this post was submitted on 12 May 2024
140 points (97.3% liked)

Asklemmy

43891 readers
866 users here now

A loosely moderated place to ask open-ended questions

Search asklemmy ๐Ÿ”

If your post meets the following criteria, it's welcome here!

  1. Open-ended question
  2. Not offensive: at this point, we do not have the bandwidth to moderate overtly political discussions. Assume best intent and be excellent to each other.
  3. Not regarding using or support for Lemmy: context, see the list of support communities and tools for finding communities below
  4. Not ad nauseam inducing: please make sure it is a question that would be new to most members
  5. An actual topic of discussion

Looking for support?

Looking for a community?

~Icon~ ~by~ ~@Double_[email protected]~

founded 5 years ago
MODERATORS
 

Now that the Reddit exodus is about a year old and the client apps have matured, what's the latest state of the above question?

What app do you use and why? I'm mainly interested in Android but suggestions for other platforms are also welcome. And if you are using multiple platforms, what's your primary one?

top 50 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Used Boost for reddit, now use Boost for Lemmy

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

I used Jerboa and then Eternity, now I use Voyager which I think is very good and stable. I've never tried Thunder.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I've had the best experience with Summit. Went through quite a few before stopping here.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Thunder โค๏ธ

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 6 months ago

Sync is king

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 6 months ago

I find Boost for lemmy to work really well for me. I also use Voyager as a backup.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I used to use that other site with Infinity, which was Infinity for Lemmy first, but over time, became Eternity, so that's what I've been using.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Still using Sync and Voyager. Voyager so similar to Apollo and Sync also solid as their Reddit client.

[โ€“] [email protected] 12 points 6 months ago (1 children)

Sync, used it for who knows how long for Reddit, and none of the other options I tried before it was released for Lemmy came anywhere close to feeling as nice to use.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

I can't recommend Sync in good conscience with the update policy. The dev keeps going AWOL for months, even when breaking issues exist.

This was fine when I paid something like 3โ‚ฌ, but it's no longer fine when I pay 20โ‚ฌ.

[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 6 months ago

I've been loyal to Sync. Few quirks that need to be resolved like support for Lemmy spoilers, but other than that it's been fantastic.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

Like others I used Liftoff but had to move on when API broke it & dev is getting on with real life stuff.

Moved to Voyager. It's good but as an android I still find it a bit strange using what looks like iOS interface. I still get a bit lost when uploading a post & usually have to edit it a few times. No biggie, maybe I should post more & get used it it ๐Ÿ˜ƒ

I still miss the Joey app from the other place.

[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 6 months ago (1 children)

I use jerboa and so far my only gripes are being unable to unblock communities or users unless you go to the desktop page and the upvote system being a percentage instead of just an up and down counter.

I originally used boost as that's what I used for reddit but boost is crammed full of ads unless you buy the premium version.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

My use case is incredibly simple, but I really like Jerboa.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 6 months ago

Sync, all the way. I strictly used Sync for reddit after the first real enshittification (to me) of reddit a couple years back, and once the app was reworked for Lemmy I switched and haven't looked back.

Like others have said, it looks great, almost fully customizable UI, works really well, and saves your place when you're scrolling through comments on posts if you back out.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Love Thunder. It looks great and works great.

I've also been using Alexandrite on desktop since my server admins have it set up and prefer it over the default ui

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 6 months ago

Eternity was my favourite and I still use it sometimes, but now I'm mostly using boost.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

I've been using Jerboa, but tempted to swap to Voyager.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 6 months ago

I hop around periodically through iOS options, Iโ€™m using 2 main ones right now: Arctic and Avelon

I think Arctic is the best

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 6 months ago

None of the *bin apps I've tried seem to really function well just yet, so I mostly just use the default PWA for the Mbin instance I'm on. It works well enough. Though I'd really love a standalone app, especially if it could handle loading URLs to other instances clicked from outside the app; being taken to a community I'm already subscribed to but not being able to vote or comment because the link I clicked went to the original instance instead of the one I'm logged into is annoying.

[โ€“] [email protected] 8 points 6 months ago

Jerboa and Raccoon for Lemmy

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Saw Boost mentioned already, but also I think Tesseract deserves a shoutout for clean and modern web experience.

load more comments
view more: next โ€บ