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Welcome to Liftoff!

For those of you wondering what all the fuss is about, here's a quick introduction to the app.

Yes, it’s yet another app for Lemmy, but based heavily on the mature but now abandoned Lemmur project, with a few updates to make it run with the current API and some minor changes to the UI.

Written in Flutter, so it is very multi-platform. We currently have builds available for testing for Android and iOS (also running on iPad and Macs [Apple Silicon only for the moment]). Brave souls can try building it for Linux or Windows and report back on their experiences!

Preview it on iOS at TestFlight or on Android at GitHub.

The source is released under GPL 2.0 and is available at GitHub for inspection, download, build, issue logging and contributions, so go and get it!

Features:

Fully featured for end users: posting and commenting fully complete.
Sorting and UI customisation options.
Light Mode, Dark Mode, System Mode.
Multiple accounts on multiple servers.
Bookmark your favourite posts and comments.
Localisation (work in progress).
Full search support (posts, comments, users, communities).
Support for direct messaging.

And here's a few screenshots:

Gorgeous Card view

Compact view

Settings

Reply to post

Reply to comment with rich text controls

User profile

Bookmark posts and comments

Full search

Built for Android (not released yet)

Runs on iPad and Mac (in TestFlight)

58 comments

Been enjoying it so far.
You never realize how nice it is to be able to swipe to dismiss an image until you can’t do it anymore.
Keep up the good work!

Just installed it for Android and it already feels so much better than the mobile website or Jerboa. Thanks for the work, I'll be following the development of the app!
- Liftoff is by far the best Lemmy app I've tried on Android. The UI is beautiful, and doesn't feel generic like others. Seems quite stable. Now available on Play Store. I'm really enjoying it!

Looks amazing, can't wait to try it for Android!
- You can get the Android installer here:
  https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff/releases/tag/v0.9.11
  
  daaamn! sexy app!
  i just started with lemmy a few hours ago by downloading 'Connect for Lemmy' from the play store. i have found it interesting and all, but i just installed the Liftoff apk from your github and i think this post-reddit experience might actually have a future.
  thank you so much!

Isn't this exactly like Lemmynade? Which one of them copied the code? The interface is identical down to every single animation.
- They both are forks of Lemmur, an old open source Lemmy client
  
  Cool, good to know!
- They‘ve joined forces and working together now.
  
  Ah awesome!

This is working great on Android. I don't even want to touch the website anymore. No refresh issue either!

The Android app is really nice. It's cool to be able to view posts from Beehaw and Lemmy.world in the same feed.

Thank you very much!
It looks like one of the most mature Lemmy apps on iOS.
As far as I see, it’s the only one currently, that allows to copy the text of the post and the text of the comments. That helps very much with the possibility to translate the text of the post or the comments, by the way.
- Thanks, you've prompted me to add an enhancement request to look at adding translation into the app.
  
  Thank you so much! This is quite a unique feature that was implemented in Apollo, and it really helped me in my interatctions with international communities. I haven't seen a single Lemmy client that supports this yet.

Thank you. I just discovered Liftoff! and it immediately replaced Jerboa on my Android tablet. Looking forward to seeing how this app matures, it's already great!
- Same. Jerboa kept crashing for me. I liked it's look, but it made me look for others. This, I believe, is the only one that let's me filter subs like I could on RIF, which is one of the most important features to me

The subscribed view says there are no posts, which definitely isn't true. Is this just not implemented yet? Or is it because lemmy.world isn't on 0.18 yet?
- Not this was just a big. It's been fixed in
  https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff/releases/tag/v0.9.14

I really enjoy this app. Is there a way to report bugs or to see known issues of the android app?
- Yep: https://github.com/liftoff-app

I have a question that might be right to ask here, idk.
My account is on lemmy.world.
Ive added lemmy.ml and a few other instances.
I have subscribed to a few communities on lemmy.world, but when i try to do the same for communities on other instances I've added, it says i need to be logged in to that instance. I thought part of the way this worked was only needing one account to interact with all federated instances? Can somebody help me wrap my head around this? Strictly mobile user

I've noticed that the super script, spoiler and postscript markup isn't actually working on the app. The buttons in the formatting bar work, but they don't do the thing in the actual post.
^Superscript

_Postscript
- I had noticed this for spoiler, thanks for the heads up on the other tags. Will take a look

Looks amazing. Need any help testing?
- Would love more help! Lots of enhancements and bugs are logged in our issue tracker:
  https://github.com/liftoff-app/liftoff/issues
- you can install it with testflight

I got it yesterday and I love it! Great job!

What happens when you swipe sideways in the app?

Only runs on Apple Silicon Macs it seems (so the vast majority of macs it doesn't run on currently)
- Oh this is great feedback. Thanks for letting me know
- Great point, I'll update the post to make that clear. I imagine once we actually run the macOS build process it will deal with that.

Would love a TestFlight code here as well. Can help you test and if I get some time and read the codebase even contribute from time to time 😅

Requesting for a code too please!
- Hey, just click this code on an iphone, then "Start Testing"
  
  Why is it called limbo and not liftoff?

Being able to search by commentsor posts is GOLDEN and the main reason why this is now my go-to app. Every other app only allows me to search for community names. This is on my android. Now to test it on my iPhone.

Lemmur was amazing so thank the gods for Liftoff!

I’d love to try. Can I have an activation code please?
- https://testflight.apple.com/join/e6ZEbxuR

The test flight links all tell me beta testers aren’t being accepted. Is there a new link that I can use to join?
Edit: never mind, found the latest link in the latest release post

I can’t login on iOS. It just spins. Do I need a TOTP 2FA Token?

id like to have a testflight code please. im all about testing new stuff.
- https://testflight.apple.com/join/e6ZEbxuR

Awesome work - really good!
I feel silly asking, but question for anyone - where do you see your saved / bookmarked posts and comments?
- Go to your profile. It's in the top left corner.
  
  Thank you!

Why when I go to install this in TestFlight does it say Limbo for Lemmy?! Version 0.0.1

You sold me on AMOLED dark mode 🤤

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