Fediverse@lemmy.worldbyr.EndTimes@lemm.ee
1 year

What is your favorite app for Lemmy? Include Platform.

English

I started off using Voyager, swapped to Mlem because of slight differences I preferred. Recently found out Thunder for Lemmy is available on the apple appstore and it instantly became my favorite. I like how unique the ui is compared to other, it seems better suited for browsing and posting on Lemmy, while the others feel better for the initial transition from Reddit. Very suprised it has barely any downloads or reviews when its easily the best Lemmy app on IOS.

Thunder reminds me of the more “modern” alternative front ends for lemmy some sites have while mlem and voyager feel more like the alternative reddit apps (blue alien) and give a similar experience.

On desktop, I’ve been using Friendica.

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    • Azerick@lemm.eeEnglish
      1 year

      I use Voyager on Android. It’s a quality app that just works. On my iPad I use a safari plug in called sink-it.

      • r.EndTimes@lemm.eeEnglish
        1 year

        I was swapping back and forth between that and mlem for a while, I like the custom interaction bar in mlem. Feels nice to finetune, but voyager just works and has plenty of settings to get the necessary customizations. I like that the issue for me is that they are all good, so I just end up using them all.

      • SamuelRJankis@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1 year

        The user tagging and vote counter is the no.1 Voyager feature for me that isn’t on any other app as far as I know.

      • RmDebArc_5@sh.itjust.worksdeleted by creatorEnglish
        1 year

        I’m a bit confused. Looking at the App Store Sink it appears to only be for Reddit/Twitter and not Lemmy or am I missing something?

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nuEnglish
      1 year

      Sync on Android. I’ll go down with the ship, I guess. If ljdawson never comes back I’ll be forced to look into other options eventually, but for now it still works, despite some bugs. It just looks and feels the best to me, and I’ve yet to find another app that can exactly replicate how I have it set up.

      • warbond@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 year

        Excellent, just the example I needed to prevent me from examining my own use of Sync. I picked it up straight off of RiF and it’s been mostly fine. Spoilers rarely work and sometimes it just straight up can’t “fetch the image,” but I can do the things I care about, like downvoting and making ad hominem attacks. 10 out of 10 for me.

        • unpossum@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
          1 year

          […] like downvoting and making ad hominem attacks.

          Thunder can be used for that too, you blithering imbecile.

          (Sync alumnus, only on Thunder because I moved to iOS. Sync is still the best 😢)

        • CosmicTurtle0 [he/him]@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          1 year

          I’m in the same boat. The ads have become terrible for me so I’m in the market for a new app anyway. I was hesitant to purchase a subscription because of the low number of releases.

          Glad I didn’t

      • yarn@lemmy.caEnglish
        1 year

        Same boat. I’m really happy with my current look and feel, and I have no reason to change at this time.

      • Zanshi@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 year

        I use sync occasionally, and I found it has some features literally no other app has (or I’m too dumb to find them) like easy instance switching. It’s right there on the main screen, you just click instances, pick a federated instance, and boom, now you’re seeing stuff from that instance. I wish more apps has that.

      • Geth@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
        1 year

        I used it until recently thinking the same, but it just became too broken for me. I’m on thunder now and I got it to work exactly the way I used sync and everything seems to actually be working.

      • dlhextall@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1 year

        I was in the same boat as you, but I discovered Summit this week. I feel like it fixes a couple of annoyances from Sync.

      • fmstrat@lemmy.nowsci.comEnglish
        1 year

        I was a Sync user on Reddit. Thunder has reproduced that feel for me here. The one place it didn’t I contributed (2-column tablet mode)

    • TORFdot0@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 year

      Apollo was the best Reddit app on iPhone. Voyager continues its legacy

      • Xed@lemm.eeEnglish
        1 year

        I loved Apollo! I randomly chose Voyager as my first introduction to Lemmy and it’s been great so far

    • Obinice@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 year

      Boost, it was the perfect Reddit client for me and now it’s the perfect Lemmy client, I didn’t have to sacrifice any aspect of the experience.

