Voyager is fantastic. I started with Memmy and settled on Voyager for a while. But I’m trying Avelon right now and it’s smoooooth. The swipe back function works much better on Avelon, and their “Explore” tab is great.
Avelon is phenomenal. Especially the hide bars on scroll feature. No other app has this. I wonder if it’s hard to develop? I remember the developer of Apollo had quite a few bugs with it in the beginning.
Adding my thanks for the suggestion too - avelon looks great! I started with Memmy and I moved on to Voyager and Lemmios. Both are great but both have problems. Loving avelon so far!!
At least on iOS, I prefer Avelon the best as it's the most iOS native feeling app. A close second for me on iOS is Mlem. Both I still use from their betas, but both are now in the App Store as well, go give them a try if anyone hasn't already!
maybe its a settings thing but for me voyager keeps showing me posts i've already seen even they should be marked as read, while avelon keeps showing me new stuff. otherwise they are both wonderful.
I am using it, it's okay, not as good as Reddit Is Fun was.
but I have to say I am not as evangelical about pushing open source and lack of telemetry, so I don't care about unintrusive ads as a free-tier, nor do I care a lot about collecting usage data to improve the app
I wish the Apollo dev would've ported his app and migrated his user base. IMHO, Syncs popularity shows that the developer was able to migrate a lot of their old user base to Lemmy.
I'm waiting for Boost since the reddit exodus. I've condemned myself to mobile browsing particularly to be loyal to boost and also the enjoy how much better 3rd party clients are when it's finally live.
I find the amount of features and having different settings per account overwhelming, that's just my opinion though. I'm sure the dev put a ton of hard work into it.
I would like to see how this poll was shared because that could introduce bias for example sharing it in communities where users of a specific lemmy client are in the majority
I always wondered why I couldn't log in using Voyager either. I also use an auto generated password from my password manager, could be related to lengths or a certain special character.
I used memmy and was happy with it but my blocked instance filter kept disappearing, so now I’m on voyager. It’s not bad but it takes time to get used to it.
In my F-Droid, there's plenty of other!
Eternity, Liftoff, Jerboa, Thunder, Voyager, Lemmur and Combustible when I search for "Lemmy".
Maybe you don't have all/the same repositories enabled?
I'm using Liftoff at the moment, which is great so far, but I haven't settled yet. I want to try using some of the other ones before I'm sure.
For reddit I used Joey, and I would consider switching to Joey for Lemmy if it existed.
Using connect cause it's the first one that popped up on a search when I originally switched. Can anyone give me good reasons to use a different one on this list?
Voyager is basically a clone of Apollo, with support for both Android's and iOS's UI styles. Apollo was one of the best Reddit experiences, and it often won awards every year. Also, Voyager is pretty damn polished, it's super reliable, and it has one of the most complete Lemmy feature sets.
If you're an Android user who has never used Apollo, it's worth a look to see what all the hype was about. If you're on iOS and miss Apollo, Voyager is kind of a no brainer.
Only problem is that the app and play store builds still don't have push notifications implemented. Also no mod tools quite yet.
It also needs a little refinement here and there - the pull to load is very short and you have to do it slowly or it snaps back immediately. Its too easy to tap the wrong thing in the compressed mode, and the slide to votes need more weight and snap.
But these are nits - its really good compared to other ios apps. I really appreciate the long-press to block some communities. Until Lemmy learns how to better filter and reduce redundancy, this has been my most-used feature (sorry, all things yiff)
I swipe left from anywhere in Voyager and it brings me back a panel no problem. I’m also able to use the swipe gestures on comments to interact with the comments. I was not able to get both happening in Avelon — either swipe to go back or swipe to interact. Am I doing something wrong?
I just installed it to try it out and I can’t get it to work. Enabled it in settings but no matter what I try it either won’t navigate back to where I was or it tries to do the normal swipe gestures instead
Edit: I might’ve misunderstood the purpose of the setting. I just want an app that lets me swipe from the right to return to the last post I was looking at :(
That’s technically a left swipe gesture to go forward in the history stack; Voyager uses Ionic Framework and that feature isn’t available out of the box last I checked (where as right swipe to go backwards in the history stack is just an attribute to enable) :(
I am looking for an alternative to Jerboa. While I like it, I would prefer an app with moderation tools and without the weird backspace bug when writing posts/comments. Does anyone have a recommendation for me?
