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A home for discussion of Lemmy apps and tools for all platforms.

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An extensive list of Lemmy apps is available here:

LemmyApps.com

or lemmyapps.netlify.app

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Lemmy Apps Directory

The following is a directory of current Lemmy apps. This list includes apps that have released in the last 6 months, or have been confirmed to be in active development, with the most recent at the top. You can find a list including older apps here (unmaintained apps may have security or compatibility issues). The open source symbol indicates that an app is FOSS.

Android

icon Eternity open source
Source !eternityapp@lemdro.id Play Store
0.2.0 2024-08-06 F-Droid

A client for Lemmy, specifically designed for Android and written in Java. This project is a fork of the Infinity for Reddit project, and it is currently in the early stages of development. As such, expect many unfinished features and potential bugs!

Dev: @bazsalanszky@lemmy.toldi.eu

icon Voyager open source
Source !voyagerapp@lemmy.world Play Store
2.15.0 2024-08-06 F-Droid

Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too. Please feel free to try it out!

Dev: @aeharding@lemmy.world

icon Summit
Github !summit@lemmy.world Play Store
1.39.0 2024-08-04

Summit is an app for Lemmy that enables you to explore hundreds of communities with ease. Summit is optimized for Android and offers a smooth browsing experience.

Dev: @idunnololz@lemmy.world

icon Connect
!lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca Play Store
1.0.187 2024-08-02 APKPure

A native application for browsing the social platform Lemmy and the Fediverse.

Dev: @kuro_neko@lemmy.ca

icon Jerboa (Official Android client) open source
Source !jerboa@lemmy.ml Play Store
0.0.71-alpha 2024-07-15 F-Droid

Jerboa for Lemmy An app for Lemmy, a federated reddit alternative. Jerboa is an app for Lemmy, a federated reddit alternative. Jerboa is made by Lemmy's developers, and is free, open-source software, meaning no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital, ever. Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse.

Dev: @dessalines@lemmy.ml

icon Boost
!boostforlemmy@lemmy.world Play Store
1.0.14 2024-07-14

Boost for Lemmy is designed to provide a seamless browsing experience for the decentralized social platform Lemmy and the Fediverse.

Dev: @rmayayo@lemmy.world

icon Racoon open source
Source !raccoonforlemmyapp@lemmy.world
** 1.12.1** 2024-07-13 GitHub Release

Raccoon for Lemmy is a client for the federated aggregation and discussion platform Lemmy. The project started as an exercise to play around with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) and Compose multiplatform and gradually grew as a fully functional client with many features.

Dev: @ akesi_seli@lemmy.world

icon Thunder open source
Source !thunder_app@lemmy.world Play Store
0.4.0 2024-05-30 IzzyOnDroid

Thunder is a fully open source, cross-platform, community-driven project available on GitHub. Fully free of advertisements and trackers. Thunder is still very early on in development and many more features are yet to be available!

Dev: @darklightxi@lemmy.world

icon Sync
GitHub !syncforlemmy@lemmy.world Play Store
24.03.12-19:36 2024-03-12

A beautiful Lemmy app for browsing Lemmy on the go!

Dev: @ljdawson@lemmy.world

icon Interstellar open source
Source Play Store
0.4.0 2024-02-29 Flathub

An app for Kbin, Mbin, and Lemmy; connecting you to the fediverse.

Dev: @jwr1@kbin.earth

iOS

icon Voyager open source
Source !voyagerapp@lemmy.world App Store
2.15.0 2024-08-06

Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too. Please feel free to try it out!

