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Eternity even though it's no longer developed it has all the features I want that the others don't have.
Voyager + Thunder - Don't have comment navigation with volume buttons.
Summit - Can't set it to show the content of the collapsed parent comment.
Jerboa - Can't set a default comment sort, literally have to resort every time you click into comments.
I am using Hermit to create an app for lemmy
Summit. Chose at random
Thunder. It was the first I found when leaving Reddit and it had been a good experience so I've not looked at other ones.
Voyager because it was the first one I tried.
Second for me but the one I've stuck with
Same. I haven't grown out of it and it's doing literally everything I want it to.
Voyager.
I used "Reddit is Fun" for years on Reddit but when it came time to switch to Lemmy I picked Voyager (wefwef at the time) because the UI was the most similar. I tried many of the other popular apps and I was happy with most of them, but Voyager was (and is) my favorite.
It's simple. Lots of text. Easy to use. Looks nice.
Summit. Reminds me of Sync on Reddit 5 years ago
+1 for Summit!
It has been the best clean user experience for me so far
Voyager, reminds me a bit of Apollo for Reddit and has a good webapp for desktop usage.
did you make voyagerβs app for apple watch work? mines always crash at home feed
Eternity. I used Infinity for reddit and it's the best UI and FOSS
Is Eternity still maintained? On fdroid the last version is from 2 years ago.
I don't think it is and it sucks because I'm so used to swipe to go back.
I don't think it is, but it still works.
Except a specific image format, I'm not sure which one. But on certain specific images, the whole app hangs for a couple of seconds, and then crashes.
Interesting, the app has never crashed for me.
I have three Lemmy clients on my phone: Blorp, Summit and Voyager. However, I mostly use Voyager. I think it's the best app for Lemmy that I've tried so far. It's the one I'm most comfortable with.
what does it give you over using your browser to access lemmy on your phone?
On phones, I generally find the usability worse on a browser than on an app.
for most things -- yes.
but lemmy is fully functional w/o the apps and why i ask this question -- what am i missing by using a browser instead?
i've tried the apps myself and couldn't find a reason to justify keeping it around since most of them keep my user password.
the website, because it works the same as on my computer
Jerboa.
I dunno, it was on F-Droid and it's really simple and lightweight, like its namesake critter. I'm sure there's some more full featured options out there. (Voyager's gestures kept throwing me off I think lol)
But I don't hear a lot of people talking about this one much! Wonder why...
Can't set a default sort for comments which is absolutely crazy. You have to resort every comment section you click into.
It was the first one I used and I never bothered with anything else. It works great
Thunder
https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder
The killer feature for me is swipe gesture navigation. Most apps do not have that. If anything, they might have a "swipe in from the edge of the screen" gesture, but that is not the same as being able to swipe from any point onscreen to go back.
It also supports PieFed.
Jerboa
Heard that it was an app from a Lemmy dev.
Tried it and it was simple enough.
Fuck apps, anything that can be done in a browser will be done in a browser for me
I usually use the official Lemmy client in the browser, because it is minimalistic and fast on any device
Voyager. I'm not sure why. Never thought about trying others but now I'm curious.
Blorp. Don't know why, just felt right at home with the UI and design.
Summit. It's a little buggy sometimes but I really enjoy the ui.
Boost mainly. Then I found it struggles getting posts in the "hot" feed so I'll switch to Voyager for that.
Edit: I forgot to add why. I used boost for Reddit and I really like the UI. It's very customizable.
I've stuck with Boost for like...8 years now? It does everything I need it to so I stick with it.
A web browser. Why limit myself with an app, when Firefox can do anything I want?
Jerboa, I was using Eternity by Bazalansky (Eternity is Infinity for Reddit but for.. Lemmy) but it hasn't been updated continuously, and I already had Jerboa as backup app just in case and it's from the lemmy devs so it's (for me) guaranteed to keep up with lemmy development
Voyager because Interstellar doesn't work well for me.
Can I ask why anyone doesn't use, like, a browser? What's the benefit?
The browser doesnβt remember where I was in my feed when I go back from reading a post. Itβs also slower
I've been on Summit for a bit, but it doesn't seem to have push notifications, or if it does I can't make them work, so I'm thinking about switching back to Boost. I prefer the appearance of Summit, though.
I just type in the URL into phone browser and use it that way
Connect. First one I happened to try, it works well, gets good updates, and is Canadian
Voyager, cause I like it the best. I tried a bunch.