I’m currently trying Voyager. Initial impression is that it seems like a great app.
Here is a shameless plug for my own Lemmy app Arctic. It’s not left TestFlight just yet, but it hopefully will soon. It’s a pure Swift based app built with performance and content presentation in mind.
More information is available over at [email protected]
I just tried it, and at first look, it seems great!
There’s one thing that I need to use it long term, and that’s a way to collapse comments to get to the next parent. Doesn’t matter to me if it’s a button or a swipe, as long as there’s a way to skip out of a long comment chain and get to the next parent.
Thanks for the work so far!
Hey, downloaded and tested for a bit, looks brilliant!
Will there be an option to move the compact images to the right? My wee thumb struggles reaching over the phone to the left and I prefer it to the card look.
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I never used Apollo. Back when I used Reddit I just used the official app. Glad to see some Lemmy apps have left TestFlight though.
official reddit app
How could you do this to yourself?
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It’s on my Home Screen, but I wish it was easy to send images. That’s the only major downside, trying to share an image from Lemmy only shares a link.
Avelon is also a really nice one. All Swift too I think.
Tried them all and Avelon is my favourite
I’ve tried a few, but for now Voyager seems the best (and the most identical to Apollo). Yet, not a single one has my favourite Apollo feature, which was to share (chains of) comments as pictures. I think the first one who gets this right, is the one I’ll settle with (⌐■_■)
Kind of a shameless plug, but you could have a look at [email protected].
The ‘Share as Image’ feature is still work in progress, it doesn’t handle very long threads that well yet, but overall I think it’s working quite well already.
I pushed a new release yesterday, once that’s approved by Apple I will announce (and share) the public TestFlight link!
Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]
I settled on using Bean. Great app!
Are these actual native apps, or more react/web view in an app wrapper?
Depends on the app. Mlem is native, and Voyager is a web view app wrapper. But Voyager definitely doesn’t feel like a web view. It was written to feel like a native app, I’m really impressed. And that’s coming from someone who generally hates web apps.
Voyager used to be a web app, but has now gone native too.
A web app doesn’t magically turn into a native app when you put it on the app store. The way it gets installed, and the system access is different, and better for stuff like notifications…
But the word “native” refers to applications made using the native SDK, which in Apple’s case is Swift. I’d be extremely impressed if the devs re-wrote the entire app in new code. But that would be unnecessary.
You can have non-native apps on the app store. A lot of your apps probably aren’t native. SDKs like flutter, used by liftoff and thunder, make development much easier in exchange for the resulting application running a bit less efficiently. Flutter applications can also run on both Android and iOS, and even desktop, with little additional work.
You’re right
Yeah Voyager has both a native iOS app and an installable Progressive Web App
iOS App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voyager-for-lemmy/id6451429762 Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.vger.voyager Installable Progressive Web App: https://vger.app/
Recently I installed all the Lemmy apps I could find, and started using them. Every time I came across a problem, I made a note of it and used that as a benchmark to rate all the other apps. All apps had issues, some annoying, some severe, some catastrophic. In the end, I sorted my app list by score and uninstalled all those that I could live without. I was left with only two apps: Bean and Thunder. Voyager and Liftoff are also pretty, good, but not quite as good as the two I use now.
Bean is exactly what I want out of a lemmy app. I’ve been using it since TestFlight launch and every missing feature I’ve requested has been added. Feels so good to use!
I think Bean has a bright future ahead of it. It’s clearly the bast app for me, but it’s not quite perfect yet. I’m happy with all the features except two:
- When I go to my inbox and tap a reply, I’m taken to to a part of the thread that’s approximately correct in a short thread. If the thread is long, it’s getting harder and harder to find the spot where that comment actually is. Once this gets fixed I no longer need the keep Thunder on my phone.
- The community grouping isn’t ready yet. It’s a very promising feature, but in its current state it just isn’t good enough yet. I’m really looking forward to seeing it improve in future updates.
My favorites for iOS are all Swift apps:
- Arctic: [email protected] (incredible smooth performance and feels like Apollo, pretty new app and still in TestFlight)
- Avelon: [email protected] (great features like gallery slideshow view inside posts for images and individual hide read posts settings)
- Mlem: [email protected] (many customization options including unique ones like rearranging vote/save/… buttons in a widget style)
Ayyy, thanks for the shoutout! This is the first time seeing Arctic mentioned in the wild.
I’m still using wefwef (original web version of voyager) but I always reach the end way too quick. Maybe it’s time to try the actual app I guess.
Thunder has also been available for a while.
It is overall a bit behind in development compared to others, but IMO it’s the best looking. Next update is bringing another big set of improvements.
I like thunder except for the way it displays long horizontal images in my tablet.
There’s not a lot of work that’s gone into using it on a tablet. It would be nice if posts got split into columns, like you can do with the feed.
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