Which lemmy app for android do you use and why?

  • UKFilmNerd@feddit.ukEnglish
    25·
    10 months ago

    Thunder is my main app and it’s updated regularly as well. Jerboa is my second choice because that’s the “official” Lemmy app.

    I was a big fan of LiftOff!, unfortunately, the developer had twins back in the summer and understandably, the app hasn’t been updated since.

  • MoLoPoLY@discuss.tchncs.de
    15·
    10 months 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·
      10 months 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
    15·
    10 months 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
    11·
    10 months 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.

  • Cwilliams@beehaw.org
    11·
    10 months 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
    7·
    10 months 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·
    10 months 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.

  • Tugboater203@kbin.social
    3·
    10 months ago

    I use both Sync and Jerboa. Jerboa because it was there first in the great migration, and Sync because it’s a nice UI and I wanted to reward the dev for coming over from Reddit.

    Edit- funnily enough, I’m posting this on my Kbin account since Beehaw defeded from Lemmy.World

  • edric@lemm.eeEnglish
    3·
    10 months 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.