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.
The same thing happened to me, except I had two accounts and I’d see the local feed of the other account than the one I was logged into. I switched to summit, but it’s buggy, unintuitive, and it’s missing critical features like subscribing to a new community or accessing my profile settings.
Have you tried WefWef?
same. i only know memmy.
Summit, Jerboa, and Liftoff… I’m reading the replies to you to see what to try next!
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.
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.
I’m loving thunder so far
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: !lemmynade@lemm.ee for anyone wanting to follow
Man that looks good
Thank you, that means a lot!
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)
lemm.ee looks like it’s running a pretty old version and I can’t search that community :( could be a me issue though.
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.
Thanks for your contribution, looks great! The more the merrier.
I started with Jerboa but now use Connect. I’m happy with it.
Typing with connect, you can tell it’s beta quality but it’s pretty good so far
Thx you stranger, this is the boost-like app I was looking for !
Learning the gestures currently with Connect. At least it doesn’t crash randomly.
+1 the same for me
Connect feels the most like Boost, so I’m happy with it.
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)
So I get them from GitHub and install them on my phone?
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 like jerboa because i can install it from fdroid
Only one app? Those are rookie numbers
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.
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.
I definitely added more instances on liftoff
Edit: profile > settings > accounts > bottom right corner has a button that allows ,out 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
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.
Try Connect for Lemmy. Jerboa is just very badly bugged and a poor UX right now. Connect seems to be much less buggy as well as more usable generally.
Please report back on this “real life” thing
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.
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.
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.
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 think connnect for lemmy allows it. I remember seeing it in the settings.
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.
Using the PWA until Sync for Lemmy is released.
You should try out wefwef.app
It is an Apollo like web app for Lemmy.
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
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?
I’m using liftoff (Android), best one I’ve found so far.
I concur, It has the smoothest UX there is
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’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.
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
