What Lemmy Client are you Android users using in 2026?
What client do Android users use for Lemmy these days? I've been using Jerboa from the start but it's a bit basic and lacks any good search functionality. So I want to try some others. What do other Android users recommend?
Things I like about Jerboa:
- It just works. It's pretty simple.
- It has actual private browsing in app. You never have to leave the app and it knows how to never save your history.
- It can do the above even when setting your main browser to Firefox (so as blocking works even in open links in app).
Things I don't like about Jerboa:
- Text entry is oftentimes buggy.
- Lack of any decent search for communities or in threads.
- No draft capability.
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I tried a bunch and settled on Voyager. I also liked Thunder.
Same, I tried them all and Voyager was my favourite
It's also nice to recommend because it's on iOS too
Summit wins out
Agreed, I've tried all the ones mentioned so far and some others but Summit is the only one that doesn't have annoyances and drawbacks for what I want.
Im on summit now and its ok. I wish sync was still in development.
Also on summit. Not only is it a really nice to use app in general, it also has the best mod tools that I've seen in any app so far.
Like most people, I've tried many apps, and chose summit because, in addition to it having everything I'm looking for in an app, it doesn't eat my battery like the other apps. Thunder was good, but it drained my battery so fast, it was just crazy.
Agree on that
Agreed. I just wish they would get the PieFed post combining happening so we didn't see the same article posted four times in a row. The PieFed PWA does it right. Might be an API issue though.
I'm quite happy with Thunder
Me too. But it refuses to load images of a fraction of the posts and I don't really know why. And cross linking to some other instances is occasionally borked, it tries and then opens the browser.
Apart from that it's been fantastic
Same here, thunder refuses to load images seemingly randomly.
Another vote for Thunder, though I'm also kind of warming up to Summit.
Voyager for me. The compact mode is fairly compact, with small enough thumbnails that it can feel text-first. The few others that support piefed have had huge images with no easy way to fix that.
I like Boost.
Last time I said this, I got shunned for recommending a closed-source app. I generally try to stick to open-source, but Boost has a good UI, works well, and bugs are fixed quickly.
I'm also using boost but "bugs are fixed quickly" isn't my experience.
Maybe I just haven't encountered any bugs that took a long time to fix. It's been pretty reliable for me.
I started using Boost during round 1 of the API debacle when Reddit is Fun got the axe. Boost was still up & going so I used it there for a couple months before it got killed, then came here & kept up with it.
I haven't had any major issues, just the occasional hiccup like spoiler markup formatting or other weird interactions.
Also been using Boost for years and very happy with it. My only gripe is that oftentimes embedded images like custom emotes are displayed at an enormous screen filling size, so sometimes if a user includes multiple emotes in a comment I have to scroll several screens to get to the next comment. This never was an issue in the Reddit Boost app, and the fact that its been unaddressed for so long now has me worried that the app may have been abandoned. No idea if it still gets updates, I should check one day.
I like Boost, even paid for it. Sometimes won't load mpegs or bigger files,but those are my only gripes
Voyager for me.
Thunder is also good.
I'm sad that Voyager is just a webapp and not a native client; but apart from that, I think it's perfect.
Wait what? Voyager is a native client, I'm using the version I downloaded from the Google Play store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.vger.voyager
Yes, that's what I also use. But it's just a wrapper for the web view. It doesn't really use native widgets.
You can't tell. It feels totally native.
Boost
Isn't it closed source and serves ads?
It doesn't serve ads if you pay for it - I used it for Reddit and moved over during the API debacle and I haven't had any issues with it personally.
I must have paid for it years ago when I used it for reddit, because I don't get ads
Browser
This! Don't know why you would need something else.
I'm using Voyager and happy with it. Of course, now. I need to trial these listed by others.
After much complaining about sync's descent into mediocre abandonware, i finally switched to Summit - i still miss sync's ui/ux - but its nice being able to use a non buggy product
Likewise. I left Reddit when they killed third party apps because Sync was Reddit to me. I stuck with it here for a lot longer than I should have, but I finally accepted that it was dead and settled on Summit after trying a few others. Connect is also good, but I felt like it wasn't quite as flexible as Summit last I tried.
Sync was borderline abadonware even as a reddit third party app before reddit closed the gates.
I still use Sync every day, and I can't think of any issues I've had with it. What sort of bugs do you mean?
