I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask, but i’m new to Lemmy and looking for a good client to use it with. I’ve been using Sync which is what i used to use with Reddit but i’ve noticed that it isn’t getting updates now. Any other good mobile apps I can usr Lemmy with?

    • Akasazh@feddit.nlEnglish
      3·
      6 days ago

      Seconded. Tried others but keep coming back to connect.

      It’s not the flashiest, but has the best options for me

  • southsamurai@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    122·
    6 days ago

    Kinda depends on what features in sync made you like it.

    Overall, boost, connect, thunder and summit each get close to parity, but only close. But, you could say that in reverse, (that sync only gets close to parity with any of them) it isn’t a slight against any of them.

    Eternity is another one that I’ve had good use of, but development on that seems to be stopped as well, so I dunno if that’s a useful option.

    Past those, you get less similarity in ux and ui than would make sense to compare. Like, the apps that mimic voyager (or whatever the popular iOS reddit app was called), things are laid out so different that if you used sync as a primary, you aren’t likely to enjoy that ui.

    On a phone, I kinda favor connect over sync, despite it looking very unlike it compared to boost or eternity. But on a tablet, nothing else does double columns in portrait worth a damn for me, and aren’t great in landscape either. But boost and eternity come the closest to the visual ease sync has.

    The sync visual that’s sync

    I was going to include screen shots of the ones I have on this tablet, but uploads shit the bed and are being weird after that one. So no promises that I can do them all

    boost boost

    eternity eternity

    connect connect

    interstellar and interstellar since it does piefed better than anything else I’ve tried, and still does lemmy just fine.

    Decided to install thunder and summit long enough to give a visual

    thunder thunder

    summit annnd summit

    As you can tell, everyone has a slightly different approach to the UI. But they’re even more variable in what settings are available, little niceties, etc. Theming is all over the place from a bare bones light/dark/oled to the relative broad visual options of boost and sync. None of them are bad at all. They’re reliable, work even on older devices without bogging them down, and are all easy enough to get going with.

  • boonhet@sopuli.xyzEnglish
    3·
    5 days ago

    Apollo for reddit was considered one of the best apps. Unfortunately, it was iOS-only.

    Voyager for Lemmy is pretty much a clone of it and it also runs on Android. It’s also a progressive web app so you don’t have to download the app off the store if you don’t want to - you can just go to vger.app on your phone and either browse it like that, or install the PWA (basically creates a separate browser profile and everything so it feels like an app, but really you’re using the website, with some of the files living on your phone). If you really wanted to, you could even run it on a desktop browser (or as a PWA on desktop), but it’s really meant for touchscreens, not mouse and keyboard usage.

    • frog@lemmus.orgEnglish
      3·
      5 days ago

      Oh that’s crazy! I had no idea it was a PWA. Im using Voyager downloaded from f-droid but it’s fun to hear that the core of this is a web app

  • pr06lefs@lemmy.mlEnglish
    8·
    7 days ago

    I use Jerboa, is fine. Haven’t tried anything else so don’t know what I might be missing.

      • moseschrute@lemmy.worldEnglish
        0·
        18 hours ago

        Anything specific or just everything? Admittedly, I don’t spend enough time testing Blorp on older phones.

        • Konstant@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          9 hours ago

          It’s when opening a post to see the comments, going back to main feed, etc. It’s not snappy. The phone is a Samsung (not premium), and is like 4-5 years old.

              • moseschrute@lemmy.worldEnglish
                1·
                7 hours ago

                This might be tricky then. I’ll do some poking around and see if there are any obvious performance improvements I can make. But no promises

                • Konstant@lemmy.worldEnglish
                  1·
                  6 hours ago

                  Well, since you’re available, I’d like to tell you about another thing that annoys me a bit. Which is when I reopen the app after it has been in standby, it automaticaly refreshes the feed after a few seconds once. Which results in it refreshing while I’m already in the middle of watching the “old” feed content. Does this not happen to you?

                  Would be great an option to let it refresh feed automatically or not after reopening the app.

  • Spice Hoarder@lemmy.zipEnglish
    5·
    7 days ago

    I guess I’m the only one here actively using Boost. I like it. Been using it since long before it was a Lemmy client, haha!

  • Cavemanfreak@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
    4·
    7 days ago

    I’ve tried Jerboa, then Sync, then Summit, and now I’m using Thunder. There were always small things that annoyed me enough to start looking for a new client after a few months, but I’ve had this for… a year or so now? It’s very customizable, so that’s nice.