I’ll add more apps to this list as they are released.
Since all these apps are being constantly updated, I’ll also include the version number. Please don’t let my post stop you from using any of these apps. My complaints will probably be fixed very, very soon.
Summit v0.1.22 (Day 1): The app is pretty neat since they added inboxes halfway through my day. The app feels pretty neat overall. It will be much better once they add profiles. I just wish they had an infinite scrolling feature. The community selection feels kinda wonky though.
Connect v1.0.73 (Day 2): This is probably the best app for Android right now; but I obviously can’t tell since I haven’t even tried half of them yet. Nothing feels missing from this app. It’s great and has all the features I could want from a Lemmy client. The only issue I had was that some communities sometimes don’t appear in the hamburger menu. I check up on my Stephen King community every few hours but I often have to search for it to find it. Overall an amazing app.
fennec v0.0.4 (Day 3): Overall a pretty neat app. It doesn’t have too many formatting options; no button for adding pics to comments. The reversed voting buttons were kinda annoying and sometimes when a post had too many comments or votes, or when I was deep into a comment thread, it wouldn’t show the upvote button. Also idk if it’s just me being dumb but I can’t figure out how to edit posts…
Thunder v0.2.1 11 (Day 4): It’s a decent app. I don’t really have much else to say about it. My only complaint is that you can’t add images to comments and posts. If you don’t really care about that it’s a good choice for your main app.
Lemming 1.0.0-alpha05 (Day 5): It feels different from the others apps I’ve tried so far (probably just because of the unusual hamburger menu) but it’s great. Profiles and inboxes are missing but i liked the UI colors quite a lot which made scrolling through it fun for me. Also, swiping to upvote requires a very small swipe on this app so I used it quite a lot whereas I literally never used it on the other apps. Pretty great and it’s probably gonna be one of the best when inboxes and profiles are added.
Missing wefwef. Every app has its flaws, but Connect is the more feature-rich.
It’s easy to complain about the bugs in every one of them, but let’s not forget that for the vast majority of us, we didn’t even know that Lemmy ever existed a month ago.
Progress has been astounding
I didn’t realize this at first, but using Firefox it just installs as a home screen shortcut, but if you install from Chrome it adds it to your app drawer like an actual native app.
Well put. The developers behind the apps have been on their toes to provide a more accessible experience to the community, albeit with different visions. :-)
Huh, Fennec is the name of my web browser. Which I definitely recommend, it’s a fork of Firefox stable with all proprietary and telemetry removed.
I’m just waiting for Boost for Lemmy, meanwhile I’m using Connect.
I think the information here is out of date
Finally a worthy opponent
The nice thing about using multiple apps is that you get tons of updates and improvements (?)
I’ve tried a few apps, but I keep going back to Jerboa
Which app deals best with hiding already read content? I only found the option in Connect to hide the posts I already scrolled over. Joey for areddit had a post contextual menu item to hide everything above, that was the most convenient to me. Or is there any other technique to not to stare at the same content at each session ?
Lemmy itself can hide read posts, so they app never even sees them; you can find this setting on your profile
That’s nice to know, thanks, and what about posts you scrolled over but didn’t bother to read still could be handled as read?
Excellent review, helped me a lot in deciding my app of choice.
Connect feels very clean, it might be the best app out of my list.
I feel like it was way more glitchy last week but theyust have rolled an update because now it’s absolutely solid. Thunder is nice too but it gets lost scrolling frequently. It has my favorite, probably most underrated feature though, which is the ability to tap to unblur NSFW and then re-tap to blur them again. I wish more apps would copy that feature it is SO SMOOTH, and makes me feel way better using card views and browsing with the all filter. Don’t have to disable NSFW completely, but I can tap then double tap to see it and hide it again without ever leaving the feed.
Liking Connect so far myself.
Keep us posted
Jerboa sucks ass. Liftoff is great imo.
I’ve been on lemmy a total of 2 hours between both apps
Just started Day 3 with fennec. I went in not expecting much but it’s great. But when I’m scrolling it sometimes jitters and jumps upwards.
Day 3, the first poop.
I keep trying all of them but keep coming back to Jerboa. It uses it’s screen space most efficiently (even with all the customisations of the others) and for me seems to work the best.
Edit: Connect is probably the next best one I’ve tried on Android (and potentially better functioning than Jerboa), but the font is too bold however small I make it.
Also connect doesn’t seem to be open source, that is sad.
