2y ago

What apps are you guys using until Boost for Lemmy gets released?

So far I've been using thunder and it's pretty similar ui.

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I’m an Apollo refugee and Memmy is damn near the same experience - it’s great.
- Ditto. Memmy has a very familiar feel to it. Hell, it's even got a lot of the same themes which is a big plus.
  
  Jesus fuck I never knew it had themes I could change. Thank you so much dude. This looks way better Although I wish the green theme didn’t change the whole screen to look like a filter just pasted over it

Thunder as well. It just got a playstore release.
- I was using Jerboa and Liftoff alternatively when I found out your comment. Thunder fixes all of my complaints ty!
  
  If you do end up having any, let us know on !thunder_app@lemmy.world or the github.
- Thanks, I will try this. Ultimately I know I just want Boost, but I always had a backup reddit client on my phone, so let's see what ends up taking second place.
  
  Felt the same about Relay, and was really bummed it isn't making the hop to lemmy. But now that I'm on the team making Thunder, I'm hyped af to make it something even better.
- Just saw this. I had a old github release, looks slightly better now.

Voyager is the best. Big plus for it being a PWA.
- Same here. Voyager is incredible!

Liftoff
Connect can't connect to feddit, lol and jerboa seems unfinished.
- I'm connected via feddit.uk
- I'm not a big fan of the Material You borders. In the beginning I tried Jerboa and it did feel unfinished.

I use Connect, having tried most of what's out there but can't wait to get my hands on Boost.

Liftoff and Jerboa
- Looking at the Github for Jerboa, I feel like some text and icons aren't that greatly sized.
  Liftoff looks pretty good but I personally dislike the + button on the bottom.

Liftoff is the smoothest for me so far. Connect is great, too, but I can't stand the Icon. Same with Jerboa.
- Connect is such a well designed app but you'd never know it based on the icon. It really is ugly, though not as bad as jerboa's.
- It's true the Jerboa icon is off-putting for me too
- Lol I just change it
  
  I know that's a possibility. But I can't be arsed to when there's Liftoff around that works just as good :D Interesting times with all these early stage apps in an arms race
- It looks like the Button that brings you to the in app Shop of a shitty mobile game

I have Jerboa, Liftoff, Thunder and Connect installed and cycled through them to test them out. But lately i noticed i seem to be gravitating towards Connect.
- Same, except I now more often seem to settle on Liftoff.
  
  I think i'm going to try my other installed apps for a while again. I didn't use those for a couple of updates, so it might well be that they have improved a lot. I'm not having any real attachments like i had with boost as of yet :-)

I wish we had a poll vs trying to read through all these posts....
I flip between connect and jerboa. Jerboa would be my go to, but it's got too many issues.

I'm using Connect currently and it's pretty good so far.
- Enjoying Connect as well. Dev is very responsive and has been making tons of changes and improvements. Reminds me of rif

voyager aka wefwef jerboa liftoff connect summit thunder
are all great apps with pros and cons
- What's your favorite one so far?
  
  voyager for lemmy has been my fav so far. It's a UWP app and comes with lots of functionality and less bugs.

So far Jerboa but I will switch as soon as boost is available
- Same here. I believe the Jerboa developer said he used boost as an inspiration for it. Maybe that is why I like it best of the apps that I tried.
- That's my way

WefWef ofcourse!
- Another vote for wefwef/Voyager!
  
  AOL!

Jerboa
- Jeroba was pretty bad in the beginning but other apps like liftoff and thunder just haven't been keeping up with the rate at which jeroba is improving so I'm back to using that. I'm still looking forward to boost and all it's attention to detail qol stuff.

wefwef

Just the mobile web browser

Mobile website

Wefwef (I know the name changed but in my mind it will be forever be wefwef)
- Is there a way to make voyager show a collapsed view instead of giant images?
  
  Settings—> Appearance—> Post size:Compact

Im using jerboa but definitely wanna change when boose comes out

I'm using Liftoff, it's still in beta and feels rather clunky but it'll do until Boost comes out
- Same, Lifttoff is still very limited but better than using via browser webapp imo.

I've been trying both Jerboa and Liftoff. I think I'm liking Jerboa a bit better, it sort of reminds me of RIF a bit.

I briefly tried Jerboa, but I kept getting errors when trying to connect to some instances. I switched over to Connect, and that's been working well for me so far. The dev is making consistent updates.
- And he have full time job amezing guy

Have been loving voyager aka wefwef the best. Reminds me of when I used to use apollo. Can't wait for boost but this one's pretty good too.

Jerboa, I only wish I could swipe to the next post instead of having to back out and then click the next..

Liftoff, connect was too laggy

Connect, much better than Jerboa as of today.

