I’m currently trying Voyager. Initial impression is that it seems like a great app.
Here is a shameless plug for my own Lemmy app Arctic. It’s not left TestFlight just yet, but it hopefully will soon. It’s a pure Swift based app built with performance and content presentation in mind.
More information is available over at !arctic@lemmy.world
I just tried it, and at first look, it seems great!
There’s one thing that I need to use it long term, and that’s a way to collapse comments to get to the next parent. Doesn’t matter to me if it’s a button or a swipe, as long as there’s a way to skip out of a long comment chain and get to the next parent.
Thanks for the work so far!
Hey, downloaded and tested for a bit, looks brilliant!
Will there be an option to move the compact images to the right? My wee thumb struggles reaching over the phone to the left and I prefer it to the card look.
Thank you, much appreciated!
Yes, I’ll definitely add that option in. I actually broke a few things with the compact cells while working on some performance optimization yesterday, so I have some work to do on those anyway. I was also planning to add a medium cell option as well.
This will all be included in v0.2.1 which should be out within a couple of days.
Thank you for checking Arctic out, and for the suggestion.
I used Mlem for a while on TestFlight, while it was good, it didn’t feel great to use, mostly just because of how sensitive the swipe left and right menus were. Voyager feels almost exactly like Apollo for Reddit, so it’s been my main app of choice
I never used Apollo. Back when I used Reddit I just used the official app. Glad to see some Lemmy apps have left TestFlight though.
official reddit app
How could you do this to yourself?
Definitely! Having a working and easily accessible app will absolutely help boost Lemmy in popularity, just because a lot of people, including myself will just launch the app and browse for a bit if they’re bored
It’s on my Home Screen, but I wish it was easy to send images. That’s the only major downside, trying to share an image from Lemmy only shares a link.
Avelon is also a really nice one. All Swift too I think.
Tried them all and Avelon is my favourite
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Kind of a shameless plug, but you could have a look at !lemma@lemmy.world.
The ‘Share as Image’ feature is still work in progress, it doesn’t handle very long threads that well yet, but overall I think it’s working quite well already.
I pushed a new release yesterday, once that’s approved by Apple I will announce (and share) the public TestFlight link!
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: !lemma@lemmy.world
Hey, I went to your community and tried to fill out the form to get on the TestFlight, but it said it was closed.
Is it just my instance, or are there zero comments in all the posts of your community?
I started with Mlem, then Memmy, tried Thunder, Limbo, the Voyager web app. The new Voyager app definitely seems the most polished. I will say though, a new discovery and my primary lately has been Avelon. It is buttery smooth and many options in the settings. One that was missing from Apollo was the “mark above as read” option for posts, which is present on this app.
Definitely give it a try: https://testflight.apple.com/join/IzB0ZiBO
Avelon is also available in the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6450952178
Oh snap! I didn’t realize that
I settled on using Bean. Great app!
Are these actual native apps, or more react/web view in an app wrapper?
Depends on the app. Mlem is native, and Voyager is a web view app wrapper. But Voyager definitely doesn’t feel like a web view. It was written to feel like a native app, I’m really impressed. And that’s coming from someone who generally hates web apps.
Voyager used to be a web app, but has now gone native too.
Pretty sure its still a web app under the hood.
A web app doesn’t magically turn into a native app when you put it on the app store. The way it gets installed, and the system access is different, and better for stuff like notifications…
But the word “native” refers to applications made using the native SDK, which in Apple’s case is Swift. I’d be extremely impressed if the devs re-wrote the entire app in new code. But that would be unnecessary.
You can have non-native apps on the app store. A lot of your apps probably aren’t native. SDKs like flutter, used by liftoff and thunder, make development much easier in exchange for the resulting application running a bit less efficiently. Flutter applications can also run on both Android and iOS, and even desktop, with little additional work.
Yeah Voyager has both a native iOS app and an installable Progressive Web App
iOS App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voyager-for-lemmy/id6451429762 Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.vger.voyager Installable Progressive Web App: https://vger.app/
Did they actually re-code the whole thing to make it native? You can ship a web app via the app store just fine. Only making changes to take advantage of the better system access that provides.
My favorites for iOS are all Swift apps:
- Arctic: !arctic@lemmy.world (incredible smooth performance and feels like Apollo)
- Avelon: !avelon@lemm.ee (great features like gallery slideshow view inside posts for images and individual hide read posts settings)
- Mlem: !mlemapp@lemmy.ml (many customization options including unique ones like rearranging vote/save/… buttons in a widget style)
Thunder has also been available for a while.
It is overall a bit behind in development compared to others, but IMO it’s the best looking. Next update is bringing another big set of improvements.
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Same. Kinda sad that the Memmy development slowed down so much that now it’s kinda behind the pack. Switched over to voyager and it’s real good 👍
I’m still using wefwef (original web version of voyager) but I always reach the end way too quick. Maybe it’s time to try the actual app I guess.
