Asklemmy@lemmy.mlbymannycalavera@feddit.uk
9 hours

What Lemmy Client are you Android users using in 2026?

What client do Android users use for Lemmy these days? I’ve been using Jerboa from the start but it’s a bit basic and lacks any good search functionality. So I want to try some others. What do other Android users recommend?

Things I like about Jerboa:

  • It just works. It’s pretty simple.
  • It has actual private browsing in app. You never have to leave the app and it knows how to never save your history.
  • It can do the above even when setting your main browser to Firefox (so as blocking works even in open links in app).

Things I don’t like about Jerboa:

  • Text entry is oftentimes buggy.
  • Lack of any decent search for communities or in threads.
  • No draft capability.
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    • Feathercrown@lemmy.worldEnglish
      19 minutes

      I’ve never understood why people have to use a client. I’m just using Chrome.

    • FireWire400@lemmy.worldEnglish
      34 minutes

      I used to use Boost for Reddit back then and switched over to Boost for Lemmy initially. Nowadays I use Voyager as the UI is better IMO.

    • prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone
      4 minutes

      I’ve been using Boosy simply because it’s what I used to use for reddit and it does what I want

    • Seefra 1@lemmy.zip
      40 minutes

      I’m using Voyager because Star Trek.

      Works very well except for one problem, it doesn’t remember the last thread or community I was on I switch apps and android kills in background.

      It’s particularly annoying when I follow a link and when I come back to comment on it Voyager is back on Home and the thread lost forever.

      Or when I’m in the middle to writing a comment but want to quickly fact check something but when I come back I get a message saying that my comment was saved, nice. But still can’t go back to the thread I was to finish it.

      Apart from that I’m satisfied with it.

    • 𝚝𝚛𝚔@aussie.zoneEnglish
      55 minutes

      Voyager, only because I’m used to it and cbf swapping.

      If RiF was made for Lemmy, I’d be using that.

    • Q@piefed.socialEnglish
      3 hours

      I’m using boost now but I miss the swipe to upvote feature I used to have on sync. Any recommendations? That swipe feature was great and made it so easy to throw a vote out there.

    • CerebralHawks@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      3 hours

      As a primarily iPhone user, I get a thrill using Voyager on my Android phone. It’s basically an Apollo clone, and Apollo was iOS only (for Reddit). IIRC Voyager is based on its released source code. The Apollo dev was never gonna code for Android, but he didn’t stop others from doing so, and they did. I also like the client. On iOS, I use it for my Piefed account because of its support for that branch (fork?) of Lemmy. On iOS for this account, I use Mlem, which I believe is iOS only.

      I’m happy with Voyager on Android, but I’m certainly open to alternatives. I want to keep one app that can switch between the two, so it needs Lemmy and Piefed support. I also like the comfortable interface with previews, the ability to blur/hide NSFW on a toggle (like if I’m out in public vs at home), and swipe controls (upvote, downvote, reply, and save). Easy access to blocking is also important (e.g. on this account I browse /all).

    • olduffer @lemmy.worldEnglish
      3 hours

      As we are talking about browsers… I use Boost, but would like the option of downloading ‘all, -top six hours’ including comments, for offline browsing (Perhaps up to a maximum size). Any recommendations please?

    • paraplu@piefed.socialEnglish
      6 hours

      Voyager for me. The compact mode is fairly compact, with small enough thumbnails that it can feel text-first. The few others that support piefed have had huge images with no easy way to fix that.