Voyager, reminds me a bit of Apollo for Reddit and has a good webapp for desktop usage.
did you make voyager’s app for apple watch work? mines always crash at home feed
Voyager because it was the first one I tried.
Same. I haven’t grown out of it and it’s doing literally everything I want it to.
Second for me but the one I’ve stuck with
Jerboa.
I dunno, it was on F-Droid and it’s really simple and lightweight, like its namesake critter. I’m sure there’s some more full featured options out there. (Voyager’s gestures kept throwing me off I think lol)
But I don’t hear a lot of people talking about this one much! Wonder why…
It was the first one I used and I never bothered with anything else. It works great
Can’t set a default sort for comments which is absolutely crazy. You have to resort every comment section you click into.
(Voyager’s gestures kept throwing me off I think lol)
I disabled all gestures in Voyager. I also found them annoying.
It doesn’t have some basic search features which sucks but same
Voyager.
I used “Reddit is Fun” for years on Reddit but when it came time to switch to Lemmy I picked Voyager (wefwef at the time) because the UI was the most similar. I tried many of the other popular apps and I was happy with most of them, but Voyager was (and is) my favorite.
It’s simple. Lots of text. Easy to use. Looks nice.
Summit. Reminds me of Sync on Reddit 5 years ago
+1 for Summit!
It has been the best clean user experience for me so far
I’ve been on Summit forever now. Very active development, and they’ve added every feature request I’ve had along with many others’. I lose track of all the options it gets anymore.
It looks good, works good, and when it doesn’t, it gets fixed quickly.
I share lots of posts and articles and put them in quote blocks and just bring able to select all text and guy a single button that auto quotes all paragraphs won me over for good, and then multi-communities was the icing on the cake.
If you ever ask what app has feature X, it’s likely already in Summit.
I wonder why I had written it off months ago, because giving it another shot now, that app sure seems to suit all my needs. Perhaps I had just tried it out when it was very new and lacked many of the features that I wanted and could find in Thunder.
It went open source a bit ago if that may have been a sticking point.
Summit here too. I changed up some of the display settings so it feels like Relay for Reddit 😀
The things that got me to move from Voyager were that when images didn’t load first time, there was no way to re-try - Summit has that. And I don’t think Voyager handled drafts that well. Summit has drafts but I do wish there was a client that had drafts like Relay did, where if you come back to the same comment/post and hit reply it has your draft from where you left off on that comment/reply.
Boost mainly. Then I found it struggles getting posts in the “hot” feed so I’ll switch to Voyager for that.
Edit: I forgot to add why. I used boost for Reddit and I really like the UI. It’s very customizable.
I’ve stuck with Boost for like…8 years now? It does everything I need it to so I stick with it.
- Boost on old (2013) android phone. very convenient coming from RedReader on android
- Voyager on recent android phone. it’s good but kinda slow because it’s web-based
- Arctic on iOS (iPod Touch 7G). Mlem doesn’t support iOS 15, Voyager is slow/doesn’t fit small screen properly
Thunder
https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder
The killer feature for me is swipe gesture navigation. Most apps do not have that. If anything, they might have a “swipe in from the edge of the screen” gesture, but that is not the same as being able to swipe from any point onscreen to go back.
It also supports PieFed.
Jerboa
Heard that it was an app from a Lemmy dev.Tried it and it was simple enough.
Voyager. I’m not sure why. Never thought about trying others but now I’m curious.
Boost because it works.
Thunder. It was the first I found when leaving Reddit and it had been a good experience so I’ve not looked at other ones.
Summit. Chose at random
the website, because it works the same as on my computer
I have three Lemmy clients on my phone: Blorp, Summit and Voyager. However, I mostly use Voyager. I think it’s the best app for Lemmy that I’ve tried so far. It’s the one I’m most comfortable with.
what does it give you over using your browser to access lemmy on your phone?
On phones, I generally find the usability worse on a browser than on an app.
for most things – yes.
but lemmy is fully functional w/o the apps and why i ask this question – what am i missing by using a browser instead?
i’ve tried the apps myself and couldn’t find a reason to justify keeping it around since most of them keep my user password.
