People were like "I'm spending all of my money on Sync for Lemmy" when it first released. And it steals your data. Never understood why this one would be preferred over the dozens of actually FOSS or free apps for lemmy
this post was submitted on 07 Feb 2025
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Can you say more about sync stealing your data? I must have missed the memo.
Stealing may be the wrong word, but their privacy policy is... Not great... Policy. I much prefer apps that do not get my purchase history and use other forms of trackers, thanks very much!
Which FOSS Lemmy app do you recommend?
For android, thunder. Best one imo, great customization but idk if its my phone but scrolling is stuttery.
For iOS, i'd go with Voyager.
They are both available for both platforms. Do they perform differently on each platform?
For me personally, i prefer material you theme that thunder offers. Voyager has ios ui, since it follows Apollo ui.
Voyager does have an experimental Android UI that you can enable in the settings. But even though that does make it more Android-y, it is still very iOS-y.
Huh. Never knew that since i use thunder exclusively afer moving to android. Used Voyager on iOS before and it was great. Maybe ill check the experimental UI later, thanks for the heads up.
I never noticed. Even though I'm on Android I definitely prefer the Apple setting on voyager.
Voyager just feels iosy in design, and Thunder feels androidy
I recommend thunder as well! It has all expected features and is customizable as hell in case you need something specific.
It just got a big update to 0.6.0 that the dev has been working on for a while
Voyager is fantastic. Very much the spiritual successor to Apollo.
It's not just you, scrolling is a little stuttery for me too. And I don't like the "mark as read" animation, it takes forever to clear all the cards, I wish it was instant
I'm on android and never used/had ios but I'm loving voyager and have been using it for months.
Edit: Oh, after reading the comments I tried the ios mode and it really does look different. I like the android one more.
Voyager
Summit
That is not open source
Thunder! ⚡
Thunder! Voyager seems to have more features, but the one killer feature that it lacks is gesture navigation, so Thunder it is.
Damn, I was all ready to switch but I gotta have an option for columns. I downloaded it to check it out, and that's the first thing I look for.
EDIT: I found a setting. It seems it's under "Tablet Mode" though it only allows for 2 columns. I generally prefer 2 columns for my phone in portrait mode. If I was actually using a tablet, I'd go for 4+ columns.
I have a version of Thunder compiled for desktop, and it's surprisingly easy to change the number of columns for Tablet Mode. There's probably other places too, but the line I changed (from '2' to '4') is here
Screenshot:
Full-size image link: https://postimg.cc/hzsFj4rj
I realise you might not want to compile your own version, but it suggests that the developers could add 'number of columns for tablet mode' option relatively easily.
Neat !
Eternity is great too!
Connect is fine.
I liked Thunder when I used it. But I have been on Connect a lot more which is not FOSS, but I liked it better than the rest of the apps I tried when I first switched to Lemmy. Actually testing Thunder again right now, might be my go-to from now on
Or they like to hang the carrot that they will “someday” go open source.
Arctic is good and getting better. But dude is too ashamed of his code to allow our help.
I mean, fair though. I would never want anyone looking at my code either.
The comments on my code would be all apologies, "my code is crap, sorry" "this shouldn't work but it does. Forgive me" "Beware all that enter, I apologize for the spaghetti everywhere"
free open source vs paid for proprietary
Interstellar has an awesome dev, very responsive and helpful!
Edit: Fixed, lol
Interstellar I guess?
~~I think you might be responding to the wrong post?~~
Disregard my previous statement, I got the dumb. Thanks!
I think they are trying to correct you. Unless there actually is a Lemmy client called Intergalactic
D'oh! Fucking autocorrect... Thanks!