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.
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’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 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.
Voyager because it was the first one I tried.
Same. I haven’t grown out of it and it’s doing literally everything I want it to.
the website, because it works the same as on my computer
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.
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.
Jerboa
Heard that it was an app from a Lemmy dev.Tried it and it was simple enough.
I usually use the official Lemmy client in the browser, because it is minimalistic and fast on any device
Fuck apps, anything that can be done in a browser will be done in a browser for me
“Where’s my battery?”
Used to be Memmy for Lemmy. That’s gone, so I’ve been using Arctic and the web.
This just inspired me to download the source code for Memmy for Lemmy. Whether I spend time updating it for personal use or not, at least I have it if I need it. Sorta like how I plan to keep a derivative of Pocket going if I decide Wallabag isn’t enough (also code available on github).
Summit. Reminds me of Sync on Reddit 5 years ago
what does summit give you over using a browser on lemmy on your phone?
I use Summit because it has all the same features as Relay for Reddit, which was the best 3rd party reedit reader. Well, it still is, but now they have to pay disgusting Spaz.
I’ve been on Summit forever now. Very active development, and they’ve added every feature request I’ve had along with many others’. I lose track of all the options it gets anymore.
It looks good, works good, and when it doesn’t, it gets fixed quickly.
I share lots of posts and articles and put them in quote blocks and just bring able to select all text and guy a single button that auto quotes all paragraphs won me over for good, and then multi-communities was the icing on the cake.
If you ever ask what app has feature X, it’s likely already in Summit.
I wonder why I had written it off months ago, because giving it another shot now, that app sure seems to suit all my needs. Perhaps I had just tried it out when it was very new and lacked many of the features that I wanted and could find in Thunder.
It went open source a bit ago if that may have been a sticking point.
Summit here too. I changed up some of the display settings so it feels like Relay for Reddit 😀
The things that got me to move from Voyager were that when images didn’t load first time, there was no way to re-try - Summit has that. And I don’t think Voyager handled drafts that well. Summit has drafts but I do wish there was a client that had drafts like Relay did, where if you come back to the same comment/post and hit reply it has your draft from where you left off on that comment/reply.
+1 for Summit!
It has been the best clean user experience for me so far
