Voyager for me.
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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.
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
Unpopular opinion maybe, but a web browser is absolutely fine.
Many lemmy apps also have a web app:
Off the top of my head:
- Voyager: vger.app
- Blorp: blorpblorp.xyz
- Tesseracts: t.lemmy.dbzer0.com
that's all I've used as well. tbh not sure what an app adds?
everything is the right size, strips away unneeded visual elements, optimized for touchscreen controls
I bounce between Boost & Voyager. Will be checking out Blorp myself, thanks!
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.
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.
Summit's an easy recommendation.
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.
As a former RIF user, I haven't found anything better than Jerboa. Which is shame because it will never support piefed.
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
Waterfox, it's a fork of Firefox with no AI slop.
You don't need an app, just open it in browser.
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.
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
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
Used to love jerboa but stopped working for me. I think is because of my instance. I use photon now, it's ok.
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.
Summit, by far. Voyager gets a lot of recommendations but it's not nearly as slick.
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.

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