What client do Android users use for Lemmy these days? I’ve been using Jerboa from the start but it’s a bit basic and lacks any good search functionality. So I want to try some others. What do other Android users recommend?

Things I like about Jerboa:

  • It just works. It’s pretty simple.
  • It has actual private browsing in app. You never have to leave the app and it knows how to never save your history.
  • It can do the above even when setting your main browser to Firefox (so as blocking works even in open links in app).

Things I don’t like about Jerboa:

  • Text entry is oftentimes buggy.
  • Lack of any decent search for communities or in threads.
  • No draft capability.
    • M137@lemmy.today
      11·
      9 days ago

      Agreed, I’ve tried all the ones mentioned so far and some others but Summit is the only one that doesn’t have annoyances and drawbacks for what I want.

    • TisI@lemmy.zip
      3·
      9 days ago

      Like most people, I’ve tried many apps, and chose summit because, in addition to it having everything I’m looking for in an app, it doesn’t eat my battery like the other apps. Thunder was good, but it drained my battery so fast, it was just crazy.

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      9 days ago

      Also on summit. Not only is it a really nice to use app in general, it also has the best mod tools that I’ve seen in any app so far.

    • LumpyPancakes@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      9 days ago

      Agreed. I just wish they would get the PieFed post combining happening so we didn’t see the same article posted four times in a row. The PieFed PWA does it right. Might be an API issue though.

    • bonenode@piefed.socialEnglish
      10·
      9 days ago

      I really enjoyed using Thunder but then found Summit, which offers one killer feature Thunder doesn’t have while covering everything that Thunder has:

      Multi-communities!

      I got several gaming-related communities grouped, all the selfhosting communities grouped and I just need to check those multi-communities instead of each community one by one.

      Also Summit works a bit better for Piefed than Thunder, but I know that is work in progress, so no criticism there.

    • whimsy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      9 days ago

      Me too. But it refuses to load images of a fraction of the posts and I don’t really know why. And cross linking to some other instances is occasionally borked, it tries and then opens the browser.

      Apart from that it’s been fantastic

  • paraplu@piefed.socialEnglish
    27·
    9 days ago

    Voyager for me. The compact mode is fairly compact, with small enough thumbnails that it can feel text-first. The few others that support piefed have had huge images with no easy way to fix that.

  • dan@upvote.au
    21·
    9 days ago

    I like Boost.

    Last time I said this, I got shunned for recommending a closed-source app. I generally try to stick to open-source, but Boost has a good UI, works well, and bugs are fixed quickly.

      • dan@upvote.au
        3·
        9 days ago

        Maybe I just haven’t encountered any bugs that took a long time to fix. It’s been pretty reliable for me.

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
      6·
      9 days ago

      I started using Boost during round 1 of the API debacle when Reddit is Fun got the axe. Boost was still up & going so I used it there for a couple months before it got killed, then came here & kept up with it.

      I haven’t had any major issues, just the occasional hiccup like spoiler markup formatting or other weird interactions.

    • LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml
      5·
      9 days ago

      Also been using Boost for years and very happy with it. My only gripe is that oftentimes embedded images like custom emotes are displayed at an enormous screen filling size, so sometimes if a user includes multiple emotes in a comment I have to scroll several screens to get to the next comment. This never was an issue in the Reddit Boost app, and the fact that its been unaddressed for so long now has me worried that the app may have been abandoned. No idea if it still gets updates, I should check one day.

    • Brad@beehaw.org
      1·
      9 days ago

      I also use Boost. Mainly because I was using Boost on Reddit before, and I really like the UX.

      • dan@upvote.au
        1·
        9 days ago

        I’m a software developer that focuses on front end development (full-stack but I like frontend more) so I’m pretty picky about UI/UX. Boost feels very nice and polished.

        • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          9 days ago

          what does boost give you that you can’t get from its default interface?

    • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
      1·
      8 days ago

      I like Boost, even paid for it. Sometimes won’t load mpegs or bigger files,but those are my only gripes

  • MrSulu@lemmy.mlEnglish
    16·
    9 days ago

    I’m using Voyager and happy with it. Of course, now. I need to trial these listed by others.

    • adarza@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      4 days ago

      same. only because it was the only one i could remember the name of when i was setting up the ‘mini tablet’ (which is just someone’s old phone. has no sim or service). it’s an old and slow phone, so it doesn’t get used often. i’d much rather be on a desktop.

  • cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world
    15·
    9 days ago

    After much complaining about sync’s descent into mediocre abandonware, i finally switched to Summit - i still miss sync’s ui/ux - but its nice being able to use a non buggy product

    • TrippaSnippa@aussie.zoneEnglish
      11·
      9 days ago

      Likewise. I left Reddit when they killed third party apps because Sync was Reddit to me. I stuck with it here for a lot longer than I should have, but I finally accepted that it was dead and settled on Summit after trying a few others. Connect is also good, but I felt like it wasn’t quite as flexible as Summit last I tried.

    • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
      5·
      9 days ago

      I still use Sync every day, and I can’t think of any issues I’ve had with it. What sort of bugs do you mean?

      • cAUzapNEAGLb@lemmy.world
        4·
        9 days ago

        The one that finally pushed me over the edge was, while i could (barely) tolerate the ads, some time after his last update, something in the code broke or wasnt updated, and the ads would play an audible blip, as if the first 5ms of audio played before it was then caught and automatically muted - and that was just a bridge too far. There were smaller things and features unimplemnted - but having to hear blips catching me off guard and at times when scrolling is appropriate but audio wasnt was too frustrating for me and so i switched. Was using sync forever, was a true fan, was frustrated how he changed and milked the pay structure for sync for lemmy as conpared to how he did it for reddit, and then he had the gal to just dip entirely, such a shame for such a good ux.

        • SanguinePar@lemmy.world
          2·
          8 days ago

          That ad thing is weird, I’ve not seen anything like that at all. In fact I don’t even see video ads. Where is this, in your feed? Or when you open a thread?

          I wonder if it’s to do with how the feed is set up? I use Small Cards view, don’t know if that’s maybe preventing me seeing the ads in the first place? I do sometimes see small static ads at the top of a thread, but that’s all.