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I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask, but i'm new to Lemmy and looking for a good client to use it with. I've been using Sync which is what i used to use with Reddit but i've noticed that it isn't getting updates now. Any other good mobile apps I can usr Lemmy with?

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[–] Unfold1127@lemmy.world 2 points 7 hours ago
[–] RymrgandsDaughter@lemmy.world 2 points 9 hours ago

been using boost no complaints

[–] njm1314@lemmy.world 3 points 12 hours ago

I like Connect its the most customizable. Boost is my backup.

[–] wowwoweowza@lemmy.world 19 points 19 hours ago

I’m using Voyager — I’m a very superficial user but it gets the job done.

[–] 1984@lemmy.today 2 points 15 hours ago

Sync or Boost.

[–] southsamurai@sh.itjust.works 6 points 22 hours ago* (last edited 21 hours ago)

Kinda depends on what features in sync made you like it.

Overall, boost, connect, thunder and summit each get close to parity, but only close. But, you could say that in reverse, (that sync only gets close to parity with any of them) it isn't a slight against any of them.

Eternity is another one that I've had good use of, but development on that seems to be stopped as well, so I dunno if that's a useful option.

Past those, you get less similarity in ux and ui than would make sense to compare. Like, the apps that mimic voyager (or whatever the popular iOS reddit app was called), things are laid out so different that if you used sync as a primary, you aren't likely to enjoy that ui.

On a phone, I kinda favor connect over sync, despite it looking very unlike it compared to boost or eternity. But on a tablet, nothing else does double columns in portrait worth a damn for me, and aren't great in landscape either. But boost and eternity come the closest to the visual ease sync has.

The sync visual that's sync

I was going to include screen shots of the ones I have on this tablet, but uploads shit the bed and are being weird after that one. So no promises that I can do them all

boost boost

eternity eternity

connect connect

interstellar and interstellar since it does piefed better than anything else I've tried, and still does lemmy just fine.

Decided to install thunder and summit long enough to give a visual

thunder thunder

summit annnd summit

As you can tell, everyone has a slightly different approach to the UI. But they're even more variable in what settings are available, little niceties, etc. Theming is all over the place from a bare bones light/dark/oled to the relative broad visual options of boost and sync. None of them are bad at all. They're reliable, work even on older devices without bogging them down, and are all easy enough to get going with.

[–] dil@lemmy.zip 1 points 14 hours ago

Thunder for general browsing, voyager when thunder doesn't work for something. Like no dms in thunder, so I'll swap to voyager for that. I just like the look and feel of thunder.

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 94 points 1 day ago (18 children)
[–] Realspecialguy@lemmy.world 2 points 15 hours ago

Nah hands up definitely

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

How do I enable seeing downvotes weighted against upvotes in it? It doesn‘t do it on iOS on default which is weird.

[–] sorghum@sh.itjust.works 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Settings > Appearance > Other > Display votes

I prefer seperate

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 points 21 hours ago
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[–] SolarPunker@slrpnk.net 27 points 1 day ago

Thunder. The only one which is FLOSS, on F-Droid, updated, and actually good.

[–] ZebraGoose@sh.itjust.works 32 points 1 day ago (7 children)

Im using Summit. Its really nice and the developer is active and listens to the community!

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idunnololz.summit

[–] ArrrborDAY@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 6 hours ago

Summit is the best I've found that includes piefed integration.

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[–] Unforeseen@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Connect is great, extensive filtering available. I use it as my main and jerboa as backup.

[–] Akasazh@feddit.nl 3 points 20 hours ago

Seconded. Tried others but keep coming back to connect.

It's not the flashiest, but has the best options for me

[–] Blaze@piefed.zip 21 points 1 day ago
[–] scytale@piefed.zip 8 points 1 day ago

Thunder is cross-platform, and IMO has one of the best looking UIs.

[–] pineapplelover@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)
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I've tried Jerboa, then Sync, then Summit, and now I'm using Thunder. There were always small things that annoyed me enough to start looking for a new client after a few months, but I've had this for... a year or so now? It's very customizable, so that's nice.

[–] aarch0x40@piefed.social 13 points 1 day ago (9 children)

I’ve been pretty happy with Blorp. They have mobile and web clients available

https://github.com/Blorp-Labs/blorp

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