What client do Android users use for Lemmy these days? I’ve been using Jerboa from the start but it’s a bit basic and lacks any good search functionality. So I want to try some others. What do other Android users recommend?
Things I like about Jerboa:
- It just works. It’s pretty simple.
- It has actual private browsing in app. You never have to leave the app and it knows how to never save your history.
- It can do the above even when setting your main browser to Firefox (so as blocking works even in open links in app).
Things I don’t like about Jerboa:
- Text entry is oftentimes buggy.
- Lack of any decent search for communities or in threads.
- No draft capability.
None. Just use the website.
Voyager, only because I’m used to it and cbf swapping.
If RiF was made for Lemmy, I’d be using that.
Voyager for me.
Thunder is also good.
I’m sad that Voyager is just a webapp and not a native client; but apart from that, I think it’s perfect.
Wait what? Voyager is a native client, I’m using the version I downloaded from the Google Play store:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.vger.voyager
Yes, that’s what I also use. But it’s just a wrapper for the web view. It doesn’t really use native widgets.
You can’t tell. It feels totally native.
I’m quite happy with Thunder
Another vote for Thunder, though I’m also kind of warming up to Summit.
I really enjoyed using Thunder but then found Summit, which offers one killer feature Thunder doesn’t have while covering everything that Thunder has:
Multi-communities!
I got several gaming-related communities grouped, all the selfhosting communities grouped and I just need to check those multi-communities instead of each community one by one.
Also Summit works a bit better for Piefed than Thunder, but I know that is work in progress, so no criticism there.
Me too. But it refuses to load images of a fraction of the posts and I don’t really know why. And cross linking to some other instances is occasionally borked, it tries and then opens the browser.
Apart from that it’s been fantastic
Sync. But I’m an old guy with habits that are hard to change
You’ll probably be forced to change your habit soon.
I stayed with sync until I was forced to switch due to bugs and missing features, I all alternatives I could find and settled on Summit. Highly recommend, it has a ton of options and both looks and feels great to use.
I tried a bunch and settled on Voyager. I also liked Thunder.
Same, I tried them all and Voyager was my favourite
It’s also nice to recommend because it’s on iOS too
Connect. It felt most like RIF, so I stuck with it
I’m using Voyager and happy with it. Of course, now. I need to trial these listed by others.
Boost is the best for me!
After much complaining about sync’s descent into mediocre abandonware, i finally switched to Summit - i still miss sync’s ui/ux - but its nice being able to use a non buggy product
Sync was borderline abadonware even as a reddit third party app before reddit closed the gates.
Likewise. I left Reddit when they killed third party apps because Sync was Reddit to me. I stuck with it here for a lot longer than I should have, but I finally accepted that it was dead and settled on Summit after trying a few others. Connect is also good, but I felt like it wasn’t quite as flexible as Summit last I tried.
I still use Sync every day, and I can’t think of any issues I’ve had with it. What sort of bugs do you mean?
The one that finally pushed me over the edge was, while i could (barely) tolerate the ads, some time after his last update, something in the code broke or wasnt updated, and the ads would play an audible blip, as if the first 5ms of audio played before it was then caught and automatically muted - and that was just a bridge too far. There were smaller things and features unimplemnted - but having to hear blips catching me off guard and at times when scrolling is appropriate but audio wasnt was too frustrating for me and so i switched. Was using sync forever, was a true fan, was frustrated how he changed and milked the pay structure for sync for lemmy as conpared to how he did it for reddit, and then he had the gal to just dip entirely, such a shame for such a good ux.
That ad thing is weird, I’ve not seen anything like that at all. In fact I don’t even see video ads. Where is this, in your feed? Or when you open a thread?
I wonder if it’s to do with how the feed is set up? I use Small Cards view, don’t know if that’s maybe preventing me seeing the ads in the first place? I do sometimes see small static ads at the top of a thread, but that’s all.
Boost
I use browser, never really had a reason to switch
Sync, until it dies.
Jerboa was the smallest one I could find on F-Droid. The lack of post search sucksssss but that’s probably a sign that I should get home and onto my computer regardless.
I’ve never understood why people have to use a client. I’m just using Chrome.
