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 voyager feel more like the alternative reddit apps (blue alien) and give a similar experience.
On desktop, I’ve been using Friendica.
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was using Sync, just installed Voyager today, still have to see which I like better.
I’m quite happy with Jerboa on GrapheneOS, and on desktop I prefer to visit Lemmy via Tesseract.
I just started using phtn.app on desktop, saw it on a lemmy comment recently, supports multiple account login, havent tried tesseract on desktop, was setting up a friendica, but got lazy (like how you see comments along with the post on the feed, but you gotta manually sub to everything)
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’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?
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.
The user tagging and vote counter is the no.1 Voyager feature for me that isn’t on any other app as far as I know.
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 like Eternity but i have two problems with it:
Cannot upload images from the app
It doesn’t format spoilers properlyCannot upload images from the app
Like in comments or?
Comments, yes. In Thunder there’s a button and you just do a press.
You actually can, just scroll left when formating the comment.
BRUH WHAT THE FUCK IS THIS
HOW DID I NOT FIGURE THIS OUT
I already used Infinity for Reddit (which Eternity is based on) so it made the migration from Reddit to Lemmy really smooth for me.
Same, tried voyager for a while but came back to this because I love the UI of it.
https://www.lemmyapps.com/ has a “rating” column, to be compared with “last release”
Arctic on iOS; prefer it to Voyager, Mlem, and Thunder due to having more customization options.
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, 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.
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.
On desktop, either the vanilla PWA for Lemmy, or alexandrite.app. I Really like alexandrite.
On the phone, I flip between Thunder, Summit, Sync, and Connect. Gotta keep a tab on how they develop, and I like them all, for different reasons.
Edit: my current preferred client on mobile is Thunder. Like you say, it feels like a modern way of browsing Lemmy, it’s really good.
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.
Voyager on Android is the best.
Boost in Android works reliably. I haven’t really used anything else.
I have used others and to me nothing else has the right blend of stability, performance, good defaults, and ability to customize. Boost is best on android.
Summit is my favorite after testing Thunder, jerboa and Boost.
Using Summit on Android. I tried Thunder and Jerboa, but Summit has been the best.
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.
Thank you guys so much 🥲
I seriously worry about coming off creepy or insincere, or else I would shower you with praise more constantly! Your app has made my experience here so much better, and I’m grateful for the things you’ve added to it, sometimes I’m sure, just for me.
You’ve always been really friendly and helpful and lightning fast fixing any issues, and you obviously put a lot of time and work into developing and maintaining the app, and you don’t ask for money or have ads or anything.
None of the other apps are bad or anything, but I still think yours offers the most and the best for me, and how I don’t see Summit near the top of every best Lemmy app posts is crazy to me.
Eternity
I downloaded thunder and voyager. The cards are way too small on thunder so I’m using voyager.
You can make them fullsize? They can take up your whole screen if you want in thunder lol
I was a RIF user and therefore Jerboa comes naturally to me.
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.
