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[–] Lowlands@lemmy.world 122 points 1 year ago (10 children)

Memmy seems like a solid choice, very active development. It has been offered to Apple review last week and should appear in the appstore soon.

[–] ivenoidea@lemmy.world 35 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I second Memmy. I’ve tried the others available currently, including wefwef and Memmy is my favorite. wefwef is second, but an actual native app still feels better imo.

[–] fraydabson@sopuli.xyz 18 points 1 year ago

Agreed. I love wef wef but still has some weirdness being a web app. Memmy is my favorite installed app.

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[–] SocialEngineer56@notdigg.com 23 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Another Memmy user here - if you’re a fan of Apollo Memmy is the perfect substitute!

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[–] Lemmylaugh@lemmy.fmhy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

It’s on the AppStore too now. Go go go!

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[–] revs@feddit.uk 87 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Not a native app, but i’m using the wefwef web app, and it’s pretty awesome and getting multiple updates a day.

It’s a web based clone of Apollo

https://wefwef.app/

[–] Deconceptualist@lemm.ee 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Wefwef looks nice and I really want to like it but I keep tapping the back button and getting sent all the way back to my communities list, and therefore losing my spot in the scroll. It's getting old really fast.

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I second wefwef. Incredible app, very close to Apollo.

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[–] kuneho@lemmy.world 56 points 1 year ago (12 children)

for Android I think Connect for Lemmy is the best around. also, it gets literally better day to day since the dev is following the app's community and fixes bugs, implements things from there super rapidly.

[–] ThrowingTofu@lemmy.ml 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

By far the best interface on android so far. Looking forward to Sync for Lemmy and Boost for Lemmy as well.

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Using it right now. Very nice interface, especially comment field

I love the formatting tools

that are placed at the bottom

And enable easy text fancification

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[–] Gamera8ID@lemm.ee 55 points 1 year ago (7 children)

There's a comprehensive list of Lemmy apps being curated here.

Right now I'm using Liftoff.

+1 for Liftoff

[–] DarthVi@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

I'm another Liftoff user!

I've also tried Jerboa, Connect for Lemmy and wefwef, but lately I'm using Liftoff a lot.

[–] xilophor@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I like using liftoff, especially the everything feed since I have multiple lemmy accounts

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[–] Phantom52347@lemmy.one 54 points 1 year ago (6 children)
[–] Dwalin@lemm.ee 21 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've been using Sync for a couple of hours and already uninstalled Liftoff and Connect hahaha. Don't get me wrong they're both great, but Sync is that much better

[–] Michal@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Same, already paid for year's subscription too. I used Sync for reddit and trust the developer to make a quality app.

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[–] seacocker@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's unbelievably polished for a first release. Not 100% feature complete mind you, but it's mind blowing the dev pull this off.

[–] richieadler@lemmy.myserv.one 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

It inherits all the lessons learned with Sync for Reddit until it died.

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[–] Pechente@feddit.de 48 points 1 year ago (12 children)

https://wefwef.app is amazing. PWA and hence cross-platform.

[–] radix@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (8 children)

Just installed it. It looks like Apple's UI, which gives it a kind of uncanny valley on my Android phone. Will use alongside Liftoff until I like one better, thanks for mentioning it!

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[–] lotanis@discuss.tchncs.de 6 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I've got it installed as a PWA (Firefox Android). It's great but is there any way to get it to open links in my proper browser rather than the web view type thing?

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[–] Dreamer_joy@lemmy.ml 23 points 1 year ago (4 children)

'Connect' seems to be quite good.

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[–] PreciousDeclaration@lemmy.zip 22 points 1 year ago (5 children)

For me personally, Jerboa is the best Android Lemmy app that I've tried, and I have tried several of them. I'll just be glad when Sync for Lemmy is released.

[–] techcelt@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

I have tried Jerboa, and have just tried liftoff. I prefer the UI of Jerboa and it's in fdroid also!

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[–] AngryDemonoid@lemmy.lylapol.com 22 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (9 children)

It was previously my least favorite android option, but Jerboa is coming together nicely.

I also have Thunder and liftoff installed. I bounce between all 3.

I'll most likely be jumping to Boost if/when that comes out because I'm just so used to it.

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[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 21 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Really liking thunder, now that I can view profiles and edit comments.

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[–] mp3@lemmy.ca 18 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Android user here, I'm quite happy with Connect for Lemmy

The official community is at /c/lemmyconnect

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[–] Arayvenn@lemmy.ca 14 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Android user here. Liftoff is unmatched in terms of its visual presentation.

[–] _cerpin_taxt_@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago

I love the look of Liftoff. I just wish it had the functionality of Connect.

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[–] Toxinflora@lemmy.ml 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well the app is currently in the earlier phases of development but i think more people should know that there is currently an attempt at porting slide for reddit to lemmy. here is the releases from the repository https://github.com/bqv/slide/releases, but its very early in development

[–] SummerIsTooWarm@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Wow, did not expect Slide for Lemmy. I used Slide for years until the api shutdown. I'm really looking forward for this app

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[–] LemmyStartNow@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago (6 children)

Been using Liftoff and I'm enjoying it so far, after using/trying Thunder, Jerboa, Wefwef, lemmotif

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[–] mrlavallee@lemmy.world 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

A bit biased since I am the creator, but using Lemmios has been pretty sweet!

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[–] meetpateltech@lemmy.world 12 points 1 year ago

You can checkout all lemmy clients here:

https://lemmyapps.netlify.app/

[–] notasandwich1948@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (3 children)

for me liftoff is the least buggy and runs smoother than thunder or jerboa

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[–] Francis_Fujiwara@sh.itjust.works 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Idk, i use Eternity (Infinity Fork).

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[–] iMike@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)
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[–] subspaceinterferents@lemmy.world 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Loves me some Boost. Boost is the moost.

[–] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 7 points 1 year ago

For Android I'm finding Liftoff to be the best comparison to RIF so far.

However, I I am waiting to check out Boost. But for now, I've stopped using the other 2 big ones (Connect and Jerboa) altogether in favor of Liftoff.

[–] AES@lemmy.ronsmans.eu 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Infinity for lemmy is coming along really nice!

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[–] mypasswordis1234@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)
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[–] kzhe@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago

Jerboa seems great to me

[–] CoolSouthpaw@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

On Android, definitely Sync. Yes, it has ads, but they're way less obnoxious than the ones on the official Reddit app, so I will keep putting up with them and u/Spez can go fuck himself.

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[–] AndreyAsimow@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (3 children)

After trying (imho) all android app, for me, Connect works the best.

I think it depends on one's taste which app is the "best".

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[–] CobraChicken@lemmy.ca 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

I have tried all of the ones on Android.

Wefwef / Voyager is extremely impressive for what it is - webapp

However it and all of the other android apps glitch a lot. I'm on a pixel 7 pro so it's not a legacy hardware issue either

Sync is by far the best app by a large margin. Everything has a high degree of polish. UX design is perfect, though I may be biased since I've been using it for reddit for the past decade.

Sync only has ads on the post pages, may be once every 10-15 posts. No ads on the comment page. Honestly it's got the little Google ads that are not a big deal at all

If you'd like you can remove ads for $30 but honestly it's not a big enough issue at all

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