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What is your favorite app for Lemmy? Include Platform.

I started off using Voyager, swapped to Mlem because of slight differences I preferred. Recently found out Thunder for Lemmy is available on the apple appstore and it instantly became my favorite. I like how unique the ui is compared to other, it seems better suited for browsing and posting on Lemmy, while the others feel better for the initial transition from Reddit. Very suprised it has barely any downloads or reviews when its easily the best Lemmy app on IOS.

Thunder reminds me of the more "modern" alternative front ends for lemmy some sites have while mlem and voyager feel more like the alternative reddit apps (blue alien) and give a similar experience.

On desktop, I've been using Friendica.

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Currently using Arctic for iOS. I was using Voyager for a while, but the Arctic dev (devs?) are so good about bug fixes and adding new features, I had to switch.
- I just really love the default ui of thunder, it nailed what I want for lemmy usage, makes the ocassional lage/wrrors less of an issue. Also like consistent ui across devices, but I find it too annoying to type on my tablet to browse lemmy there.
- I have to get around to customizing it, thunder is mostly solid, a bit laggy sometimes, arctic is prob a better move on ios, I just wanted to get used to it, since piefed is forking thunder for their ios app and that will probably be my main eventually. Arctic is definitely more optimized for ios and the fastest I've used.

Thunder. I like being able to customize, and it has just about everything.

Still exploring but why I like Voyager over Mlem is that Voyager can load embeds where Mlem doesn’t seem to have that option. I don’t like to have to tap to see content.
- Mlem testflight supports it, but its a bit buggy I couldn't make posts without crashing, havent checked the most recent update tho

I use Voyager on Android. It's a quality app that just works. On my iPad I use a safari plug in called sink-it.
- I was swapping back and forth between that and mlem for a while, I like the custom interaction bar in mlem. Feels nice to finetune, but voyager just works and has plenty of settings to get the necessary customizations. I like that the issue for me is that they are all good, so I just end up using them all.
  
  I’m stuck with voyager now that I’ve invested lots of time into their tagging system.
- The user tagging and vote counter is the no.1 Voyager feature for me that isn't on any other app as far as I know.
- I’m a bit confused. Looking at the App Store Sink it appears to only be for Reddit/Twitter and not Lemmy or am I missing something?

https://www.lemmyapps.com/ has a "rating" column, to be compared with "last release"

Sync on Android. I'll go down with the ship, I guess. If ljdawson never comes back I'll be forced to look into other options eventually, but for now it still works, despite some bugs. It just looks and feels the best to me, and I've yet to find another app that can exactly replicate how I have it set up.
- I was a Sync user on Reddit. Thunder has reproduced that feel for me here. The one place it didn't I contributed (2-column tablet mode)
- Excellent, just the example I needed to prevent me from examining my own use of Sync. I picked it up straight off of RiF and it's been mostly fine. Spoilers rarely work and sometimes it just straight up can't "fetch the image," but I can do the things I care about, like downvoting and making ad hominem attacks. 10 out of 10 for me.
  
  […] like downvoting and making ad hominem attacks.
  Thunder can be used for that too, you blithering imbecile.
  (Sync alumnus, only on Thunder because I moved to iOS. Sync is still the best 😢)
  
  I'm in the same boat. The ads have become terrible for me so I'm in the market for a new app anyway. I was hesitant to purchase a subscription because of the low number of releases.
  Glad I didn't
- I use sync occasionally, and I found it has some features literally no other app has (or I'm too dumb to find them) like easy instance switching. It's right there on the main screen, you just click instances, pick a federated instance, and boom, now you're seeing stuff from that instance. I wish more apps has that.
- Same boat. I'm really happy with my current look and feel, and I have no reason to change at this time.
- I used it until recently thinking the same, but it just became too broken for me. I'm on thunder now and I got it to work exactly the way I used sync and everything seems to actually be working.
- I was in the same boat as you, but I discovered Summit this week. I feel like it fixes a couple of annoyances from Sync.

Voyager on Android is the best.