The one that finally pushed me over the edge was, while i could (barely) tolerate the ads, some time after his last update, something in the code broke or wasnt updated, and the ads would play an audible blip, as if the first 5ms of audio played before it was then caught and automatically muted - and that was just a bridge too far. There were smaller things and features unimplemnted - but having to hear blips catching me off guard and at times when scrolling is appropriate but audio wasnt was too frustrating for me and so i switched. Was using sync forever, was a true fan, was frustrated how he changed and milked the pay structure for sync for lemmy as conpared to how he did it for reddit, and then he had the gal to just dip entirely, such a shame for such a good ux.
That ad thing is weird, I've not seen anything like that at all. In fact I don't even see video ads. Where is this, in your feed? Or when you open a thread?
I wonder if it's to do with how the feed is set up? I use Small Cards view, don't know if that's maybe preventing me seeing the ads in the first place? I do sometimes see small static ads at the top of a thread, but that's all.
I use Firefox and have no idea why you'd need a dedicated app.
who cares why someone might prefer or be interested or i suppose even "need" an app. why you gotta throw shade just bc you prefer a browser?
found the app dev
loll
I'm not sure anyone suggested it was needed. Some of us prefer the UX
I also use FIrefox exclusively nowadays for Lemmy, but personally I can see the nice "feel" the app has, it just works very smoothly on a mobile device
Voyager.
Voyager
I'm on voyager and it does the job. I miss sync though.
Sync. But I'm an old guy with habits that are hard to change
I stayed with sync until I was forced to switch due to bugs and missing features, I tried all alternatives I could find and settled on Summit. Highly recommend, it has a ton of options and both looks and feels great to use.
You'll probably be forced to change your habit soon.
Voyager
same. only because it was the only one i could remember the name of when i was setting up the 'mini tablet' (which is just someone's old phone. has no sim or service). it's an old and slow phone, so it doesn't get used often. i'd much rather be on a desktop.
Hey a fellow Jerboa user! I'm also in the Jerboa camp, just because it's so simple. I'll use it to load my subscriptions if I'm waiting at a dentist or something.
Blorp for me
Blorp dev here. Let me know if there is anything I can do to make the app better for you!
Same here. Blorp was the first result when looking up Lemmy on the Google Play Store and I've had 0 issues since.
Sync, until it dies.
Am I the only one using Connect?
Am I out of touch?
No, it's the lemmings who are wrong.
I'm with you. Connect is great
Reddit is Fun into Connect. Never looked back.
Same
Boost and Voyager for me.
We asked about this in our census and got the following results:
https://fedecan.ca/en/announcements/2026-04-03_censusResults#_3-1-10-on-mobile-how-do-you-access-the-instance
Interesting, thanks for the info!
Nice it seems Voyager is a clear winner!
Cool, I thought Eternity was much lower
Boost is the best for me!
I used to use Boost for Reddit back then and switched over to Boost for Lemmy initially. Nowadays I use Voyager as the UI is better IMO.
Does voyager actually support saved comments? Boost still only shows saved posts despite letting you save comments.
Sorry, for the late reply I wanted to double check if I was correct. Yes, Voyager shows your saved comments and posts under the "Saved" category on your profile page
Jerboa
Sync for Lemmy
I use Connect and haven't had any complaints.
Summit for me. I've tried most of the others mentioned so far but always stick to summit.
I'm using Voyager because Star Trek.
Works very well except for one problem, it doesn't remember the last thread or community I was on I switch apps and android kills in background.
It's particularly annoying when I follow a link and when I come back to comment on it Voyager is back on Home and the thread lost forever.
Or when I'm in the middle to writing a comment but want to quickly fact check something but when I come back I get a message saying that my comment was saved, nice. But still can't go back to the thread I was to finish it.
Apart from that I'm satisfied with it.
I tried Voyager and Interstellar but Blorp for whatever reason was the only one with a UI that felt right to me.
Boost
As a primarily iPhone user, I get a thrill using Voyager on my Android phone. It's basically an Apollo clone, and Apollo was iOS only (for Reddit). IIRC Voyager is based on its released source code. The Apollo dev was never gonna code for Android, but he didn't stop others from doing so, and they did. I also like the client. On iOS, I use it for my Piefed account because of its support for that branch (fork?) of Lemmy. On iOS for this account, I use Mlem, which I believe is iOS only.
I'm happy with Voyager on Android, but I'm certainly open to alternatives. I want to keep one app that can switch between the two, so it needs Lemmy and Piefed support. I also like the comfortable interface with previews, the ability to blur/hide NSFW on a toggle (like if I'm out in public vs at home), and swipe controls (upvote, downvote, reply, and save). Easy access to blocking is also important (e.g. on this account I browse /all).
