Which lemmy app for android do you use and why?

  • Evkob@lemmy.ca
    25·
    10 months ago

    So far, out of the suggestions in the comments, the only ones that are FOSS and currently work with the latest versions of lemmy are Jerboa, Thunder, and Voyager. Liftoff and Eternity are also FOSS, but haven’t been updated since July and October respectively, so may have issues if your instance is running version 0.19+.

    Boost and Sync are both closed source and I really wish people would stop recommending them in a community specifically for free and open-source software. I’m sure they’re good apps and I don’t begrudge devs making money from their work, but if they do I don’t want them getting free advertising in the comments of a FOSS-specific community.

    • huginn@feddit.it
      5·
      10 months ago

      When the title is “best Lemmy app” and the body is just “which Lemmy app do you use for Android and why” you can understand why someone would just scroll through and contribute their experience with Sync right?

      Just like every other link aggregator: people on All don’t pay attention to the specific community.

      It’s not malice, just people being oblivious. It’s not worth getting worked up about.

      • Evkob@lemmy.ca
        4·
        10 months ago

        I definitely can understand it, but that isn’t mutually exclusive with me wishing people would take a second to check the community they’re commenting in.

        I’ve never implied it was malice (suggesting closed-source software in a FOSS community is a pretty weak example in maliciousness even if on purpose!) And really I wouldn’t say I’m worked up, I just wanted to bring this up because I’ve noticed this type of thing happen across a couple FOSS communities on lemmy and maybe someone will see my original comment and be more mindful of it next time.

  • UKFilmNerd@feddit.ukEnglish
    25·
    10 months ago

    Thunder is my main app and it’s updated regularly as well. Jerboa is my second choice because that’s the “official” Lemmy app.

    I was a big fan of LiftOff!, unfortunately, the developer had twins back in the summer and understandably, the app hasn’t been updated since.

  • MoLoPoLY@discuss.tchncs.de
    15·
    10 months ago
    • Eternity, but clicking in an Notification E-Mail on the Lemmy Inbox link, does not open Eternity on the Inbox.
    • Voyager is also fine, but i has strange look on Android, looks more like made for Apple.
    • Jerboa is nice to, but lacks options to change the fonts
    • Sync for Lemmy is nice, but its closed source and has ads (can be removed when you pay enough 20,99€)
    • Some other apps in the Playstore, but most of them are not worth to use them
    • Thunder seems to be nice, but I really miss ‘Mark as read on scroll’ feature, which is very important for me
    • there is ‘Commit for Lemmy’ on the play store, most features I want are there but a) its not available on F-Droid and b) crash from time to time
    • ‘Boost for Lemmy’ looks really nice. I couldn’t find a setting for ‘Mark as read on scroll’. Maybe it’s enabled by default. If that’s true, I would keep this app. There is a option to remove ads for 3.59€ which is a fine for me. But I have not seen any ad as of now. Be aware that there are 6 Trackers in this app, but since I use PiHole, it’s not really important for me.

    Currently im using mostly Eternity and hope that some bugs get sorted out sooner or later. But Boost would be good next candidate, if ‘Mark as read on scroll’ is supported. Arch f not, the next best alternative is Jerboa.

    • MoLoPoLY@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      10 months ago

      Small update to my list: Boost has no ‘Mark as read on scroll’ feature, only some people reqeusting this. But it seems its not planned as of yet. So i tend to keep Infinity.

  • Uninvited Guest@lemmy.ca
    15·
    10 months ago

    I’ve kept coming back to Voyager. The main draw is the functionality marking posts read on scroll, hiding read posts, and otherwise being feature complete (nothing broken as far as I can tell, and is keeps up with Lemmy updates).

  • Artyom@lemm.ee
    11·
    10 months ago

    Voyager. It’s the only one with a “hide posts I’ve already read” button that I’ve tried, and any app without that button isn’t worth even comparing to.

    Oh yeah, there’s also an option to make All exclude communities you’re subbed to, which makes it way easier to discover new communities.

  • Cwilliams@beehaw.org
    11·
    10 months ago

    Voyager is nice. It does look a little weird on android, but it’s kind of a nice look, imho

  • words_number@programming.dev
    7·
    10 months ago

    I tried jerboa, voyager (formally known as wefwef) and eternity and settled for voyager. It just feels very smooth, has all the functionality I need and looks clean. No reason to look further for me.

  • Morethanevil@lemmy.fedifriends.social
    5·
    10 months ago

    I tried a few, started with liftoff.

    Liftoff was okay, but UI was not my case

    Never get warm with Voyager

    Connect was okay

    Eternity was pretty good, best IMO for open source

    Now I bought Boost and never regret it. Feels best for me

    • averyminya@beehaw.org
      5·
      10 months ago

      I think Boost gets recommended often for good reason. Even if it isn’t using existing code, design-wise it likely still would be the furthest developed Lemmy app since he’s worked on the Boost for Reddit app for so long.

      As of right now, I think it may only be missing specifically hide on read. However it does have mark and dim on read in the settings, and for now the Mute dialogue option is a fine alternative.

      Unfortunately it’s not FOSS, but it’s just a single dev from Portugal and paying for the app removes any tracking present from the ads.

  • Troy@lemmy.ca
    4·
    10 months ago

    I use Connect for Lemmy. It’s as free, but closed source. The developer is available and fairly responsive in [email protected]

    I recommend opting into the beta version on the Playstore to get some features a little earlier. For example, Lemmy 0.19 introduces the new Scaled and Controversial sort options, which are amazing – particularly Scaled if you’re subscribed to smaller communities. However, Connect for Lemmy only has that sort option in the beta at the moment.

    The only thing I don’t like is that you cannot paste images from the clipboard into comments.

    • The_Worst@feddit.nl
      2·
      10 months ago

      That’s the only downside of Connect currently. Development is pretty slow. App is mostly working fine but it has a few small annoying bugs.