Apollo was the best Reddit app on iPhone. Voyager continues its legacy
- I loved Apollo! I randomly chose Voyager as my first introduction to Lemmy and it’s been great so far

Boost, it was the perfect Reddit client for me and now it's the perfect Lemmy client, I didn't have to sacrifice any aspect of the experience.
God I love you, Boost my beloved 😍
I'm on Android. It'll be a cold day in hell before I give Steve Jobs a penny.
- Steve Jobs is already in hell though, he ain’t getting your money either way
  
  Exactly why it'd be a cold day in hell
- Same here

Voyager on iOS. It’s the best for my use case and I like the UI the most.
- Have you tried Arctic?
  
  No, but it looks a lot like Voyager. Downloading it now to check it out.

I'm using Eternity, I haven't tried more so I can't compare, but I liked Eternity enough to don't have the need to try others.
- I like Eternity but i have two problems with it:
  ~~Cannot upload images from the app~~ So, uh... 🤦‍♂️
  It doesn't format spoilers properly
  
  Cannot upload images from the app
  Like in comments or?
- I already used Infinity for Reddit (which Eternity is based on) so it made the migration from Reddit to Lemmy really smooth for me.
  
  Same, tried voyager for a while but came back to this because I love the UI of it.

Thunder on Android. Alexandrite on PC.
- Absolutely Thunder for android. Easy, customizable, and is very similar to the app I used for reddit called Relay. Dunno how an apk could be better for using Lemmy.

Boost 🚀💪
- Boost on Android for me as well
  
  Same. I used it for so long on reddit that I jumped as soon as the Lemmy version was available.
- Same 🚀
- Yup, this right here. Will consider the ad-free experience if Lemmy ever grows its fledgling user base.
- Hasn't been updated for a while unfortunately.

Summit is my favorite after testing Thunder, jerboa and Boost.
- I've tried almost every Android app for Lemmy, and holy heck, do I love Summit the most. It does everything I need it to and more. It looks great. It's responsive. And the dev is amazing. They respond to bugs, issues, and feature requests lightning fast. No ads. Not FOSS, which is the only thing I've seen anyone gripe about.
  Been using it almost exclusively for a year or so now, and I can't praise it enough.
  
  Thank you guys so much 🥲
- Using Summit on Android. I tried Thunder and Jerboa, but Summit has been the best.

Eternity. As lacking in updates it may be, still woks well, and it is super customizable.

Haven't looked around for a while, but I've settled on Voyager.
https://github.com/aeharding/voyager#readme
Sadly, F-Droid tries to share the actual binary not a link to it via F-Droid (a la Google Play).
I have the reference application, Jeroba, installed but I don't really like it and haven't seen it updated for a while.

Voyager on iOS has worked well enough I haven't gone hunting for anything else. On desktop I like the Alexandrite front end.
- Voyager is my go to. But it doesn’t load Redgifs for me. Which isn’t a deal breaker as I do most of my browsing at work, but there are times when no one’s looking so it’d be nice to have.
- Give Arctic a try. Just a little bit smoother and some great customisation options.

Connect for Android was my jam, but now that I'm on Mbin I'm liking Interstellar (which also works with Lemmy).
- Connect is the most like the reddit is fun client. How i like to shitpost and see content

Currently using Voyager on my Android phone. I like it. Quite the upgrade over Boost (which I was using before, as I really liked Boost for Reddit in the before-times).
Don't like going into Lemmy on PC, though. It looks fugly as hell, and the UI looks like something from the 90s. I wonder if there's a different way of accessing Lemmy through my browser.
- Ton of alternate frontends mentioned here, I like phtn.app, you can loginto multiple accounts from different instances, tesseract is also nice.

Jerboa on mobile. It feels a lot like the reddit client Joey which I liked a lot.
On pc I just use firefox o

I like how the thunder app shows what update the instances you are logged into are on, lemmy.world is so far behind the others lol

Arctic on iOS; prefer it to Voyager, Mlem, and Thunder due to having more customization options.
- It also feels more natural. It seems it was actually written in swift. Other apps feel like they were written in some framework, which causes inconsistencies from the rest of iOS.
  It's also in constant development. I'm on the TestFlight and contribute via bug reports if I find any. I love seeing the new updates.
- I tried it for a while, but it left the rotation, I barely checked the customization options on that one tho, ill give it another try, when I had media not shwoing up or working on the other apps it still worked in Arctic everytime.
  
