Hey I figured I’d make a post and see the state of current lemmy appage, since I’m looking for a good one. So far I’ve used Jerboa, Thunder, Eternity, and Voyager.
Eternity seems to be a dead project, it’s full of bugs and hasn’t recieved an update since The Exodus
Thunder seems ok and is what I’m using right now, but I can’t seem to send direct messages, and can’t “Don’t blur NSFW preview on NSFW comms” which sucks. The messaging is the dealbreaker for me.
Voyager I used momentarily but the UI was not my favorite.
Jerboa seems OK if unpolished (which is ok to me) but I don’t trust the rabid idealogue that makes it and using another instance of his site is one thing, but installing an app is another. Has it been audited to confirm lack of spyware?
Ideally through this I can find one with instance blocking, DMs, and a decent UI. What’re your experiences with the current state of lemmy apps?
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I’m a Boost truther. I loved Boost for Reddit, and the dev is usually super responsive in the subreddit when it was a thing. I also used many Reddit apps; BaconReader, Relay, and Apollo on iPhone back when I had one. Boost was easy favorite. I’m not entirely sure how it plays with every lemmy instance though, as I’m just on .world
Boost user checking in, also currently on .world but I’ve been on several and… it’s fine. No problems.
I used to use Sync, but the sporadic updates lead to rapidly piling bugs.
I remember using Sync, but it didn’t really stick for me. If it’s the one I’m thinking of, it’s like Relay but slightly worse?
No one was like Relay. I went from Boost to Relay to Infinity (Eternity for Lemmy). From all the closed source clients Relay was my favorite, but Infinity was also great if you bothered to configure it - and open source definitely has some priority for me if there’s a good alternative.
Hated Sync and many of the other praised ones, as most of them were card view focused apps, which I can’t stand - it’s like viewing every single submission. And those who had compact views usually had ridiculously tiny thumbnails for some reason, even though there was plenty of space left for padding around it. Never understood why apps don’t fully use that space.
Don’t know when you tested, but Sync definitely has Compact. I agree with you and I’ve only ever used Compact on Sync. In fact, last time I tested a bunch of apps I felt Sync looked the nicest in Compact, but that’s of course a matter of taste. And Peek is a great feature for viewing thumbnails.
I also use boost, everything about it seems to work apart from spoiler tags (think because the app still uses reddit’s format instead of lemmy’s).
I can’t get away from Sync. Maybe it’s about time I do another sweep, but last time I evaluated them I couldn’t make anything else look and feel as nice. Lots of customization options too.
Same. But mark read has been broken for a while and at $20+ for no ads or ultra dev really needs to be on top of these updates to justify the price. My ultra expired a few weeks ago, but I’m not paying again unless he stops treating this like reddit. Reddit was pretty stable so didn’t mind the long gaps with no updates. But at 5x the cost …update
Yeah, that’s a fair complaint. I didn’t know mark read was broken but that’s not great. I also wish it properly supported all markdown formatting. Especially with the Media Bias Bot being prevalent the broken spoiler tags are annoying.
Same, used Sync for 13 years on Reddit, bought it, then bought the Lemmy version a few hours after it appears.
It’s the best client
Voyager is my go to
Was a boost user until I heard about Voyager from another one of these post. Boost is good but Voyager is so much better.
The Eternity Dev has returned, and released a new update for it. Last I checked the update hasn’t released on f-droid due to the build failing, but it is available on aurora or play store.
Oh good to know! Maybe I’ll give it another shot, thanks!
I loved the original Reddit client (Infinity), but the long absence for Eternity makes me worried about the planned mbin implementation for it.
How has nobody said Connect yet, I tried most of the other clients people mentioned and settled on connect.
This is after using Sync Pro for years on Reddit the pricing of the lemmy version just put me right off to the point I’ll admit I haven’t even tried it but then again I’m not interested in anything that puts ads on an adless service and I also will never try it as long as this is the case.
Connect is free and the developer is great
I started with connect and never left. Some of the videos weren’t working due to API changes. But for about 2 weeks, everyday there was an update fixing one or two of them.
Yeah the dev seems to jump straight to any issues even now, seems like a great guy to me he could easily charge for such a polished app and as long as the greed wasn’t mad I’d pay it.
I went from Boost for Reddit straight to Boost for Lemmy. It does everything I need and the dev is quite active with new features etc.
Sync is fantastic, IMO. I switched from Jerboa and Connect a year ago and never needed to look back.
The dev isn’t super active, but updates seem to drop when they need to
Ooh Sync is another one I enjoyed! I swear I bought every large 3rd party app to try out fully. Google Pay Rewards, thank you. Lol
I like Tesseract but I may be a bit biased since I maintain it. Lol. If you liked “new” Reddit from before the exodus, it’s a lot like that.
Also, there’s https://www.lemmyapps.com/ which is a nice directory you can filter by platform and features.
- Proprietary: Boost
- FOSS: Jerboa
What’re your experiences with the current state of lemmy apps?
Now it’s very good, a year ago it was hard. I use boost, rarely jerboa and others not at all, not my style of interface.
Crying for liftoff (T_T) it was better than jerboa.
I’m currently using thunder so haven’t tried the new version but eternity isn’t dead, it got a big update recently https://feddit.uk/post/15818616
As a designer on iOS, my recommendation is Mlem. It’s not perfect, but it’s the best of the bunch imo.
It is about to get a 2.0 release.
These are my favorite apps in preference order right now:
- Summit
- Boost
- Eternity
- Voyager
- Thunder
- Sync (seriously the damn mark as read on scroll needs to be fixed to be on top 2 again…)
I’d tell my issues with each client just as I did with Sync, but I don’t want to sound mean… (Also they are very specific for my usage and my device I guess), so I chose to keep things positive because we have plenty of pretty good clients! :)
Of course I am missing some other clients but those are the ones that stick in my “Social” folder the most time.
You can look at the app list on join-lemmy.org. Ignore the big scary warnings on there about non foss apps unless you want a foss app. Most of the proprietary apps are just made by hobbyists who don’t want the world to see their spaghetti code.
Boost
Summit.
Summit is great, and the developer seems really responsive
Summit kicks so much butt! I’ve tried about a dozen apps, but this is the only one I use, though Connect was good too.
The dev is great, and I’ve gotten lots of help and same or next day fixes whenever I’ve reported issues.
It’s beautiful, versatile, and powerful, with a great person backing it up.