Dev: @aeharding@lemmy.world

icon Arctic
Website !arctic@lemmy.world App Store
1.1 2024-06-11 TestFlight

Arctic For Lemmy is a free and native iOS client for Lemmy. In the spirit of the Fediverse, Arctic is completely free and private. No data of any kind will be collected from your device, and no pesky advertisements, Ever. Arctic was built specifically for iOS and runs natively on pure Swift. Enjoy browsing feeds with embedded content that keeps you out of the browser, and in the app. Engage in the conversation using the rich markdown editor, and intuitive post composer

Dev: @CreatureSurvive@lemmy.world

icon Thunder open source
Source !thunder_app@lemmy.world App Store
0.4.0 2024-05-30

Thunder is a fully open source, cross-platform, community-driven project available on GitHub. Fully free of advertisements and trackers. Thunder is still very early on in development and many more features are yet to be available!

Dev: @darklightxi@lemmy.world

icon Mlem open source
Source !mlemapp@lemmy.ml App Store
1.3 2024-05-05 Website

Mlem is the first native SwiftUI Lemmy client on the AppStore. It feels right at home on your iPhone (and soon iPad and Mac). With tons of options for customizing your your experience.

Dev: @ericbandrews@lemmy.ml

icon Lemmios
!lemmiosapp@lemmy.world App Store
1.8 2024-02-27 TestFlight

Lemmios is a client built for Lemmy. Discover and browse through all parts of the fediverse in an intuitive way.

Dev: @mrlavallee@lemmy.world

Linux

icon Neon Modem Overdrive open source
Source Site
v1.0.5 2024-05-28 GitHub Release

BBS-style command line client that supports Discourse, Lemmy, Lobsters and Hacker News

Web

icon Voyager open source
Source !voyagerapp@lemmy.world Web UI
2.15.0 2024-08-06

Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too. Please feel free to try it out!

Dev: @aeharding@lemmy.world

icon Quiblr
!quiblr@lemmy.world Web UI
2.1.0 2024-08-03

Quiblr aims to build an intuitive, accessible, and modern interface to connect users to the fediverse.

Dev: @Aurelius@lemmy.world

icon Tesseract open source
Source !tesseract@dubvee.org Web UI
1.4.6 2024-08-03

Formerly Tesseract for Lemmy. Now “Tesseract for Sublinks” Development is now targeting the upcoming Sublinks project. As Sublinks aims to provide initial compatibility with Lemmy, Tesseract will continue to work with Lemmy for the foreseeable future. Once the Sublinks project moves into its native API phase, Lemmy support will be dropped from Tesseract.

Dev: @ptz@dubvee.org

icon Photon open source
Source !Photon@lemdro.id Web UI
1.31.1-fix.1 2024-07-25

An sleek web client for Lemmy using mono-ui, a custom design system.

Dev: @Xylight@lemdro.id

icon mlmym open source
Source Web UI
0.0.50 2024-07-21

a familiar desktop experience for lemmy.

Dev: @

icon Lemmuy-UI open source
Source !lemmy@lemmy.ml Web UI
0.19.5 2024-06-19

The official web app for Lemmy, written in inferno. Based off of MrFoxPro's inferno-isomorphic-template.

Dev: @dessalines@lemmy.ml

icon Alexandrite open source
Source !alexandrite@lemmy.world Web UI
0.8.13 2024-03-04

Alexandrite is a desktop-first alternative Lemmy client.

Dev: @sheodox@lemmy.world

icon Lemmynade
Site !lemmynade@lemm.ee Web UI
Alpha v4 2/23/2024

Lemmynade is the refreshing web app for Lemmy, currently in development. The goal is to make Lemmy more powerful, approachable, useable, and sustainable. Follow !lemmynade@lemm.ee for announcements and updates

Dev: @silas@programming.dev

~Updated 2024-08-05~

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UPDATE! Now 30% of Lemmy Apps display posts accurately (lemmy.world)
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Updated! Updates are shown in quote text like this. Some scores are updated following app updates.

An Apps Experiment

Introduction

This is an experiment I performed out of curiosity, and I have a few big disclaimers at the bottom. Basically, I've seen a lot of comments recently about one app or another not displaying something right. Lemmy has been around for a while now and can no longer be considered an experimental platform.

