I've tried Jerboa, Connect, Thunder, Liftoff, Lemmotif, and the PWA. Jerboa has the best interface/ux imo, by far. Thunder is the least buggy to use, and the developer is a machine, doing constant updates. These 2 I think have the most potential.
I started with Jerboa, but it wouldn't let me off the local instance after initially being pretty good. Quite buggy for me. I switched to connect and I'm impressed so far.
Funny you say that, I find Jerboa to be awful and it was the reason I didn't want to move here until I found other apps lol. To each their own I guess!
Im trying several others while they work out the kinks in Jerboa (it doesnt work very welll if you use Lemmy.World as your instance), but it honestly feels the best out of all of them.
I'm coming from RiF is Fun, so it reminds me a lot of their layout.
Same! Have only used Jerboa so far and think it feels simple enough to use coming from RiF. If you end up liking any of the others compared to Jerboa please let me know
Man I love how new apps are coming out everyday. It feels like I'm witnessing history in the making, in the next 5 years we can probably talk about the time when Lemmy was getting a new app everyday.
Jerboa scrolling was very choppy for me, but Connect is good. Main issue I see with Connect is that the comment editor is covered by my keyboard. Looking forward to Sync for Lemmy soon.
I am migrating from reddit and chose connect first. It has a layout very similar to the reddit client I used before RIF. I really like how as a comment thread gets longer the color changes to make it easier to keep track of.
Only issue I have had so far is a single crash, while loading a news article. Other than that, it has been great.
Same here, completely switched, it’s obviously made by the Apollo dev and no one can convince me otherwise. Wefwef has immediately made Lemmy usable to me, can barely notice a difference from Reddit running through Apollo.
I use jerboa but I'd try out any libre client. I'm not interested in proprietary apps.
Funny enough I never saw the need for dedicated website apps for e.g. reddit, but the fediverse is somewhat clumsy to use in a browser (I'm aware that browser extensions can help) so an app actually improves the experience a bit.
I'm using Jerboa, but it keeps crashing and on every statup complains that my instance is not compatible with the updated version. This drives me back to reddit and when it shuts off apps, I'll probably go back to real life.
In the latest version of Jerboa I can't change from All / Active anymore. 😊 Also I can't figure out for the life of me how to make a top level comment, they're doesn't seem to be a button for it.
Thunder didn't have sorting by top last time I checked. Liftoff can't add other instances than the 3 it comes with.
Oh I found that but it doesn't seem to work for feddit.nl, the final "add" button never lights up. I've tried writing it as "feddit.nl" or "https://feddit.nl", same thing.
There's going to be a Liftoff update released later today that fixes this. There was an issue for v0.18.1 that impacted ability to add instances that I just fixed. Your instance just happened to update a bit early!
It's just Jerboa. I use Connect for Lemmy and that problem doesn't exist. I think the dev for Jerboa doesn't want to spend time making it backwards compatible, but other clients are.
For me there's one massive flaw with the mobile web version of Lemmy - that when you go "back" after viewing a post the page scrolls near to the top of the page. If it weren't for that I'd happily give up the quest for an app.
A mixture of Mobile Web and Connect. I'll probably re-evaluate in a couple of weeks. I really liked Jerboa, but new posts never seemed to refresh on my instance, I'll probably try that again.
Jerboa is the first I tried, it's good but the scrolling is very choppy for me, kind of a deal breaker honestly. Connect has much smoother scrolling, it seems alright. I'm stoked to try Sync for Lemmy, Sync for Reddit was my favourite client for years.
connect loaded slowly (especially images) for me and Liftoff had a cleaner interface imo, loaded posts fast and it resembles Infinity for Reddit more than connect (with the settings I chose), if that's anything to go by.
After the few initial minutes of using both Liftoff and connect, I prefer the design of liftoff so much more. Though I seem to be having some issues adding in comments or upvoting/downvoting things via liftoff, but having no issues with Connect. So I'm not sure what's going on. Any help would be appreciated.
They each have their own bugs and quirks so I hop around, currently on connect and it's been stable enough today. Tomorrow, who knows, maybe back to liftoff or jerboa.
I think the problem was due to the upgrade issues lemmy.world is having. I switched to Connect, too, for that reason, but I plan on going back to Jerboa when it's resolved.
No to the comment loop, yes to post loop. Also sometimes when I open a post, the comments from the last opened post show for a few seconds before new ones load.
I've got a short list to finish before I release Flemmy on the play store this weekend, and a dynamic filter system is one of them... The UI is the hard part, so it'll probably be rough and hidden in a subtle menu initially, but one of the things I'm adding for the next big release is configurable feeds... The idea is you can take an account, a server feed (sub, local, all), apply filters to it, and it'll save where you left off if you switch between them or leave the app. I've done similar stuff in the past for data analysis screens, and it's one of those things that is magical when it's done well, and destroys everything when it's done poorly
I got requests for hiding read, nsfw, and keyword filtering (I'm iffy on if that last one is a good idea, but I'm going to give out a shot).
I also got a request for a "block all communities on a server button", which would work on your account globally.
Jerboa is probably my favorite of the bunch. I prefer how compact everything is and the 0.0.33 version was working well. I upgraded to 0.0.36 and performance took a bit of a hit so I figured I would explore alternatives. Also when I looked at other options 2FA support had not been added (it's working as of this post)
The PWA is more than functional,and I like it quite a bit. Don't like that backing out of a post navigates to the top of the page though.
Connect is good too, just personally not a fan of the larger interface, even in list/compact mode.
Currently using liftoff. Performance is good, 2FA support is available, and in list/compact mode it's tolerable. I still do prefer the compactness of Jerboa though.
