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 jump 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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[–] 42 points 3 years ago (6 children)

Let’s go with the native clients 🙏

Looking amazing 🙌

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  • [–] [S] 12 points 3 years ago (5 children)

    Native is the way 🙏

    Unfortunately, at work I usually have to settle for Vue.JS front-ends 😂

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

    Vue JS is awesome, when making websites.

    The fact that people make apps with it is what sucks. Not because Vue JS is bad, but because native apps always look and feel better. Always.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago

    I absolutely agree with you. Vue JS is my go-to framework, when I want to make a website nowadays.

    Cramming it into an app and publishing it on App Store/Play Store though… shivers

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] [B] 26 points 3 years ago

    Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn't work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: !leomard@lemm.ee

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

    Thank you so much for making it available on Intel. I got the last Intel MBP out of sheer bad luck lol.

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    [–] 6 points 3 years ago (4 children)

    sigh, not compatible on my old 2014 Macbook pro as it still runs MacOS 11.7.6 (Big Sur).

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago

    Looks awesome!

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  • [–] 5 points 3 years ago (6 children)

    Nice! Got it up and running on an M1 MBAir.

    I'd say the only thing I noticed is the comments on posts don't seem to be coming up for me? It does show the number of comments, upvotes, etc. and has a field for entering a new comment.

    At any rate, it looks pretty slick overall :)

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (5 children)

    Same. Also, doesn’t seem to let me sign in (on SDF); the login box goes away, but when I switch to the feed, the lane on the RHS says “Lemmy.world”. When I go back to the profile page, it shows me the login box again, suggesting the login actually failed.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (4 children)

    Edit: ah, I think keychain access must not have worked. It didn’t prompt me; so I’m not sure how to grant it manually.

    Edit 2: built from source and it did request access this time. I granted it, but the behavior seemed otherwise the same as above.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago* (3 children)

    That’s strange. I’ll try to take a look into it in the morning.

    Honestly, I even tried it in the VM and it did work…

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago* (2 children)

    NBD, it's a nifty app. I love native compiled apps.

    OK, I opened it again and authentication appears to be working! Perhaps there was an additional issue with when I ran it from the Releases folder vs. when I ran it after moving it to /Applications in the sense that it invalidated the fact that I authorized KeyChain access prior to moving?

    Comments still fail to load, though (can see 31 comments should exist, but it displays nothing; scrolling down doesn't reveal them, either)

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  • [–] 3 points 3 years ago

    Posting from it now. Looks great!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    Will give it a try. Thanks for open sourcing it!

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

    awwww man shoulda called it Liger, the most ferocious beast.

    ...and the icon a sweet pair of nunchucks

    ....numchucks

    ...numbchunks

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

    Great start. UI def needs some tweaks (maybe it’s just the colors chosen?) but better than I can do lol

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 3 years ago (2 children)
  • [–] 6 points 3 years ago (1 child)

    honestly - if you just copy/use the three column design and color scheme from Reeder this would be damn perfect. I find the 3 column design (like mail, reeder, messages (ok thats only 2 but you get the idea) to be perfect on the bigger Mac screens.

    I have 0 idea how hard this would be though.

    https://www.macstories.net/reviews/reeder-5-review-read-later-tagging-icloud-sync-and-design-refinements/

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

    Great ui , but two things 1 : add multiple accounts 2 : some subscriptions don’t show on some lemmy servers like lemmy.pt , lemmy.fmhy.ml etc

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  • [–] 2 points 3 years ago

    I don't even have a mac, but this is gorgeous! Keep up the good work!

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago

    @athlon Nice! 2017 MBP on macOS 13.4.1.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 years ago (1 child)

    test comment from Leomard please ignore

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  • [–] 0 points 3 years ago* (last edited 3 years ago) (2 children)

    Haha, called it. Well, almost, I thought it was going to be an instance. Love the name :)
    It’s great to see new clients emerge.

    Btw, do you have any plans to support kbin once its api goes live?

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

    Any chance it can work with kbin as well?

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