Lemmy and the apps that people use to access the platform have become an important part of people’s lives. Whether you are checking the app weekly or daily, and whether you use it to stay up on the news or to stay connected to your hobby, it’s important that it works. I hope that this helps people to see the extent of the challenge, and encourages developers to improve their apps, too.

How I did it

I wanted to investigate objectively how accurately each app displays text of posts and comments using the standard Lemmy markdown. Markdown is a standard part of the Lemmy platform, but not all apps handle it the same. It is basically what gives text useful formatting.

I used the latest release of each app, but did not include pre-releases. I only included apps that have released an update in the last 6 months, which should include most apps in active development. ~~I was unable to test iOS-exclusive apps, so they are not included either. In all, 16 apps met the inclusion criteria.~~

I also added Eternity, which is in active development, although it has not had a recent update. I was able to include several iOS apps thanks to testing from @jordanlund@lemmy.world – Thanks, Jordan! This made for 20 apps that were tested.

Each app was rated in 5 categories: Text, Format, Spoilers, Links, and Images. I chose these mostly based on the wonderful Markdown Guide from @marvin@sffa.community, which was posted about a year ago in !meta@sffa.community (here).

I checked whether each app correctly displayed each category, then took the overall average. Each category was weighted equally. Text includes italic, bold, strong, strikethrough, superscript, and subscript. Format includes block quotes, lists, code (block and inline), tables, and dividers. Spoilers includes display of hidden, expandable spoilers. Links includes external links, username links, and community links. Images included embedded images, image references, and inline images.

Thanks to input from others, I also added a test to see if lemmy hyperlinks opened in-app. There was a problem with using the SFFA Community Guide that caused some apps to be essentially penalized twice because there was formatting inside formatting, so I created this TEST POST to more clearly and fairly measure each app.

In each case, I checked whether the display was correct based on the rules for Lemmy Markdown, and consistent with the author’s intent. In cases where the app recognized the tag correctly but did not display it accurately, that was treated as a fail.

Results

Out of a possible perfect 10, 7 apps displayed all markdown correctly:

Alexandrite - 10.0

Connect - 10.0

Jerboa (Official Android client) - 10.0

Photon - 10.0

Quiblr - 10.0

Summit - 10.0

Voyager - 10.0

Arctic - 9.3

Interstellar - 9.1

Lemmuy-UI - 9.0

Thunder - 8.9

Tesseract - 8.6

mlmym - 8.0

Racoon - 7.6

Boost - 7.3

Eternity - 7.0

Lemmios - 6.9

Sync - 6.9

Lemmynade - 6.1

Avelon - 5.7

More details of testing here

Disclaimers

Disclaimers

I Love Lemmy Apps (and their devs)

Lemmy apps devs work very hard, and invest a lot in the platform. Lemmy is better because they are doing the work that they do. Like, a LOT better. Everyone who uses the platform has to access it through one app or another. Apps are the face of the entire platform. Whether an app is a FOSS passion project, underwritten by a grant, or generating income through sales or ads, no one is getting rich by making their app. It is for the benefit of the community.

This is not meant to be a rating of the quality or functionality of any app. An app may have a high rating here but be missing other features that users want, or users may love an app that has a lower rating. This is just about how well apps handle markdown.

This is pretty unscientific

You’ll see my methodology above. I’m not a scientist. There is probably a much better way to do this, and I probably have biases in terms of how I went about it. I think it’s interesting and probably has some valuable information. If you think it’s interesting, let me know. If you think of a better way, PM me and I’d be happy to share what I have so you don’t have to start from scratch.

My only goal is to help the community

I do think that accurately displaying markdown should be a standard expectation of a finished app. I hope that devs use this as an opportunity to shore up the areas that are lagging, and that they have a set of standards to aim for.

~~I don’t have any Apple things~~

~~Sorry. This is just Android and Web review. If someone would like to see how iOS apps are doing, please reach out and I’ll share how we can work together to include them.~~