      God I love you, Boost my beloved 😍

      I’m on Android. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I give Steve Jobs a penny.

    • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
      1 year

      Voyager on iOS. It’s the best for my use case and I like the UI the most.

        • Meldrik@lemmy.wtfEnglish
          1 year

          No, but it looks a lot like Voyager. Downloading it now to check it out.

      • ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
        1 year

        Absolutely Thunder for android. Easy, customizable, and is very similar to the app I used for reddit called Relay. Dunno how an apk could be better for using Lemmy.

    • tecnohippie@slrpnk.netEnglish
      1 year

      I’m using Eternity, I haven’t tried more so I can’t compare, but I liked Eternity enough to don’t have the need to try others.

      • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
        1 year

        I like Eternity but i have two problems with it:
        Cannot upload images from the app So, uh… 🤦‍♂️
        It doesn’t format spoilers properly

        • SeekPie@lemm.eeEnglish
          1 year

          Cannot upload images from the app

          Like in comments or?

          • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
            1 year

            Comments, yes. In Thunder there’s a button and you just do a press.

            • SeekPie@lemm.eeEnglish
              1 year

              You actually can, just scroll left when formating the comment.

              • Mac@mander.xyzEnglish
                1 year

                BRUH WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS
                HOW DID I NOT FIGURE THIS OUT

      • perfectly_boiled_pizza@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 year

        I already used Infinity for Reddit (which Eternity is based on) so it made the migration from Reddit to Lemmy really smooth for me.

        • SeekPie@lemm.eeEnglish
          1 year

          Same, tried voyager for a while but came back to this because I love the UI of it.

    • murmelade@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1 year

      Summit is my favorite after testing Thunder, jerboa and Boost.

      • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 year

        I’ve tried almost every Android app for Lemmy, and holy heck, do I love Summit the most. It does everything I need it to and more. It looks great. It’s responsive. And the dev is amazing. They respond to bugs, issues, and feature requests lightning fast. No ads. Not FOSS, which is the only thing I’ve seen anyone gripe about.

        Been using it almost exclusively for a year or so now, and I can’t praise it enough.

          • anon6789@lemmy.worldEnglish
            1 year

            I seriously worry about coming off creepy or insincere, or else I would shower you with praise more constantly! Your app has made my experience here so much better, and I’m grateful for the things you’ve added to it, sometimes I’m sure, just for me.

            You’ve always been really friendly and helpful and lightning fast fixing any issues, and you obviously put a lot of time and work into developing and maintaining the app, and you don’t ask for money or have ads or anything.

            None of the other apps are bad or anything, but I still think yours offers the most and the best for me, and how I don’t see Summit near the top of every best Lemmy app posts is crazy to me.

    • deadcatbounce@reddthat.comEnglish
      1 year

      Haven’t looked around for a while, but I’ve settled on Voyager.

      https://github.com/aeharding/voyager#readme

      Sadly, F-Droid tries to share the actual binary not a link to it via F-Droid (a la Google Play).

      I have the reference application, Jeroba, installed but I don’t really like it and haven’t seen it updated for a while.

    • ekZepp@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 year

      Eternity. As lacking in updates it may be, still woks well, and it is super customizable.

    • FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io
      1 year

      Connect for Android was my jam, but now that I’m on Mbin I’m liking Interstellar (which also works with Lemmy).

      • TwoBeeSan@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1 year

        Connect is the most like the reddit is fun client. How i like to shitpost and see content

    • Tattorack@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1 year

      Currently using Voyager on my Android phone. I like it. Quite the upgrade over Boost (which I was using before, as I really liked Boost for Reddit in the before-times).

      Don’t like going into Lemmy on PC, though. It looks fugly as hell, and the UI looks like something from the 90s. I wonder if there’s a different way of accessing Lemmy through my browser.

      • r.EndTimes@lemm.eeEnglish
        1 year

        Ton of alternate frontends mentioned here, I like phtn.app, you can loginto multiple accounts from different instances, tesseract is also nice.