Which lemmy app for android do you use and why?
- Eternity, but clicking in an Notification E-Mail on the Lemmy Inbox link, does not open Eternity on the Inbox.
- Voyager is also fine, but i has strange look on Android, looks more like made for Apple.
- Jerboa is nice to, but lacks options to change the fonts
- Sync for Lemmy is nice, but its closed source and has ads (can be removed when you pay enough 20,99€)
- Some other apps in the Playstore, but most of them are not worth to use them
- Thunder seems to be nice, but I really miss ‘Mark as read on scroll’ feature, which is very important for me
- there is ‘Commit for Lemmy’ on the play store, most features I want are there but a) its not available on F-Droid and b) crash from time to time
- ‘Boost for Lemmy’ looks really nice. I couldn’t find a setting for ‘Mark as read on scroll’. Maybe it’s enabled by default. If that’s true, I would keep this app. There is a option to remove ads for 3.59€ which is a fine for me. But I have not seen any ad as of now. Be aware that there are 6 Trackers in this app, but since I use PiHole, it’s not really important for me.
Currently im using mostly Eternity and hope that some bugs get sorted out sooner or later. But Boost would be good next candidate, if ‘Mark as read on scroll’ is supported. Arch f not, the next best alternative is Jerboa.
Small update to my list: Boost has no ‘Mark as read on scroll’ feature, only some people reqeusting this. But it seems its not planned as of yet. So i tend to keep Infinity.
Eternity. I used Infinity when I was on Reddit, so its not new to me, and there are features I like about it
Eternity haven’t been updated in 2 months, and 0.19 lemmy update broke some functionality.
The latest version of Eternity is compatible with Lemmy 0.19. You might need to log out and log back in, though.
However, the new functions aren’t implemented yet (e.g. the new sorting methods)
I’m using Voyager until there is an update for Eternity.
Ahhh, that’s why I can’t log into the app through my account
You log out, log back in, it should work.
So far, out of the suggestions in the comments, the only ones that are FOSS and currently work with the latest versions of lemmy are Jerboa, Thunder, and Voyager. Liftoff and Eternity are also FOSS, but haven’t been updated since July and October respectively, so may have issues if your instance is running version 0.19+.
Boost and Sync are both closed source and I really wish people would stop recommending them in a community specifically for free and open-source software. I’m sure they’re good apps and I don’t begrudge devs making money from their work, but if they do I don’t want them getting free advertising in the comments of a FOSS-specific community.
Sync is the most polished and best looking. But ads so I dunno your call. I like it.
Eternity, fork of Infinity which was my reddit app of choice. Also foss obv. Great app.
Also use jerboa and liftoff.
Jerboa. It ticks all the boxes, is updated, and looks good
I’ve kept coming back to Voyager. The main draw is the functionality marking posts read on scroll, hiding read posts, and otherwise being feature complete (nothing broken as far as I can tell, and is keeps up with Lemmy updates).
I’m currently using jerboa because it’s the only one AFAIK that can mark posts as read while scrolling
I really like Thunder (GitHub, IzzyOnDroid, Lemmy community)
Thunder is my main app and it’s updated regularly as well. Jerboa is my second choice because that’s the “official” Lemmy app.
I was a big fan of LiftOff!, unfortunately, the developer had twins back in the summer and understandably, the app hasn’t been updated since.
Just curious, what makes Jerboa the “official” Lemmy app?
Jerboa is created by the developers of Lemmy.
I use eternity; I havent found something that it struggles with yet. Can anyone here let me know why use decided against eternity? I dont really know its limitations since I’ve only used it.
I like eternity, but since my instance updated its been pretty bugged out.
how so?
It throws an api error when I try to up vote or write a comment