Somehow didn't know about it before I saw this poll! It's the best (and FOSS). It runs seamlessly, unlike others I've tried, and has crazy customization.
It's barebones and not the most readable. Clearly designed for the desktop browser experience, which is never going to be the dominant way of using Lemmy.
But my biggest issue with it is that it defaults to the worst feed and sorting algorithm Lemmy has. Every time I load the page, it is back to the "local" feed, sorted by "active" even if I've changed my account settings.
I like Voyager a lot. It’s definitely the most Apollo esque. Other than the lack of hide bars on scroll feature. The bars at the bottom and the top can be distracting and I find content looks better when they disappear as you scroll.
So far I’ve only found Avelon to have this feature.
As a sync user of a few years, it's important that we don't bring down other apps while raising our own up. It's a good thing there's healthy competition! Sync is great, but that doesn't mean that other apps aren't.
While I agree, I think sync takes the award for most non intrusive ads in an app. I don't think I've seen a free ad supported app with less intrusive ads.
I've heard that argument before too -- but again, no other Lemmy app uses ads. Having them is pretty damn intrusive when the alternative is simply not having them.
Of course, it's the dev's prerogative to sell a closed-source product, and their choice to be paid for it. I support that. But the issue gets deeper since Lemmy is ultimately FOSS. Lemmy needs donations to survive. I'd wager that most folks who paid to remove ads from Sync aren't paying their instance for their bandwidth, so it ends up being an unnecessary stumbling block for the platform.
I'm all for paying devs for their work, but I am still finding the pricing for the lemmy version of sync just too high. The ad free purchase is 4 times more than it was for the reddit app. And I get that there are probably less users so he needs to make up the difference, but there's also way less content on lemmy than there was on Reddit, impacting the value there in my opinion.
Oh I never even realized that was missing. I haven’t enabled it in any apps though. I just see the "unread replies” dot on the inbox when I open the app.
It doesn't cost money, you could just pay to remove ads. Unless you want all the super fancy features with premium. I bought sync for reddit years ago but I'm sticking with the regular non-premium with Lemmy.
Sync isn't polished for lemmy yet, so yeah, there are a few rough edges. Having said that, usually a bad experience is because you didn't customize it to your liking. There is likely a setting for any UI gripe you may have had. There is even a search feature for setting because it's so customizable.
I think a lot of the love for it is that sync was arguably the best android Reddit app for a long time. People like myself have become very comfortable with sync on Reddit, and sync for Lemmy is basically the same thing we are all so comfortable with.
I looked at some of the other alternatives and they just didn't feel as good to me, but I have also been using sync almost daily for years.
Voyager is fantastic. I started with Memmy and settled on Voyager for a while. But I’m trying Avelon right now and it’s smoooooth. The swipe back function works much better on Avelon, and their “Explore” tab is great.
Team Avelon
Oooh, shiny. Thanks for the suggestion, it’s beautiful
Avelon is phenomenal. Especially the hide bars on scroll feature. No other app has this. I wonder if it’s hard to develop? I remember the developer of Apollo had quite a few bugs with it in the beginning.
Adding my thanks for the suggestion too - avelon looks great! I started with Memmy and I moved on to Voyager and Lemmios. Both are great but both have problems. Loving avelon so far!!
At least on iOS, I prefer Avelon the best as it's the most iOS native feeling app. A close second for me on iOS is Mlem. Both I still use from their betas, but both are now in the App Store as well, go give them a try if anyone hasn't already!
maybe its a settings thing but for me voyager keeps showing me posts i've already seen even they should be marked as read, while avelon keeps showing me new stuff. otherwise they are both wonderful.
I like the fact that no client has a majority
You could argue that 25% for sync is quite something, and almost double that of the next largest competitor.
