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(Please provide your Lemmy app recommendations in the comments)

There are two apps, in particular, that I am testing.

Mlem (iOS) & memmy (iOS & Android)

Both are plugging away and looking very good.

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[-] pillarist@kbin.social 18 points 2 years ago

Sync for Lemmy is comin'

[-] comicallycluttered@beehaw.org 13 points 2 years ago

Currently testing out thunder (Android) and it's pretty sleek, especially for a side/hobby project.

Much prefer it to Jerboa, though it has quite a few less features.

Going to try out Liftoff later.

[-] shortwavesurfer@monero.town 6 points 2 years ago

Thunder is my upcomer choice and i use both it and jerboa as needed. Omcecthunder gets a thing for telling me what posts i have read at a glance i will most likely use thunder exclusively. Jerboa is good, but the thunder dev has really worked on screen reader accessibility and it shows. He has fixed quite a few of my accessibility bug reports already and the app is top notch

[-] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 5 points 2 years ago

Thunder is good, extremely work in progress but what's there is really confidence inspiring for the its future.

[-] machinaeZER0@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

Thunder is spectacular and it's still in alpha! Dev seems super nice. I'm still mostly using Jerboa, but Thunder will likely be my daily driver once it hits beta :) it's just so slick!

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[-] ikschbloda@feddit.de 11 points 2 years ago

Memmy is already great and there are multiple updates each day!

[-] admin@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

I've, also, heard that the lead dev of Mlem handed the code over to someone else and left the project....Seems to be in limbo right now.

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[-] econpol@kbin.social 11 points 2 years ago

Just switched from Jerboa to Connect on Android.

[-] calhoon2005@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

I actually found connect to be a little more buggy than Jerboa

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[-] therealmdubbs@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 2 years ago

I've tried Connect and Jerboa for Android. Out of the two I prefer Jerboa.

[-] Abinanthan@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
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[-] deigge@feddit.de 9 points 2 years ago

Switched from Jerboa to Liftoff and I'm very happy with Liftoff so far. Liftoff feels very similar to the Reddit client Infinity for me. Only thing I don't like is the color scheme. It's confusing to make buttons you can click grey...

[-] ezri@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

My main issue with Liftoff is that I can't save images. That's a huge deal breaker for me

[-] Kevnyon@kbin.social 9 points 2 years ago

Its not out yet, but the Sync for Reddit dev is making Sync For Lemmy, so that should be worth checking out in the future.

[-] Lionir@beehaw.org 8 points 2 years ago
[-] admin@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Nice! Must have missed that one.

[-] ericjmorey@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

The information at https://beehaw.org/post/683217 is being kept up to date.

[-] drifty@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 years ago

https://wefwef.app is actually insane even though it's a PWA. It's really really good

[-] maegul@lemmy.ml 6 points 2 years ago

Web based PWAs should not be underestimated in this space. Mastodon has a similarly awesome PWA in elk.

Because of the tech involved they seem to be able to develop faster while giving you pretty good performance.

As lemmy has a hard separation between its backend and front end, it’s be cool to see alterntive front ends become more integrated with the mainline deployment. That is, it’d be nice if in settings I could select from a range of front ends, even ones that are acknowledged as experimental third party front ends without any guarantees.

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[-] mint@beehaw.org 7 points 2 years ago

On Android I'm liking Thunder and Connect

[-] NotAPenguin@kbin.social 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

I just use the kbin mobile site as a PWA, works great.

[-] dogebread@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Is there collapsible comments yet? There wasn't when I tried (or I couldn't find it) and that's a deal breaker for me.

[-] Spzi@lemm.ee 7 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)
[-] gms77@kbin.social 5 points 2 years ago

Your relative link needs to be changed from /c/ to /m/

[-] Spzi@lemm.ee 3 points 2 years ago

Oh, I wasn't aware. Coming from lemmy, the correct relative link to a kbin instance would be /m/. But since the community lives in a lemmy instance, it is /c/. Apparently coming from kbin you need /m/ in both cases. I added a link for both now, thanks.

[-] Omegamanthethird@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

I was using Jerboa. But I switched to Summit just today. It's a lot sleeker. It feels closer to RIF. But it doesn't show a way to save posts/comments.

Also, neither one has a way to search for keywords.

[-] briongloid@aussie.zone 2 points 2 years ago

Jerboa actually got another update today which resolved the bug issues I had with the previous update.

[-] chloyster@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

I tried for way too long tonight to try and build memmy for Android to check it out. Couldn't get it to run unfortunately. I'll probably wait until there is a prebuilt apk to download

[-] DengueDucky@lemmy.ml 5 points 2 years ago

Where's the memmy Android download?

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[-] lentilhoarder@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

No app has come close to the lemmy-ui PWA to be honest in terms of stability and featureset at the moment.

[-] Thief@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 years ago

Memmy is incredible and makes using lemmy easy and fun. Cant see myself using any other app going forward. Its perfect.

[-] brezhnervous@lemm.ee 4 points 2 years ago

Connect for Lemmy works well for me where Jerboa returns a server error

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 2 years ago

Jerboa made the minimum supportes instance version 0.18, unfortunately the largest instances are still on 0.17 due to captcha reasons.

[-] brezhnervous@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago

Ahh, well that explains it...many thanks for the info

[-] Gormadt@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 years ago

No problem, hopefully 0.18.1 comes out soon as most the instances that haven't upgraded to 0.18 are saying they'll update to that version when it drops.

[-] Pechente@lemmy.ml 4 points 2 years ago

My absolute favorite is https://wefwef.app/ . It’s a simple PWA and it feels just as good as a full app and has a better feature set than other clients for iOS.

[-] g0nz0li0@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

It’s almost bizarre to me how fully featured and polished wefwef.app is. Really amazing.

[-] Steve@lemm.ee 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

Yeah this one is surprisingly good. ~~My only issue, which is a deal breaker, is that I can’t swipe from left edge to right to go back to the posts feed after clicking on a specific post. The back button is at the furthest possible placement from my thumb, so it’s just not that useable.~~

Guess it was my phone getting buggy at the time. This functions normal :)

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[-] HowDoYouDo87@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

Just loaded the testflight of Memmy (thanks to your post) and man, loving it so much so far. It perfectly compliments the site, at least for basic browsing (I haven't tried posting anything other than comments).

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[-] Zols@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago
[-] Zols@lemmy.one 3 points 2 years ago

Never mind it’s back I guess

[-] I_like_cats@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

I'm currently using Liftoff and it is soo much better than Jerboa. It lacks a few features still but jerboa was wayy to buggy for me to use

[-] Zols@lemmy.one 2 points 2 years ago

Mlem has been discontinued

[-] poorsocialskills@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

It hasn’t. The original author decided to back away from the project, and the remaining team members are keeping it going. The original TestFlight got closed, but there’s a new one up now, and changes are progressing.

[-] sam@lemmy.ca 1 points 2 years ago

The webapp on android has been the best for me.

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