Sticky so that we have one place to discuss.
Not a native app, but i’m using the wefwef web app, and it’s pretty awesome and getting multiple updates a day.
It’s a web based clone of Apollo
Wefwef looks nice and I really want to like it but I keep tapping the back button and getting sent all the way back to my communities list, and therefore losing my spot in the scroll. It’s getting old really fast.
PWA always have a ton of UI quirks that make them hard to use. It’s a cool idea and I wish they would take off but they just aren’t there and I’m not sure wefwef will be able to overcome that, as good as it looks.
As a non-programmer, I’m confused about this issue. I’m able to switch tabs on the bottom bar without losing the feed. I can also search for a community and look at its content without losing my main feed using the search feature.
That suggests two feeds can be present. So what gives? Why can’t my main feed by cached when looking at the community list and then restored if I go back to the same feed option? I’m just curious if this is an implementation issue or a limit outside their control.
I second wefwef. Incredible app, very close to Apollo.
Any plans to make it an iOS app that you know of?
Memmy is great too!
It’s a PWA which means you can install it on any phone
They are actually planning on submitting to the App Store, but it’s still going to be a pwa
Little update for anyone stumbling across this: it’s now called Voyager (https://vger.app) and is also available as a native app (web wrapper, but still):
- iOS: App Store Link
- Android: Google Play Store
Same here. I never thought I’d love a webapp so much, but here I am…
Great app!
+1 for Liftoff
I’m another Liftoff user!
I’ve also tried Jerboa, Connect for Lemmy and wefwef, but lately I’m using Liftoff a lot.
I like Liftoff and Jerboa. I flip between them depending on my mood.
Is there a way to copy the posted link to an article straight from the feed in Liftoff? When I hit “copy link” it copies the link to the post on lemmy. I do not want this.
https://wefwef.app is amazing. PWA and hence cross-platform.
Just installed it. It looks like Apple’s UI, which gives it a kind of uncanny valley on my Android phone. Will use alongside Liftoff until I like one better, thanks for mentioning it!
I don’t mind it, it feels pretty clean. Probably helps that I haven’t touched an iPhone since 2015 or so, so I’m not terribly familiar with Apple’s design language anyway.
It does feel clean. I don’t mind it either now, it just was weird at first because it felt like I was on a friend’s phone.
It’s based on Ionic, I believe and Android UI is on the roadmap.
After having used it for a few hours, I like Wefwef’s Apple design, or at least I like it better than Material You. Material makes me so uncomfortable with its wide spacing and white rounded content tiles. I could get used to this dark mode Apple design style, though it feels strange at first.
Update: I won’t be staying on Wefwef because it keeps causing Firefox Nightly to crash and not saving my spot when I switch apps, and I’m not willing to get the Firefox stable release again because the way it reloads pages every time you switch apps drives me mad.
Also, it seems to cache images so that you can open them immediately upon tapping, rather than having to wait for the image to load after your explicit tap for it to do so. I really liked this at first, but it comes at the cost of taking around eight full seconds to load everything, as compared to one or two seconds with Liftoff and Connect.
I do wish Liftoff and Connect had the compact view with image/link previews that Jerboa and Wefwef have, though.
I installed wefwef via chrome (wich i don’t use, but it’s preinstalled on my Phone) and this way it works fine, very fine.
I’ve got it installed as a PWA (Firefox Android). It’s great but is there any way to get it to open links in my proper browser rather than the web view type thing?
I also like wefwef the most, so far. But is there a way to hide the posts that i have watched, so that i don’t see 90% of the same content everytime i open lemmy?
You can swipe on posts to reveal more options and one of them is to hide it.
Where are you guys installing this from? Obtanium says it can’t find a suitable release. And it’s not on Play Store or F-Droid.
It’s a PWA. You can just install it with your browser.
Thanks, I did that using Chrome. Is there a way to auto update it? I do like how smooth it scrolls! Even compared to Jerboa.
It shows you a banner when an update is available and you can tap a button to install it. Not sure if there’s a more automated way.
This. I was trying to comment earlier but was having problems.