Thunder looks like infinity a bit. Saw someone making an infinity for lemmy by the name of Beyond but not released yet. Connect for lemmy looks almost exactly like Infinity but I cant figure some stuff out on there so Thunder for now.
None of them are very complete. The ones that are good are missing features and the ones that are complete aren't good. I'm using wefwef.app for the most part. Just navigate there in your browser and bammo! Instant app.
I was using wefwef, it looks nice but it's slow and has awkward UX. Every time I want to reply or vote, I have to take a second to think about which way to swipe
I think you're into something about not complete or not good - I was hoping to be one of the firsts, but building a solid foundation takes time - I could've gotten something out there a week ago, but I've got big plans - I want to build discovery and sorting into the app, I want to be able to pull from multiple servers at once, and I want users new to Lemmy to have their hands held as they pick a server. And obviously, it has to feel responsive
To do that I had to build a data store and coax high performance libraries to play nice. I was pulling posts and had the account switching working on day 1, but I didn't even start on posting until a couple days ago - and only after I made drafts that would reload when you go back
It's easy to build something rough, fast, or inefficient Building something polished means working on the foundations, building it up, and doing and redoing things as you consider what feels "right"
Give Flemmy a shot in a few days if you're on Android (more like a couple weeks on iphone). It's still early days and there will be bugs and missing features, but, now that the groundwork is solid, it's moving fast
UX may be a taste thing but I cannot second the speed critic. On Firefox it's sluggish as hell, yeah, but using it with Chrome wefwef feels like a native app.
I switched to chrome from Firefox and tried it out for a while, it was significantly better but still felt like it was crawling... Luckily it got me through the period where I couldn't do the basics in Luna
The UX is very different and the visuals are less polished right now, but if you want to check it out I'm posting updates at ![email protected]
I'm looking for people to invite to the Android beta in the next few days, as well as any feedback and suggestions. I'd be interested in your thoughts since Voyager is my #2 choice and you clued me into it
After nearly everyone cringed at the name, I'm changing it to Luna. I thought it was funny and memorable... At least until I realized I was getting hesitant to tell people the name
I will check out Flemmy! Right now I'm replying to this using Liftoff, and that's only because when I tried to reply on Connect the reply text box wouldn't come up, and I was there only because Jerboa stopped working for me today entirely. So I'm still super open to trying new apps lol.
Though I don't blame devs at all for rushing to get apps out while users are still shopping around. Once people get set on an app, they'll need a lot more reason to change. I know I used BaconReader for a decade even though I'm sure it wasn't the objectively best one, because I'd gotten so used to it.
I've decided to go with Luna after everyone cringed when they heard the name.
I pushed it back to add features and increase the speed, but I'm now getting ready to start the beta. There's still a lot to do, but I've been using it exclusively for weeks, and my friend convinced me I was being ridiculous, and (a few rough edges aside) it does the basics solidly, plus stuff like filtering, saving your place, exploring any instance or community without logging out, and a configurable link replacer so you can go to nitter instead of Twitter
If you want an invite I'm going to be posting instructions on ![email protected] in the near future, I'd also love feedback and feature requests
Didn't realize there were so many options that's great! Using Jerboa on Android now and it's been my only experience with the platform so far so I'm definitely open to recommendations
To be honest none of them really feel the same to me. I suspect most are going for the Apollo vibes (I've never used the app).
Edit: So I actually just downloaded Summit and the visual UI of it reminds me the most of RIF. It's still quite new so missing features, but the dev appears quite active.
I just happened upon a post on Reddit about alternative apps for Lemmy and I already knew Jerboa was a no go for me. Liftoff is working pretty great so far, nice and fast. My only complaint is that I can't seem to subscribe to communities on the app, I've had to do it on lemmy.world on desktop. That'll get fixed I'm sure.
I had been using Jebora but it's buggy enough that it was easier to use the mobile website in chrome. Just tried Connect this morning and it's insanely better, both in UI and stability. Still waiting for the Sync app and holding out hope for a Lemmy is Fun app but that's a long shot.
I was on the Jerboa train for a while but over the past few days basically everything broke which pushed me to use wefwef, much better experience than either Jerboa or the mobile website without the constant bugs like not being able to sort or having the front page get flooded with live new posts
Not trying to come across as an ass, but how much do you care about notifications? Personally, back on Reddit I would only ever care about notifications when I was scrolling (which is what I got) if I wasn't actively using Reddit I didn't care for them.
0.0.37 is completely unusable for me. It crashes on startup. And the updates before are terrible when it comes to playing with anything but the bleeding edge of lemmy versions. Switching profiles is also shit.
That's because the instance you're using is not updated to 18. Im in jerboa right now and it's buttery smooth. I use liftoff and connect but jerboa is still tops. Currentlyat .0.37
It's really bad on a Pixel 7 Pro. If you're replying to a long post then the text box gets pushed off the screen and you can't scroll, and it doesn't post replies anyways, so none of that matters. Nice looking interface, barely functioning app.
Good to see it's not just me, that's the biggest problem I'm having with it too. But I guess other than that it's been pretty good? Sorta. I'm also seeing communities I'm subscribed to that should be listed in the student just disappear. But hey other than that I like it!
I’m finding that Memmy has all the features I need at the moment so I’m very happy with that. The developer leaves funny patch notes and updates it at least once a day with new bug fixes and features.
I can edit comments, post content, log in with my porn account 🥰, and reply to people and get inbox messages. Crazy how fast all these apps have popped up.
Currently trying Jerboa, Liftoff, and Thunder. Jerboa seems to get the most frequent updates, so far I like Liftoffs layout the most, but can't find the damn inbox
Indeed, the swipe actions are really nice. Wefwef and Thunder also have them, but they from what I can tell don't have a page for my saved posts/comments, so right now Connect's my favorite.