Most of the time, sync, because I prefer my scrolling and reading on a tablet, and having dual columns that are easy to parse is more important than most other factors.
Boost is my backup for the same reason, since so far all the otherwise great lemmy first apps don't do dual column well, when they do it at all.
That being said, check out connect, summit, and thunder. All damn fine apps overall
I use browser, never really had a reason to switch
Interstellar
me too. It's pretty good, or at least it suits me.
Connect. It felt most like RIF, so I stuck with it
I used to use it as well because it was the closest to rif, but it had a lot of limitations compared to summit, I'm glad I made the switch.
I'm using boost now but I miss the swipe to upvote feature I used to have on sync. Any recommendations? That swipe feature was great and made it so easy to throw a vote out there.
Connect has that.
Boost
boost and voyager
Voyager is all I've ever used to access Lemmy.
Sync still works great and is tighter than basically everything else. The other apps have made MONSTROUS strides in the past couple years, but I still have sync set up pretty close to how I want it. But, what I really truly want is Baconreader for fediverse.
Jerboa was the smallest one I could find on F-Droid. The lack of post search sucksssss but that's probably a sign that I should get home and onto my computer regardless.
I've been using Boost simply because it's what I used to use for reddit and it does what I want
I really like Raccoon, Summit, and Connect a lot. I switch around between them just for shits and giggles; they're all great apps with cool, active developers. I'm currently writing this with Raccoon.
Just tried Raccoon and the level of post customization is really nice. But it doesn't have a mark as read button which it kinda annoying.
That's odd, because I have one in the little post options menu. I probably changed some setting... Check out the advanced settings under general, I see 'read/unread post' related settings there, along with options to do it automatically on scrolling, etc.
Still using the browser! Works just fine.
Voyager, only because I'm used to it and cbf swapping.
If RiF was made for Lemmy, I'd be using that.
Irreally really like you Voyager. It's inspired by Reddit Sync, the GOAT
I'm still using Sync (for Lemmy) but I'll need to check Voyager out, since it seems Sync is now abandoned.
I love Sync. A beautiful app that served me for a full decade. But now, Sync charges way too much for a subscription and access to features that used to be free or came with a one-time purchase. And yes, it appears abandoned, so why would subscribe?
Sync also had a bunch of customizations that I had to do for each account. Very tedious and the settings menus and options themselves weren't implemented as well as they could have been.
Voyager was exactly what I needed. It's very close the Sync experience while also its own thing. I'm very happy with it. If only they'd change the logo
Boost and Connect are my favorites for Lemmy.
Eternity til it dies
Firefox
As we are talking about browsers... I use Boost, but would like the option of downloading 'all, -top six hours' including comments, for offline browsing (Perhaps up to a maximum size). Any recommendations please?
That WOULD be neat.
Eternity
I haven't found anything better than Jerboa. To me, the only flaw is that it will never, ever support piefed.
It's the closest to the RIF experience.
Eternity and sometimes voyager
Really don't know what I'll do when Eternity stops working
Try voyager, last time I checked, eternity was not maintained.
How amusing to call an app eternity and yet to be so ephemeral 😏
I t4ied only Interstellar and settled on Summit. Back when piefed social was new I got on board fairly early and interstellar IIRC was one of the first to have piefed support. Then summit came with the support and I never left since. Sorry Interstellar, Summit just have the UX I prefer back when I used Sync for reddit. Sync for lemmy didn't have piefed support back then.
I use the browser and have no idea why you'd need a dedicated app
My web browser lol
After using thunder I haven't felt the need to try anything else since.
I just use the web UI. It scales really well on mobile.
Firefox based browser and Jerboa
Interstellar
Connect.
It's functional...ish.
(Let me know if this lemment got through)
(Also, I'm technically on PieFed now... but that's basically Lemmy 2 or something, right?)
Firefox on mobile. I make the website an app. It works.
Boost
Summit! Being using it since my lemmy day 0
Blorp, it has Lemmy and piefed, looks nice, and the logo is really good
Too many options so I just use the browser and it works perfectly fine
Im using my computer
Voyager as PWA through Chrome. Unfortunately. There's just no other way I've found to easily copy anything I see on screen, be it any link or photo, to share it with others. It's my issue with so many platforms...
This way I can just long press anything and share.
I've never understood why people have to use a client. I'm just using Chrome.