app yet. I switched to Voyager because it seemed always behind.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Jerboa's instance blocking is actually one of the few ways it works better than Voyager, letting you block instances directly from the post dropdown rather than needing to go two menus deep into settings.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Shoot, I guess it was worth the wait even though I didn't.

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[–] dinckelman 11 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Boost for Android, or Voyager on iOS. These are definitely my choices, after extensive use

[–] MedicPigBabySaver 5 points 7 months ago
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[–] Donebrach 10 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Been using voyager on iOS since nearly day 1. Seems fine. Might be better ones out there.

[–] Archelon 3 points 7 months ago

Been using voyager too, made the jump to Lemmy easier when Apollo shut down.

[–] gedaliyah 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Check out [email protected], which has information about recent releases, features, etc.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Jerboa and Raccoon if you love FOSS

Sync If you don't care about FOSS

[–] AsherahTheEnd 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I'm new, what does FOSS stand for? I'm currently using Sync.

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[–] [email protected] 7 points 7 months ago (3 children)

Eternity was great, but it's likely abandoned now. I switched to voyager. And this is a nice clean app. No complaints from me.

Worth noting that I tried all the available apps from the lemmy app list. And I've worked them down to 3 liftoff, eternity and voyager. Two of these are abandoned now.

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I liked Liftoff. Too bad it stopped being updated and does not work with 0.19+

I use Jerboa now.

[–] AgentGrimstone 6 points 7 months ago

I started with Connect and kept it because it's very much like Bacon Reader. Haven't had the need to try others.

[–] PP_BOY_ 6 points 7 months ago

No problems with Sync after several months of use

[–] Tugboater203 6 points 7 months ago

I use Sync and Jerboa.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

There are many great options here already, but I'll add Connect to the list. Great client for Android.

[–] LurkyLoo 5 points 7 months ago

Coming from RIF (is fun), I find voyager and jerboa to work well on android.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

Out of the ones I've tried (Jerboa, Connect, Thunder), I think Thunder is best (after a little config) : https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/releases

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago
[–] spacemanspiffy 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Using and loving Voyager on a Librem 5 phone.

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[–] kuneho 4 points 7 months ago

My choice is Connect for Lemmy. (on Android)

Tried out a few; Voyager, Sync (for Reddit, it was the best), Jeroba and god knows what else, but Connect was the one that actually felt right.

it's a nice little Flutter app. it feels native (sort of) to Android. The other apps were strange to me, cause they have more of iOS UI or else, or they arw PWAs or else...

The reason why I don't use Sync is because it had strange bugs and was limited a while ago (compared to Sync for Reddit, also my purchase of it obviously lost), also has ads n shit, which is fine, understandable, if the dev would like to earn money with it, it's a cool and complex app, it worth the money.

[–] kmirl 3 points 7 months ago

I used Boost for years on Reddit and switched to that as soon as the Lemmy version was released. It's stable and works well.

[–] njm1314 3 points 7 months ago

Personally I like connect the best

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

Hands down Jerboa for Android.

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