Really happy with Thunder, too, but the swipes are too sensitive, and the title should really be above the image in the feed view to provide context as you scroll.
On iOS I have Liftoff, Mlem, and Memmy. While they all work well, Memmy is easily my favorite. It’s stable and fast, has several color themes already, and the developer literally updates it multiple times per day. It already feels like a complete app.
Been using all four as well. Memmy, Mlem, Thunder, and Liftoff but my main is Memmy. The Memmy team has consistently been coming out with updates nearly everyday and the app is a joy to use!
Me too. I have been using Jerboa, Liftoff, summit and connect. Thunder won't load for me,so, I've stopped trying to get that to work.
All the others work to my satisfaction.
I'm leaning on Connect's side a little bit more than others because I like its UI better.
I use the one that I made! It was made rather early on before most of these apps became popular, but if it's my own app, I can make it however I want...
It works for me. Although, for comments there’s no buttons you have to use the swipe gestures. Short right for upvote, long right for downvote, swipe left for comment.
Memmy is king on iOS as a heavy Apollo user, the others feature slowness and bad text leading (vertical line spaces) and some other weird line breaks and behaviours. If Memmy can get the 'scroll past posts to mark as read' it will basically be apollo for me already which is great.
Still, it's fuckin awesome we have so much choice already. I thought this would be weeks/months where w we'd have a single app, let alone multiple to choose from.
I have jerboa, thunder, and connect installed. I like the compactness of jerboa the best but something about thunder keeps drawing me back to that one too. I haven't given connect much of a chance yet.
Jerboa started off fine, but now every single app I try (including Jerboa) is so buggy that it makes browsing Lemmy almost impossible. Jerboa started randomly crashing for me every minute or so and other apps aren't faring much better. Tbh I've been browsing reddit more often as these apps are almost unusable right now for me. Any similar issues?
I need something with the screen aestethics of RiF. I've tried connect and jerboa and I can either get high contrast, inconstent sized blob of text (full card with pics in some posts) or a list (preferred) with no separators which is bad too.
And another rant for jerboa - i don't know where to click to get to comments, feels very random.
iOS - I’ve been using the following:
-Mlem
-Memmy
-Thunder
-Liftoff (Limbo for Lemmy on TestFlight)
I’ve used Mlem the most but that’s because it was the first available. Tbh, it’s kind of been a horse race and one of those mechanical horse races you get at a fairground. Just as one gets ahead another brings out an interesting feature/ new look. I’d say that Mlem and Memmy both look good on the iPhone, Mlem was a bit slower with their releases but it hasn’t been buggy for me at all where as Memmy had more features from the off but wasn’t as refined - I’m guessing as they are solely iOS they will stay front runners for me. Who knows, I think each of them have something different/ better than the other (at the moment). Interesting to see how they evolve going forward. I was an avid Apollo user so I’m probably a bit bias towards any apps replicating that.
Liftoff ftw, seriously, the interface is slick and pleasant unlike its reddit official counterpart with great features like aggregates all your subscribed feeds from multiple accounts together. I'm not returning to reddit for the time being to be harvested by the third party API fees and rather paid the liftoff's developer some coffees instead.
I'm just here to read what everyone else is using. I only know of jerboa
I've tried Jerboa, Connect, Thunder, Liftoff, Lemmotif, and the PWA. Jerboa has the best interface/ux imo, by far. Thunder is the least buggy to use, and the developer is a machine, doing constant updates. These 2 I think have the most potential.
I'm trying connect now. Jerboa keeps crashing like madness on me...
I started with Jerboa, but it wouldn't let me off the local instance after initially being pretty good. Quite buggy for me. I switched to connect and I'm impressed so far.
Funny you say that, I find Jerboa to be awful and it was the reason I didn't want to move here until I found other apps lol. To each their own I guess!
Have you tried WefWef?
https://wefwef.app
I like Summit a lot. But it's still missing some very basic features like an inbox.
same. i only know memmy.
Im trying several others while they work out the kinks in Jerboa (it doesnt work very welll if you use Lemmy.World as your instance), but it honestly feels the best out of all of them.
I'm coming from RiF is Fun, so it reminds me a lot of their layout.
Also a former rif user, and I also really like Jerboa. But I haven't been able to use it for awhile now, with the update/server weirdness.
Same! Have only used Jerboa so far and think it feels simple enough to use coming from RiF. If you end up liking any of the others compared to Jerboa please let me know
Also coming from RIF and I thought the same thing. It's buggy, but it has potential to be my go-to app if the wrinkles get smoothed out.
Summit, Jerboa, and Liftoff... I'm reading the replies to you to see what to try next!
wefwef
Trying Summit for the first time, it's really good! Multiple accounts, good UI reminding me of RiF and hasn't crashed yet. I find Jerboa clunky.
Connect is my other fave.
Thank you for trying Summit! I'm rolling out an update to add creating, editing and deleting posts as I'm typing this.
I'm loving thunder so far
I'm currently on Summit. I like it. I tried Jerboa.
Here’s a sneak peek of one I’m working on too:
A lot of good options coming up, will be fun to see how it plays out!
Edit: [email protected] for anyone wanting to follow
Man that looks good
Thank you, that means a lot!
Man I love how new apps are coming out everyday. It feels like I'm witnessing history in the making, in the next 5 years we can probably talk about the time when Lemmy was getting a new app everyday.
lemm.ee looks like it's running a pretty old version and I can't search that community :( could be a me issue though.
Ahhh too bad I can't sub to the community right now (I guess it's a very new community and my instance isn't up to date for now)
Apologies in advanced for the name confusion you'll be facing. Liftoff used to be named Lemmynade lol
Thanks for your contribution, looks great! The more the merrier.
I started with Jerboa but now use Connect. I'm happy with it.
