Thanks for the download, and I hope you enjoy it! We’re firm believers in the native Swift experience, even though it takes a little longer to develop in
Trying Mlem for the first time, the only thing that bothers me is that it shows total post scores and not individual numbers for up/down votes. I like seeing when something is controversial vs ignored.
That sounds great! I will be following the app’s progress for sure.
By the way, the other thing that stood out was not being able to tap on an image and view just that image full screen. Being able to do that leads to things like zooming in on the image, or long pressing to copy/share it.
You also included features I didn’t even know I wanted, like the privacy option to hide your username. You’re doing good work, my friend. o7
I’m an idiot, though. I was in the TestFlight beta, then left it when they released it to the App Store (before realizing that the TestFlight beta would be ongoing and get earlier releases than the App Store version). That is to say — it’s probably already fixed.
Good news--we decided that "some support is better than none," and quietly released the iPad app to the App Store as well. It's not perfect--we're pretty heavily leaning on SwiftUI's automagic cross-platform--and while we finish filling out our core features it's not going to get much dev time, but come 1.2 we'll make it all nice and shiny
Okay, thanks! I grabbed it and two things: switching accounts is terrible, and it’s making me nuts that I can’t swipe right to get back to the feed list (the “back” button isn’t doing it for me).
Interesting — is the former compiled? Seems smoother vs Swift UI, which is the opposite of what I’d expect for something that sounds like it has more bloat (React).
Hm, yeah. The comment collapsing, for example, is animated in Mlem, whereas in Memmy it’s a simple disappear/ appear transition.
The latter makes Memmy feel more snappy, even though Mlem’s smooth animation is actually kind of more impressive from a pure performance point of view.
Yeah that’s true. React native do support very smooth transitions as well though. Another app that is extremely smooth - albeit not as complete as Mlem or Memmy is Beans for Lemmy. I do believe it’s written in Swift as well.
Avelon is also another that I believe is Swift. It’s smoother than both Lemmy and Mlem, but lacks swipe actions at the moment, which turns out to make it unusable for me.
because it’s not a blatant clone, and it’s a native app. I’m sure it’s good but i don’t want to go via safari every time i access Lemmy and it’s just a copy of apollo.
Huh that’s interesting, it’s waaaayyy faster than Memmy for me. I know what you mean about glitchy. Annoying, but that’s the WebKit bug, and I’ve learned to just wait a second before scrolling down the feed after returning from a post. I don’t even think about it anymore, but I could see how that could bother some people.
Yep, it’s faster and it shows more posts than Memmy does for me. Logged in on the same account Memmy shows less posts from across the fediverse for whatever reason. Voyager shows everything I see on the desktop version of Lemmy.
Also a native app version with haptics and notifications is in the works for Voyager if that’s your kind of thing.
Imagine touting the benefits of an open, decentralized, user-centric platform, and ONLY releasing your app for it on the most closed, centralized, corporate mobile operating system.
Not sure if this is hypocrisy or a lack of self awareness or what, but memmy is a joke for doing this
Mlem dev here—couldn’t agree more about Gavin, he’s a fantastic guy. Gave us some helpful tips about getting through App Store review. Massive props to him for getting that app up and running so fast.
That and being unable to swipe-collapse a comment tree. The right-left swipe only being reply (when there’s already that giant reply button) there is certainly a design choice.
Might as well ask here. I am waiting on Sync for Lemmy to be released, and more importantly reach a non-alpha/beta release. But for now I am also down to try out others. Are there any that are able to handle Android tablets correctly? At the moment I have only used Jerboa. It is great on my phones, but it looks like the old days of apps for Android being forced to run on early tablets on my Galaxy Tab S8+. It just stretches out and feels off in both landscape and portrait orientations.
Adding this to be more specific, as I blanked on it originally.
The thing I was somehow forgetting to mention was having cards in multiple columns. With Sync for Reddit, you could have posts show as cards that had smallish preview thumbnails in multiple columns. So posts would show more like a grid. Not sure why I blanked on saying that when talking about how currently posts just stretch all the way across the width of the display (especially in landscape mode). I am not sure if this is even currently an option with how Lemmy itself works. So hopefully that helps better. lol.
