Hi everyone! I recently switched from Reddit and I’m still getting used to Lemmy.
I’m looking for an Android client that feels as close as possible to the Reddit experience: a clean feed, smooth gestures, easy community switching and strong user expirience.
I’ve seen many options (Voyager, Thunder, Jerboa, Summit, Raccoon, Interstellar) and I’m not sure which one to pick. Open source is a plus for me.
What do you use, and why? Any pros and cons from daily use would be really helpful.
Thanks in advance!
I really like summit, it’s the most redditesque to me.
I’m liking Summit quite a bit
Same here.
It’s been too long since I used any reddit app to really compare, I just don’t remember them well enough. However, I did use them regularly on Android, so maybe they influenced my preferences? Personally, I really like Blorp. It just feels WAYYYY smoother and less cluttered than all the other ones.
https://github.com/dbeley/awesome-lemmy#mobile--desktop-apps
In addition to gathering feedback, I would also strongly recommend trying multiple clients to find one that suits your preferences. It is a relatively friction-free experience.
try voyager, if it’s slow use boost
I try voyager but the probleme that i found is notifications. The app has no notifications permission so you should open the app to show received msg or cmts. Did you know what the solution ?
I used RiF (Reddit is Fun) in the before times. When that got shut down I switched to Lemmy and used Jerboa. I can’t remember why (maybe something broke) but I switched to Voyager and have been quite happy. I’ve found out “there’s an option for that” multiple times when there was a particular feature I didn’t like.
Fuck Spez
Thanks for the recommendations!
I’ve been using connect since I switched from reddit to Lemmy some 5 odd years ago or so, and the experience has been quite underwhelming with regular bugs coming and going and I’m really kinda done with it. I’ll try voyager!
I think I used connect for a bit and it didn’t stick for me.
I used jerboa for some time and then switched to voyager.
In think it’s really thought out and clean experience. It also gets updated frequently and the team behind it listen to user feedback.Same here; been enjoying Voyager
I try voyager but the probleme that i found is notifications. The app has no notifications permission so you should open the app to show received msg or cmts. Did you know what the solution ?
Mobile or desktop, my preferred interface is mlmym (aka old.lemmy). Unfortunately .ml doesn’t host it, I left .ml partially for that reason (and partially for others) to move to lemmy.today which has old.lemmy.today. As a 10+ year old.reddit user I find the old Reddit interface ideal, and mlmym is very faithful at recreating it (and actually fits it better on mobile than real old.reddit).
Summit and boost (from dev who made the one for reddit) are my favorite
I vote for Fennec. Though I haven’t used any Reddit clients, so I don’t know if it’s similar.