Thx you stranger, this is the boost-like app I was looking for !
Typing with connect, you can tell it's beta quality but it's pretty good so far
+1 the same for me
Connect feels the most like Boost, so I'm happy with it.
Learning the gestures currently with Connect. At least it doesn't crash randomly.
Jerboa scrolling was very choppy for me, but Connect is good. Main issue I see with Connect is that the comment editor is covered by my keyboard. Looking forward to Sync for Lemmy soon.
I am migrating from reddit and chose connect first. It has a layout very similar to the reddit client I used before RIF. I really like how as a comment thread gets longer the color changes to make it easier to keep track of.
Only issue I have had so far is a single crash, while loading a news article. Other than that, it has been great.
Same
Where do you get lemming and lemmotif?
Some of those I can't find. Are those apple apps? I am using the Google Play store and can't find all those apps and I want them.
Liftoff was just added to play store so it may not come up in searches yet.
Thanks just added it.
As far as I can tell most android Lemmy clients aren't on play store but the dev's GitHub (Liftoff, Thunder, Lemming)
Lift off Play Store
Summit Play Store
Connect Play Store
Jerboa Play Store
So I get them from GitHub and install them on my phone?
Probably. Or wait a little and once the dev is happy that the app start being in decent shape for it to be published on the play store.
Yep, can find some of them here, typically wanna check the releases on the git for the apk file https://lemmy.ml/post/1162300
Thank you will check them out.
So far which is your favorite. Mine is thunder
I just found out about wefwef.app
Same here, completely switched, it’s obviously made by the Apollo dev and no one can convince me otherwise. Wefwef has immediately made Lemmy usable to me, can barely notice a difference from Reddit running through Apollo.
Talk about endorsements lol
How do you downvote using wefwef? I can't seem to figure it out.
Edit: Ah ok I got it. You swipe to do so. It still seems to be missing very basic features like editing comments and blocking communities though.
It follows the apolloapp.io gestures. Swipe to the far right to downvote.
It’s slick. I can’t believe it’s a web app. The reply buttons are a bit different, I had to find the swipe to reply.
Just tried it out and I can’t believe a web app can feel so native! It’s awesome.
I legitimately keep forgetting it’s not native, and am quite happy not needing to install another app to use it. Game changer right here.
I'm using Connect for Lemmy right now, because Jerboa keeps showing the server version error when opening it.
This is where I'm at, but Connect seems to freeze up on me a lot, so I'm thinking of getting a third lol
i switched to thunder after connect kept crashing whenever i tried to open it. so far it seems alright but i can't see any way to vote on comments.
I see an option for upvotes and down votes when you tap on a comment
Swipe the comment right to upvote and swipe even further to downvote
I use wefwef.app now, first comment in this app. Looks good. Jerbora Was crashing on me all the time...
is wefwef an actual downloadable app or is it a webpage? i'd prefer an app but i'll give it a go either way.
I use jerboa but I'd try out any libre client. I'm not interested in proprietary apps.
Funny enough I never saw the need for dedicated website apps for e.g. reddit, but the fediverse is somewhat clumsy to use in a browser (I'm aware that browser extensions can help) so an app actually improves the experience a bit.
I'm using Jerboa, but it keeps crashing and on every statup complains that my instance is not compatible with the updated version. This drives me back to reddit and when it shuts off apps, I'll probably go back to real life.
In the latest version of Jerboa I can't change from All / Active anymore. 😊 Also I can't figure out for the life of me how to make a top level comment, they're doesn't seem to be a button for it.
Thunder didn't have sorting by top last time I checked. Liftoff can't add other instances than the 3 it comes with.
I definitely added more instances on liftoff
Edit: profile > settings > accounts > bottom right corner has a button that allows you to add instances
It's definitely not intuitive, I admit
Oh I found that but it doesn't seem to work for feddit.nl, the final "add" button never lights up. I've tried writing it as "feddit.nl" or "https://feddit.nl", same thing.
There's going to be a Liftoff update released later today that fixes this. There was an issue for v0.18.1 that impacted ability to add instances that I just fixed. Your instance just happened to update a bit early!
Ah right, I did notice they updated to 0.18.1 sometime yesterday. The web UI for 0.18 is pretty cool btw. 😃
No worries, it's to be expected for stuff to break right now, with all the client apps and instances developing like crazy. 😺
The pace is certainly quick at the moment lol
So you don't see a speech bubble in the row under the picture?
No, just number of comments, upvote/downvote buttons and scores, and the button to save the post. I'm on 0.0.36 right now.
It's just Jerboa. I use Connect for Lemmy and that problem doesn't exist. I think the dev for Jerboa doesn't want to spend time making it backwards compatible, but other clients are.
which app do you use for that?
I'm so used to web clients I can't get myself to use third-party apps anymore.
For me there's one massive flaw with the mobile web version of Lemmy - that when you go "back" after viewing a post the page scrolls near to the top of the page. If it weren't for that I'd happily give up the quest for an app.
What are you using instead?
A mixture of Mobile Web and Connect. I'll probably re-evaluate in a couple of weeks. I really liked Jerboa, but new posts never seemed to refresh on my instance, I'll probably try that again.
Jerboa is the first I tried, it's good but the scrolling is very choppy for me, kind of a deal breaker honestly. Connect has much smoother scrolling, it seems alright. I'm stoked to try Sync for Lemmy, Sync for Reddit was my favourite client for years.
I'm using liftoff (Android), best one I've found so far.
How does it compare to connect for Lemmy?
connect loaded slowly (especially images) for me and Liftoff had a cleaner interface imo, loaded posts fast and it resembles Infinity for Reddit more than connect (with the settings I chose), if that's anything to go by.