I like the look and feel of Jerboa, but it has a bug on my device where I'll be typing and it'll just jump to middle of the post and start deleting/overwriting stuff.
I like how Liftoff can provide a unified All feed with content from all instances, but the feed just looks so noisy and icon-heavy
Connect seems the most well-rounded and the closest to a Relay for Reddit replacement, so I've been mainly gravitating toward that.
Thunder just didn't hit with me for whatever reason.
- There is something odd about the fonts used for Thunder. Maybe the spacing between the letters, I don't know exactly.
  
  I agree. First time I’ve seen anyone else mention this. If it makes a difference, I’m on iOS, I wonder if the rendering is different in android.

I use too many, but lately only using apps that allow me to hide read post and mark as read while scroll, meaning:
Voyager
Connect for Lemmy
Summit
In that order, whenever Thunder gets these features I can see myself rocking it until Sync or Boost for Lemmy enters to the game!
I have high expectations for that hinted Voyager native app though.

Liftoff rn
- It's what I settled for once it got reply notifications. The UI design is good as well
  
  Yeah. still a bit buggy but its alright

I was using Jerboa but I've recently installed Connect and I really like it!

I started with Jerboa, but am now using liftoff. Both are . . . OK. I'm not going to bother with another one until Boost gets released.
- I've been rotating between these. Have had issues with both so start using the ither one when the problems get bad with the current one.
  I tried Thunder as well but that was the worst experience.

lemmy.world in a browser (mobile version ofc) with a shortcut. I prefer it over any app at the moment because of the good UI and no missing functionality.
- I'm on Jerboa now, but the lemmy mobile website is pretty good. I prefer the mobile website to some of the other apps I've tried

Liftoff. I tried Jerboa, Connect and Liftoff and bounced between Connect and Liftoff for a while, but I mostly gravitated towards Liftoff. It's OK for now, but I don't think any of these apps will stay on my phone once Boost is released.

Just Jerboa. Only one where material works as it should.
Thunder and Connect are kinda ok but the typography hierarchy need too much configuration to get right.

Thunder was the first I tried two weeks ago but didn't really like it at all. Maybe it's time to try it again, though it seems I have trouble logging in on it now.
I used to like Liftoff the most, but something changed in the last update and I don't like the new appearance of the feed as much.
I still go between it, Jerboa and Voyager and sometimes Connect. I don't like how Liftoff handles replies in the inbox, for one reason. It also shows only combined votes, not separate up/downvotes, while Voyager and Connect require an extra click to vote/reply to comments.

Summit or voyager

Thunder on Android is a very good experience, and Memmy on iOS are my favorites at the moment - have been for a couple weeks now.

Thunder continues to top itself with big updates every week, and now it's officially on the Play Store! If you don't mind downloading apps from GitHub, the semi-nightly pre-releases are quite stable. Upcoming release already has a bunch more fixes and features, so keep an eye on it even if you bounced off initially!

Jerboa since it just works and the Dracula userstyle for the web.

Jerboa for now.
Definitely switching to Boost ASAP, though.

Thunder and voyager (it stutters sometimes because it's web based)

Sync, for free. It's very good but a lot of the features I want are locked behind a big purchase that I just won't make.

Summit.
Has basic functionality like marking posts as read after scrolling past them, has a "hide read" option on the FAB button and has a History tab so all hidden posts that you opened will show there. Also, it opens links on custom browser tabs.
I haven't found another app that does all 4. If someone knows please let me know.

I've tried Liftoff, Connect, and Thunder so far. Thunder is by far the more stable one, and it's pretty convenient too

I'm on Kbin so I use the web app.
- Same here.

Memmy.

Liftoff.
I'm getting accustomed to it already. If Boost takes much longer, it'll be harder to justify switching even to check it out.
- Same here, Liftoff is really good! Boost will have to be at least as good for me to switch now 😉

Thunder and connect

Like 4 different apps but mainly Voyager power app.

Gonna try sync eventually. But I'm very very happy with liftoff ATM. It's honestly perfect other than the scrolling being a bit janky.

I really like Thunder. The slide actions are awesome - you upvote posts pushing them to the right, reply pushing to the left etc. it's very ergonomic :)

Summit is best now

I have been using Connect for Lemmy and it is getting better with each update.
I have registered for Boost for Lemmy but I am skeptial whether I will leave Connect for Boost.
- I like the small cards for post view, but I don't like that when you enter inside a post the post still remains as small card.

Jerboa then Connect

I'm sending this comment from "Infinity for Lemmy" which is still alpha. Downloaded it here:
https://codeberg.org/Bazsalanszky/Infinity-For-Lemmy/releases
Edit: But I had to edit it from the desktop because, as I said the app is alpha but the dev is working actively on it to add more features. The dev is not the original from "Infinity for Reddit". But since it is open source a new dev picked up the development and started adapting it for Lemmy. 1 day ago it was not possible to add comments, now we can.

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