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I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but i'm new to Lemmy and looking for a good client to use it with. I've been using Sync which is what i used to use with Reddit but i've noticed that it isn't getting updates now. Any other good mobile apps I can usr Lemmy with?

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[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 104 points 1 week ago (13 children)
[–] Az_1@lemmy.world 15 points 1 week ago (2 children)

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.

[–] end0fline@piefed.social 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)

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

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[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

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.

[–] Az_1@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

I think they do that so it can be accessed on as many platforms as possible. If the dev had to maintain the website and an ios and android app, they'd probably just shut down the android app since it has less users

[–] SlurpingPus@lemmy.world 1 points 15 hours ago* (last edited 12 hours ago)

That's understandable, but the result is what it is. Plus, native apps seem to have built-in remedy for being kicked out of the memory, in that the stack of activities is remembered and the input is kept, so after a brief loading screen I'm back to where I was and can back out through the previous screens too. Voyager should probably explicitly implement something like this.

[–] kudra@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm quite happy with Voyager, never used anything else.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago (3 children)

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.

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[–] ZebraGoose@sh.itjust.works 37 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Im using Summit. Its really nice and the developer is active and listens to the community!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idunnololz.summit

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 17 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Seconding Summit, it's a good one

[–] ininewcrow@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (1 children)
[–] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Fourth for Summit.

Say what you like, Summit Squad are nothing if not dedicated.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago

Summit is peak!

[–] calamitycastle@lemmy.world 8 points 1 week ago

I replaced Sync which is what I used for Reddit, for Summit. No issues at all and actively developed, unlike Sync. It's clearly taken a lot of inspiration from Sync's feature set and I am very happy with it.

[–] Sunshine@piefed.ca 5 points 1 week ago

That's the client I use alongside Mlem.

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[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 32 points 1 week ago

Thunder. The only one which is FLOSS, on F-Droid, updated, and actually good.

[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

I’m using Voyager — I’m a very superficial user but it gets the job done.

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 21 points 1 week ago
[–] mbirth@lemmy.ml 20 points 1 week ago (4 children)
[–] Az_1@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

I'm on android and the app seems to be iOS only sadly, but thanks anyway. Will remember this one if I ever switch to iOS.

[–] garretble@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

I’m trying this app out now based on your comment, and so far it seems really nice. I may replace Voyager with it as well.

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[–] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 16 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Connect is great, extensive filtering available. I use it as my main and jerboa as backup.

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[–] aarch0x40@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago (9 children)

I’ve been pretty happy with Blorp. They have mobile and web clients available

https://github.com/Blorp-Labs/blorp

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[–] srasmus@slrpnk.net 11 points 1 week ago

May be unpopular, but I haven't found anything that works better than jerboa. It's maintained by the Lemmy devs. It's simple, open source, customizable.

[–] MedicPigBabySaver@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (17 children)

Boost!

The best by far. He had a great app for that other shit site.

Try it, you'll like it. Guarantee.

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[–] xcel@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I use Raccoon. It's on Fdroid. Pretty neat UI :)

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[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Kinda depends on what features in sync made you like it.

Overall, boost, connect, thunder and summit each get close to parity, but only close. But, you could say that in reverse, (that sync only gets close to parity with any of them) it isn't a slight against any of them.

Eternity is another one that I've had good use of, but development on that seems to be stopped as well, so I dunno if that's a useful option.

Past those, you get less similarity in ux and ui than would make sense to compare. Like, the apps that mimic voyager (or whatever the popular iOS reddit app was called), things are laid out so different that if you used sync as a primary, you aren't likely to enjoy that ui.

On a phone, I kinda favor connect over sync, despite it looking very unlike it compared to boost or eternity. But on a tablet, nothing else does double columns in portrait worth a damn for me, and aren't great in landscape either. But boost and eternity come the closest to the visual ease sync has.

The sync visual that's sync

I was going to include screen shots of the ones I have on this tablet, but uploads shit the bed and are being weird after that one. So no promises that I can do them all

boost boost

eternity eternity

connect connect

interstellar and interstellar since it does piefed better than anything else I've tried, and still does lemmy just fine.

Decided to install thunder and summit long enough to give a visual

thunder thunder

summit annnd summit

As you can tell, everyone has a slightly different approach to the UI. But they're even more variable in what settings are available, little niceties, etc. Theming is all over the place from a bare bones light/dark/oled to the relative broad visual options of boost and sync. None of them are bad at all. They're reliable, work even on older devices without bogging them down, and are all easy enough to get going with.

[–] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I tried a few and stuck with Eternity.

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[–] scytale@piefed.zip 9 points 1 week ago

Thunder is cross-platform, and IMO has one of the best looking UIs.

[–] a_person@piefed.social 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Blorp has been amazing for me, thats what I am using rn.

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[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)
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[–] joshg253@piefed.zip 8 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)
[–] pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I use Jerboa, is fine. Haven't tried anything else so don't know what I might be missing.

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[–] atrielienz@lemmy.world 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I use Voyager (and boost, and sync before that). I like Voyager (now that I'm used to it), but I wish the medium sized thumbnails in compact mode were slightly larger.

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[–] Munkisquisher@lemmy.nz 6 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Connect is good for me, don't know what the situation with the dev is though, seems like development might have stopped

[–] kuro_neko@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I'm still here and actively developing :) all the latest updates are on beta while I polish things up. Glad you're liking Connect. Cheers!

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[–] spicehoarder@lemmy.zip 5 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I guess I'm the only one here actively using Boost. I like it. Been using it since long before it was a Lemmy client, haha!

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