After the few initial minutes of using both Liftoff and connect, I prefer the design of liftoff so much more. Though I seem to be having some issues adding in comments or upvoting/downvoting things via liftoff, but having no issues with Connect. So I'm not sure what's going on. Any help would be appreciated.
Just started testing Liftoff today. Really great looking app! Thunder is coming along nicely too.
I concur, It has the smoothest UX there is
I like jerboa because i can install it from fdroid
Only one app? Those are rookie numbers
They each have their own bugs and quirks so I hop around, currently on connect and it's been stable enough today. Tomorrow, who knows, maybe back to liftoff or jerboa.
Seconded for connect, works great!
Switched from jerboa to connect cause it was crashing constantly on my pixel, but the UI has some weird things about it
I think the problem was due to the upgrade issues lemmy.world is having. I switched to Connect, too, for that reason, but I plan on going back to Jerboa when it's resolved.
Was experiencing the crashes before 1.18 but it definitely got worse after that.
Do you also get the thing where chunks of comments are just repeated over and over? Or like 4 posts loop for a while?
No to the comment loop, yes to post loop. Also sometimes when I open a post, the comments from the last opened post show for a few seconds before new ones load.
wefwef & thunder here 🫡
It’s absolutely crazy how great wefwef is, considering it’s a progressive web app.
Dude, I started with Mlem, then moved on to Memmy and now I am using wefwef full time!
I feel it’s the most polished out of all the apps on iOS.
I started with Jerboa and just would WefWef today. Game changer! Loving it.
Im waiting for the block option and hide when read.
Just found wefwef and am very impressed. Probably gonna stick with this one for awhile.
Liftoff, jerboa and thunder currently.
Edit: does anyone know if any android app allows hiding posts? (locally on the device, i think the servers don't support)
I've got a short list to finish before I release Flemmy on the play store this weekend, and a dynamic filter system is one of them... The UI is the hard part, so it'll probably be rough and hidden in a subtle menu initially, but one of the things I'm adding for the next big release is configurable feeds... The idea is you can take an account, a server feed (sub, local, all), apply filters to it, and it'll save where you left off if you switch between them or leave the app. I've done similar stuff in the past for data analysis screens, and it's one of those things that is magical when it's done well, and destroys everything when it's done poorly
I got requests for hiding read, nsfw, and keyword filtering (I'm iffy on if that last one is a good idea, but I'm going to give out a shot).
I also got a request for a "block all communities on a server button", which would work on your account globally.
What did you have in mind?
I think connnect for lemmy allows it. I remember seeing it in the settings.
I've used the PWA, Jerboa, Liftoff, and Connect.
Jerboa is probably my favorite of the bunch. I prefer how compact everything is and the 0.0.33 version was working well. I upgraded to 0.0.36 and performance took a bit of a hit so I figured I would explore alternatives. Also when I looked at other options 2FA support had not been added (it's working as of this post)
The PWA is more than functional,and I like it quite a bit. Don't like that backing out of a post navigates to the top of the page though.
Connect is good too, just personally not a fan of the larger interface, even in list/compact mode.
Currently using liftoff. Performance is good, 2FA support is available, and in list/compact mode it's tolerable. I still do prefer the compactness of Jerboa though.
Using the PWA until Sync for Lemmy is released.
You should try out wefwef.app
It is an Apollo like web app for Lemmy.
Check out this PWA app
https://wefwef.app
Just Jerboa normally.. but it's so buggy that I discovered Connect. It's amazing.
Same path for me. Looking at options here to see what might work best for me
I‘m using wefwef.app as webapp on iOS and as website on Desktop-PC and it reminds me of the Apollo app for reddit.
Eyyy my friends on IOS were complaining about no app! Thank you!! Looks pretty nice
Same here
I'll keep downloading new ones until i find one that feels like home. Still waiting for infinity to make a Lemmy app.
Thunder looks like infinity a bit. Saw someone making an infinity for lemmy by the name of Beyond but not released yet. Connect for lemmy looks almost exactly like Infinity but I cant figure some stuff out on there so Thunder for now.
There's also Infinity for Everything in development
Can you give a link?
Can't wait to try beyond, thunder is super buggy on my phone with infinite loading for a lot of stuff.
Why do I keep instinctively switching between clients when Lemmy is down thinking one will get past the 500 error better than the other one?
None of them are very complete. The ones that are good are missing features and the ones that are complete aren't good. I'm using wefwef.app for the most part. Just navigate there in your browser and bammo! Instant app.
I was using wefwef, it looks nice but it's slow and has awkward UX. Every time I want to reply or vote, I have to take a second to think about which way to swipe
I think you're into something about not complete or not good - I was hoping to be one of the firsts, but building a solid foundation takes time - I could've gotten something out there a week ago, but I've got big plans - I want to build discovery and sorting into the app, I want to be able to pull from multiple servers at once, and I want users new to Lemmy to have their hands held as they pick a server. And obviously, it has to feel responsive
To do that I had to build a data store and coax high performance libraries to play nice. I was pulling posts and had the account switching working on day 1, but I didn't even start on posting until a couple days ago - and only after I made drafts that would reload when you go back
It's easy to build something rough, fast, or inefficient Building something polished means working on the foundations, building it up, and doing and redoing things as you consider what feels "right"
Give Flemmy a shot in a few days if you're on Android (more like a couple weeks on iphone). It's still early days and there will be bugs and missing features, but, now that the groundwork is solid, it's moving fast
UX may be a taste thing but I cannot second the speed critic. On Firefox it's sluggish as hell, yeah, but using it with Chrome wefwef feels like a native app.
