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Looking for a good Lemmy mobile app
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this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2025
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Voyager hands down
https://vger.app/
Took a look and love it, mostly because it looks like an iOS app but on Android. I've really missed iOS app design and this is just refreshing lol.
At least in iOS, it reminds me a lot of what used to be the Apollo app for Reddit. Voyager is fantastic and currently includes working, but limited Piefed compatibility.
Voyager is a direct copy of Apollo. Which is good because Apollo was awesome on iOS before Reddit forced it and many other apps to cease development. Assholes
For me it reminds more of some rather spartan apps that are economic with their interface — namely RedReader for Reddit. No fluff in the UI. Which is why I like both these apps, however Voyager would be better if it was implemented natively instead of in React or whatever it uses.
There's a problem that it seems to use a lot of memory, because it's a web browser in disguise. As a consequence, any time another app needs memory, Voyager is killed by Android and starts again from the main page, forgetting what I was doing. Oftentimes it's enough to switch to the actual browser and back again for Voyager to restart, which is ironic for a link-aggregator app.
Its animations are janky for the same reason, and get in the way of some functionality like collapsing comments.
Voyager's UI is great, mainly because it's not flashy, but a native app with that UI would be a lot better. RedReader for Reddit is much smoother to use.
I'm quite happy with Voyager, never used anything else.
Maybe you should use something else in order to see the larger picture. It‘s hard to know what you really want when you don‘t compare.
I tried blorp, and voyager is much better
What was the dealbreaker with Blorp and how can I make it better?
That says more than you might know, respectfully.
Yeah, the one that gives a great deal of ways to customize sharing of links for those that aren't already using Lemmy Redirect.
It is related to how sharing links is handled especially in the Fediverse where anything could be on a different server and who you are sending it to could likely be on a different server. Not trying to change your mind about Voyager, but that's the reason why it is the way it is. It was really aggravating in the early days of the 3rd party app rexodus when opening a link would instead open a web link to said server in a browser instead of in app if you wanted to interact.
I cared enough to change it to have it ask me everytime based on who or where I'm sending it.
I can't change what other people do, but if you want to bring it up with the dev at !voyagerapp@lemmy.world go for it.
How do I enable seeing downvotes weighted against upvotes in it? It doesn‘t do it on iOS on default which is weird.
Settings > Appearance > Other > Display votes
I prefer seperate