Android @lemmy.world

2y ago

What's your lemmy app of choice?

I'm currently using Jerboa but curious to know whether any of the ones popping up are a better experience!

124 comments

Sync for Lemmy but it's a bit basic right now
- Flexing on people
- wow what a flex 😂
- Wait... Is this posted from Sync for lemmy? 😍😍😍 I can't wait!
- That was mean... And awesome!
  Any chance for alpha/internal testers like we were on the Sync for Reddit?
  Wink, wink!
  Cheers brother! Nice to see you around here.
- Nice flex.
- I was a little bit confused until I saw your name

Connect for Lemmy.
It's being updated to add features and fix bugs pretty much daily. Which means it is improving at a crazy speed.
It's come a long way since I first started using it - about 3 days ago!
- Another (mostly) happy Connect user here! It's crazy the blistering pace at which the Dev keeps pumping out updates. I keep alternating between Connect and Thunder. I think Liftoff still needs some UI polish and it doesn't handle jumping to communities in different instances very gracefully.
- Connect here too. Jerboa kept crashing on me. When it did load it couldn't connect. When it could connect it wouldn't load in icons and left some posts blank.
- Right?? if the dev keeps going as strong as it's been so far I can see Connect being a competent option even after Sync Launches.

I'm using liftoff until sync is released

Jerboa, Thunder, and Liftoff.
Jerboa is the most complete, but it's not very good... It's slow and the UI is very bland.
Thunder is great, and has some very nice features. It's still pretty buggy though.
Liftoff might be the best out of these 3, but there's some very bad bugs/problems when dealing with separate instances.
IMO. I use Lemmy on desktop most of the time anyways.
- Liftoff for me. Really happy with it.

Connect for Lemmy on Android.
Jerboa had too many breaking bugs for me.
- I'm testing connect right now and so far it works very well. Unfortunately Jerboa crashed for me all the time since the last update. I'm still hoping for a bacon reader version for Lemmy.

i like liftoff it's like Infinity for reddit

Honestly, not sure at this point. Jerboa has the fullest features as far as everything goes. Every other app has been missing some key functionally for me to varying degrees. Not to say any of them aren't good, but none have truly, ultimately impressed me yet. Sync was my go-to on Reddit, so I have very high hopes for that launch. If I had to pick one alternative that I could use, but still doesn't quite tic all the boxes, it's Thunder. Especially right now, as Jerboa crashes on launch.
EDIT: Liftoff is where it's at. It has all the features other third-party apps are still missing.

I might be just a tiny bit biased but it's Summit for Lemmy
- How do you sub/unsub community in summit?
  Edit: found it, swipe right
  
  I'm going to add a button in the overflow menu in the next update to make it more discoverable.

So far Liftoff has my vote on Android.
- I am unable to find it in the playstore. Could you link to it? There are too many apps called "LiftOff" haha
  
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.liftoffapp.liftoff&pli=1

browser. i'll revisit that decision in a few months.
- Same. I've installed a few apps to keep an eye on their development, but web is still my favourite for now. Some of the apps have gestures and easily collapsible threads, but UIs aren't completely polished yet.
  
  Try wefwef it's a web app with gesture support. Seems to be one of the more featured GUIs so far.

I was using Jerboa but it seems a little unstable, had it crash on me a number of times.
Currently I'm using wefwef as a Chrome app thing.
https://wefwef.app

Liftoff seems decent

Liftoff all the way! At the moment is miles away. Hopefully more will step up in near future.

Thunder, until Sync for Lemmy is released
Edit: okay, Liftoff is pretty good

Wefwef has been great and it's a PWA so no need to download.

Liftoff, it's functional and looks good. Waiting to try Sync for Lemmy, though.

I'm using wefwef which looks a bit like Apollo. It's browser based but you can install it on your home screen as a browser app.
https://wefwef.app/settings/install
- WefWef is SOLID. Nothing will ever be Apollo but this definitely a easy transition from it.
  
  I guess so I never used Apollo I used to use infinity for reddit but I'm definitely liking it so far except up voting or downvoting is two taps away instead of one.
  edit: it's one tap away I'm still learning how to use it sorry.
- Is it made recently? It often throws errors how it can't load content.
  
  it was made recently but I haven't had any errors as of now.

