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I'm trying to stop using Reddit, but it having an app I know about makes it have quite an advantage.

I know there's a few apps out there I can use to browse Lemmy, but I'm not sure about their names and the different features they offer.

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[–] idunnololz 87 points 2 years ago (50 children)

I'm the developer of Summit. Unfortunately I don't see anyone mention Summit but I would suggest giving it a try as well.

I think I've been a bit slower to implement certain features compared to the other apps, but the app is heavily focused on scalability and performance. Give it a try just in case you might like it. Play store link: Summit for Lemmy

[–] maess 16 points 2 years ago (3 children)
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[–] ashencone 68 points 2 years ago

If you are a fellow reddit refugee, the Sync for Lemmy is coming soon.

[–] [email protected] 54 points 2 years ago (3 children)

currently using Jerboa, but waiting on Sync for Lemmy to be available! [email protected] to follow progress.

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[–] pakiyimo 45 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The developer of Sync for reddit is creating a lemmy app. Can't wait to try it, as Sync was my favorite reddit app.

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[–] llxerneasll 45 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (20 children)

These are the apps I'm using rn. So far i like thunder, connect and liftoff.

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[–] [email protected] 42 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (5 children)

I'm new but Jerboa works like a charm on my Samsung, very fast and responsive.

[–] Boundish91 17 points 2 years ago (1 children)

My current problem with jerboa is that it keeps pestering me to update server to a newer version without giving me a clue how to do it.

[–] Flipht 16 points 2 years ago

You can't. System admin needs to, and they posted that they can't yet because the new version doesn't support captcha yet. They're expecting a fix but have to wait.

[–] Turtle 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

My only complaint is it's a little too easy to click on the sub instead of the title, other than that Jerboa has been great.

[–] Squizzy 11 points 2 years ago (1 children)

It's bit buggy, sometimes I press to open a sub and I need it used the internal browser and sometimes it takes me there within the app. No idea why it has two options.

Since the most recent update it closes wben I bookmark something and keeps saying to log into my instance.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 years ago

I really recommend you to try them out and see for youself. Each of them has their own power. Especially now that there's a flow of interest this way, a lot of them have gone nuclear and pushing new versions by the hour (not kidding).

Yeah, Jerboa is good and battle tested but Liftoff is good, Thunder is good, each in their own unique way. I love that.

[–] [email protected] 31 points 2 years ago (9 children)

I'm using Liftoff as of this morning when Jerboa started crashing every few minutes. So far, so good.

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[–] [email protected] 29 points 2 years ago (2 children)

I've tried jeroba, liftoff and thunder. My experience with jeroba is mostly negative. It's not good enough to be a full replacement for using a web browser and with the new update it crashes on my older, not bleeding edge phone. It can't even open lemmy links people post half the time.

Thundar is ok. I'm not a fan of its interface but at least you can actually browse communities you aren't subscribed to.

The third one I've tried is Liftoff and it's the best one I've seen so far. It's about the same in terms of quality as Boost for reddit. You can explore new communities in other instances, have more than one active account logged in to be able to simultaneously use different instances and best of all there's a search.

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[–] ToNIX 26 points 2 years ago (10 children)

I tried them all (Jerboa, Thunder, Liftoff, Lemmynade) and I like Jerboa the most. The layout is clean, compact and it works really well.

I was a Slide user on Reddit so I'm waiting for it to be available for Lemmy!

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[–] necrxfagivs 23 points 2 years ago

I'm using Jerboa, Connect and Summit. I really like Jerboa, but rn is buggy as lemmy.world is still at 0.17.4 while Jerboa only support 0.18. I'm still trying out Summit and Connect, only time will say!

[–] JackLSauce 23 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I've found Connect for Lemmy to be a great successor to Reddit is Fun

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[–] 0x30507DE 23 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (7 children)

I'm currently switching between Liftoff, Thunder, and Jerboa, altho Jerboa refuses to let me sign in, 'cause server version BS.

Liftoff has a nice UI IMO, and I like Thunder's navigation, so I'll prolly end up using one of the 2. Notably, Liftoff is more feature-complete than Thunder, so... Depends on what you want I guess.

Well that got out of hand quickly.

Have a nice day!

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[–] Corey1031d 22 points 2 years ago (6 children)

I actually just switched from Jerboa to Connect based on this thread, and I'm loving it. Much nicer UI and easier to use. I think I'll stay with this until Sync is ready!

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[–] howler 22 points 2 years ago (4 children)

This might sound crazy, but i am just using the website via Firefox on my phone. Jerboa wasnt doing it for me, and someone recommended just using the website... I prefer it over jerboa. I imagine with all the development going on, there will be something better showing up, but until it does, I'm just going old school.

[–] Deltharien 10 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Jerboa was doing fine for me until Jerboa got updated beyond the Lemmy instances I've been browsing (which aren't updating because the new Lemmy release removes the captcha, which then prevents new sign ups). Now Jerboa says the biggest Lemmy instance is below the minimum version Jerboa supports, and refuses to open the instance. Helluva bump in the road...