I switched to chrome from Firefox and tried it out for a while, it was significantly better but still felt like it was crawling... Luckily it got me through the period where I couldn't do the basics in Luna
The UX is very different and the visuals are less polished right now, but if you want to check it out I'm posting updates at ![email protected]
I'm looking for people to invite to the Android beta in the next few days, as well as any feedback and suggestions. I'd be interested in your thoughts since Voyager is my #2 choice and you clued me into it
Funny, I was feeling a bit flemmy today.
After nearly everyone cringed at the name, I'm changing it to Luna. I thought it was funny and memorable... At least until I realized I was getting hesitant to tell people the name
I'm still posting updates to ![email protected] though
I will check out Flemmy! Right now I'm replying to this using Liftoff, and that's only because when I tried to reply on Connect the reply text box wouldn't come up, and I was there only because Jerboa stopped working for me today entirely. So I'm still super open to trying new apps lol.
Though I don't blame devs at all for rushing to get apps out while users are still shopping around. Once people get set on an app, they'll need a lot more reason to change. I know I used BaconReader for a decade even though I'm sure it wasn't the objectively best one, because I'd gotten so used to it.
I've decided to go with Luna after everyone cringed when they heard the name.
I pushed it back to add features and increase the speed, but I'm now getting ready to start the beta. There's still a lot to do, but I've been using it exclusively for weeks, and my friend convinced me I was being ridiculous, and (a few rough edges aside) it does the basics solidly, plus stuff like filtering, saving your place, exploring any instance or community without logging out, and a configurable link replacer so you can go to nitter instead of Twitter
If you want an invite I'm going to be posting instructions on ![email protected] in the near future, I'd also love feedback and feature requests
Oh My God There are apps? I’m sitting here using my browser
https://lemmy.world/post/465785
I'm using liftoff btw
Finding it better than others as of now.
Try this! https://wefwef.app/posts/lemmy.world/all
Is this a weapon for Lemmy?
Didn't realize there were so many options that's great! Using Jerboa on Android now and it's been my only experience with the platform so far so I'm definitely open to recommendations
I've been using jerboa (android), thunder (android), wefwef (pwa), and memmy (iPad).
Love them all, but they all have their quirks!
I'm trying out connect for lemmy at the moment. I find it more stable than jerboa and quite nice over all, though I dislike some design aspects.
For me there are things I like and don't like. It's the first time I've encountered the "swipe a little to upvote" feature but I'm finding I like it.
Try Connect for Lemmy, it's much more stable than Jerboa and has 4 different views. I really like the full size card view myself. It's beautiful.
Which app is most like RIF? I'm using Jebora currently.
Jebora is glitched in my phone so now I'm using liftoff, the UI is not the best, but at least it works
To be honest none of them really feel the same to me. I suspect most are going for the Apollo vibes (I've never used the app).
Edit: So I actually just downloaded Summit and the visual UI of it reminds me the most of RIF. It's still quite new so missing features, but the dev appears quite active.
Summit is the closest from what I've seen. But it has some very basic things missing like an inbox. But it's my favorite feeling app.
Connect for Lemmy can look pretty similar to Rif after toggling a few options in the settings menu, not exactly the same though.
Just 'connect', as it supports 'Amoled black'.
I currently have 6 lemmy apps installed and they all have amoled black, so don't let that hold you back. Connect is pretty good though.
Liftoff, because my phone is apparently too old for Jerboa
Jerboa isn't working well for me at all and I have a new phone. Liftoff is working best for me right now.
I just happened upon a post on Reddit about alternative apps for Lemmy and I already knew Jerboa was a no go for me. Liftoff is working pretty great so far, nice and fast. My only complaint is that I can't seem to subscribe to communities on the app, I've had to do it on lemmy.world on desktop. That'll get fixed I'm sure.
This has been fixed in the latest release:
https://lemmy.world/post/801255
So is lemmy.world apparently.
heyo shameless plug. If you are on Android 5 to 7 (Lollipop, Marshmallow, Nougat) check out my repo https://github.com/ShinyLuxray/jerboa/releases
my version of Jerboa works on both 0.17.x and 0.18 servers too.
Yeah I pull updates from github then put in patches to fix the issues I spot...
I try to fix the most glaring issues that I can tackle when I have time.
I probably won't put it on Fdroid, but feel free to Star/follow so you'll be notified when I put out a new version.
I had been using Jebora but it's buggy enough that it was easier to use the mobile website in chrome. Just tried Connect this morning and it's insanely better, both in UI and stability. Still waiting for the Sync app and holding out hope for a Lemmy is Fun app but that's a long shot.
I was on the Jerboa train for a while but over the past few days basically everything broke which pushed me to use wefwef, much better experience than either Jerboa or the mobile website without the constant bugs like not being able to sort or having the front page get flooded with live new posts
Memmy is so good on iOS, the fastest React Native app I’ve used
I'm using connect since it's the only one I have found that have notifications, I had to turn them on in the settings, it polls every 60 seconds.
Not trying to come across as an ass, but how much do you care about notifications? Personally, back on Reddit I would only ever care about notifications when I was scrolling (which is what I got) if I wasn't actively using Reddit I didn't care for them.
Same, I named the folder "Battle of the Lemmy's"
Jerboa 0.0.37 is awesome. Huge Liftoff user past week :D
I strongly disagree.
0.0.37 is completely unusable for me. It crashes on startup. And the updates before are terrible when it comes to playing with anything but the bleeding edge of lemmy versions. Switching profiles is also shit.
Jerboa started crashing on me after the latest release. Then it updated and has worked great ever since
I also tried Lemur, but never got it to actually load after logging in
That's because the instance you're using is not updated to 18. Im in jerboa right now and it's buttery smooth. I use liftoff and connect but jerboa is still tops. Currentlyat .0.37
Crashfest
Ditto. Wasn't working well yesterday. Updated this morning and now it won't even open.
Installed Connect and am very happy.
