I’ve been trying to use mlem now for about a week and I just find that it lacks a lot of very basic functionality. Don’t get me wrong, I understand it’s all new and everyone’s scrambling to build and improve, I’m not faulting the mlem devs here. But until things like copy/paste work and notifications exist, the mobile Lemmy site is better but also worse in many respects.
Are there any other iOS apps out there or under development that I should be on the lookout for?
EDIT: I’ve amended the title of the post to better reflect my intention here. Folks seem to be misunderstanding the intent here. I’m not blaming mlem, memmy or any other project out there for failing to create something “good”. All these apps and the ecosystem are new and still rapidly evolving, I get that. I’m just trying to hunt around and see what’s available that might not be listed on the official apps page yet.
I think you have to bear in mind that Lemmy as a whole is still fairly new, and until a month or so ago, no one was crying out for an app for it.
So for now, Mlem and Memmy are the only two app options, and their solo devs are doing their best.
For what it’s worth, over the past week alone, Mlem has gone from barely usable to actually a nice little app.
Totally agree. As I said in my post; I am not blaming the mlem or memmy devs here. I understand it’s still new and rapidly evolving. I’m just wondering what the various options are out there so that I can try them and see which one has the features I am looking for. I’m always checking back with mlem after an update to see what’s fixed or added.
So far it feels to me like Mlem is heading in the direction of Alien Blue, and Memmy is intentionally in the style of Apollo.
Neither is finished yet, and you’ll need to run the web app as well to accomplish some tasks.
This comment was written from Memmy though :)