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What Lemmy Client are you Android users using in 2026? (feddit.uk)

submitted 1 day ago by mannycalavera@feddit.uk to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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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.

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[–] dan@upvote.au 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (5 children)

I like Boost.

Last time I said this, I got shunned for recommending a closed-source app. I generally try to stick to open-source, but Boost has a good UI, works well, and bugs are fixed quickly.

[–] FenrirIII@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

I like Boost, even paid for it. Sometimes won't load mpegs or bigger files,but those are my only gripes

[–] LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 day ago

Also been using Boost for years and very happy with it. My only gripe is that oftentimes embedded images like custom emotes are displayed at an enormous screen filling size, so sometimes if a user includes multiple emotes in a comment I have to scroll several screens to get to the next comment. This never was an issue in the Reddit Boost app, and the fact that its been unaddressed for so long now has me worried that the app may have been abandoned. No idea if it still gets updates, I should check one day.

[–] lazynooblet@lazysoci.al 5 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm also using boost but "bugs are fixed quickly" isn't my experience.

[–] dan@upvote.au 3 points 1 day ago

Maybe I just haven't encountered any bugs that took a long time to fix. It's been pretty reliable for me.

[–] ouRKaoS@lemmy.today 3 points 1 day ago

I started using Boost during round 1 of the API debacle when Reddit is Fun got the axe. Boost was still up & going so I used it there for a couple months before it got killed, then came here & kept up with it.

I haven't had any major issues, just the occasional hiccup like spoiler markup formatting or other weird interactions.

[–] Brad@beehaw.org 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I also use Boost. Mainly because I was using Boost on Reddit before, and I really like the UX.

[–] dan@upvote.au 1 points 1 day ago (1 children)

I'm a software developer that focuses on front end development (full-stack but I like frontend more) so I'm pretty picky about UI/UX. Boost feels very nice and polished.

[–] eldavi@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

what does boost give you that you can't get from its default interface?