I was on jerboa before and liked it. However I tried connect and it's much better. Jerboa had a lot of bugs still. And the UI is smoother, cleaner and better functionality on connect.
Installed and it does seem to be smooth, so I do thank you for pointing it out! I am beginning to think what I am looking for is more an issue with Lemmy. The thing I liked about Sync was the ability to have multiple columns of posts in the card format. So each post in a community doesn't just span the whole width of the screen (which is much more dramatic in landscape). Also keeps it easy to scroll more posts and preview images being smaller, but not as tiny as the super small list view.
That all being said, I do think Connect is very clean and will be using it more for the moment. It is good to see attention from devs being put towards Lemmy.
Installed and seems to have the same issue. But I will keep it installed along with Connect and any others I come across. I like to jump between different apps over time to see how they evolve and compare to each other. Thanks for sharing it!
This is awesome.
Though mlmym.org does not have any impressum, so I googled it.
It should be the instance run by the creator but my mobile device I am currently using does not show me the entire certificate details.
I note this because one should be aware that this has implications regarding security.
Though the creator chose the correct licensing, works under his real name and the code looks good, too.
https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym
I did not spot any data gathering things in my fly-through. He gives all the things needed to deploy an own instance to omit this concern.
I really like it! I just wish I could change my avatar. I looked everywhere, and the option doesn't seem to exist.
Definitely fills the void Apollo left so far. I am relieved to have found Memmy.
For me it's been a SHOWDOWN between Memmy and Mlem
Damn it, now I have to download that one too.
Thanks for the download, and I hope you enjoy it! We’re firm believers in the native Swift experience, even though it takes a little longer to develop in
i'm sorry I don't have an opinion both are good.
At this point I’m just collecting them all, got to pump those download numbers!
There’s also Avelon, just downloaded it the other day
https://lemmy.world/post/1752934
If that’s the case, be sure to get Thunder too.
Edit: Just remembered Liftoff and Nemmy.
Trying Mlem for the first time, the only thing that bothers me is that it shows total post scores and not individual numbers for up/down votes. I like seeing when something is controversial vs ignored.
Funny you should mention that, I'm actually working on implementing that exact feature right now! It'll be out in the next build.
That sounds great! I will be following the app’s progress for sure.
By the way, the other thing that stood out was not being able to tap on an image and view just that image full screen. Being able to do that leads to things like zooming in on the image, or long pressing to copy/share it.
You also included features I didn’t even know I wanted, like the privacy option to hide your username. You’re doing good work, my friend. o7
That, plus the zooming didn’t work well
I’m an idiot, though. I was in the TestFlight beta, then left it when they released it to the App Store (before realizing that the TestFlight beta would be ongoing and get earlier releases than the App Store version). That is to say — it’s probably already fixed.
Mlem is good, but I’m holding out for the iPad version.
It’s coming! We’ve got development slated to start early August, it should enter TestFlight beta sometime shortly after then.
Cool! Can’t wait!
Good news--we decided that "some support is better than none," and quietly released the iPad app to the App Store as well. It's not perfect--we're pretty heavily leaning on SwiftUI's automagic cross-platform--and while we finish filling out our core features it's not going to get much dev time, but come 1.2 we'll make it all nice and shiny
Okay, thanks! I grabbed it and two things: switching accounts is terrible, and it’s making me nuts that I can’t swipe right to get back to the feed list (the “back” button isn’t doing it for me).
There already is an iPad version! It’s in the App Store release! It’s also there in the GitHub version
Ok good, I’m not the only one! Feel like Mlem doesn’t get enough love! I like Memmy too, don’t get me wrong.
React Native vs. Swift UI
Which is which?
Memmy - React Native mlem - Swift
Interesting — is the former compiled? Seems smoother vs Swift UI, which is the opposite of what I’d expect for something that sounds like it has more bloat (React).
In theory swift should be smoother, but in reality React Native is good enough for it to be really smooth. It comes down to the coding itself.
Hm, yeah. The comment collapsing, for example, is animated in Mlem, whereas in Memmy it’s a simple disappear/ appear transition.
The latter makes Memmy feel more snappy, even though Mlem’s smooth animation is actually kind of more impressive from a pure performance point of view.
