I've tried Jerboa, Connect, Thunder, Liftoff, Lemmotif, and the PWA. Jerboa has the best interface/ux imo, by far. Thunder is the least buggy to use, and the developer is a machine, doing constant updates. These 2 I think have the most potential.
I started with Jerboa, but it wouldn't let me off the local instance after initially being pretty good. Quite buggy for me. I switched to connect and I'm impressed so far.
Im trying several others while they work out the kinks in Jerboa (it doesnt work very welll if you use Lemmy.World as your instance), but it honestly feels the best out of all of them.
I'm coming from RiF is Fun, so it reminds me a lot of their layout.
Also a former rif user, and I also really like Jerboa. But I haven't been able to use it for awhile now, with the update/server weirdness.
Also coming from RIF and I thought the same thing. It's buggy, but it has potential to be my go-to app if the wrinkles get smoothed out.
Here’s a sneak peek of one I’m working on too:
A lot of good options coming up, will be fun to see how it plays out!
Edit: !lemmynade@lemm.ee for anyone wanting to follow
lemm.ee looks like it's running a pretty old version and I can't search that community :( could be a me issue though.
Ahhh too bad I can't sub to the community right now (I guess it's a very new community and my instance isn't up to date for now)
Man I love how new apps are coming out everyday. It feels like I'm witnessing history in the making, in the next 5 years we can probably talk about the time when Lemmy was getting a new app everyday.
Some of those I can't find. Are those apple apps? I am using the Google Play store and can't find all those apps and I want them.
As far as I can tell most android Lemmy clients aren't on play store but the dev's GitHub (Liftoff, Thunder, Lemming)
Yep, can find some of them here, typically wanna check the releases on the git for the apk file https://lemmy.ml/post/1162300
I use jerboa but I'd try out any libre client. I'm not interested in proprietary apps.
Funny enough I never saw the need for dedicated website apps for e.g. reddit, but the fediverse is somewhat clumsy to use in a browser (I'm aware that browser extensions can help) so an app actually improves the experience a bit.
I'm using Jerboa, but it keeps crashing and on every statup complains that my instance is not compatible with the updated version. This drives me back to reddit and when it shuts off apps, I'll probably go back to real life.
In the latest version of Jerboa I can't change from All / Active anymore. 😊 Also I can't figure out for the life of me how to make a top level comment, they're doesn't seem to be a button for it.
Thunder didn't have sorting by top last time I checked. Liftoff can't add other instances than the 3 it comes with.
I definitely added more instances on liftoff
Edit: profile > settings > accounts > bottom right corner has a button that allows ,out to add instances
It's definitely not intuitive, I admit
Oh I found that but it doesn't seem to work for feddit.nl, the final "add" button never lights up. I've tried writing it as "feddit.nl" or "https://feddit.nl", same thing.
There's going to be a Liftoff update released later today that fixes this. There was an issue for v0.18.1 that impacted ability to add instances that I just fixed. Your instance just happened to update a bit early!
It's just Jerboa. I use Connect for Lemmy and that problem doesn't exist. I think the dev for Jerboa doesn't want to spend time making it backwards compatible, but other clients are.
Try Connect for Lemmy. Jerboa is just very badly bugged and a poor UX right now. Connect seems to be much less buggy as well as more usable generally.
For me there's one massive flaw with the mobile web version of Lemmy - that when you go "back" after viewing a post the page scrolls near to the top of the page. If it weren't for that I'd happily give up the quest for an app.
A mixture of Mobile Web and Connect. I'll probably re-evaluate in a couple of weeks. I really liked Jerboa, but new posts never seemed to refresh on my instance, I'll probably try that again.
Same here, completely switched, it’s obviously made by the Apollo dev and no one can convince me otherwise. Wefwef has immediately made Lemmy usable to me, can barely notice a difference from Reddit running through Apollo.
It’s slick. I can’t believe it’s a web app. The reply buttons are a bit different, I had to find the swipe to reply.
Liftoff, jerboa and thunder currently.
Edit: does anyone know if any android app allows hiding posts? (locally on the device, i think the servers don't support)
Dude, I started with Mlem, then moved on to Memmy and now I am using wefwef full time!
I feel it’s the most polished out of all the apps on iOS.
Why do I keep instinctively switching between clients when Lemmy is down thinking one will get past the 500 error better than the other one?
connect loaded slowly (especially images) for me and Liftoff had a cleaner interface imo, loaded posts fast and it resembles Infinity for Reddit more than connect (with the settings I chose), if that's anything to go by.
After the few initial minutes of using both Liftoff and connect, I prefer the design of liftoff so much more. Though I seem to be having some issues adding in comments or upvoting/downvoting things via liftoff, but having no issues with Connect. So I'm not sure what's going on. Any help would be appreciated.
Just started testing Liftoff today. Really great looking app! Thunder is coming along nicely too.
I've used the PWA, Jerboa, Liftoff, and Connect.
Jerboa is probably my favorite of the bunch. I prefer how compact everything is and the 0.0.33 version was working well. I upgraded to 0.0.36 and performance took a bit of a hit so I figured I would explore alternatives. Also when I looked at other options 2FA support had not been added (it's working as of this post)
The PWA is more than functional,and I like it quite a bit. Don't like that backing out of a post navigates to the top of the page though.
Connect is good too, just personally not a fan of the larger interface, even in list/compact mode.
Currently using liftoff. Performance is good, 2FA support is available, and in list/compact mode it's tolerable. I still do prefer the compactness of Jerboa though.
They each have their own bugs and quirks so I hop around, currently on connect and it's been stable enough today. Tomorrow, who knows, maybe back to liftoff or jerboa.
Switched from jerboa to connect cause it was crashing constantly on my pixel, but the UI has some weird things about it
I'm using Connect for Lemmy right now, because Jerboa keeps showing the server version error when opening it.
This is where I'm at, but Connect seems to freeze up on me a lot, so I'm thinking of getting a third lol
i switched to thunder after connect kept crashing whenever i tried to open it. so far it seems alright but i can't see any way to vote on comments.
I use wefwef.app now, first comment in this app. Looks good. Jerbora Was crashing on me all the time...
Jebora is glitched in my phone so now I'm using liftoff, the UI is not the best, but at least it works
Summit is the closest from what I've seen. But it has some very basic things missing like an inbox. But it's my favorite feeling app.
I tried using Jerboa but it's very badly bugged right now. Have been using Connect for Lemmy. As a long-time (10yr ) RIF user it doesn't even get close to RIF, but it's the best I've used so far. Here's hoping TalkLittle or someone else makes an app for Lemmy (as I understand it he's making RIF for Tildes, but Tildes has its own problems). Connect for Lemmy is OK, and is quite usable.
Really happy with Thunder, too, but the swipes are too sensitive, and the title should really be above the image in the feed view to provide context as you scroll.
It's like what Sync was early on.
Didn't realize there were so many options that's great! Using Jerboa on Android now and it's been my only experience with the platform so far so I'm definitely open to recommendations
I've been using jerboa (android), thunder (android), wefwef (pwa), and memmy (iPad).
Love them all, but they all have their quirks!
I'm trying out connect for lemmy at the moment. I find it more stable than jerboa and quite nice over all, though I dislike some design aspects.
For me there are things I like and don't like. It's the first time I've encountered the "swipe a little to upvote" feature but I'm finding I like it.
Try Connect for Lemmy, it's much more stable than Jerboa and has 4 different views. I really like the full size card view myself. It's beautiful.