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submitted 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) by mecen@lemmy.ca to c/asklemmy@lemmy.world

What is the best app to browse Lemmy

I currently use Blorp

I heard Jerboa is also good which one are you using? Best if app is available on fdroid

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[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 57 points 2 months ago
[-] mrfriki@lemmy.world 10 points 2 months ago

Me too, lack some features I like from other apps like Boost, like ability to block people/communities from the homepage but still the best overall.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 15 points 2 months ago

You can, long hold the username or community and a quick menu appears.

[-] mrfriki@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

Wow, thank you! Been using Voyager on both my tablet and phone pretty much since day one and only now learn about it.

[-] slazer2au@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

Yea, I only found out about it a month or so ago.

[-] Keshara@piefed.blahaj.zone 22 points 2 months ago

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!

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Keshara@piefed.blahaj.zone 3 points 2 months ago

Hi! No not at all, at least for me on both devices (Skyline and S25) Blorp ran great! If I get bored of Summit I'll immediately return to Blorp ☺️

[-] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 16 points 2 months ago

Big fan of Thunder app. Great FOSS option and has tons of customization options!

https://github.com/thunder-app/thunder

[-] kionay@lemmy.world 7 points 2 months ago

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

[-] mysticpickle@lemmy.ca 4 points 2 months ago

Could not agree more! Thunder is actually better experience than some of the paid apps I used for Reddit... You know when they still had an option for a non-shit tier mobile experience 😬

[-] Dirk@lemmy.ml 11 points 2 months ago

Unpopular opinion maybe, but a web browser is absolutely fine.

[-] 0_o7@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 2 months ago

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?

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 5 points 2 months ago

everything is the right size, strips away unneeded visual elements, optimized for touchscreen controls

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[-] Deadeyegai@lemmy.world 9 points 2 months ago

I bounce between Boost & Voyager. Will be checking out Blorp myself, thanks!

[-] Aequitas@feddit.org 9 points 2 months ago

Boost for Lemmy. I love it.

[-] Madzielle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Userohnenamen@piefed.social 9 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] remon@ani.social 7 points 2 months ago
[-] magitian@programming.dev 7 points 2 months ago

Summit's an easy recommendation.

[-] mecen@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Is summit foss?

On its github there is no license.

[-] magitian@programming.dev 4 points 2 months ago

AGPL3.0, according to this repo.

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[-] NakedGardenGnome@piefed.social 7 points 2 months ago

I like connect, it resembles my old app I used for Reddit

[-] Mantzy81@aussie.zone 6 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] Nemo@slrpnk.net 6 points 2 months ago

As a former RIF user, I haven't found anything better than Jerboa. Which is shame because it will never support piefed.

[-] wjs018@piefed.social 2 points 2 months ago

Also a former big fan of RIF and I found Boost a fairly easy transition.

[-] Skanky@lemmy.world 6 points 2 months ago

Summit is absolutely wonderful

[-] StillAlive@piefed.world 5 points 2 months ago

I like Blorp but it could do with showing parent comment while replying.

[-] mecen@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 months ago

Yeah I'm asking for other app mainly for this reason.

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.world 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Blorp dev here. What if I fix this in the next release? Would that convince you to stick around?

Edit: spelling

[-] gwl@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 points 2 months ago

Waterfox, it's a fork of Firefox with no AI slop.

You don't need an app, just open it in browser.

[-] Humanius@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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.

[-] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 4 points 2 months ago

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

[-] LaserTurboShark69@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

I also recommend Boost. Slick ui, very user friendly

[-] feannag@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 months ago

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

[-] mecen@lemmy.ca 2 points 2 months ago

Is summit foss?

On its github there is no license.

[-] feannag@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 months ago

Yes! I linked the android release page, here is the source github https://github.com/idunnololz/summit

Licensed under AGPL-3.0

[-] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 3 points 2 months ago

Used to love jerboa but stopped working for me. I think is because of my instance. I use photon now, it's ok.

[-] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] moseschrute@lemmy.world 3 points 2 months ago

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.

[-] FollyDolly@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago

I made the native font bigger on my phone and it fixed it. Thanks!

[-] ieGod@lemmy.zip 3 points 2 months ago

Summit, by far. Voyager gets a lot of recommendations but it's not nearly as slick.

[-] asudox@lemmy.asudox.dev 3 points 2 months ago

I use Summit.

[-] killea@lemmy.world 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

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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