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.
Boost
Interstellar
I tried a bunch and settled on Voyager. I also liked Thunder.
Same, I tried them all and Voyager was my favourite
It’s also nice to recommend because it’s on iOS too
Summit wins out
Agreed, I’ve tried all the ones mentioned so far and some others but Summit is the only one that doesn’t have annoyances and drawbacks for what I want.
Im on summit now and its ok. I wish sync was still in development.
Like most people, I’ve tried many apps, and chose summit because, in addition to it having everything I’m looking for in an app, it doesn’t eat my battery like the other apps. Thunder was good, but it drained my battery so fast, it was just crazy.
Also on summit. Not only is it a really nice to use app in general, it also has the best mod tools that I’ve seen in any app so far.
Agreed. I just wish they would get the PieFed post combining happening so we didn’t see the same article posted four times in a row. The PieFed PWA does it right. Might be an API issue though.
Agree on that
I’m quite happy with Thunder
I really enjoyed using Thunder but then found Summit, which offers one killer feature Thunder doesn’t have while covering everything that Thunder has:
Multi-communities!
I got several gaming-related communities grouped, all the selfhosting communities grouped and I just need to check those multi-communities instead of each community one by one.
Also Summit works a bit better for Piefed than Thunder, but I know that is work in progress, so no criticism there.
Another vote for Thunder, though I’m also kind of warming up to Summit.
Me too. But it refuses to load images of a fraction of the posts and I don’t really know why. And cross linking to some other instances is occasionally borked, it tries and then opens the browser.
Apart from that it’s been fantastic
Same here, thunder refuses to load images seemingly randomly.
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.
I like Boost.
Last time I said this, I got shunned for recommending a closed-source app. I generally try to stick to open-source, but Boost has a good UI, works well, and bugs are fixed quickly.
I’m also using boost but “bugs are fixed quickly” isn’t my experience.
Maybe I just haven’t encountered any bugs that took a long time to fix. It’s been pretty reliable for me.
I started using Boost during round 1 of the API debacle when Reddit is Fun got the axe. Boost was still up & going so I used it there for a couple months before it got killed, then came here & kept up with it.
I haven’t had any major issues, just the occasional hiccup like spoiler markup formatting or other weird interactions.
Also been using Boost for years and very happy with it. My only gripe is that oftentimes embedded images like custom emotes are displayed at an enormous screen filling size, so sometimes if a user includes multiple emotes in a comment I have to scroll several screens to get to the next comment. This never was an issue in the Reddit Boost app, and the fact that its been unaddressed for so long now has me worried that the app may have been abandoned. No idea if it still gets updates, I should check one day.
I also use Boost. Mainly because I was using Boost on Reddit before, and I really like the UX.
I’m a software developer that focuses on front end development (full-stack but I like frontend more) so I’m pretty picky about UI/UX. Boost feels very nice and polished.
what does boost give you that you can’t get from its default interface?
I like Boost, even paid for it. Sometimes won’t load mpegs or bigger files,but those are my only gripes
Voyager for me.
Thunder is also good.
I’m sad that Voyager is just a webapp and not a native client; but apart from that, I think it’s perfect.
Wait what? Voyager is a native client, I’m using the version I downloaded from the Google Play store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.vger.voyager
Yes, that’s what I also use. But it’s just a wrapper for the web view. It doesn’t really use native widgets.
You can’t tell. It feels totally native.
Boost
Isn’t it closed source and serves ads?
It doesn’t serve ads if you pay for it - I used it for Reddit and moved over during the API debacle and I haven’t had any issues with it personally.
I must have paid for it years ago when I used it for reddit, because I don’t get ads
Browser
This! Don’t know why you would need something else.
I’m using Voyager and happy with it. Of course, now. I need to trial these listed by others.
After much complaining about sync’s descent into mediocre abandonware, i finally switched to Summit - i still miss sync’s ui/ux - but its nice being able to use a non buggy product
Likewise. I left Reddit when they killed third party apps because Sync was Reddit to me. I stuck with it here for a lot longer than I should have, but I finally accepted that it was dead and settled on Summit after trying a few others. Connect is also good, but I felt like it wasn’t quite as flexible as Summit last I tried.
Sync was borderline abadonware even as a reddit third party app before reddit closed the gates.
I still use Sync every day, and I can’t think of any issues I’ve had with it. What sort of bugs do you mean?
The one that finally pushed me over the edge was, while i could (barely) tolerate the ads, some time after his last update, something in the code broke or wasnt updated, and the ads would play an audible blip, as if the first 5ms of audio played before it was then caught and automatically muted - and that was just a bridge too far. There were smaller things and features unimplemnted - but having to hear blips catching me off guard and at times when scrolling is appropriate but audio wasnt was too frustrating for me and so i switched. Was using sync forever, was a true fan, was frustrated how he changed and milked the pay structure for sync for lemmy as conpared to how he did it for reddit, and then he had the gal to just dip entirely, such a shame for such a good ux.
That ad thing is weird, I’ve not seen anything like that at all. In fact I don’t even see video ads. Where is this, in your feed? Or when you open a thread?
I wonder if it’s to do with how the feed is set up? I use Small Cards view, don’t know if that’s maybe preventing me seeing the ads in the first place? I do sometimes see small static ads at the top of a thread, but that’s all.
I’m on voyager and it does the job. I miss sync though.
I use Firefox and have no idea why you’d need a dedicated app.
who cares why someone might prefer or be interested or i suppose even “need” an app. why you gotta throw shade just bc you prefer a browser?
found the app dev
loll
I’m not sure anyone suggested it was needed. Some of us prefer the UX
I also use FIrefox exclusively nowadays for Lemmy, but personally I can see the nice “feel” the app has, it just works very smoothly on a mobile device
Voyager
same. only because it was the only one i could remember the name of when i was setting up the ‘mini tablet’ (which is just someone’s old phone. has no sim or service). it’s an old and slow phone, so it doesn’t get used often. i’d much rather be on a desktop.
