Which lemmy app for android do you use and why?

  • Evkob (they/them)@lemmy.ca
    14·
    2 years ago

    So far, out of the suggestions in the comments, the only ones that are FOSS and currently work with the latest versions of lemmy are Jerboa, Thunder, and Voyager. Liftoff and Eternity are also FOSS, but haven’t been updated since July and October respectively, so may have issues if your instance is running version 0.19+.

    Boost and Sync are both closed source and I really wish people would stop recommending them in a community specifically for free and open-source software. I’m sure they’re good apps and I don’t begrudge devs making money from their work, but if they do I don’t want them getting free advertising in the comments of a FOSS-specific community.

  • MoLoPoLY@discuss.tchncs.de
    13·
    2 years ago
    • Eternity, but clicking in an Notification E-Mail on the Lemmy Inbox link, does not open Eternity on the Inbox.
    • Voyager is also fine, but i has strange look on Android, looks more like made for Apple.
    • Jerboa is nice to, but lacks options to change the fonts
    • Sync for Lemmy is nice, but its closed source and has ads (can be removed when you pay enough 20,99€)
    • Some other apps in the Playstore, but most of them are not worth to use them
    • Thunder seems to be nice, but I really miss ‘Mark as read on scroll’ feature, which is very important for me
    • there is ‘Commit for Lemmy’ on the play store, most features I want are there but a) its not available on F-Droid and b) crash from time to time
    • ‘Boost for Lemmy’ looks really nice. I couldn’t find a setting for ‘Mark as read on scroll’. Maybe it’s enabled by default. If that’s true, I would keep this app. There is a option to remove ads for 3.59€ which is a fine for me. But I have not seen any ad as of now. Be aware that there are 6 Trackers in this app, but since I use PiHole, it’s not really important for me.

    Currently im using mostly Eternity and hope that some bugs get sorted out sooner or later. But Boost would be good next candidate, if ‘Mark as read on scroll’ is supported. Arch f not, the next best alternative is Jerboa.

    • MoLoPoLY@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      2 years ago

      Small update to my list: Boost has no ‘Mark as read on scroll’ feature, only some people reqeusting this. But it seems its not planned as of yet. So i tend to keep Infinity.

  • Uninvited Guest@lemmy.ca
    10·
    2 years ago

    I’ve kept coming back to Voyager. The main draw is the functionality marking posts read on scroll, hiding read posts, and otherwise being feature complete (nothing broken as far as I can tell, and is keeps up with Lemmy updates).

  • Artyom@lemm.ee
    9·
    2 years ago

    Voyager. It’s the only one with a “hide posts I’ve already read” button that I’ve tried, and any app without that button isn’t worth even comparing to.

    Oh yeah, there’s also an option to make All exclude communities you’re subbed to, which makes it way easier to discover new communities.

    • TheGibberishGuy@beehaw.org
      4·
      2 years ago

      …there’s also an option to make All exclude communities you’re subbed to

      Damn, today I learnt. I’ve been using it for several months now and apparently never had a good look through the settings. That’s awesome.

  • Cwilliams@beehaw.org
    9·
    2 years ago

    Voyager is nice. It does look a little weird on android, but it’s kind of a nice look, imho

  • words_number@programming.dev
    6·
    2 years ago

    I tried jerboa, voyager (formally known as wefwef) and eternity and settled for voyager. It just feels very smooth, has all the functionality I need and looks clean. No reason to look further for me.

  • Troy@lemmy.ca
    4·
    2 years ago

    I use Connect for Lemmy. It’s as free, but closed source. The developer is available and fairly responsive in !lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca

    I recommend opting into the beta version on the Playstore to get some features a little earlier. For example, Lemmy 0.19 introduces the new Scaled and Controversial sort options, which are amazing – particularly Scaled if you’re subscribed to smaller communities. However, Connect for Lemmy only has that sort option in the beta at the moment.

    The only thing I don’t like is that you cannot paste images from the clipboard into comments.

  • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    2 years ago

    I’m on IOS and use Thunder, but I know it’s cross platform so it should be available in Android as well. Why Thunder? Because it doesn’t look like another Apollo clone, which a lot of lemmy apps seem to try to emulate.

  • iegod@lemm.ee
    3·
    2 years ago

    Sync is the most polished and best looking. But ads so I dunno your call. I like it.

  • ericjmorey@programming.dev
    2·
    2 years ago

    I’ve just been using the mobile web UI.

    I really like Sync but I’ve found myself just using my mobile browser to interact with instances when on my phone. Also, if you want open source, Sync ain’t it.