I came from RiF and used Connect for a long time. It had issues with always bringing you back to the top of the page when you would leave the app. Eventually I've settled on Boost, and immediately paid for just on the basis that it reminded me so much of RiF (and it works!)
this post was submitted on 01 May 2024
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Voyager an Mlem on iOS.
I use Sync and Jerboa.
Another vote for Connect.
Using and loving Voyager on a Librem 5 phone.
I just switched from connect to Voyager yesterday. I'm liking it so far but noticing stability issues. Like it crashes out every few hours or so. Nice to have mod tools back though.
I'm just here to lay some hate on the proprietary apps: they bad.
Who would dare downvote you on this?
Jerboa and Raccoon if you love FOSS
Sync If you don't care about FOSS
I'm new, what does FOSS stand for? I'm currently using Sync.
Free and Open Source Software
Eternity
Been using voyager on iOS since nearly day 1. Seems fine. Might be better ones out there.
Been using voyager too, made the jump to Lemmy easier when Apollo shut down.
I started with Connect and kept it because it's very much like Bacon Reader. Haven't had the need to try others.
Boost for lemmy. No contest. Nice, clean unique and smooth UI, better discoverability and seems built by a person who cared than a person who stole from a 2013 android app wrapper and pasted the lemmy website
Voyager for a good app that has an iOS look. Jerboa uses Material design, if you prefer that, but to doesn't work as well.
FWIW, Voyager has a Material-Design inspired alternative look that can be enabled in the settings.
Yeah, but it doesn't look very good. Not compared to something like Jerboa or any other native Android app made with Material You.
I know enough people that hate Material Design 3, or even just the Monet component, so I'll leave that for everyone to decide for themselves.
Idk if jerboa even has instance blocking in app yet. I switched to Voyager because it seemed always behind.
Jerboa's instance blocking is actually one of the few ways it works better than Voyager, letting you block instances directly from the post dropdown rather than needing to go two menus deep into settings.
Shoot, I guess it was worth the wait even though I didn't.
Eternity was great, but it's likely abandoned now. I switched to voyager. And this is a nice clean app. No complaints from me.
Worth noting that I tried all the available apps from the lemmy app list. And I've worked them down to 3 liftoff, eternity and voyager. Two of these are abandoned now.
Since you tried them all, what is your take on summit? I mostly use it when not at a pc, smoke breaks, travel between places.
Last tim I tried Summit, was months ago but to tell you the truth. It was one of my favorites! it's definietly better than thunder and boost. One app that i can compare it with is Eternity and Connect. The reason why it did not reside in my top three is because of my preference, there is a feel to an app that i am looking for, I really cannot describe it, I did not feel it with summit, but Eternity had it. But technically speaking. Summit is one of the very good apps for Lemmy, you will not regret it if you choose to use it.
to be frank, Voyager is the least of my three. Eternity did have all i was looking for, unfortunately it seems that it has been abandoned.
Thanks for this
Out of the ones I've tried (Jerboa, Connect, Thunder), I think Thunder is best (after a little config) : https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder/releases
My choice is Connect for Lemmy. (on Android)
Tried out a few; Voyager, Sync (for Reddit, it was the best), Jeroba and god knows what else, but Connect was the one that actually felt right.
it's a nice little Flutter app. it feels native (sort of) to Android. The other apps were strange to me, cause they have more of iOS UI or else, or they arw PWAs or else...
The reason why I don't use Sync is because it had strange bugs and was limited a while ago (compared to Sync for Reddit, also my purchase of it obviously lost), also has ads n shit, which is fine, understandable, if the dev would like to earn money with it, it's a cool and complex app, it worth the money.
Try Lemma if you’re on iOS. It’s very smooth and has the right balance of features and simplicity imo.
Hands down Jerboa for Android.
Boost
There are many great options here already, but I'll add Connect to the list. Great client for Android.
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