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
Sync, until it dies.
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.
Eternity
Firefox based browser and Jerboa
Firefox
I just use the web UI. It scales really well on mobile.
Im using my computer
I just access it via the Firefox browser. Mostly because I’m tired of everything wanting to have its own app which turns out to just be a more colourful container to load the webpage (my tinfoil hat hypothesis is that they do it to bypass adblocks). And the other reason is that I couldn’t find anything I need to do on Lemmy that I’m not just as able to do from the browser.
I tried a bunch and settled on Voyager. I also liked Thunder.
Same, I tried them all and Voyager was my favourite
It’s also nice to recommend because it’s on iOS too
Summit wins out
Agreed, I’ve tried all the ones mentioned so far and some others but Summit is the only one that doesn’t have annoyances and drawbacks for what I want.
Im on summit now and its ok. I wish sync was still in development.
Like most people, I’ve tried many apps, and chose summit because, in addition to it having everything I’m looking for in an app, it doesn’t eat my battery like the other apps. Thunder was good, but it drained my battery so fast, it was just crazy.
Also on summit. Not only is it a really nice to use app in general, it also has the best mod tools that I’ve seen in any app so far.
Agreed. I just wish they would get the PieFed post combining happening so we didn’t see the same article posted four times in a row. The PieFed PWA does it right. Might be an API issue though.
Agree on that
