Currently using Arctic for iOS. I was using Voyager for a while, but the Arctic dev (devs?) are so good about bug fixes and adding new features, I had to switch.
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I just really love the default ui of thunder, it nailed what I want for lemmy usage, makes the ocassional lage/wrrors less of an issue. Also like consistent ui across devices, but I find it too annoying to type on my tablet to browse lemmy there.
I have to get around to customizing it, thunder is mostly solid, a bit laggy sometimes, arctic is prob a better move on ios, I just wanted to get used to it, since piefed is forking thunder for their ios app and that will probably be my main eventually. Arctic is definitely more optimized for ios and the fastest I've used.
Thunder. I like being able to customize, and it has just about everything.
I tried Jerboa and Voyager on Android before settling down with SUMMIT. I haven't found a reason to change since.
Jerboa has always been great to me. Android. It uses old reddit style and reminds me of Baconreader
was using Sync, just installed Voyager today, still have to see which I like better.
Still exploring but why I like Voyager over Mlem is that Voyager can load embeds where Mlem doesn’t seem to have that option. I don’t like to have to tap to see content.
Mlem testflight supports it, but its a bit buggy I couldn't make posts without crashing, havent checked the most recent update tho
I use Voyager on Android. It's a quality app that just works. On my iPad I use a safari plug in called sink-it.
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Sync on Android. I'll go down with the ship, I guess. If ljdawson never comes back I'll be forced to look into other options eventually, but for now it still works, despite some bugs. It just looks and feels the best to me, and I've yet to find another app that can exactly replicate how I have it set up.
I was a Sync user on Reddit. Thunder has reproduced that feel for me here. The one place it didn't I contributed (2-column tablet mode)
I use sync occasionally, and I found it has some features literally no other app has (or I'm too dumb to find them) like easy instance switching. It's right there on the main screen, you just click instances, pick a federated instance, and boom, now you're seeing stuff from that instance. I wish more apps has that.
I was in the same boat as you, but I discovered Summit this week. I feel like it fixes a couple of annoyances from Sync.
Excellent, just the example I needed to prevent me from examining my own use of Sync. I picked it up straight off of RiF and it's been mostly fine. Spoilers rarely work and sometimes it just straight up can't "fetch the image," but I can do the things I care about, like downvoting and making ad hominem attacks. 10 out of 10 for me.
[…] like downvoting and making ad hominem attacks.
Thunder can be used for that too, you blithering imbecile.
(Sync alumnus, only on Thunder because I moved to iOS. Sync is still the best 😢)
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Voyager on Android is the best.
Apollo was the best Reddit app on iPhone. Voyager continues its legacy
I loved Apollo! I randomly chose Voyager as my first introduction to Lemmy and it’s been great so far
Voyager on iOS. It’s the best for my use case and I like the UI the most.
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Boost, it was the perfect Reddit client for me and now it's the perfect Lemmy client, I didn't have to sacrifice any aspect of the experience.
God I love you, Boost my beloved 😍
I'm on Android. It'll be a cold day in hell before I give Steve Jobs a penny.
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I'm using Eternity, I haven't tried more so I can't compare, but I liked Eternity enough to don't have the need to try others.
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Boost 🚀💪
Boost on Android for me as well
Same. I used it for so long on reddit that I jumped as soon as the Lemmy version was available.
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Summit is my favorite after testing Thunder, jerboa and Boost.
I've tried almost every Android app for Lemmy, and holy heck, do I love Summit the most. It does everything I need it to and more. It looks great. It's responsive. And the dev is amazing. They respond to bugs, issues, and feature requests lightning fast. No ads. Not FOSS, which is the only thing I've seen anyone gripe about.
Been using it almost exclusively for a year or so now, and I can't praise it enough.
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Connect for Android was my jam, but now that I'm on Mbin I'm liking Interstellar (which also works with Lemmy).
Connect is the most like the reddit is fun client. How i like to shitpost and see content
Haven't looked around for a while, but I've settled on Voyager.
https://github.com/aeharding/voyager#readme
Sadly, F-Droid tries to share the actual binary not a link to it via F-Droid (a la Google Play).
I have the reference application, Jeroba, installed but I don't really like it and haven't seen it updated for a while.
Currently using Voyager on my Android phone. I like it. Quite the upgrade over Boost (which I was using before, as I really liked Boost for Reddit in the before-times).
Don't like going into Lemmy on PC, though. It looks fugly as hell, and the UI looks like something from the 90s. I wonder if there's a different way of accessing Lemmy through my browser.
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Eternity. As lacking in updates it may be, still woks well, and it is super customizable.
Voyager on iOS has worked well enough I haven't gone hunting for anything else. On desktop I like the Alexandrite front end.
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Jerboa on mobile. It feels a lot like the reddit client Joey which I liked a lot.
On pc I just use firefox \o
Arctic on iOS; prefer it to Voyager, Mlem, and Thunder due to having more customization options.
It also feels more natural. It seems it was actually written in swift. Other apps feel like they were written in some framework, which causes inconsistencies from the rest of iOS.
It's also in constant development. I'm on the TestFlight and contribute via bug reports if I find any. I love seeing the new updates.
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I like how the thunder app shows what update the instances you are logged into are on, lemmy.world is so far behind the others lol
Boost for Lemmy on Android with a customised Amoled black theme
Eternity
Firefox.
On desktop, either the vanilla PWA for Lemmy, or alexandrite.app. I Really like alexandrite.
On the phone, I flip between Thunder, Summit, Sync, and Connect. Gotta keep a tab on how they develop, and I like them all, for different reasons.
Edit: my current preferred client on mobile is Thunder. Like you say, it feels like a modern way of browsing Lemmy, it's really good.
Boost in Android works reliably. I haven't really used anything else.
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