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Leomard - a native macOS client for Lemmy

Hello! I have made a macOS client for Lemmy - Leomard. It's an initial version of the app, and my first macOS app made for the public.

Features

Mac-native client
Fast, small and light (only 9.2 MB)
Open source (GPLv3)
Beautiful responsive interface

Of course, it's a very early version, some features are missing (ex. image uploading), and you may encounter a bug here and there.

Don't forget to follow Leomard's community: !leomard@lemm.ee

Or jump straight to the project’s Git: https://github.com/Athlon007/Leomard

If you have questions, feel free to ask :)

Hi everybody! This is the initial release of Leomard - a native macOS client app written in Swift using SwiftUI. It’s still in very early phase of development, features are missing, but it’s a start. Feedback is most welcome!
Screenshots:
Changelog
Initial Release
Sent from Leomard.**

48 comments

Let’s go with the native clients 🙏
Looking amazing 🙌
- Native is the way 🙏
  Unfortunately, at work I usually have to settle for Vue.JS front-ends 😂
  
  Vue JS is awesome, when making websites.
  The fact that people make apps with it is what sucks. Not because Vue JS is bad, but because native apps always look and feel better. Always.
  
  🤢

Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !leomard@lemm.ee

Thank you so much for making it available on Intel. I got the last Intel MBP out of sheer bad luck lol.
- Let me know how it runs. I have no way of testing the app on Intel Macs. It should make no difference whatsoever, but who knows.
  
  It seems great! No issues so far.
  
  runs fine on a 2017 macbook pro!

Love it!

sigh, not compatible on my old 2014 Macbook pro as it still runs MacOS 11.7.6 (Big Sur).
- Check this out :) https://dortania.github.io/OpenCore-Legacy-Patcher/ got Monterey running on my 2012 mbp
  
  Oooh, thank you for that. Gonna try it this week.
- I’ll see what can be done.
- Ran into the same problems on my 2014 iMac. Month ago I ran core legacy patcher, and now my old iMac runs ventura!

Nice! Got it up and running on an M1 MBAir.
I'd say the only thing I noticed is the comments on posts don't seem to be coming up for me? It does show the number of comments, upvotes, etc. and has a field for entering a new comment.
At any rate, it looks pretty slick overall :)
- Huh, that’s pretty interesting. If the post has comments, you should be able to scroll down and see them.
- Same. Also, doesn’t seem to let me sign in (on SDF); the login box goes away, but when I switch to the feed, the lane on the RHS says “Lemmy.world”. When I go back to the profile page, it shows me the login box again, suggesting the login actually failed.
  
  Edit: ah, I think keychain access must not have worked. It didn’t prompt me; so I’m not sure how to grant it manually.
  Edit 2: built from source and it did request access this time. I granted it, but the behavior seemed otherwise the same as above.

Looks awesome!

Posting from it now. Looks great!

Great start. UI def needs some tweaks (maybe it’s just the colors chosen?) but better than I can do lol
- Any specifics to improve?
  
  honestly - if you just copy/use the three column design and color scheme from Reeder this would be damn perfect. I find the 3 column design (like mail, reeder, messages (ok thats only 2 but you get the idea) to be perfect on the bigger Mac screens.
  I have 0 idea how hard this would be though.
  https://www.macstories.net/reviews/reeder-5-review-read-later-tagging-icloud-sync-and-design-refinements/

Great ui , but two things 1 : add multiple accounts 2 : some subscriptions don’t show on some lemmy servers like lemmy.pt , lemmy.fmhy.ml etc
- Already in to-do list for the next version
  I have no idea why that’s the case, I am literally pulling data from Lemmy API and presenting it to the user.

I don't even have a mac, but this is gorgeous! Keep up the good work!

Will give it a try. Thanks for open sourcing it!

awwww man shoulda called it Liger, the most ferocious beast.
...and the icon a sweet pair of nunchucks
....numchucks
...numbchunks
- I like (snow) leopards more, sorry!

test comment from Leomard please ignore

Haha, called it. Well, almost, I thought it was going to be an instance. Love the name :)
It’s great to see new clients emerge.
Btw, do you have any plans to support kbin once its api goes live?
- Oof, I am not sure just yet. First I want to strike for 99% compatibility of Lemmy’s API itself, then I can think about things like kbin. It’s too early to say.
  
  Ok, I see, thanks for answering. Good luck with your app!

Any chance it can work with kbin as well?
- As of right now, Leomard is strictly tied to Lemmy’s API.

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