I started off using voyager, swapped to mlem because of slight differences I preferred. Recently found out Thunder for Lemmy is available on the apple appstore and it instantly became my favorite. I like how unique the ui is compared to other, it seems better suited for browsing and posting on Lemmy, while the others feel better for the initial transition from Reddit. Very suprised it has barely any downloads or reviews when its easily the best Lemmy app on IOS.
Thunder reminds me of the more “modern” alternative front ends for lemmy some sites have while mlem and vyager feel more like the alternative reddit apps (blue alien) and give a similar experience.
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I use Voyager on Android. It’s a quality app that just works. On my iPad I use a safari plug in called sink-it.
I was swapping back and forth between that and mlem for a while, I like the custom interaction bar in mlem. Feels nice to finetune, but voyager just works and has plenty of settings to get the necessary customizations. I like that the issue for me is that they are all good, so I just end up using them all.
I’m stuck with voyager now that I’ve invested lots of time into their tagging system.
I’m a bit confused. Looking at the App Store Sink it appears to only be for Reddit/Twitter and not Lemmy or am I missing something?
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https://www.lemmyapps.com/ has a “rating” column, to be compared with “last release”
Sync on Android. I’ll go down with the ship, I guess. If ljdawson never comes back I’ll be forced to look into other options eventually, but for now it still works, despite some bugs. It just looks and feels the best to me, and I’ve yet to find another app that can exactly replicate how I have it set up.
Excellent, just the example I needed to prevent me from examining my own use of Sync. I picked it up straight off of RiF and it’s been mostly fine. Spoilers rarely work and sometimes it just straight up can’t “fetch the image,” but I can do the things I care about, like downvoting and making ad hominem attacks. 10 out of 10 for me.
[…] like downvoting and making ad hominem attacks.
Thunder can be used for that too, you blithering imbecile.
(Sync alumnus, only on Thunder because I moved to iOS. Sync is still the best 😢)
Thanks, dumbass! 🤣
I’m in the same boat. The ads have become terrible for me so I’m in the market for a new app anyway. I was hesitant to purchase a subscription because of the low number of releases.
Glad I didn’t
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I used it until recently thinking the same, but it just became too broken for me. I’m on thunder now and I got it to work exactly the way I used sync and everything seems to actually be working.
I was a Sync user on Reddit. Thunder has reproduced that feel for me here. The one place it didn’t I contributed (2-column tablet mode)
Voyager on Android is the best.
Voyager on iOS. It’s the best for my use case and I like the UI the most.
Have you tried Arctic?
Boost 🚀💪
Boost on Android for me as well
Same. I used it for so long on reddit that I jumped as soon as the Lemmy version was available.
Yup, this right here. Will consider the ad-free experience if Lemmy ever grows its fledgling user base.
Hasn’t been updated for a while unfortunately.
Apollo was the best Reddit app on iPhone. Voyager continues its legacy
I loved Apollo! I randomly chose Voyager as my first introduction to Lemmy and it’s been great so far
Thunder on Android. Alexandrite on PC.
Absolutely Thunder for android. Easy, customizable, and is very similar to the app I used for reddit called Relay. Dunno how an apk could be better for using Lemmy.
Connect for Android was my jam, but now that I’m on Mbin I’m liking Interstellar (which also works with Lemmy).
Connect is the most like the reddit is fun client. How i like to shitpost and see content
Boost, it was the perfect Reddit client for me and now it’s the perfect Lemmy client, I didn’t have to sacrifice any aspect of the experience.
God I love you, Boost my beloved 😍
I’m on Android. It’ll be a cold day in hell before I give Steve Jobs a penny.
Steve Jobs is already in hell though, he ain’t getting your money either way
Same here
I’m using Eternity, I haven’t tried more so I can’t compare, but I liked Eternity enough to don’t have the need to try others.
I already used Infinity for Reddit (which Eternity is based on) so it made the migration from Reddit to Lemmy really smooth for me.
I like Eternity but i have two problems with it:
Cannot upload images from the app
It doesn’t format spoilers properly
Summit is my favorite after testing Thunder, jerboa and Boost.
I’ve tried almost every Android app for Lemmy, and holy heck, do I love Summit the most. It does everything I need it to and more. It looks great. It’s responsive. And the dev is amazing. They respond to bugs, issues, and feature requests lightning fast. No ads. Not FOSS, which is the only thing I’ve seen anyone gripe about.
Been using it almost exclusively for a year or so now, and I can’t praise it enough.
Using Summit on Android. I tried Thunder and Jerboa, but Summit has been the best.
Arctic on iOS; prefer it to Voyager, Mlem, and Thunder due to having more customization options.
It also feels more natural. It seems it was actually written in swift. Other apps feel like they were written in some framework, which causes inconsistencies from the rest of iOS.
It’s also in constant development. I’m on the TestFlight and contribute via bug reports if I find any. I love seeing the new updates.
I tried it for a while, but it left the rotation, I barely checked the customization options on that one tho, ill give it another try, when I had media not shwoing up or working on the other apps it still worked in Arctic everytime.
Something that only it seems to have, versus the others I compared it to, is a “headline” view for the feed. It’s essentially an extra compact version of the compact view, putting the post’s community name in line with the upvote, downvote, comment counts and post age. Only saves a bit of space compared to the comparison I made a few minutes ago in trying Thunder’s compact view, but most of all it makes the feed less cluttered, in my opinion.
I enjoy customization more than using stuff sometimes, so I’m really enjoying all the options these apps have, voyagers got relatively less customization but I like that too, kinda like both extremes of heavy customization and being forced to use a certain ui thats been optimized.
Haven’t looked around for a while, but I’ve settled on Voyager.
https://github.com/aeharding/voyager#readme
Sadly, F-Droid tries to share the actual binary not a link to it via F-Droid (a la Google Play).
I have the reference application, Jeroba, installed but I don’t really like it and haven’t seen it updated for a while.
I like how the thunder app shows what update the instances you are logged into are on, lemmy.world is so far behind the others lol
