Voyager is fantastic. I started with Memmy and settled on Voyager for a while. But Iβm trying Avelon right now and itβs smoooooth. The swipe back function works much better on Avelon, and their βExploreβ tab is great.
Avelon is phenomenal. Especially the hide bars on scroll feature. No other app has this. I wonder if itβs hard to develop? I remember the developer of Apollo had quite a few bugs with it in the beginning.
Adding my thanks for the suggestion too - avelon looks great! I started with Memmy and I moved on to Voyager and Lemmios. Both are great but both have problems. Loving avelon so far!!
At least on iOS, I prefer Avelon the best as it's the most iOS native feeling app. A close second for me on iOS is Mlem. Both I still use from their betas, but both are now in the App Store as well, go give them a try if anyone hasn't already!
maybe its a settings thing but for me voyager keeps showing me posts i've already seen even they should be marked as read, while avelon keeps showing me new stuff. otherwise they are both wonderful.
You could argue that 25% for sync is quite something, and almost double that of the next largest competitor.
I am using it, it's okay, not as good as Reddit Is Fun was.
but I have to say I am not as evangelical about pushing open source and lack of telemetry, so I don't care about unintrusive ads as a free-tier, nor do I care a lot about collecting usage data to improve the app
This made me so happy to see people talking about my poll! This is exactly why I wanted to make it! :)
Good alternatives are always needed, though! I love Sync, but then I am also not sure it would be as good as it is today if it wasn't compelled to stay competitive with RIF, Baconreader, Apollo (to a lesser extent) and the dozen other Reddit apps that used to be out there (F in the chat).
I wish the Apollo dev would've ported his app and migrated his user base. IMHO, Syncs popularity shows that the developer was able to migrate a lot of their old user base to Lemmy.
Yeah, that was clutch. Voyager, which is basically a total Apollo clone, never got that same level of visibility.
It's nice to see the Reddit tradition still alive. Where you post something out of context to make sure your agenda is pushed.
I'm waiting for Boost since the reddit exodus. I've condemned myself to mobile browsing particularly to be loyal to boost and also the enjoy how much better 3rd party clients are when it's finally live.
Eh, Jerboa is okay, but the typing is janky. I might switch away from it just for that reason.
I went back to using Jerboa since I got pretty tired of the ads in Sync. I understand why they're there, but it's still kinda annoying.
I find the amount of features and having different settings per account overwhelming, that's just my opinion though. I'm sure the dev put a ton of hard work into it.
You can backup your settings on one account and restore them under any other accounts you sign in to easily keep the experience consistent.
Have been loving Sync Ultra since release. Recently added Summary feature and link previews are awesome.
Nope not that I've seen. I'm pre registered on the Play store and just waiting for a notification
I would like to see how this poll was shared because that could introduce bias for example sharing it in communities where users of a specific lemmy client are in the majority
As of late I'm using Jerboa. It was the first thing that popped up when I searched "reddit alternatives" on Bing.
I used memmy and was happy with it but my blocked instance filter kept disappearing, so now Iβm on voyager. Itβs not bad but it takes time to get used to it.
I tried Voyager, but just couldnβt get over the inverted vote colors. Couldnβt find a theme that had it βrightβ.
I'd use it but I can't log in. My password is probably too long as it's randomly generated by my password manager.
Fwiw can't login to sync either. It's all jerboa for me.
I always wondered why I couldn't log in using Voyager either. I also use an auto generated password from my password manager, could be related to lengths or a certain special character.
I also had problems logging in with sync. For me, it was the instance input.
Somehow, after i filled out the instance, username & password inputs, the form blanked the instance name when submitting.
I didn't notice at first.
Entering the instance name again made it work.
Just had the same problem with Boost for Lemmy so I shortened it and it works now (at least in Lemmy)
In my F-Droid, there's plenty of other! Eternity, Liftoff, Jerboa, Thunder, Voyager, Lemmur and Combustible when I search for "Lemmy". Maybe you don't have all/the same repositories enabled? I'm using Liftoff at the moment, which is great so far, but I haven't settled yet. I want to try using some of the other ones before I'm sure. For reddit I used Joey, and I would consider switching to Joey for Lemmy if it existed.
What repository do you have added, there's only fdroid and guardian in the stock fdroid settings (and eternity doesn't come up)
Using connect cause it's the first one that popped up on a search when I originally switched. Can anyone give me good reasons to use a different one on this list?
Voyager is basically a clone of Apollo, with support for both Android's and iOS's UI styles. Apollo was one of the best Reddit experiences, and it often won awards every year. Also, Voyager is pretty damn polished, it's super reliable, and it has one of the most complete Lemmy feature sets.
If you're an Android user who has never used Apollo, it's worth a look to see what all the hype was about. If you're on iOS and miss Apollo, Voyager is kind of a no brainer.
Only problem is that the app and play store builds still don't have push notifications implemented. Also no mod tools quite yet.
It also needs a little refinement here and there - the pull to load is very short and you have to do it slowly or it snaps back immediately. Its too easy to tap the wrong thing in the compressed mode, and the slide to votes need more weight and snap.
But these are nits - its really good compared to other ios apps. I really appreciate the long-press to block some communities. Until Lemmy learns how to better filter and reduce redundancy, this has been my most-used feature (sorry, all things yiff)