Hello! I have made a macOS client for Lemmy - Leomard. It's an initial version of the app, and my first macOS app made for the public.

Features

  • Mac-native client
  • Fast, small and light (only 9.2 MB)
  • Open source (GPLv3)
  • Beautiful responsive interface

Of course, it's a very early version, some features are missing (ex. image uploading), and you may encounter a bug here and there.

Don't forget to follow Leomard's community: !leomard@lemm.ee

Or straight to the project’s Git: https://github.com/Athlon007/Leomard

If you have questions, feel free to ask :)

Hi everybody! This is the initial release of Leomard - a native macOS client app written in Swift using SwiftUI. It’s still in very early phase of development, features are missing, but it’s a start. Feedback is most welcome!

Screenshots:

Changelog

  • Initial Release

Sent from Leomard.___

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[–] 11 points 3 years ago
[–] 9 points 3 years ago (1 child)

Man, this looks awesome! I’m hoping to contribute a bit - and thank you for sharing your app. Saved for when I’m on my Mac. Also, my first comment! Hello everyone

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  • [–] [S] 5 points 3 years ago

    Contributions are very welcome :)

    The code might be rough around the corners, I literally learned SwiftUI as I was making the app, so any improvements to the code are welcome!

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  • [–] 7 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago)
    [–] 7 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    That looks very nice. Any chance to make this for Linux?

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  • [–] [S] 7 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    The logic of the app should be portable to Linux or Windows (with some modification), as Swift does run on both.

    Front-end would need to be rewritten from scratch though, as SwiftUI is not available on Linux. Sorry :(

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (3 children)

    I'd do it if I knew how. Well, I guess I'll wait for a kind soul to do it.

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Honestly, don’t bother with waiting for Leomard. I’ve seen there are Lemmy clients written in GTK, such as Lemoa and Lemonade.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 3 years ago (2 children)

    Wow, that’s very flattering to hear! Unfortunately the app is written in SwiftUI, so it’s strictly tied to macOS.

    iPadOS version tho…

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  • [–] 4 points 3 years ago

    Lets get it!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Nice work! I’ve been trying to make a Lemmy app too, so that I could get some SwiftUI practice.

    Any tips for working with Lemmy on the backend? The docs have been… not too great for me 😮‍💨

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  • [–] [S] 4 points 3 years ago

    Trial and error. The documentation and many design choices leave a LOT to be desired.

    Such as the way the bearer token in GET request is sent in url param, but for the other requests it’s in the body. Why not just use the freaking Header for that?! Or how the Search request’s search query param is called “s” - it is absolutely not explained what it does or remotely indicated that it’s meant for the query.

    But hey, if you want, you could help contributing to Leomard :)

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    Does it run on MacOS leopard?

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    Looks good.

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