I am using it, it's okay, not as good as Reddit Is Fun was.
but I have to say I am not as evangelical about pushing open source and lack of telemetry, so I don't care about unintrusive ads as a free-tier, nor do I care a lot about collecting usage data to improve the app
Try liftoff, it's as close as possible to RIF.
Hm, I like it way more than RiF.
This can be blessing and a curse.
This made me so happy to see people talking about my poll! This is exactly why I wanted to make it! :)
This reminded me of high quality gifs sub (I don't remember the exact name)
i think it's actually just "r/HighQualityGifs"
Eternity, clean UI no ads/pay wall and fast
I wish the Apollo dev would've ported his app and migrated his user base. IMHO, Syncs popularity shows that the developer was able to migrate a lot of their old user base to Lemmy.
Yeah, that was clutch. Voyager, which is basically a total Apollo clone, never got that same level of visibility.
Iirc he added an announcement that he'd be moving to lemmy before the shutdown.
Especially hard to stop an app when mods get banned for criticizing it.
It's nice to see the Reddit tradition still alive. Where you post something out of context to make sure your agenda is pushed.
🤡
It's Scientology, question it or the leader and get hounded.
I'm waiting for Boost since the reddit exodus. I've condemned myself to mobile browsing particularly to be loyal to boost and also the enjoy how much better 3rd party clients are when it's finally live.
I'm also a former boost user, for now I'm using liftoff
Is Voyager worth it? I don't mind Jerboa
I use Voyager PWA myself it's pretty good
I like both, and I say use what you're comfortable with.
Eh, Jerboa is okay, but the typing is janky. I might switch away from it just for that reason.
Avelon users, unite!
here, here!
I went back to using Jerboa since I got pretty tired of the ads in Sync. I understand why they're there, but it's still kinda annoying.
The $20 to go ad free was worth it to me 🤷🏽 Sync is just too good
I've got an adblocker
Does it completely remove it or leave a filler space with it showing a visibly blocked ad?
At least for me, they're gone completely.
Still a filler space for me with Adguard DNS but it doesn't bother me at all.
I find the amount of features and having different settings per account overwhelming, that's just my opinion though. I'm sure the dev put a ton of hard work into it.
You can backup your settings on one account and restore them under any other accounts you sign in to easily keep the experience consistent.
Where are the ads? I've not seen one, and I don't have any ad blockers enabled..
Have been loving Sync Ultra since release. Recently added Summary feature and link previews are awesome.
What is link preview? Coz that was always a feature no? Or am I misunderstanding?
Settings shortcut: Sync Ultra > Enhanced link previews
I'm using sync until boost comes out
any updates on boost? I've been ootl for a while
Nope not that I've seen. I'm pre registered on the Play store and just waiting for a notification
Public beta was supposed to come out last week.
I would like to see how this poll was shared because that could introduce bias for example sharing it in communities where users of a specific lemmy client are in the majority
I've been enjoying connect
As of late I'm using Jerboa. It was the first thing that popped up when I searched "reddit alternatives" on Bing.
I'd use it but I can't log in. My password is probably too long as it's randomly generated by my password manager.
Fwiw can't login to sync either. It's all jerboa for me.
I always wondered why I couldn't log in using Voyager either. I also use an auto generated password from my password manager, could be related to lengths or a certain special character.
Shortened my password, works now in Boost for Lemmy
I also had problems logging in with sync. For me, it was the instance input.
Somehow, after i filled out the instance, username & password inputs, the form blanked the instance name when submitting.
I didn't notice at first.
Entering the instance name again made it work.
My password is >!long!< too, but idk if it's as long as yours
Just had the same problem with Boost for Lemmy so I shortened it and it works now (at least in Lemmy)
I used memmy and was happy with it but my blocked instance filter kept disappearing, so now I’m on voyager. It’s not bad but it takes time to get used to it.
I tried Voyager, but just couldn’t get over the inverted vote colors. Couldn’t find a theme that had it “right”.
Imagines load with poor resolution in Voyager for me. I dunno why. I love it otherwise.
Shout out for Bean that isn't even on that poll 👀
I was the only one who voted for bean on the poll at the time.
Eternity is too low on the list imo.