Sync for Lemmy (android)
I’ve been using Sync for a couple of hours and already uninstalled Liftoff and Connect hahaha. Don’t get me wrong they’re both great, but Sync is that much better
Same, already paid for year’s subscription too. I used Sync for reddit and trust the developer to make a quality app.
Sync and Boost are indeed outstanding, just like they were on Reddit. My two favourites, no doubt about it
For me personally, Jerboa is the best Android Lemmy app that I’ve tried, and I have tried several of them. I’ll just be glad when Sync for Lemmy is released.
Yeah I like Jerboa. Development has been pretty fast too.
Tried Sync, Liftoff, Connect and Lemmotif (I think that’s all the free ones on the playstore as of August '23), and I am always preferring Jerboa.
I have tried Jerboa, and have just tried liftoff. I prefer the UI of Jerboa and it’s in fdroid also!
Same, I’ll be on Jerboa until Sync launches. I can’t wait.
Boost is coming to Lemmy? Where can I follow for info on that? That was the app I used for Reddit, and while Jerboa has similar features it’s not quite the same for me. Especially the swipe gestures…
Also, surprisingly, Boost is still working for me fot Reddit. I’m still waiting for it to crash.
Where can I follow for info on that?
The dev created a community at !boostforlemmy@lemmy.world.
I heard about Boost coming to Lemmy also. I don’t have any information about development progress, but I’ll definitely be trying it out once it launches.
Boost is still working for Reddit because Reddit realized that turning off their API access was harder than they thought. It will take them a few weeks to do this. Once they do, Boost for Reddit will be dead.
I’m still using it to look into a few subreddits every so often. (Ones that I haven’t found Lemmy replacements for.) When it dies, my time spent on Reddit - already very reduced from the pre-API crisis levels - will drop even more.
I patched Boost just in case, so I check the sub every day to see if it’s still working.
Last I saw, Reddit is ending the API over the next few weeks. Because of course they are.
Android user here, I’m quite happy with Connect for Lemmy
The official community is at /c/lemmyconnect
+1 on connect. The things it can’t do well, namely searching, I do in wefwef
Really liking thunder, now that I can view profiles and edit comments.
How does one view profiles in Thunder?
Currently only opening post author profiles is possible, long tap a post, or tap their name in the post view. Same is coming for comments.
Android user here. Liftoff is unmatched in terms of its visual presentation.
I find Jerboa scrolls nicer. And it seems stable now.
Interesting; I fled Jerboa because its scrolling wasn’t smooth. I’m using primarily Liftoff now because it looks and feels so good and works for everything I need. Its search function also allows filtering for posts, users, and communities, a feature which Connect does not have.
Well the app is currently in the earlier phases of development but i think more people should know that there is currently an attempt at porting slide for reddit to lemmy. here is the releases from the repository https://github.com/bqv/slide/releases, but its very early in development
Wow, did not expect Slide for Lemmy. I used Slide for years until the api shutdown. I’m really looking forward for this app
I am hyped for it aswell!!
‘Connect’ seems to be quite good.
Wefwef. Mlem is showing promise.
I have about 6 installed. Connect is good. Liking Infinity right now. Jerboa is really good, but I like to have comments sorted by top as a default which is doesn’t do…yet.
Really, I’m waiting for Boost, but likely jump between a few for now.
Android: Eternity (A Lemmy client for Android, forked from the Infinity for Reddit project.) https://f-droid.org/packages/eu.toldi.infinityforlemmy/
Not sure if same on iPhone but wefwef.app is great on android. Tried jerboa, connect and liftoff, this one is a pwa and it works quite well.
+1 for Liftoff. I’ve got 4 apps and wefwef pwa going and I keep finding myself going to Liftoff more and more frequently.
Hmm. Trying latest liftoff, some slowness vs pwa but it seems to get all the images with no issues. Time will tell I guess in which ones to stick with.
Yeah nothing is quite perfect yet, and I’m figuring out my priority features as I keep going. The future is bright though.
I seem to have scrolling issues with wefwef on IOS. Memmy which is currently in Testflight is much smoother most of the time