I used Boost after Lightning died, it works great and i have no desire to look for another one. I used boost on reddit too
this post was submitted on 12 May 2024
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Boost and Jerboa, the latter via F-Droid.
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I used boost for Reddit and use Boost for lemmy since day one (of the app) I love it.
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Eternity
Summit is the best app I've tried, with Boost a close second. It's got tons of features and is updated frequently.
I tried most of them and am happy with Sync.
Can't comment on Apple devices.
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Boost!
There is no equivalent.
Been using Lemmynade ([email protected]) and am super happy with it. My instance also has a really nice looking frontend that works as a PWA as well.
Used to use Eternity, but switched to Voyager. I like Thunder, but Voyager is better at pulling in pictures posted outside of Lemmy.
Summit is the best option I've found, to replace RIF that I used to use back when I was using reddit.
Ouch, so sad only one mention of Summit. I was on Boost for Reddit, and then Liftoff here until that died. Boost development was going slow it felt like, and I just didn't feel the workflow was what I got used to posting to Lemmy.
Summit felt great to me, has a ton of great features, and the dev is super responsive and has incorporated many of my requests and has fixed bugs I've reported very quickly. I love me some Summit for sure and I don't know why it's gone relatively unnoticed.
I realllyyyy like Jerboa, but the only thing i have to compare it to is the web interface. I've never tried the other apps.
Boost is excellent. Very cheap to remove ads and it's just fast and minimal AF. The developer does a lot to maintain it also, it's not abandoned like some others
Early on I tried out other apps and they looked snappier and had many features but none I used.
Jerboa though has always worked and by default everything works exactly as I want and expect. So for me it can't be beaten.
Jerboa works fine... except when I have to search for something. Why is 'search' not a 'search post/comments' function but a 'search community' one?
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Android user.
I used Liftoff until it broke with the API change a couple months back. The Dev has been AFK looking after twin kids. Hope they are going well.
Tried Thunder for a while but it kept crashing or forgetting what post I was looking at when switching between apps.
Using Voyager now and I am quite happy with it. I miss the All servers you have accounts with feed view from Liftoff but that is not a biggie.
Basically same. I also tried sync and another one that I can't remember but I stayed with Voyager
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Currently enjoying Arctic and Voyager. Arctic has potential to be my final app of choice.
I tried a lot of them when the reddit exodus was new I settled on voyager and alexandrite. Voyager has a great app (which is just the web page converted to an app) alexandrite doesn't have an app but it's has the best experience for me.
I use Jerboa. It's fine. It's the only one I've tried though.
I'm on Boost after trying a lot of them. On my backup phone there's Raccoon
I still use Eternity, but unfortunately it seems like development stopped. Still the best IMO.
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Thunder. It feels most similar to what I used back when I was still using Reddit.
I've been using Eternity for probably nine of these months
I use Thunder. It looks nice, runs well, is actively developed, and the devs are very communicative and open to feedback.
I use Jebora and am happy, is there something important I'm missing? I was a Reddit is Fun user before and I like both because of how simple and basic they are. I hated the official reddit app for the reasons above.
Edit: the one thing I don't like is you can't, or I don't know how, to collapse all child comments.
I will admit I am very biased as a contributor to Thunder. I'm not an expert on all clients but Thunder has some super cool features.
- Really good markdown rendering (I've seen it render things that the other "big" apps miss.
- The agility to post and (soon) comment as any of your logged-in accounts.
- Notifications for inbox messages, soon to be integrated with UnifiedPush.
- Really good Lemmy link parsing and in-app navigation.
- Ability to favorite communities.
- Customizable swipe gestures, username and community name formatting and coloring, action colors, etc.
And these are just some of the recent things on the top of my head! I'm sure others can chime in with things I missed!
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It has my favorite user interface, but I feel that it bogs down after viewing a series of images. ~~I also feel that development has stalled a bit~~ (edit, I was mistaken: they just released a pre release).
I haven't found a better one, though. Next best so far has been Racoon.
Image caching is something that has had to have been tuned over time. It can be really RAM hungry but at the same time it can be dumb to re-download images if you have the RAM to spare.
Latest versions no longer cache a lot of images, but aggressive caching can still be enabled in settings.
Iβm using Mlem, and itβs worked good so far