  Something that only it seems to have, versus the others I compared it to, is a "headline" view for the feed. It's essentially an extra compact version of the compact view, putting the post's community name in line with the upvote, downvote, comment counts and post age. Only saves a bit of space compared to the comparison I made a few minutes ago in trying Thunder's compact view, but most of all it makes the feed less cluttered, in my opinion.

Eternity

Voyager on mobile, Photon on desktop

Boost for Lemmy on Android with a customised Amoled black theme

Firefox.

On desktop, either the vanilla PWA for Lemmy, or alexandrite.app. I Really like alexandrite.
On the phone, I flip between Thunder, Summit, Sync, and Connect. Gotta keep a tab on how they develop, and I like them all, for different reasons.
Edit: my current preferred client on mobile is Thunder. Like you say, it feels like a modern way of browsing Lemmy, it's really good.

I was a RIF user and therefore Jerboa comes naturally to me.

I downloaded thunder and voyager. The cards are way too small on thunder so I’m using voyager.
- You can make them fullsize? They can take up your whole screen if you want in thunder lol
  
  I looked in the settings and there was just compact and cards and the cards are half the size of the ones in voyager.

Boost in Android works reliably. I haven't really used anything else.
- I have used others and to me nothing else has the right blend of stability, performance, good defaults, and ability to customize. Boost is best on android.

Sync on Android
Alexandrite on desktop

Voyager on Android, far above all others

I use voyager but I’m gonna try thunder now

I used eternity for a long while, but it is buggy and development is slow (if not dead?). So I switched to the Voyager android app and never looked back.

Browser on pc, voyager on mobile

Infinity is/was my favorite for Reddit on Android, and Voyager is close enough. Just frilly enough, images/videos embed okay (though need some improvements to saving/downloading), and it just works.
- Someone forked Infinity and made a Lemmy client, called Eternity: https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.toldi.infinityforlemmy/
  
  This is great, thank you!
- I've had the least issues with voyager, its the fastest and least buggy ive used, but also the least customizable, just works tho which is nice

Eternity for Lemmy, Android. Used Infinity before, so when I switched to Lemmy, I switched to Eternity.

Phtn.app, on the web
- Same. The dev is very active and open to suggestions. I've been using it for a couple of months now and it's working great.

Was using the Voyager app. But now I use the Voyager PWA version through the Hermit app.

Summit, but it's good enough that I haven't tried many others.

I'm quite happy with Jerboa on GrapheneOS, and on desktop I prefer to visit Lemmy via Tesseract.
- You had me going there! I thought Tesseract was something to do with OCR.
- I just started using phtn.app on desktop, saw it on a lemmy comment recently, supports multiple account login, havent tried tesseract on desktop, was setting up a friendica, but got lazy (like how you see comments along with the post on the feed, but you gotta manually sub to everything)

None-- I use the default website through Chrome.

I used connect for nearly 2 years, I like the way it looks and operated and was fairly happy, however after an update this week that introduced a shit load more bugs and didn't really fix any of the outstanding ones I finally got sick of it.
So this week I have been using Voyager all week, think I'm gonna jump around a few different ones and try and find a new place to stay.

I tried Jerboa and Voyager on Android before settling down with SUMMIT. I haven't found a reason to change since.

All Android; Eternity because it's much more "Lemmy like" and is one of the own to actually not sure downvotes on my instance which have them disabled with Boost a very close second because I've loved launching the rocket for years (and unlike SpaceX, my rocket launches don't explode and are actually successful)
Desktop, I love DracuLemmy

I use both Sync and Voyager.
Both have things I like and don't

Voyager. Just very plain and nice.

Jerboa has always been great to me. Android. It uses old reddit style and reminds me of Baconreader

Jerboa on Android. I don't really visit Lemmy anywhere else.

phtn.app is modern looking. Its a client and not an app though

Connect works for me

I’m trying out Thunder and it seems great but I can’t figure out how to show the upvote counts. Not sure if it’s a bug or a setting I need to change.
- Settings for each individual user, easy to change, goto settings and theres one long menu item that says individual feed settings, then its just toggling show upvotes/downvotes on, some instances had it off by default
  
  Thanks that worked!
- Its either there or in the indiviudal post/comment settings, I think I added showing the buttons there since I prefer that to gestures

I like Voyager because I still miss Apollo.

I'm a big fan of using https:// in Mull on my Android, and in Firefox on my PC.
Never been a fan of installing more apps then necessary.

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