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.
Yep, nothing beats Sync, although the other existing apps are great, and have been great since the beginning if you ask me.
If you wanna know why I chose Sync instead of any other app is because the damn app can survive even the worse ROM you use and it doesn’t matter how atrocious your RAM management is, you are likely never gonna miss the position you left when you minimize and open other apps.
The app basically saves the state where you were and it is highly unlikely that you lose the track of it, even on aggressive RAM management ROMs like MIUI, it still stands better than the others, I experienced the same with Sync for Reddit.
+1
If you’re running a pi hole, the free version is ad free too
But it look shit because they show ads like post. If you want real solution try Re-Vanced. (Hopefully I don’t get downvoted by Sync user)
Or AdAway, of any of your preferred DNS blocking methods.
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.
Basically same. I also tried sync and another one that I can’t remember but I stayed with Voyager
Yeah, once Liftoff stopped working, I switched to Boost.
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.
“Trust me bro” from the developer pretty much.
I think it makes sense, they’re a small developer and it’s all stuff I’d expect from the ad networks so if you get premium you also kill the ads and therefore the data collection.
Only if you use the free version with ads… which I wouldn’t recommend. Paid version doesnt do any of these things.
Ayyyyyy
I use Thunder. It looks nice, runs well, is actively developed, and the devs are very communicative and open to feedback.
I use Jebora and am happy, is there something important I’m missing? I was a Reddit is Fun user before and I like both because of how simple and basic they are. I hated the official reddit app for the reasons above.
Edit: the one thing I don’t like is you can’t, or I don’t know how, to collapse all child comments.
I will admit I am very biased as a contributor to Thunder. I’m not an expert on all clients but Thunder has some super cool features.
- Really good markdown rendering (I’ve seen it render things that the other “big” apps miss.
- The agility to post and (soon) comment as any of your logged-in accounts.
- Notifications for inbox messages, soon to be integrated with UnifiedPush.
- Really good Lemmy link parsing and in-app navigation.
- Ability to favorite communities.
- Customizable swipe gestures, username and community name formatting and coloring, action colors, etc.
And these are just some of the recent things on the top of my head! I’m sure others can chime in with things I missed!
Thanks for your service! I’ve been trying out Thunder and I’m generally happy with it so far.
I don’t know how, to collapse all child comments.
Do you mean for an entire post? Or do you mean per comment?
All child comments, the entire post. It makes finding things easier then going into the replys if I want to. Usually child comments are less helpful.
It has my favorite user interface, but I feel that it bogs down after viewing a series of images.
I also feel that development has stalled a bit(edit, I was mistaken: they just released a pre release).I haven’t found a better one, though. Next best so far has been Racoon.
Image caching is something that has had to have been tuned over time. It can be really RAM hungry but at the same time it can be dumb to re-download images if you have the RAM to spare.
Latest versions no longer cache a lot of images, but aggressive caching can still be enabled in settings.
I love the Connect app(Play store link). It’s incredibly feature-rich for being so early in the game.
I cannot understand why anyone would use an app with Ads when connect has none and it’s free! After getting used to no ads, pure content, I would hate to go back.
I used to use boost for Reddit, but I’m securely in the connect camp now.
Another happy connect user!
Jerboa
Using it since it’s the app from a lemmy dev.
It’s decent for my use.
Tho, some option simulating the multireddit option would be good. But it might be becoming a feature request for lemmy than a lemmy app there.Does it save drafts yet? That was my reason to switch to boost.
Don’t know about Jerboa, but Thunder has been saving drafts for a while now.
I used Boost after Lightning died, it works great and i have no desire to look for another one. I used boost on reddit too
Sync. Customizable, pretty, working without issues, dev keeps on updating. Really good app…
Boost is also great.
Used to use Eternity, but switched to Voyager. I like Thunder, but Voyager is better at pulling in pictures posted outside of Lemmy.
Early on I tried out other apps and they looked snappier and had many features but none I used.
Jerboa though has always worked and by default everything works exactly as I want and expect. So for me it can’t be beaten.
Jerboa works fine… except when I have to search for something. Why is ‘search’ not a ‘search post/comments’ function but a ‘search community’ one?
Jerboa went though a period time relatively early on in it’s development when it was a buggy, nearly unusable mess. It started out cool, then it shit the bed, and now I guess it’s cool again lol.
Unfortunately I didn’t wait for it to get good again at the time and I ended up switching to wefwef, which has now been renamed Voyager. Voyager never really went though a buggy period on my end as an Android user.
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.
Sync, used it for who knows how long for Reddit, and none of the other options I tried before it was released for Lemmy came anywhere close to feeling as nice to use.
I can’t recommend Sync in good conscience with the update policy. The dev keeps going AWOL for months, even when breaking issues exist.
This was fine when I paid something like 3€, but it’s no longer fine when I pay 20€.
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.
I used boost for Reddit and use Boost for lemmy since day one (of the app) I love it.