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[–] wmrch 21 points 2 years ago (3 children)

Have a look at https://wefwef.app

It's a Webapp which works pretty good.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm currently using Connect for Lemmy and it's pretty good tbh

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[–] lochi 20 points 2 years ago (5 children)

I am using https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect

Looks pretty good to me, it can make text larger so yeah. Like 10 minutes in rn though lol

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[–] AlmightySnoo 19 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (10 children)

Jerboa if you're on Android but it has a login issue that makes it unable to connect to instances that are still running the 0.17.4 version of the backend (and among them is lemmy.world). You'd have to wait for those instances to update to the 0.18.1 when it comes out before you can use Jerboa reliably.

Meanwhile, you can just open the web UI in your mobile browser and it will work just fine.

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[–] pwnstar 18 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Connect until sync comes out

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[–] Naiakoa 17 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Currently I use 'Jerboa for Lemmy' It has yet to fail me but that is the usual default app. If anyone has any information of a better app I am willing to try another :3

[–] TrinityTek 15 points 2 years ago (9 children)

Unfortunately it is currently broken with lemmy.world. For those of us that are already signed in it seems to work ok, but new users will need to use something else at the moment. Connect for Lemmy is a good alternative on Android.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago

This is because Lemmy.world hasn’t updated to 0.18 yet. The admin said captcha doesn’t work on 0.18.0 so he’s waiting till 0.18.1.

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[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 years ago

I quite like Connect for Lemmy, it's maturing quickly. Looking forward to Artemis, which should do Lemmy/KBin/Mastodon and who knows what else. For Mastodon I like Tusky.

[–] CapnAssHolo 16 points 2 years ago (2 children)
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[–] toastman 16 points 2 years ago (5 children)

Currently using Jerboa. I want simplicity and no clutter. It would be nice if there was a "collapse all" for comments. And would like to be able to double-click an image and have it zoom in.

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[–] decadentrebel 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (14 children)

I love Jerboa, but can't right now because lemmy.world doesn't support the latest update. Currently using Liftoff for the meantime.

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[–] Ginjutsu 15 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Liftoff is amazing and the two main developers for it have been very active with updates and changes since they forked it from the old Lemmur project.

wefwef is a very slick web-app which follows iOS design guidelines that I also enjoy using. It's easy to install via Safari/Chrome/Firefox on both iOS and Android.

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[–] FarFarAway 15 points 2 years ago (15 children)

I downloaded connect for lemmy yesterday just to see, and although it won't let me sign in unless I give it my email instead of username. (ive been SOL if an instance doesn't require an email, but maybe it works on someone elses) i think I'm liking connect better than jerboa though. For me it's been less glitchy, and it easier to access content.

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[–] [email protected] 15 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (2 children)

Jerboa - a bit buggy still, and sometimes posts take a while to load, but its features are fantastic.

Connect - I love this app, and I tried to switch to it, but being unable to disable "swipe to upvote" is a dealbreaker for me. (EDIT: turns out it's been updated so I can now disable it! Bless!)

Liftoff - I just switched to this. It's very polished and responsive, and accomodates my preferred way of scrolling and interacting with communities.

Lemmotif - pure minimalist doomscrolling. It doesn't even let you log in to vote, comment, or post. Blazingly fast, and I love it. Uninstalled.

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[–] Yoz 13 points 2 years ago

I tried lift off from Github. Its just like Infinity for Reddit.

[–] jacktherippah 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

I'm currently using Liftoff since lemmy.world isnt on 0.18 yet and therefore doesn't work with Jerboa.

[–] mudmaniac 14 points 2 years ago (1 children)

lemmy.world is waiting for 0.18.1 because 0.18 removed captcha as a consequence of a change away from websocket, i think. they announced they arent going to update until its added back in, which the lemmy developers promised to do.

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[–] Falmarri 12 points 2 years ago (3 children)

It seems to work pretty fine with jerboa for me

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[–] piezzo 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Liftoff is my choice. Nice clean UI and covers every function i need

[–] oxf 11 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I've been using Jerboa for quite a while now. Everything has worked alright, with no big complaints.

After the 0.18 update, I have had issues with using lemmy.world, so I decided to give yourbsuggestion a try instead.

Turns out I had already installed Liftoff, and was quite surprised now that I gave it a second try.

It's clearly still in development, and there are some things from Jerboa that I will miss, but I'm set on giving it a sincere try this time around.

If anyone is interested, its available in the Play Store:

Play Store

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[–] [email protected] 11 points 2 years ago (2 children)

There is Thunder: https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder. You can upvote/downvote, reply and whatnot by doing side-swipes. Pretty neat.

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[–] SevereLow 10 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (4 children)

I'm using Jerboa, but a version from GitHub. The app in Google Play and F-droid crashes upon being opened... at least on my phone.

📝 Note that the most recent version on GitHub doesn't work too, since it requires a higher platform version of Lemmy. Use a version of Jerboa a bit older if you're using the .world instance of Lemmy.

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[–] Presi300 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Jerboa, works better than any other app atm

[–] nucleative 13 points 2 years ago (3 children)

At this exact moment might be a little buggy - Jerboa updated to support Lemmy v0.18.x only and Lemmy.world remains at 0.17.4 for a bit.

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[–] Akuma 10 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Until Sync for Lemmy comes out, I've been using the chrome Web app via Chrome browser.

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[–] pakiyimo 10 points 2 years ago

Another satisfied Connect user here, at least for the time being. It needs polishing, but it seems to just work.

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