Welcome to Lemma - Your New Favourite App!
I’m thrilled to introduce the very first public release of Lemma on TestFlight. Get ready to experience a whole new level of browsing the fediverse!
🌟 Key Features 🌟
- Super-charged Media Viewer
- Powerful Markdown Editor
- Effective Search
🔥 Why You'll Love Lemma 🔥
- Fully Customisable
- Swipe Gestures
- Multiple Accounts
- Cross-post Support
- Share as Image
- ‘Open in Lemma’ Safari Extension
- Private messaging
📣 Join The Community 📣
I would love to hear from you! Join our growing community of users to share your feedback, ideas, and suggestions. Together, we'll make Lemma even better.
💡 How to Get Started 💡
- Download TestFlight from the App Store if you haven't already.
- Follow this link to find Lemma in TestFlight.
- Tap the "Install" button to get early access to Lemma.
- Explore the app, try out its features, and let me know what you think.
🤝 Feedback & Support 🤝
Your feedback is invaluable to me. If you encounter any issues, have suggestions, or just want to say hello, please reach out to the Lemma community ([email protected]). Thank you for being a part of our journey. Together, we'll shape the future of Lemma. Get ready to experience something amazing!
🍺 Buy Me a Beer 🍺
I’m building Lemma as a side project in my free time. If you’re enjoying Lemma and would like to say an extra thank you, you can buy me a beer ❤️
📌 Note: This is a TestFlight release, so your feedback will help me fine-tune the app for its official launch.
This looks like an exact copy of Voyager. What’s different about it?
Which is basically an exact copy of Apollo.
Big difference appear to be that this looks like it’s proper native, not fancy web app.
Right, but it’s claimed to be a “from the ground up” build, where it’s an almost exact carbon copy. At least Voyager claimed to be trying to clone Apollo.
OP is just saying that it’s not a fork of an existing codebase. It’s all new code.
But yeah, the UX is a shameless Apollo clone.
Although Mlem, Avelon, Lemmios, and Memmy are all a little shameless about ripping off various Apollo patterns. A lot of the iOS Lemmy developers aren’t taking the time to think about what lemmy-specific UX problems need to be solved. All the iOS lemmy apps are feeling like Gru’s Minons. All super similar, but with slight variations.
It can still be built from the ground up but still uses the same design. If it's a native app written in Swift not a PWA like Voyager I'd say that from the ground up still applies. Because you still need to code everything from scratch.
It’s written in React Native, with some Swift modules here and there. I wrote down some more in depth behind the scenes in a previous post.
When Apollo shut down I really missed it in my day to day use, so initially this project started out as a personal project to see if I could replace that Apollo craving. Since then the development was going so well that I wanted to share it with the rest of the community as well.
Since then I’ve also build some things that imho are an improvement, for example:
It’s been really fun to work on, but now that the basis is quite stable I’ll look into features that make it more tailored to Lemmy
Thank you for clarifying, and for your awesome work!
Voyager is in het iOS App Store as well. Works just fine native.
The core of the App Store of the same Ionic app code that you can also load in Safari. It’s basically just in a wrapper that allows it to be posted in the App Store, and soon, allows it to get notifications.
The core or the app isn’t proper native. Nothing wrong with that. There are big benefits to that, but there are some issues with ionic that this developer won’t have with swift. Example: Swipe based navigation is notoriously buggy with voyager.
The more you know…
I found the App Store wrapped app to be much more responsive when swiping. And I like the haptic feedback a lot.
The comment sharing option and the embedded media playing looks good.