I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask, but i’m new to Lemmy and looking for a good client to use it with. I’ve been using Sync which is what i used to use with Reddit but i’ve noticed that it isn’t getting updates now. Any other good mobile apps I can usr Lemmy with?
Sync or Boost.
I’m using Voyager — I’m a very superficial user but it gets the job done.
Kinda depends on what features in sync made you like it.
Overall, boost, connect, thunder and summit each get close to parity, but only close. But, you could say that in reverse, (that sync only gets close to parity with any of them) it isn’t a slight against any of them.
Eternity is another one that I’ve had good use of, but development on that seems to be stopped as well, so I dunno if that’s a useful option.
Past those, you get less similarity in ux and ui than would make sense to compare. Like, the apps that mimic voyager (or whatever the popular iOS reddit app was called), things are laid out so different that if you used sync as a primary, you aren’t likely to enjoy that ui.
On a phone, I kinda favor connect over sync, despite it looking very unlike it compared to boost or eternity. But on a tablet, nothing else does double columns in portrait worth a damn for me, and aren’t great in landscape either. But boost and eternity come the closest to the visual ease sync has.
that’s syncI was going to include screen shots of the ones I have on this tablet, but uploads shit the bed and are being weird after that one. So no promises that I can do them all
boost
eternity
connect
and interstellar since it does piefed better than anything else I’ve tried, and still does lemmy just fine.Decided to install thunder and summit long enough to give a visual
thunder
annnd summitAs you can tell, everyone has a slightly different approach to the UI. But they’re even more variable in what settings are available, little niceties, etc. Theming is all over the place from a bare bones light/dark/oled to the relative broad visual options of boost and sync. None of them are bad at all. They’re reliable, work even on older devices without bogging them down, and are all easy enough to get going with.
Voyager hands down
Nah hands up definitely
Only issue, is sometimes the feed is blank if you refresh. It comes back if you wait a few minutes, but can get annoying.
How do I enable seeing downvotes weighted against upvotes in it? It doesn‘t do it on iOS on default which is weird.
Settings > Appearance > Other > Display votes
I prefer seperate
Thank you!
There’s a problem that it seems to use a lot of memory, because it’s a web browser in disguise. As a consequence, any time another app needs memory, Voyager is killed by Android and starts again from the main page, forgetting what I was doing. Oftentimes it’s enough to switch to the actual browser and back again for Voyager to restart, which is ironic for a link-aggregator app.
Its animations are janky for the same reason, and get in the way of some functionality like collapsing comments.
Voyager’s UI is great, mainly because it’s not flashy, but a native app with that UI would be a lot better. RedReader for Reddit is much smoother to use.
I’m quite happy with Voyager, never used anything else.
Maybe you should use something else in order to see the larger picture. It‘s hard to know what you really want when you don‘t compare.
That says more than you might know, respectfully.
Took a look and love it, mostly because it looks like an iOS app but on Android. I’ve really missed iOS app design and this is just refreshing lol.
At least in iOS, it reminds me a lot of what used to be the Apollo app for Reddit. Voyager is fantastic and currently includes working, but limited Piefed compatibility.
Voyager is a direct copy of Apollo. Which is good because Apollo was awesome on iOS before Reddit forced it and many other apps to cease development. Assholes
For me it reminds more of some rather spartan apps that are economic with their interface — namely RedReader for Reddit. No fluff in the UI. Which is why I like both these apps, however Voyager would be better if it was implemented natively instead of in React or whatever it uses.
You mean the app that inserts ads to itself into links you share, by default? Yes it can be switched off but why does this need to be there in the first place?
Yeah, the one that gives a great deal of ways to customize sharing of links for those that aren’t already using Lemmy Redirect.
Cool beans. Not what I mentioned. But I am not trying to change your mind either.
It is related to how sharing links is handled especially in the Fediverse where anything could be on a different server and who you are sending it to could likely be on a different server. Not trying to change your mind about Voyager, but that’s the reason why it is the way it is. It was really aggravating in the early days of the 3rd party app rexodus when opening a link would instead open a web link to said server in a browser instead of in app if you wanted to interact.
Great. Now do me the favour, select the first option in that list ”Voyager app (vger.to)” and open a link shared like that it in a browser, not in Voyager (important, it might automatically do that for you since you got it installed) and tell me what you see. That is set as the default link sharing behaviour and that is what I am criticising.
Maybe you don’t care about it and as a Voyager user you will never see that. But I care because I keep seeing more and more people sharing these links, which instead of actually linking me to the thread in question, in MY app of choice, lead to my browser opening, showing me the content plus a quick plug to the Voyager app.
I cared enough to change it to have it ask me everytime based on who or where I’m sending it.
I can’t change what other people do, but if you want to bring it up with the dev at !voyagerapp@lemmy.world go for it.
Eternity hasn’t been updated in a while, but it still works great.
Connect is great, extensive filtering available. I use it as my main and jerboa as backup.
Seconded. Tried others but keep coming back to connect.
It’s not the flashiest, but has the best options for me
Thunder. The only one which is FLOSS, on F-Droid, updated, and actually good.
I use Jerboa, is fine. Haven’t tried anything else so don’t know what I might be missing.
I also am part of the “I downloaded jerboa first and it’s good enough” crew.
Still using Memmy even though it‘s a broken pile of rust now. The UI is still the best for me.
I’ve tried Jerboa, then Sync, then Summit, and now I’m using Thunder. There were always small things that annoyed me enough to start looking for a new client after a few months, but I’ve had this for… a year or so now? It’s very customizable, so that’s nice.
I guess I’m the only one here actively using Boost. I like it. Been using it since long before it was a Lemmy client, haha!
Using boost, it’s fairly reliable and I enjoy it.
I use boost. I find sometimes videos don’t show but other than that it’s been good.
Thunder is cross-platform, and IMO has one of the best looking UIs.
Im using Summit. Its really nice and the developer is active and listens to the community!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idunnololz.summit
I replaced Sync which is what I used for Reddit, for Summit. No issues at all and actively developed, unlike Sync. It’s clearly taken a lot of inspiration from Sync’s feature set and I am very happy with it.
Seconding Summit, it’s a good one
Third for Summit
Fourth for Summit.
Say what you like, Summit Squad are nothing if not dedicated.
Summit is peak!
That’s the client I use alongside Mlem.
Eternity is great
Used to be my main and fav client (after Jerboa), but it hasn’t been updated in a year and Summit is just plain better and almost as customisable
I’m so used to this UI, don’t wanna leave it. Hasn’t given me any issues