I'm using jerboa until boost is ready
I'm on Sync, waiting for Boost !!
I use whatever in FDroid. In FDroid there is only Jerboa.
In my F-Droid, there's plenty of other! Eternity, Liftoff, Jerboa, Thunder, Voyager, Lemmur and Combustible when I search for "Lemmy". Maybe you don't have all/the same repositories enabled? I'm using Liftoff at the moment, which is great so far, but I haven't settled yet. I want to try using some of the other ones before I'm sure. For reddit I used Joey, and I would consider switching to Joey for Lemmy if it existed.
What repository do you have added, there's only fdroid and guardian in the stock fdroid settings (and eternity doesn't come up)
IzzyOnDroid F-Droid repo
Thank you
Using connect cause it's the first one that popped up on a search when I originally switched. Can anyone give me good reasons to use a different one on this list?
Voyager is basically a clone of Apollo, with support for both Android's and iOS's UI styles. Apollo was one of the best Reddit experiences, and it often won awards every year. Also, Voyager is pretty damn polished, it's super reliable, and it has one of the most complete Lemmy feature sets.
If you're an Android user who has never used Apollo, it's worth a look to see what all the hype was about. If you're on iOS and miss Apollo, Voyager is kind of a no brainer.
Only problem is that the app and play store builds still don't have push notifications implemented. Also no mod tools quite yet.
It also needs a little refinement here and there - the pull to load is very short and you have to do it slowly or it snaps back immediately. Its too easy to tap the wrong thing in the compressed mode, and the slide to votes need more weight and snap.
But these are nits - its really good compared to other ios apps. I really appreciate the long-press to block some communities. Until Lemmy learns how to better filter and reduce redundancy, this has been my most-used feature (sorry, all things yiff)
I alternate between voyager and Avelon. I like that Avelon has better swipe options. Swipe back from anywhere is a must imo.
I swipe left from anywhere in Voyager and it brings me back a panel no problem. I’m also able to use the swipe gestures on comments to interact with the comments. I was not able to get both happening in Avelon — either swipe to go back or swipe to interact. Am I doing something wrong?
Hmm
I have
swipe left upvote.
Long swipe left downvote.
All right swipe does is go back.
Not sure if that helps.
I just installed it to try it out and I can’t get it to work. Enabled it in settings but no matter what I try it either won’t navigate back to where I was or it tries to do the normal swipe gestures instead
Edit: I might’ve misunderstood the purpose of the setting. I just want an app that lets me swipe from the right to return to the last post I was looking at :(
That’s technically a left swipe gesture to go forward in the history stack; Voyager uses Ionic Framework and that feature isn’t available out of the box last I checked (where as right swipe to go backwards in the history stack is just an attribute to enable) :(
Dozens of us!!
I am looking for an alternative to Jerboa. While I like it, I would prefer an app with moderation tools and without the weird backspace bug when writing posts/comments. Does anyone have a recommendation for me?
Summit is missing!
i did not participate in the poll, although i use the default web ui on desktop and eternity on mobile
Hey, that's awesome!! :)
Needs more Eternity ... :)
Somehow didn't know about it before I saw this poll! It's the best (and FOSS). It runs seamlessly, unlike others I've tried, and has crazy customization.
Yeah, I used Infinity for Reddit (bcs BaconReader isnt FOSS) & was so happy when I saw this fork.
I am surprised that the default UI doesn't have more dominance
Lemmy's default web UI?
It's barebones and not the most readable. Clearly designed for the desktop browser experience, which is never going to be the dominant way of using Lemmy.
But my biggest issue with it is that it defaults to the worst feed and sorting algorithm Lemmy has. Every time I load the page, it is back to the "local" feed, sorted by "active" even if I've changed my account settings.
It actually has, if you scroll down to the bottom there are plenty of users stating default UI plus some plugin.
It shows Lemmy-UI at 9.78%, that seems low to me. But I notice that the poll lets you select multiple options so that probably skews things a bit.
I only switched because Voyager doesn't support mod tools. When it does, I 100% will be back
If I wasn't comfortable with Jerboa, I'd at least see what Voyager is like.
