What's the best Android/iPhone app for Lemmy? - eviltoast

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  • Lowlands@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Memmy seems like a solid choice, very active development. It has been offered to Apple review last week and should appear in the appstore soon.

    • ivenoidea@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I second Memmy. I’ve tried the others available currently, including wefwef and Memmy is my favorite. wefwef is second, but an actual native app still feels better imo.

      • fraydabson@sopuli.xyz
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        1 year ago

        Agreed. I love wef wef but still has some weirdness being a web app. Memmy is my favorite installed app.

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        1 year ago

        I third Memmy, but the amount of times I’ve gone to close a comment thread and it’s brought up the new comment dialog. And I can’t rotate an image to landscape, had no idea how often I did that. Still, old Apollo habits die hard. It’s a great contender.

    • DooDeeDoo@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Memmy is very polished! I’m astonished how well they’ve designed the app. It’s very familiar to anyone who has used apollo but, dare i say it, better!

    • DigToTheDug@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      I’m currently using Memmy and it’s nice to navigate. Unfortunately, it crashes fairly often for me.

    • phario@lemmy.ca
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      1 year ago

      Seconded Memmy here. I was originally using mlem and Memmy but I’m afraid Memmy has taken the league in my books. Honestly already at this point, it supersedes Apollo in some ways (like customisation of themes).

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      1 year ago

      I’ve been using Sync for a couple of hours and already uninstalled Liftoff and Connect hahaha. Don’t get me wrong they’re both great, but Sync is that much better

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      1 year ago

      It’s unbelievably polished for a first release. Not 100% feature complete mind you, but it’s mind blowing the dev pull this off.

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      1 year ago

      I’m so happy it’s here, made the transition so easy with the effort they made to make the experience so similar to browsing reddit.

    • Senuf@lemmy.ml
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      1 year ago

      Sync and Boost are indeed outstanding, just like they were on Reddit. My two favourites, no doubt about it

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      1 year ago

      I left Reddit when they killed RIF. In Lemmy, I wanted something similar and tried Jerboa and Connect. Those apps didn’t really feel like RIF no matter how much I customized it. Sync really is the definitive replacement for the RIF experience. I gotten my version to look and feel like it exactly.

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      1 year ago

      Sync is the reason I’m here, and the reason why my Reddit account is practically dead. For me, Sync was Reddit, and without it I have no reason to stay.

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    1 year ago

    Not a native app, but i’m using the wefwef web app, and it’s pretty awesome and getting multiple updates a day.

    It’s a web based clone of Apollo

    https://wefwef.app/

    • Deconceptualist@lemm.ee
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      1 year ago

      Wefwef looks nice and I really want to like it but I keep tapping the back button and getting sent all the way back to my communities list, and therefore losing my spot in the scroll. It’s getting old really fast.

      • Lorela@lemmy.world
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        1 year ago

        Me too - it has weird quirks that at this stage may be turning potential users away.

        To be fair though, it’s something that’s been put together very quickly. I think it’s had 2 updates even just in the last 24hrs, to resolve some of these teething problems (and accidentally introducing more). I’m happy to stick with it and be patient; it’s still in beta and would be unreasonable to expect a fully functional product at this point.

        Some frustrations will also be coming from the decentralised nature of Lemmy. I’ve noticed issues with using my lemmy.world account or looking for content on lemmy.world from a different instance, and this isn’t really a fault of wefwef or anyone to be honest (as .world is really struggling with excess load atm). It’s early days, it’s going to be rough, we just need to be patient and mindful.

      • Gamma@beehaw.org
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        1 year ago

        They are actually planning on submitting to the App Store, but it’s still going to be a pwa

    • LazaroFilm@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Wefwef is now Voyager and has native apps for iOS and android as well as web app (WEP) and yes it’s still the best option imo

  • kuneho@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    for Android I think Connect for Lemmy is the best around. also, it gets literally better day to day since the dev is following the app’s community and fixes bugs, implements things from there super rapidly.

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      1 year ago

      By far the best interface on android so far. Looking forward to Sync for Lemmy and Boost for Lemmy as well.

    • WackyTabbacy42069@reddthat.com
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      1 year ago

      Using it right now. Very nice interface, especially comment field

      I love the formatting tools

      that are placed at the bottom

      And enable easy text fancification

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      1 year ago

      I agree. So far it’s the best one I’ve used on Android. It has things like settings for font sizes.

      UPDATE: I find myself using Liftoff more now. I couldn’t exactly tell you why. The only things it’s missing is an option to make the comment font larger.

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          1 year ago

          Ah I see. I don’t have access to that store. And connect is not on f-droid store because ot’s closed source. I wonder why using a closed source lemmy app if we have open ones.

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              1 year ago

              It is becoming each day more critical to choose open source over closed source. It’s a matter of security, privacy and concentration of power

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      1 year ago

      I love eternity! Although it’s probably because I was so used to infinity beforehand.

      I tried jerboa and liftoff as well and they were fine, but eternity just has that familiar feel

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    1 year ago

    It was previously my least favorite android option, but Jerboa is coming together nicely.

    I also have Thunder and liftoff installed. I bounce between all 3.

    I’ll most likely be jumping to Boost if/when that comes out because I’m just so used to it.

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        There is a search on bottom. Search a name then switch to community tab. Or just select it from posts.

        Only thing, it cant search more than one instance at once (I think). Otherwise best app imo

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      1 year ago

      So I just got here to Lemmy, and only briefly have checked out some of the apps, but Connect is my favorite so far. It looks good and let’s me hide posts.

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    1 year ago

    On Android, definitely Sync. Yes, it has ads, but they’re way less obnoxious than the ones on the official Reddit app, so I will keep putting up with them and u/Spez can go fuck himself.