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I'm trying Blorp right now, since I do not want to figure out how to side load Jerboa onto my Android. (Thanks Google you bag of dicks.) So far Blorp is great, my only complaint being I wish three was a way to increase text/font size because I am old now and my eyeballs don't work as well as they did.
Blorp dev here. I think you should be able to increase this via some system setting, though admittedly I've only tested this on iOS. The goal was to read whatever os preference you set for font size, but if this isn't working for people, I may need to add an app level override.
I made the native font bigger on my phone and it fixed it. Thanks!
Voyager for me.
Me too, lack some features I like from other apps like Boost, like ability to block people/communities from the homepage but still the best overall.
You can, long hold the username or community and a quick menu appears.
Wow, thank you! Been using Voyager on both my tablet and phone pretty much since day one and only now learn about it.
Yea, I only found out about it a month or so ago.
Not sure if it's available on F-Droid or not, but I've been using Summit lately and absolutely loving it. Blorp was my previous favourite, but I prefer the bit more modern and clean UI of Summit.
I did try Jerboa about a year ago when I first tried Lemmy, but quickly dropped it due to UI/UX issues I was experiencing at the time, but I would personally just stick with Blorp if it was between them.
Voyager was another I tried previously. Earlier I tried on my other phone (HMD Skyline) and consistently had performance issues with the app (long load times, occasional crashing, janky scroll). When I got my S25 I thought this would be solved with the more powerful device, and while it was much better than before, I still had performance issues.
Hope this helps a little!
Blorp dev here. Just out of curiosity did you not see the same performance issues (e.g. scroll) with Blorp that you saw with voyager? I’m using similar technologies to voyager, so this would be helpful in informing future decisions I make.
Hi! No not at all, at least for me on both devices (Skyline and S25) Blorp ran great! If I get bored of Summit I'll immediately return to Blorp ☺️
Summit, by far. Voyager gets a lot of recommendations but it's not nearly as slick.
I've only used Jeroba. It works great for me, but with the google garbage going on, Im going to have to root my phone to sideload? I guess? So. thats my summer plan.
Big fan of Thunder app. Great FOSS option and has tons of customization options!
honestly Thunder doesn't get enough love in posts like these. you often expect FOSS apps to not be very good, but I can't imagine using anything other than Thunder at this point
Could not agree more! Thunder is actually better experience than some of the paid apps I used for Reddit... You know when they still had an option for a non-shit tier mobile experience 😬
Used to love jerboa but stopped working for me. I think is because of my instance. I use photon now, it's ok.
Waterfox, it's a fork of Firefox with no AI slop.
You don't need an app, just open it in browser.
- Summit
- Blorp
- Voyager
- Thunder / Interstellar
- Jerboa
Ranking is based on personal preferences.
Blorp dev here. What I can I do to bring Blorp to the top of the list in your opinion?
Hi @moseschrute@lemmy.world. Blorp is equal to summit in features and ui—sometimes even ahead. For example emoji reactions and image loading speed, swiping image posts etc.
And I have both on my phone and keep switching between them.
The main reason I prefer summit is because the ui is very snappy on my phone. There's no lag or skipped frames during animations or after clicking a button.
One issue I had with blorp is: when you click on a lemmy link summit opens it inside the app itself but blorp opens it in the browser. It breaks the flow and I can't interact with it because I'm not logged in there. Hope that made sense.
Boost for Lemmy. I love it.
I used jerboa for a long time and liked it a lot. But it is optimized "just" for lemmy. It cant operate (in my experience) with piefed instances.
if you want to use lemmy and piefed for example, Interstellar is a better solution.
As a former RIF user, I haven't found anything better than Jerboa. Which is shame because it will never support piefed.
Also a former big fan of RIF and I found Boost a fairly easy transition.
Summit is absolutely wonderful
Summit's an easy recommendation.
I bounce between Boost & Voyager. Will be checking out Blorp myself, thanks!
I'm using Boost (and Vger but preferred Boost from Reddit days too). I got used to Infinity on Reddit after Boost ended and wish they'd make a Lemmy version of that now.
Firefox.
Boost while not perfect has very few flaws for me. Whenever I receive a DM I have to go the web interface to get the notification to go away though. But that's the worst of it
I also recommend Boost. Slick ui, very user friendly
I like connect, it resembles my old app I used for Reddit
I use Thunder, and I am very happy with it generally.
I used to use (and paid for) Sync for Lemmy previously, but I had the impression bugs didn't get fixed, so I switched away from them.
I like Blorp but it could do with showing parent comment while replying.
Yeah I'm asking for other app mainly for this reason.
Blorp dev here. What if I fix this in the next release? Would that convince you to stick around?
Edit: spelling
I use Summit.
Another vote for Summit. Does everything I need it to and more, and has a very active developer. It's available on the play store but I get it from github via Obtainium. https://github.com/idunnololz/summit-for-lemmy
Is summit foss?
On its github there is no license.
Yes! I linked the android release page, here is the source github https://github.com/idunnololz/summit
Licensed under AGPL-3.0
I've been using interstellar (alexandrite on desktop) for some time and rather like it. Nice clean and useful UI, a bit buggy at times. Only other one I tried was voyager but wasn't a huge fan.
Sync
you'll be experiencing problems soon. I recommend you switch to something else, like summit.
sync dev abandoned the project and ran away with the subscription money without any notice
I'm patiently waiting for an update
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