I started off using Voyager, swapped to Mlem because of slight differences I preferred. Recently found out Thunder for Lemmy is available on the apple appstore and it instantly became my favorite. I like how unique the ui is compared to other, it seems better suited for browsing and posting on Lemmy, while the others feel better for the initial transition from Reddit. Very suprised it has barely any downloads or reviews when its easily the best Lemmy app on IOS.

Thunder reminds me of the more "modern" alternative front ends for lemmy some sites have while mlem and voyager feel more like the alternative reddit apps (blue alien) and give a similar experience.

On desktop, I've been using Friendica.

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[–] Azerick@lemm.ee 44 points 1 month ago (5 children)

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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[–] Blaze@lemmy.dbzer0.com 40 points 1 month ago

https://www.lemmyapps.com/ has a "rating" column, to be compared with "last release"

[–] Coelacanth@feddit.nu 34 points 1 month ago (6 children)

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.

[–] warbond@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] unpossum@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

[…] 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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[–] CosmicTurtle0@lemmy.dbzer0.com 4 points 1 month ago

I'm in the same boat. The ads have become terrible for me so I'm in the market for a new app anyway. I was hesitant to purchase a subscription because of the low number of releases.

Glad I didn't

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[–] Taeyeon@sh.itjust.works 25 points 1 month ago

Voyager on Android is the best.

[–] TORFdot0@lemmy.world 21 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Apollo was the best Reddit app on iPhone. Voyager continues its legacy

[–] Xed@lemm.ee 6 points 1 month ago

I loved Apollo! I randomly chose Voyager as my first introduction to Lemmy and it’s been great so far

[–] obinice@lemmy.world 18 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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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[–] meldrik@lemmy.wtf 17 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Voyager on iOS. It’s the best for my use case and I like the UI the most.

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[–] Duckling5746 16 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Thunder on Android. Alexandrite on PC.

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 5 points 1 month ago

Absolutely Thunder for android. Easy, customizable, and is very similar to the app I used for reddit called Relay. Dunno how an apk could be better for using Lemmy.

[–] tecnohippie@slrpnk.net 16 points 1 month ago (3 children)

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.

[–] Mac@mander.xyz 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

I like Eternity but i have two problems with it:
~~Cannot upload images from the app~~ So, uh... 🤦‍♂️
It doesn't format spoilers properly

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[–] serfraser@sopuli.xyz 15 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Boost 🚀💪

[–] Glifted@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Boost on Android for me as well

[–] kmirl@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Same. I used it for so long on reddit that I jumped as soon as the Lemmy version was available.

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[–] murmelade@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Summit is my favorite after testing Thunder, jerboa and Boost.

[–] anon6789@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (2 children)

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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[–] deadcatbounce@reddthat.com 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] ekZepp@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago

Eternity. As lacking in updates it may be, still woks well, and it is super customizable.

[–] wjrii@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (2 children)

Voyager on iOS has worked well enough I haven't gone hunting for anything else. On desktop I like the Alexandrite front end.

[–] GCanuck@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

Voyager is my go to. But it doesn’t load Redgifs for me. Which isn’t a deal breaker as I do most of my browsing at work, but there are times when no one’s looking so it’d be nice to have.

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[–] Tattorack@lemmy.world 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

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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[–] FartsWithAnAccent@fedia.io 10 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Connect for Android was my jam, but now that I'm on Mbin I'm liking Interstellar (which also works with Lemmy).

[–] TwoBeeSan@lemmy.world 7 points 1 month ago

Connect is the most like the reddit is fun client. How i like to shitpost and see content

[–] 3dmvr@lemm.ee 9 points 1 month ago

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

[–] Zedstrian@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (4 children)

Arctic on iOS; prefer it to Voyager, Mlem, and Thunder due to having more customization options.

[–] burkybang@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

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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[–] Shapillon@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago

Jerboa on mobile. It feels a lot like the reddit client Joey which I liked a lot.

On pc I just use firefox \o

[–] OhVenus_Baby@lemmy.ml 8 points 1 month ago

Eternity

[–] MP3Martin@programming.dev 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Boost for Lemmy on Android with a customised Amoled black theme

[–] powermaker450@discuss.tchncs.de 8 points 1 month ago

Voyager on mobile, Photon on desktop

[–] Tramort@programming.dev 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Boost in Android works reliably. I haven't really used anything else.

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[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 6 points 1 month ago

I was a RIF user and therefore Jerboa comes naturally to me.

[–] letraset@feddit.dk 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

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.

[–] warmaster@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Sync on Android

Alexandrite on desktop

[–] Rooty@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Firefox.

[–] Willowthewisp@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I downloaded thunder and voyager. The cards are way too small on thunder so I’m using voyager.

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[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 5 points 1 month ago

I use voyager but I’m gonna try thunder now

[–] gigachad@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I used eternity for a long while, but it is buggy and development is slow (if not dead?). So I switched to the Voyager android app and never looked back.

[–] Shape4985@lemmy.ml 5 points 1 month ago

Browser on pc, voyager on mobile

[–] zecg@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Summit, but it's good enough that I haven't tried many others.

[–] needthosepylons@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

Voyager on Android, far above all others

[–] boxfulloffoxes@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 month ago (3 children)

Infinity is/was my favorite for Reddit on Android, and Voyager is close enough. Just frilly enough, images/videos embed okay (though need some improvements to saving/downloading), and it just works.

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[–] Scio@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

Phtn.app, on the web

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[–] mike_wooskey@lemmy.thewooskeys.com 4 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I'm quite happy with Jerboa on GrapheneOS, and on desktop I prefer to visit Lemmy via Tesseract.

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[–] Feathercrown@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago

None-- I use the default website through Chrome.

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