Now that the Reddit exodus is about a year old and the client apps have matured, what’s the latest state of the above question?
What app do you use and why? I’m mainly interested in Android but suggestions for other platforms are also welcome. And if you are using multiple platforms, what’s your primary one?
Voyager works great for me.
I am fully on the Sync train. It does get a lot of hate here because it’s not FOSS, but it was the best app around for Reddit, and the dev converted it for Lemmy. It’s so far above and beyond everything else that I’m happy to pay for it. There’s a free version with ads, and there’s the expensive paid upgrade ($20). The dev regularly disappears for months, but when he surfaces, he’ll roll out a massive amount of bug fixes and features.
+1
If you’re running a pi hole, the free version is ad free too
Android user.
I used Liftoff until it broke with the API change a couple months back. The Dev has been AFK looking after twin kids. Hope they are going well.
Tried Thunder for a while but it kept crashing or forgetting what post I was looking at when switching between apps.
Using Voyager now and I am quite happy with it. I miss the All servers you have accounts with feed view from Liftoff but that is not a biggie.
Shout-out for boost
Android app store says this shares purchases, location info, device ID and app interactions with 3rd parties… Voyager shares no data with 3rd parties.
If you pay for boost, it does not share any info with 3rd parties.
Do you have a source for this? I don’t doubt you, but I can’t find anything online that corroborates it.
Sync, all the way. I strictly used Sync for reddit after the first real enshittification (to me) of reddit a couple years back, and once the app was reworked for Lemmy I switched and haven’t looked back.
Like others have said, it looks great, almost fully customizable UI, works really well, and saves your place when you’re scrolling through comments on posts if you back out.
I use jerboa and so far my only gripes are being unable to unblock communities or users unless you go to the desktop page and the upvote system being a percentage instead of just an up and down counter.
I originally used boost as that’s what I used for reddit but boost is crammed full of ads unless you buy the premium version.
Removed by mod
I’ve been loyal to Sync. Few quirks that need to be resolved like support for Lemmy spoilers, but other than that it’s been fantastic.
My use case is incredibly simple, but I really like Jerboa.
I personally use Thunder. It looks great.
Summit is the best option I’ve found, to replace RIF that I used to use back when I was using reddit.
Ouch, so sad only one mention of Summit. I was on Boost for Reddit, and then Liftoff here until that died. Boost development was going slow it felt like, and I just didn’t feel the workflow was what I got used to posting to Lemmy.
Summit felt great to me, has a ton of great features, and the dev is super responsive and has incorporated many of my requests and has fixed bugs I’ve reported very quickly. I love me some Summit for sure and I don’t know why it’s gone relatively unnoticed.
I’m using Mlem, and it’s worked good so far
iOS: Mlem
I used boost for Reddit and use Boost for lemmy since day one (of the app) I love it.
I’ve been using Jerboa, but tempted to swap to Voyager.
I haven’t really played around with anything else since Sync for Lemmy was released, because I’m perfectly happy with it.