Yeah that’s true. React native do support very smooth transitions as well though. Another app that is extremely smooth - albeit not as complete as Mlem or Memmy is Beans for Lemmy. I do believe it’s written in Swift as well.
Avelon is also another that I believe is Swift. It’s smoother than both Lemmy and Mlem, but lacks swipe actions at the moment, which turns out to make it unusable for me.
I use voyager, but I love the name for mlem so I wish I could give it a try lol.
Yeah I liked the old name wefwef over voyager. It rolls off the tongue in a satisfying aspiration.
Ngl I prefer Voyager as a name over Wefwef lol. But I like the word voyager in general so I might he biased.
I use all three (Voyager/WefWef being the third)! Sometimes one does something better than the others or has a feature I need.
Bean: Hold my beer.
https://lemmy.world/post/1853043
Downloaded Mlem after this comment. It is pretty good (none feel polished yet).
Mostly Voyager for me because it’s almost a 1:1 clone of what I know and love.
But I have Memmy installed too and sometimes use that instead with no particular rhyme or reason.
Self hosting it myself, love it!
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Although that has its benefits, it still has scrolling issues for me :/
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I have scrolling issues on voyager as well on my iPhone 14 Pro Max. I’m sure it will get better with time. This bug has also been a major nuisance.
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I use wefwef and it’s my first time learning about memmy.
What are the advantages of PWA?
I like wefwef but the scrolling does get me from time to time.
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It’s also cool how it can update frequently and fast. It seems to get small updates most days right now.
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All I’m missing is push notifications
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I’m not seeing it in my settings and haven’t received the prompt but here’s hoping it reaches me soon!
My main issue with wefwef is that I can’t directly save an image to the camera roll
Works fine for me. Did you deny it some permission somewhere?
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And because its UI is a million times better. I don’t understand how people could see them both and go with Memmy.
because it’s not a blatant clone, and it’s a native app. I’m sure it’s good but i don’t want to go via safari every time i access Lemmy and it’s just a copy of apollo.
I don’t see how it being a clone is a negative. All I want is Apollo, and this is pretty damn close, so I’m happy. But to each their own!
Also the gestures are kinda glitchy and is slow compared to memmy.
Huh that’s interesting, it’s waaaayyy faster than Memmy for me. I know what you mean about glitchy. Annoying, but that’s the WebKit bug, and I’ve learned to just wait a second before scrolling down the feed after returning from a post. I don’t even think about it anymore, but I could see how that could bother some people.
Yep, it’s faster and it shows more posts than Memmy does for me. Logged in on the same account Memmy shows less posts from across the fediverse for whatever reason. Voyager shows everything I see on the desktop version of Lemmy.
Also a native app version with haptics and notifications is in the works for Voyager if that’s your kind of thing.
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wefwefVoyager user, I was like "What's a memmy?" but I see it's IOS only... :(https://github.com/Memmy-App/memmy
Imagine touting the benefits of an open, decentralized, user-centric platform, and ONLY releasing your app for it on the most closed, centralized, corporate mobile operating system.
Not sure if this is hypocrisy or a lack of self awareness or what, but memmy is a joke for doing this
It's almost as if the developer likely owns the phone and simply wants a native app for it?
The app is like, brand new… u just hating today
On a Friday too… they need to chill 😂
So all the apple users should just stick to reddit.. What's the logic behind your reply?
no, people making lemmy apps should support android is my point.
There are already ton of android options so who else will make one for apple
Memmy is fantastic as is the developer.
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Mlem dev here—couldn’t agree more about Gavin, he’s a fantastic guy. Gave us some helpful tips about getting through App Store review. Massive props to him for getting that app up and running so fast.
I use Mlem as well - glad we’re all part of such a great community!
Connect go brrr
Is like Linux distros.
Is this IOS only?
If you want a good Android Lemmy client app, get Connect.
It blows Jerboa and liftoff out of the water.
It's even getting updates once or twice a week!
Was like "oh cool, gonna try this connect app', only to realize I was reading this comment on Connect. So many apps, man.
Jokes aside I'm loving that there's so many different clients.
Also using connect!