Clear storage for Jerboa, it'll fix your startup crash problem.
I’m using Mlem, Wefwef, and Memmy. I think Memmy will win out but the other two are pretty nice as well.
I used mlem for a bit but memmy is my go to right now
Same, Memmy rocks
Connect for Lemmy
"Thats an aaaaaddd"
It's really bad on a Pixel 7 Pro. If you're replying to a long post then the text box gets pushed off the screen and you can't scroll, and it doesn't post replies anyways, so none of that matters. Nice looking interface, barely functioning app.
Good to see it's not just me, that's the biggest problem I'm having with it too. But I guess other than that it's been pretty good? Sorta. I'm also seeing communities I'm subscribed to that should be listed in the student just disappear. But hey other than that I like it!
Zero so far. Who needs (third-party) apps, amirite?
Well technically Jerboa is first party app
Jerboa was created by the devs of lemmy.ml ??
web is best
Sounds about right!
I keep alternating between Mlem, Memmy, Thunder, and the Lemmy ‘add to homescreen’ ‘app’
I’m finding that Memmy has all the features I need at the moment so I’m very happy with that. The developer leaves funny patch notes and updates it at least once a day with new bug fixes and features.
I can edit comments, post content, log in with my porn account 🥰, and reply to people and get inbox messages. Crazy how fast all these apps have popped up.
Wait, I can edit my comments? How?
Click the 3 dots on your comment and it will give you the option to edit.
All it gives me is Copy Link, Copy Text & Delete :(
Edit: Well, the feature only just got rolled out for me
I guess they’re doing updates in batches then
wefwef.app
There is also Liftoff!
I was using Memmy but I’ve just discovered wefwef.
Using both, think one of these will become the new Apollo.
Jerboa, Liftoff and WefWef right now.
Sooo true 🤣👍
Currently trying Jerboa, Liftoff, and Thunder. Jerboa seems to get the most frequent updates, so far I like Liftoffs layout the most, but can't find the damn inbox
Top left of the home tab
I'm using Connect for Lemmy right now, been using Jebora and also Liftoff. Sticking with Connect for now, I'm liking the swipe actions
Indeed, the swipe actions are really nice. Wefwef and Thunder also have them, but they from what I can tell don't have a page for my saved posts/comments, so right now Connect's my favorite.
I've got 8 installed 😅
Which ones?? 👀
It's now increased to 9 since I just started trying wefwef
I've only used Jerboa, now I think I need to try Connect/Liftoff
Liftoff is great, just migrated from Jerboa
I installed liftoff, liking it at the moment!
Liftoff seems to want you to log in to an instance to be able to like or comment on a thread there. So for now that's a no for me.
I have so many new icons on my home screen it's starting to look like an iPhone
I've settled on thunder for now. Flawless since the latest update
I prefer Liftoff at the moment for the UI similarities with Infinity for Reddit.
also the best search functionality
Really happy with Thunder, too, but the swipes are too sensitive, and the title should really be above the image in the feed view to provide context as you scroll.
It's like what Sync was early on.
Is that iOS? I don't see it for Android.
It's not on the play store. https://github.com/hjiangsu/thunder
Ah, thanks. I'll probably just stick with the play store then.
I was using Jerboa first, but performance was terrible. I've now switched to Liftoff which seems way better.
Loving liftoff rn
Same, Thunder is mid with perfomane, how they can't make the scrolling smooth is really weird.
Liftoff is the first really decent one for me
3 apps so far 😅
Yup, I have a bunch of lemmy apps on my phone, but lately I have found myself using Liftoff the most, and Jerboa is probably second in my opinion.
I think when all things are stabilized jerboa will be my favorite. But I'm using Liftoff now as well.
Mlem, Memmy, wefwef, and the browser pwa. So far wefwef is my main go to, followed by Memmy.
4? Can you name them all please? I know jerboa and thunder.
I know Connect and lemmur. So far, the one I like best is Connect. I'm on Android.
Lemmur is dead. It got resurrected as Liftoff.
Oh, that's good to know! My only brain cell couldn't process why I couldn't get it to work lol.
I've been using liftoff
Jerboa, Thunder, Liftoff and Lemming. I don't count the PWA (mobile site) as app but otherwise I switch between five apps
Memmy, Mlem, Liftoff, Thunder, wefwef are the ones I’m using.
Currently bouncing between Memmy and wefwef (iOS)
I've settled on connect for lemmy. But of course install everyone I see on the play store :)
I will try any app that makes it to F-Droid without any warnings. So Jerboa it is...
Thunder?
I'm getting a "bug" (?) on Connect for Lemmy where my phone's keyboard sits in front of the text field, making it so I can't see what I'm writing.
Connect and jerboa here
The only one I use is mlem
Using Connect on Android and living it so far. Is there any way to change the default sort for the frontpage to "Hot" rather than "Active" though?
Is there a github repo for Connect? Or is it closed source?
Settings > Default sort for Posts > Hot
Currently jumping around between Summit, Liftoff, Connect for Lemmy, Thunder, Jerboa.
Really looking forward to Sync for Lemmy!
Wefwef and jerboa for now
Trying Connect right now
Connect was the only one I could get to work honestly
Thats my third liked app, first is still jerboa and almost tied with it is liftoff
Yup, me too. Jerboa for the first few weeks, tried Thunder, but it is still an unfinished work, so as Connect.
Trying Liftoff since earlier today and so far looks like the best. Really enjoying it.
On iOS I have Liftoff, Mlem, and Memmy. While they all work well, Memmy is easily my favorite. It’s stable and fast, has several color themes already, and the developer literally updates it multiple times per day. It already feels like a complete app.