Thunder is amazing and I'm a little sad it isn't higher.
Only one that's tablet friendly. But as a contributor of that feature, I'm biased a bit.
Thunder did have Sentry.io tracking, but it seems to have been removed. I'm going to try it.
Voyager user here - never heard of this poll.
Eternity user here
Hmm do the servers record user agent stats?
Na, there was a poll up for a few hours that resulted in these results.
Dabs in Sync
How about people who were not able to vote, like me!
I couldn't vote either!
I saw the initial post and it had closed already.
Honestly surprised Thunder is so low. It's great
I like Thunder too but I find Voyager, Eternity, and Sync are way smoother
I primarly use photon on iOS and photon on desktop.
I miss Bacon Reader.
Still feels like a lot of important could be made. I'm using it, but I find a lot of things get on my nerves.
I'm trying Voyager but how do you switch to only subscribed communities?
Use the home feed (press back until you get to the list of communities)
Posts Tab > click the orange "Home" icon at the top of the page.
I like Voyager a lot. It’s definitely the most Apollo esque. Other than the lack of hide bars on scroll feature. The bars at the bottom and the top can be distracting and I find content looks better when they disappear as you scroll.
So far I’ve only found Avelon to have this feature.
Maybe give Sync a try, it also hides the app bars on scroll and features a very clean and intuitive UI
Thanks for the recommendation! Unfortunately I'm on iOS and Sync isn't available :(
Hell yeah, sync is the best, and the majority knows it
As a sync user of a few years, it's important that we don't bring down other apps while raising our own up. It's a good thing there's healthy competition! Sync is great, but that doesn't mean that other apps aren't.
I'm liking sync, but would like it to be free software
This is why Sync mentions get downvoted a lot. Other options have most or all of its features, but none bring ads to Lemmy.
I'd argue that most of the userbase would rather not normalize ads on Lemmy.
While I agree, I think sync takes the award for most non intrusive ads in an app. I don't think I've seen a free ad supported app with less intrusive ads.
I've heard that argument before too -- but again, no other Lemmy app uses ads. Having them is pretty damn intrusive when the alternative is simply not having them.
Of course, it's the dev's prerogative to sell a closed-source product, and their choice to be paid for it. I support that. But the issue gets deeper since Lemmy is ultimately FOSS. Lemmy needs donations to survive. I'd wager that most folks who paid to remove ads from Sync aren't paying their instance for their bandwidth, so it ends up being an unnecessary stumbling block for the platform.
I'm all for paying devs for their work, but I am still finding the pricing for the lemmy version of sync just too high. The ad free purchase is 4 times more than it was for the reddit app. And I get that there are probably less users so he needs to make up the difference, but there's also way less content on lemmy than there was on Reddit, impacting the value there in my opinion.
Sync isn’t on iPhone. I wish Apollo was adapted for Lemmy
That’s basically Voyager (formerly wefwef) https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/voyager-for-lemmy/id6451429762
It’s great, only missing some small features from Apollo.
I know I have pretty much every Lemmy iOS app on my phone.
Voyager is pretty close. That’s probably why it is ranked so high.
No iOS notifications is a deal breaker for me…
Oh I never even realized that was missing. I haven’t enabled it in any apps though. I just see the "unread replies” dot on the inbox when I open the app.
It doesn't cost money, you could just pay to remove ads. Unless you want all the super fancy features with premium. I bought sync for reddit years ago but I'm sticking with the regular non-premium with Lemmy.
The ads on sync really aren't that annoying at all.
Can you tell me about your experience with ads on sync? Where did you see them, how often did you see them?
Sync isn't polished for lemmy yet, so yeah, there are a few rough edges. Having said that, usually a bad experience is because you didn't customize it to your liking. There is likely a setting for any UI gripe you may have had. There is even a search feature for setting because it's so customizable.
I think a lot of the love for it is that sync was arguably the best android Reddit app for a long time. People like myself have become very comfortable with sync on Reddit, and sync for Lemmy is basically the same thing we are all so comfortable with.
I looked at some of the other alternatives and they just didn't feel as good to me, but I have also been using sync almost daily for years.