Just waiting for Sync to get released tho.
No clue about memmy but WefWef aka Voyager is also available on android (as a Web app).
Meh, you sure can.
I have memmy and still prefer wefwef
This is me, and I’m cool with it! I like jumping into both on a daily basis to see how each progresses.
My only hate for Memmy is the massive vote buttons on the right. Why the hell are they so big?
Settings\Content\Show Comment Actions.
You’re welcome!
That and being unable to swipe-collapse a comment tree. The right-left swipe only being reply (when there’s already that giant reply button) there is certainly a design choice.
What's everyone's favorite Android lemmy browser?
I'm using jerboa but it's missing some features I had with reddit. Suggestions?
Voyager has been pretty great. The devs are working overtime to get features working.
Connect is great IMO
As a former infinity used, I love connect.
Using connect for now. Waiting for sync.
I use connect until sync arrives
Until Boost in my case 🤣
I'm enjoying Connect while I wait for Sync to be released.
(As a former Sync/RIF user)
Same, can't wait for Sync
I have jerboa and just started using connect and like the 'experimental' slide to next post option
Biost for Lemmy supremacy
Might as well ask here. I am waiting on Sync for Lemmy to be released, and more importantly reach a non-alpha/beta release. But for now I am also down to try out others. Are there any that are able to handle Android tablets correctly? At the moment I have only used Jerboa. It is great on my phones, but it looks like the old days of apps for Android being forced to run on early tablets on my Galaxy Tab S8+. It just stretches out and feels off in both landscape and portrait orientations.
Adding this to be more specific, as I blanked on it originally. The thing I was somehow forgetting to mention was having cards in multiple columns. With Sync for Reddit, you could have posts show as cards that had smallish preview thumbnails in multiple columns. So posts would show more like a grid. Not sure why I blanked on saying that when talking about how currently posts just stretch all the way across the width of the display (especially in landscape mode). I am not sure if this is even currently an option with how Lemmy itself works. So hopefully that helps better. lol.
Connect is working great for me
I was on jerboa before and liked it. However I tried connect and it's much better. Jerboa had a lot of bugs still. And the UI is smoother, cleaner and better functionality on connect.
Installed and it does seem to be smooth, so I do thank you for pointing it out! I am beginning to think what I am looking for is more an issue with Lemmy. The thing I liked about Sync was the ability to have multiple columns of posts in the card format. So each post in a community doesn't just span the whole width of the screen (which is much more dramatic in landscape). Also keeps it easy to scroll more posts and preview images being smaller, but not as tiny as the super small list view.
That all being said, I do think Connect is very clean and will be using it more for the moment. It is good to see attention from devs being put towards Lemmy.
I have no clue if it has tablet support, but I like Liftoff much better than Jerboa
Installed and seems to have the same issue. But I will keep it installed along with Connect and any others I come across. I like to jump between different apps over time to see how they evolve and compare to each other. Thanks for sharing it!
I’m sticking with Mlem for now, though they’re all 99% the same
mlmym.org for me
This is awesome. Though mlmym.org does not have any impressum, so I googled it. It should be the instance run by the creator but my mobile device I am currently using does not show me the entire certificate details.
I note this because one should be aware that this has implications regarding security.
Though the creator chose the correct licensing, works under his real name and the code looks good, too.
https://github.com/rystaf/mlmym I did not spot any data gathering things in my fly-through. He gives all the things needed to deploy an own instance to omit this concern.
Bravo!
I really like it! I just wish I could change my avatar. I looked everywhere, and the option doesn't seem to exist.
Definitely fills the void Apollo left so far. I am relieved to have found Memmy.
Not sure how I feel about mommy quite yet. Bob dole.
Im just happy for all the Lemmy apps, my favorite is thunder though. I love the open API so I can have choices over what app I want.
Maybe something has come up with it and I’m not privy, I primarily use Voyager because PWA support, but Avelon seems pretty good too
iOS is for simps
iOS user here: confirmed.
Is this in the App Store yet or still in the testing sandbox?
Edit: this is on the App Store now. Very cool.
I’ve mostly moved to Memmy, but for whatever reason Wefwef keeps reinstalling itself and I can’t figure out how to get it to stop