What client do Android users use for Lemmy these days? I’ve been using Jerboa from the start but it’s a bit basic and lacks any good search functionality. So I want to try some others. What do other Android users recommend?
Things I like about Jerboa:
- It just works. It’s pretty simple.
- It has actual private browsing in app. You never have to leave the app and it knows how to never save your history.
- It can do the above even when setting your main browser to Firefox (so as blocking works even in open links in app).
Things I don’t like about Jerboa:
- Text entry is oftentimes buggy.
- Lack of any decent search for communities or in threads.
- No draft capability.
Boost
Interstellar
Voyager
same. only because it was the only one i could remember the name of when i was setting up the ‘mini tablet’ (which is just someone’s old phone. has no sim or service). it’s an old and slow phone, so it doesn’t get used often. i’d much rather be on a desktop.
Am I the only one using Connect?
Am I out of touch?
No, it’s the lemmings who are wrong.
I’m with you. Connect is great
Reddit is Fun into Connect. Never looked back.
Same
Sync for Lemmy
Voyager for me. The compact mode is fairly compact, with small enough thumbnails that it can feel text-first. The few others that support piefed have had huge images with no easy way to fix that.
Sync, until it dies.
I like Boost.
Last time I said this, I got shunned for recommending a closed-source app. I generally try to stick to open-source, but Boost has a good UI, works well, and bugs are fixed quickly.
I’m also using boost but “bugs are fixed quickly” isn’t my experience.
Maybe I just haven’t encountered any bugs that took a long time to fix. It’s been pretty reliable for me.
I started using Boost during round 1 of the API debacle when Reddit is Fun got the axe. Boost was still up & going so I used it there for a couple months before it got killed, then came here & kept up with it.
I haven’t had any major issues, just the occasional hiccup like spoiler markup formatting or other weird interactions.
Also been using Boost for years and very happy with it. My only gripe is that oftentimes embedded images like custom emotes are displayed at an enormous screen filling size, so sometimes if a user includes multiple emotes in a comment I have to scroll several screens to get to the next comment. This never was an issue in the Reddit Boost app, and the fact that its been unaddressed for so long now has me worried that the app may have been abandoned. No idea if it still gets updates, I should check one day.
I like Boost, even paid for it. Sometimes won’t load mpegs or bigger files,but those are my only gripes
I also use Boost. Mainly because I was using Boost on Reddit before, and I really like the UX.
I’m a software developer that focuses on front end development (full-stack but I like frontend more) so I’m pretty picky about UI/UX. Boost feels very nice and polished.
what does boost give you that you can’t get from its default interface?
Browser
This! Don’t know why you would need something else.
Voyager.
Voyager
Blorp for me
Blorp dev here. Let me know if there is anything I can do to make the app better for you!
Same here. Blorp was the first result when looking up Lemmy on the Google Play Store and I’ve had 0 issues since.
Jerboa was the smallest one I could find on F-Droid. The lack of post search sucksssss but that’s probably a sign that I should get home and onto my computer regardless.
Firefox
Firefox based browser and Jerboa
Eternity
