Best Lemmy App in 2024
Now that the Reddit exodus is about a year old and the client apps have matured, what’s the latest state of the above question? What app do you use and why? I’m mainly interested in Android but suggestions for other platforms are also welcome. And if you are using multiple platforms, what’s your primary one?
I cannot understand why anyone would use an app with Ads when connect has none and it’s free! After getting used to no ads, pure content, I would hate to go back.
I used to use boost for Reddit, but I’m securely in the connect camp now.
Yep, nothing beats Sync, although the other existing apps are great, and have been great since the beginning if you ask me.
If you wanna know why I chose Sync instead of any other app is because the damn app can survive even the worse ROM you use and it doesn’t matter how atrocious your RAM management is, you are likely never gonna miss the position you left when you minimize and open other apps.
The app basically saves the state where you were and it is highly unlikely that you lose the track of it, even on aggressive RAM management ROMs like MIUI, it still stands better than the others, I experienced the same with Sync for Reddit.
I have typed a longer comment before and then accidentally pressed the “back” button on my smartphone before I posted it. The comment was sadly lost and the time I invested was wasted. I haven’t seen an option, which I could enable, such that Jerboa would show me a prompt whether I really want to go back, if I haven’t posted the comment yet. Did I miss it? If not, feel invited to see this as a feature request. (:
“Trust me bro” from the developer pretty much.
I think it makes sense, they’re a small developer and it’s all stuff I’d expect from the ad networks so if you get premium you also kill the ads and therefore the data collection.
Sync. Customizable, pretty, working without issues, dev keeps on updating. Really good app…
Boost is also great.
In the beginning, it was a mix of LiftOff! and Jerboa. The dev of LiftOff! had twins and understandably, he hasn’t returned and the app has fallen to the wayside.
So I tried Thunder (available on Android and iOS) and it’s been really good, lots of regular updates and features as well.
Also Thunder.
But then, I’m biased af.
Thunder was my first and I loved everything about it except tap-iPhone-lens-area-to-scroll-to-top being absent (or me being an idiot) had me switch.
I should try it again.
I’m on the dev team. Hence by bias :D
You can set the FAB to be a back to top button, and in the feed, tapping the feed tab button again while already on the feed tab, will scroll back to top.
I’m an android user myself, so i’m not sure what the gesture you’re used to entails, but as the code for scrolling back to top is already in, adding another way to trigger it might be simple. You could hop over to the github or the [email protected] community and ask about it.
It has my favorite user interface, but I feel that it bogs down after viewing a series of images. I also feel that development has stalled a bit.
I haven’t found a better one, though. Next best so far has been Racoon.
Image caching is something that has had to have been tuned over time. It can be really RAM hungry but at the same time it can be dumb to re-download images if you have the RAM to spare.
Latest versions no longer cache a lot of images, but aggressive caching can still be enabled in settings.
I will admit I am very biased as a contributor to Thunder. I’m not an expert on all clients but Thunder has some super cool features.
And these are just some of the recent things on the top of my head! I’m sure others can chime in with things I missed!
I don’t know how, to collapse all child comments.
Do you mean for the entire post? Or do you mean per comment?
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Android user.
I used Liftoff until it broke with the API change a couple months back. The Dev has been AFK looking after twin kids. Hope they are going well.
Tried Thunder for a while but it kept crashing or forgetting what post I was looking at when switching between apps.
Using Voyager now and I am quite happy with it. I miss the All servers you have accounts with feed view from Liftoff but that is not a biggie.
Early on I tried out other apps and they looked snappier and had many features but none I used.
Jerboa though has always worked and by default everything works exactly as I want and expect. So for me it can’t be beaten.
Jerboa went though a period time relatively early on in it’s development when it was a buggy, nearly unusable mess. It started out cool, then it shit the bed, and now I guess it’s cool again lol.
Unfortunately I didn’t wait for it to get good again at the time and I ended up switching to wefwef, which has now been renamed Voyager. Voyager never really went though a buggy period on my end as an Android user.
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