(Please provide your Lemmy app recommendations in the comments)

There are two apps, in particular, that I am testing.

Mlem (iOS) & memmy (iOS & Android)

Both are plugging away and looking very good.

    • Spaenny@discuss.tchncs.de
      1·
      1 year ago

      Thanks for the recommendation, I really enjoy the experience using it. Both mlem and memmy were not really up there for me. wefwef makes Lemmy even more enjoyable.

    • poorsocialskills@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It hasn’t. The original author decided to back away from the project, and the remaining team members are keeping it going. The original TestFlight got closed, but there’s a new one up now, and changes are progressing.

    • g0nz0li0@beehaw.orgEnglish
      4·
      1 year ago

      It’s almost bizarre to me how fully featured and polished wefwef.app is. Really amazing.

    • Steve@lemm.eeEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Yeah this one is surprisingly good. My only issue, which is a deal breaker, is that I can’t swipe from left edge to right to go back to the posts feed after clicking on a specific post. The back button is at the furthest possible placement from my thumb, so it’s just not that useable.

  • I_like_cats@lemmy.one
    2·
    1 year ago

    I’m currently using Liftoff and it is soo much better than Jerboa. It lacks a few features still but jerboa was wayy to buggy for me to use

  • russjr08@outpost.zeuslink.net
    1·
    1 year ago

    I’ve been trying out Summit on Android - it’s impressively very slick so far.

    Well okay I may or may not be trying out all of the ones I’ve come across (I need a folder for them at this point) but Summit didn’t look to be mentioned here, so I figured I’d cast my vote!

  • wpuckering@lm.williampuckering.com
    13·
    1 year ago

    It’s awesome to see Lemmy getting lots of love, and choice in the mobile app space is great for everyone. But some part of me also kind of wishes that rather than spreading so much development effort out over so many mobile apps, that more developers would jump in and contribute to polishing up the official open source Lemmy mobile app, Jerboa. I can’t help but feel that it would be nice to see a focused effort somewhere in bringing that one in particular up to snuff, as a sort of “reference” app. And have a few others floating around out there just for some diversity and testing innovative ideas.

    Maybe it’s already that way, I don’t know. It kind of feels like there’s a new Lemmy mobile app announced every couple of days.

    • raijian@beehaw.org
      6·
      1 year ago

      I really like Jerboa. I’m getting a server version vs. app version pop-up at launch and the odd crash when making a comment or saving a post, but I enjoy the UX a lot issues aside. The list view is 🤌

      • wpuckering@lm.williampuckering.com
        2·
        1 year ago

        You’re seeing that toast about versions since backend version 0.18.0 switched away from using a websockets-based API to a REST API, and the Jerboa client app is (in a not-so-descriptive way) warning you that the backend you are connected to isn’t aligned with the app version in terms of what it expects of the backed. This should go away pretty soon as more servers update their backend version and the Jerboa app update hits more devices.

    • Aaron@beehaw.org
      4·
      1 year ago

      Developers all have their pet frameworks they want to use. Why contribute to a Kotlin app when I can finally learn Dart and Flutter??

      • wpuckering@lm.williampuckering.com
        1·
        1 year ago

        Oh yeah for sure, everyone should work on whatever they want without restriction or obligation to be focusing on what someone else wants. And more often than not a pet project is a way to learn a new language or framework with the goal of self-development. That’s a great thing.

        It’s just a thought I selfishly have sometimes when I see many apps in development for the same platform, I can’t help but wonder “if all of this effort were focused across fewer apps, could each of those be better than any of these current ones are individually today?” Of course the number of devs contributing to a project has no direct correlation when it comes to the quality or maturity of the product. That’s down to the management, skillset of the devs, etc. I’m well aware of all of that, and the pros and cons of the differences in scenarios.

        Just thought I’d share the thought out there. In any case, Lemmy getting all of this attention will no doubt lead to the rise of at least a few solid mobile apps that will stick around and not fizzle out into development neglect within a couple of months.

    • Chris Remington@beehaw.orgOP
      4·
      1 year ago

      I agree, somewhat, with your sentiment. However, the ‘best’ (I know that’s subjective) apps will arise from a number of factors. My gut tells me that volunteer devs will flock to the repositories where people are enjoying themselves the most.

  • Omegamanthethird@beehaw.org
    4·
    1 year ago

    I was using Jerboa. But I switched to Summit just today. It’s a lot sleeker. It feels closer to RIF. But it doesn’t show a way to save posts/comments.

    Also, neither one has a way to search for keywords.

    • Briongloid@aussie.zone
      3·
      1 year ago

      Jerboa actually got another update today which resolved the bug issues I had with the previous update.

  • HowDoYouDo87@beehaw.org
    3·
    1 year ago

    Just loaded the testflight of Memmy (thanks to your post) and man, loving it so much so far. It perfectly compliments the site, at least for basic browsing (I haven’t tried posting anything other than comments).