Which lemmy app for android do you use and why?

  • MoLoPoLY
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    4 months ago
    • Eternity, but clicking in an Notification E-Mail on the Lemmy Inbox link, does not open Eternity on the Inbox.
    • Voyager is also fine, but i has strange look on Android, looks more like made for Apple.
    • Jerboa is nice to, but lacks options to change the fonts
    • Sync for Lemmy is nice, but its closed source and has ads (can be removed when you pay enough 20,99€)
    • Some other apps in the Playstore, but most of them are not worth to use them
    • Thunder seems to be nice, but I really miss ‘Mark as read on scroll’ feature, which is very important for me
    • there is ‘Commit for Lemmy’ on the play store, most features I want are there but a) its not available on F-Droid and b) crash from time to time
    • ‘Boost for Lemmy’ looks really nice. I couldn’t find a setting for ‘Mark as read on scroll’. Maybe it’s enabled by default. If that’s true, I would keep this app. There is a option to remove ads for 3.59€ which is a fine for me. But I have not seen any ad as of now. Be aware that there are 6 Trackers in this app, but since I use PiHole, it’s not really important for me.

    Currently im using mostly Eternity and hope that some bugs get sorted out sooner or later. But Boost would be good next candidate, if ‘Mark as read on scroll’ is supported. Arch f not, the next best alternative is Jerboa.

  • @iegod@lemm.ee
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    04 months ago

    Sync is the most polished and best looking. But ads so I dunno your call. I like it.

  • @Evkob@lemmy.ca
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    04 months ago

    So far, out of the suggestions in the comments, the only ones that are FOSS and currently work with the latest versions of lemmy are Jerboa, Thunder, and Voyager. Liftoff and Eternity are also FOSS, but haven’t been updated since July and October respectively, so may have issues if your instance is running version 0.19+.

    Boost and Sync are both closed source and I really wish people would stop recommending them in a community specifically for free and open-source software. I’m sure they’re good apps and I don’t begrudge devs making money from their work, but if they do I don’t want them getting free advertising in the comments of a FOSS-specific community.

  • @UKFilmNerd@feddit.uk
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    04 months ago

    Thunder is my main app and it’s updated regularly as well. Jerboa is my second choice because that’s the “official” Lemmy app.

    I was a big fan of LiftOff!, unfortunately, the developer had twins back in the summer and understandably, the app hasn’t been updated since.

  • The Great King Virtue Is Dead!
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    04 months ago

    I use eternity; I havent found something that it struggles with yet. Can anyone here let me know why use decided against eternity? I dont really know its limitations since I’ve only used it.

  • promitheas
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    04 months ago

    Eternity. I used Infinity when I was on Reddit, so its not new to me, and there are features I like about it