Lol, literally multitasking with 5 different clients/apps right now
Been using all four as well. Memmy, Mlem, Thunder, and Liftoff but my main is Memmy. The Memmy team has consistently been coming out with updates nearly everyday and the app is a joy to use!
Boost for Lemmy just appeared on the Google Play store as a "coming soon" app. (By the same developer).
I have been testing all of them, but the one impressed me the most is wefwef, a PWA.
I'm just using jerboa - seems fine?
I mostly interact from my desktop though so
I use them just to flex on reddit users
It's your infiniLemmy gauntlet!
Damn. I already miss Infinity
Me too. I have been using Jerboa, Liftoff, summit and connect. Thunder won't load for me,so, I've stopped trying to get that to work. All the others work to my satisfaction. I'm leaning on Connect's side a little bit more than others because I like its UI better.
Yea I'm getting used to them. Hoping they have better mod capabilities in the future
I use the one that I made! It was made rather early on before most of these apps became popular, but if it's my own app, I can make it however I want...
What's it called?
Sounds interesting, any chance you want to share your work?
Yeah, it's at https://slemmy.libdb.so, the source code is also on my github!
Heads up, it doesn't currently work with Lemmy v0. 18.0. PR https://github.com/LemmyNet/lemmy/pull/3301 tracks this. If you or anyone can contribute to this, please do!
4 here
Update, 6 now.
Please tell me which apps, I think I've become a Lemmy app hoarder...
I have been using memmy for iOS and it’s been great. Same feeling as Apollo!
https://wefwef.app/settings/install
Godsend when running as a web app, the most Apollo one of them all.
I’m using it right now and am honestly amazed at how Apollo-like it is.
Is it in the App Store?
https://testflight.apple.com/join/6jaRU6rD
Thanks! I installed it and logged in, but I cant seem to reply to or vote on comments. Is that normal?
Voting and commenting on posts works.
You swipe to the right or left to do the voting/commenting. I’m replying to this comment in the Memmy app by swiping to the left of your comment.
It works for me. Although, for comments there’s no buttons you have to use the swipe gestures. Short right for upvote, long right for downvote, swipe left for comment.
I don’t think it’s implemented yet. It’s very beta still.
Ok. Looks promising
Just started using it. Last update is great!
Memmy is king on iOS as a heavy Apollo user, the others feature slowness and bad text leading (vertical line spaces) and some other weird line breaks and behaviours. If Memmy can get the 'scroll past posts to mark as read' it will basically be apollo for me already which is great.
Still, it's fuckin awesome we have so much choice already. I thought this would be weeks/months where w we'd have a single app, let alone multiple to choose from.
I have jerboa, thunder, and connect installed. I like the compactness of jerboa the best but something about thunder keeps drawing me back to that one too. I haven't given connect much of a chance yet.
Jerboa started off fine, but now every single app I try (including Jerboa) is so buggy that it makes browsing Lemmy almost impossible. Jerboa started randomly crashing for me every minute or so and other apps aren't faring much better. Tbh I've been browsing reddit more often as these apps are almost unusable right now for me. Any similar issues?
I'm just using the mobile site in firefox android, it works pretty well tbh
Using summit, it's quite new and has a few features missing but the UI is great, it blurs NSFW, and is quick.
I think I'm at 5 or 6? Every update breaks new things (but fixes more so it's a win) so that I need to switch almost daily.
You’re not supposed to tell us you are playing all sides!
Any of them have multi account support?
Edit: liftoff, Connect for Lemmy and thunder do
I use Jerboa, Tusky, Kbin webapp, and wefwef för the Fediverse
I failed to get Jerboa running, but liftoff works for me. Are there others I should try?
I need something with the screen aestethics of RiF. I've tried connect and jerboa and I can either get high contrast, inconstent sized blob of text (full card with pics in some posts) or a list (preferred) with no separators which is bad too. And another rant for jerboa - i don't know where to click to get to comments, feels very random.
I have settle with liftoff really great experience.
Waiting for sync personally I always used it for Reddit so it will be familiar to me
Typing this from WefWef. I love it so far.
Probably will test out Artemis and Memmy as well.
I am using liftoff at the moment and I think the experience is great
Just tried Connect and it's awesome! I was having issues with Jebora. No issues here.
Mostly use Memmy at this point. I think it’s the most promising, at least for what I want
iOS - I’ve been using the following: -Mlem -Memmy -Thunder -Liftoff (Limbo for Lemmy on TestFlight)
I’ve used Mlem the most but that’s because it was the first available. Tbh, it’s kind of been a horse race and one of those mechanical horse races you get at a fairground. Just as one gets ahead another brings out an interesting feature/ new look. I’d say that Mlem and Memmy both look good on the iPhone, Mlem was a bit slower with their releases but it hasn’t been buggy for me at all where as Memmy had more features from the off but wasn’t as refined - I’m guessing as they are solely iOS they will stay front runners for me. Who knows, I think each of them have something different/ better than the other (at the moment). Interesting to see how they evolve going forward. I was an avid Apollo user so I’m probably a bit bias towards any apps replicating that.
I'm rocking Liftoff, Connect, Jerboa and Summit. So much good app dev occurring.
I was using 3 but I’ve landed on Wefwef because it is almost identical to Apollo.
Currently bouncing between connect, summit, and thunder. I like connect the most so far!
I’ve settled on Memmy and with the daily updates it’s nailed everything I’m looking for in an app
I'm using the PWA until the lemmy version of slide is available
Liftoff ftw, seriously, the interface is slick and pleasant unlike its reddit official counterpart with great features like aggregates all your subscribed feeds from multiple accounts together. I'm not returning to reddit for the time being to be harvested by the third party API fees and rather paid the liftoff's developer some coffees instead.
bruh, where's the best IASIP community? i need it.
also, i'm using the "Memmy App" testflight it's great