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?
Sync. Customizable, pretty, working without issues, dev keeps on updating. Really good app…
Boost is also great.
Summit is the best option I’ve found, to replace RIF that I used to use back when I was using reddit.
Ouch, so sad only one mention of Summit. I was on Boost for Reddit, and then Liftoff here until that died. Boost development was going slow it felt like, and I just didn’t feel the workflow was what I got used to posting to Lemmy.
Summit felt great to me, has a ton of great features, and the dev is super responsive and has incorporated many of my requests and has fixed bugs I’ve reported very quickly. I love me some Summit for sure and I don’t know why it’s gone relatively unnoticed.
I haven’t really played around with anything else since Sync for Lemmy was released, because I’m perfectly happy with it.
I’m using Mlem, and it’s worked good so far
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(edit, I was mistaken: they just released a pre release).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 use Jebora and am happy, is there something important I’m missing? I was a Reddit is Fun user before and I like both because of how simple and basic they are. I hated the official reddit app for the reasons above.
Edit: the one thing I don’t like is you can’t, or I don’t know how, to collapse all child comments.
All child comments, the entire post. It makes finding things easier then going into the replys if I want to. Usually child comments are less helpful.
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.
- Really good markdown rendering (I’ve seen it render things that the other “big” apps miss.
- The agility to post and (soon) comment as any of your logged-in accounts.
- Notifications for inbox messages, soon to be integrated with UnifiedPush.
- Really good Lemmy link parsing and in-app navigation.
- Ability to favorite communities.
- Customizable swipe gestures, username and community name formatting and coloring, action colors, etc.
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!
Thanks for your service! I’ve been trying out Thunder and I’m generally happy with it so far.
I tried a lot of them when the reddit exodus was new I settled on voyager and alexandrite. Voyager has a great app (which is just the web page converted to an app) alexandrite doesn’t have an app but it’s has the best experience for me.
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.
The website’s been updated, so we can link to that now.
I used Memmy up until development stopped and now use Voyager. It feels the most like Apollo did so it’s got my vote for best app
Thank you for pointing this out! I was using Memmy because it was first on the App Store but have since switched back to Mlem (which I did beta for). It is a hell of a lot more fresh on features!
I’ve been using Eternity for probably nine of these months
Jerboa
Using it since it’s the app from a lemmy dev.
It’s decent for my use.
Tho, some option simulating the multireddit option would be good. But it might be becoming a feature request for lemmy than a lemmy app there.Does it save drafts yet? That was my reason to switch to boost.
Lost too many typed comments to this.
Don’t know about Jerboa, but Thunder has been saving drafts for a while now.
I personally use Thunder. It looks great.
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 my 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 !thunder@lemmy.world community and ask about it.
👍 thank you
Thunder. It feels most similar to what I used back when I was still using Reddit.
I am fully on the Sync train. It does get a lot of hate here because it’s not FOSS, but it was the best app around for Reddit, and the dev converted it for Lemmy. It’s so far above and beyond everything else that I’m happy to pay for it. There’s a free version with ads, and there’s the expensive paid upgrade ($20). The dev regularly disappears for months, but when he surfaces, he’ll roll out a massive amount of bug fixes and features.
If you’re running a pi hole, the free version is ad free too
Why do you assume you’ll be downvoted by sync users instead of because revanced sucks ass? It’s hard to set up and will randomly break requiring resetup (Hopefully I don’t get downvoted by revanced user)
+1
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.
Shout-out for boost
Android app store says this shares purchases, location info, device ID and app interactions with 3rd parties… Voyager shares no data with 3rd parties.
If you pay for boost, it does not share any info with 3rd parties.
Do you have a source for this? I don’t doubt you, but I can’t find anything online that corroborates it.
Only if you use the free version with ads… which I wouldn’t recommend. Paid version doesnt do any of these things.
Ayyyyyy
I use boost and voyager