I'm just using the mobile website. It works and it doesn't pester me to use something else, which is really refreshing!
- I'm so tired of that, Especially when a site says to use their app and won't let you keep browsing the site because the popup is in the way.. Why even have the website anymore.

I am currently using Jerboa (the UI is not that good) while I wait for sync
- Connect for Lemmy is pretty Sync like. Give it a try!
  https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.kuroneko.lemmy_connect
  
  i was using jerboa until i saw this comment and i must say after using connect for a few minutes its much better! and i can actually log in!

Soon to be Sync For Lemmy!

wefwef is surprisingly good

Thunder is pretty amazing right now.
- Agreed, the update from yesterday really made it daily driver material!
  
  I just wish these clients would take some cues from the way Relay does its "List" view. Thunder's list view is getting there, but it's still way too crowded. Connect's is worse, it's just evenly spaced details for each post, which then blends into the space between each post.

Connect for lemmy works great for me so far. Though it doesn't support wide screens very well.

Jerboa, but can't wait for Sync to be released. If it's anything like the Reddit app, it'll be amazing (obviously after many iterations and testing etc).

wefwef.app
Works really smooth.

Using Liftoff, it's pretty good!
- Yeah just found it today and I quite like it so far. Had been using Jerboa but the after v0.0.37 that was pushed out made it's just crashing on startup since I was logged into lemmy.world. However I would like to see an option to not merge the feeds of all logged in accounts. I prefer a UX to switch what account I'm viewing with and see only the subscriptions of the selected account.
  
  Apparently my desired feature is already present. From the Home tab the Subscribed/Local/All button expands to let you pick which logged in account to show.
- Liftoff is still 'early access' and yet... so polished. It immediately became my go-to.
  I can't believe that just a couple of weeks ago, we had a single (Android) solution. Suddenly, it's hard to keep track of all the clients...
  I literally have 5 installed. Exciting times. The birth of a social network created by users for users.

Started with Jerboa but started having issues with it. Now trying Liftoff and will probably give Connect a try also.

started with connect for lemmy. which is visually very clean but it neither has an edit comment function nor a block user function yet. lemming has both functions but loks a lot more clunky.
- Connect is improving crazy-fast.
  Blocking users has already been added. I'm sure comment editing will show up any day now.

Thunder

wefwef.app until Sync for Lemmy is out

Wefwef until it exploted on lemmy.world, Jerboa is dead with lemmy.world as well...
Man, lemmy.world really needs to fix their instance to make it at time when "the big migration" happens.
For now I'm using Liftoff and Connect, with honorable mentions to Lemming and Thunder.
Actually I use all of them lol.

At the moment I'm just using the website, added to my home screen from the firefox app. It formats just fine on mobile, and it has all the features.

Jerboa is the best Boost-like app for me but Liftoff has been a good alternative to .17 instances

Using Jerboa right now, but to be frank: I haven't tried any other apps, because I am actually waiting for Slide, so whenever that launches I'll switch.

Wefwef looks really simple slick and Apollo like. Those are win for me.

Started with Jerboa, but it started crashing on me yesterday (plus, it apparently isn't working right now with lemmy.world). So I tried Liftoff yesterday, which I'm using to comment this. Definitely going to Sync again once it's done!

Wefwef.app best app so far

Connect for Lemmy at the moment, as it has a very similar interface to sync, but I've signed up to be notified when Sync for Lemmy drops. Sync had everything I wanted for my Reddit app, and I'm hoping for a similar interface for Lemmy when it arrives.

I'm using Liftoff.

Thunder and jerboa

New user here. I use the Web app for now. Connect seems to make my phone freeze for whatever reason and I can't seem to login with jerboa because "my server version is too low"...

I am using jerboa but really miss redreader, the creator floated making it support lemmy and I am excited for that possibility but am sticking with jerboa for now.

Thunder is pretty gorgeous with some issues.

Thunder for me

Currently trying out Summit, seems to work fine, nice interface and easy to use.

I use Liftoff it's clean app for Lemmy.

Newbie here. Just installed Jerboa and two minutes later it shows "Network error". Installed Wefwef and it's ok. Taking notes to try the other ones.
Still learning about Lemmy and the communities to have an accurate opinion.