Hey I figured I'd make a post and see the state of current lemmy appage, since I'm looking for a good one. So far I've used Jerboa, Thunder, Eternity, and Voyager.
Eternity seems to be a dead project, it's full of bugs and hasn't recieved an update since The Exodus
Thunder seems ok and is what I'm using right now, but I can't seem to send direct messages, and can't "Don't blur NSFW preview on NSFW comms" which sucks. The messaging is the dealbreaker for me.
Voyager I used momentarily but the UI was not my favorite.
Jerboa seems OK if unpolished (which is ok to me) but I don't trust the rabid idealogue that makes it and using another instance of his site is one thing, but installing an app is another. Has it been audited to confirm lack of spyware?
Ideally through this I can find one with instance blocking, DMs, and a decent UI. What're your experiences with the current state of lemmy apps?
I'm a Boost truther. I loved Boost for Reddit, and the dev is usually super responsive in the subreddit when it was a thing. I also used many Reddit apps; BaconReader, Relay, and Apollo on iPhone back when I had one. Boost was easy favorite. I'm not entirely sure how it plays with every lemmy instance though, as I'm just on .world
Yeah, spoiler tags are the one big feature that is missing. There are also some minor things on the moderation side that aren't there. For example, admin accounts don't have a full list of options in the moderation menu.
Boost also. I had it for Reddit but used Sync mostly. I open Lemmy on my phone a few times a week, so found Sync for Lemmy a bit too pricy. Love Boost!
I can't get away from Sync. Maybe it's about time I do another sweep, but last time I evaluated them I couldn't make anything else look and feel as nice. Lots of customization options too.
Same. But mark read has been broken for a while and at $20+ for no ads or ultra dev really needs to be on top of these updates to justify the price. My ultra expired a few weeks ago, but I'm not paying again unless he stops treating this like reddit. Reddit was pretty stable so didn't mind the long gaps with no updates. But at 5x the cost ...update
Yeah, that's a fair complaint. I didn't know mark read was broken but that's not great. I also wish it properly supported all markdown formatting. Especially with the Media Bias Bot being prevalent the broken spoiler tags are annoying.
I honestly regret buying Sync for Lemmy. With the higher price I expected better communication, but it's continuing the same as it was - going AWOL for months at a time, with very sporadic updates.
How has nobody said Connect yet, I tried most of the other clients people mentioned and settled on connect.
This is after using Sync Pro for years on Reddit the pricing of the lemmy version just put me right off to the point I'll admit I haven't even tried it but then again I'm not interested in anything that puts ads on an adless service and I also will never try it as long as this is the case.
I started with connect and never left. Some of the videos weren't working due to API changes. But for about 2 weeks, everyday there was an update fixing one or two of them.
Yeah the dev seems to jump straight to any issues even now, seems like a great guy to me he could easily charge for such a polished app and as long as the greed wasn't mad I'd pay it.
Another happy Connect user here and you can enable the beta branch from the play store. I ran into a bug a few months ago and made a post, the Dev had it fixed hours later.
Connect was also one of the very few apps that was very early to doing instance and other flexible filtering options. It's so good I can browse All without getting upset.
The Eternity Dev has returned, and released a new update for it. Last I checked the update hasn't released on f-droid due to the build failing, but it is available on aurora or play store.
These are my favorite apps in preference order right now:
Summit
Boost
Eternity
Voyager
Thunder
Sync (seriously the damn mark as read on scroll needs to be fixed to be on top 2 again...)
I'd tell my issues with each client just as I did with Sync, but I don't want to sound mean... (Also they are very specific for my usage and my device I guess), so I chose to keep things positive because we have plenty of pretty good clients! :)
Of course I am missing some other clients but those are the ones that stick in my "Social" folder the most time.
I started out with Memmy and was kinda meh about it. Not bad but not great. Then I found Voyager and never looked back. As a paid Apollo refugee, Voyager makes me almost forget that Iโm on a different platform from the days of yore.
Thunder 100%. Super active dev community, constant releases, and if there's something that does cause a problem, post it as an issue and it typically gets resolved quickly.
Try Raccoon, the UI feels very similar to what I remember from liftoff, imo it's worth trying. It's still a little bit beta and I've run into formatting issues a few times but the UI is so much better than Jerboa's and has a lot of nice features (like linking cross-posts within the app) that Jerboa doesn't.
So far I tried voyager, eternity, liftoff and Jerboa. Liftoff wasn't usable and eternity and voyager weren't exactly my type of UI. I stick with jerboa. I really like the simplicity and how clean and intuitive it is. Only thing lacking is the ability to create communities.
You can look at the app list on join-lemmy.org. Ignore the big scary warnings on there about non foss apps unless you want a foss app. Most of the proprietary apps are just made by hobbyists who don't want the world to see their spaghetti code.
I used to only use Sync coming from reddit. No other app was able to replace it until I started using Summit. Now Summit is pretty much all I use for Lemmy.
I wouldn't say anything specifically better or worse compared to sync but it's close enough, feature wise, that I found myself using it more and there's no ads.
I'm using Jerboa but wasn't aware of any issues with the devs. As far as I know the app works great. Can you go into that a little more or point somewhere to read about it?
Anyone else get a lot of โFailed to load mediaโ messages on images? I particularly see them on science memes in both Voyager and Arctic on iOS. Havenโt tested on android yet.
All the time on science memes, try going back to 'best of all time'. It can also make modding on mobile quite a pain, when you as a mod can't see the post. Though the failed to load media is, what I have heard not due to the app itself but that the link in the post is broken and the app just has not indexed the post yet. Which is why other apps may show the post correctly because they indexed it before the link broke. However I can not remember where I read that. So it might be completely false.
My favourites are Eternity and Thunder. Eternity is the only app I've found with "swipe between posts" navigation. Thunder has the best remote instance link handling, and its tools for inserting usernames and community names are better than even the Lemmy web UI.
After Raccon4Lemmy dies. !summit@lemmy.world is best for me. It's closed source though but it doesn't show any ads unlike some other popular Lemmy apps.
I normally just use Jerboa but I've been trying Raccoon recently and it's been really good. It's definitely still beta and some formatting doesn't work but each update has made it significantly better so it's definitely worth checking out because the UI is the best of any of the apps I've tried imo