What client do Android users use for Lemmy these days? I’ve been using Jerboa from the start but it’s a bit basic and lacks any good search functionality. So I want to try some others. What do other Android users recommend?

Things I like about Jerboa:

  • It just works. It’s pretty simple.
  • It has actual private browsing in app. You never have to leave the app and it knows how to never save your history.
  • It can do the above even when setting your main browser to Firefox (so as blocking works even in open links in app).

Things I don’t like about Jerboa:

  • Text entry is oftentimes buggy.
  • Lack of any decent search for communities or in threads.
  • No draft capability.
    • M137@lemmy.today
      9·
      4 days ago

      Agreed, I’ve tried all the ones mentioned so far and some others but Summit is the only one that doesn’t have annoyances and drawbacks for what I want.

    • ProdigalFrog@slrpnk.netEnglish
      3·
      4 days ago

      Also on summit. Not only is it a really nice to use app in general, it also has the best mod tools that I’ve seen in any app so far.

    • TisI@lemmy.zip
      3·
      4 days ago

      Like most people, I’ve tried many apps, and chose summit because, in addition to it having everything I’m looking for in an app, it doesn’t eat my battery like the other apps. Thunder was good, but it drained my battery so fast, it was just crazy.

    • LumpyPancakes@piefed.socialEnglish
      2·
      4 days ago

      Agreed. I just wish they would get the PieFed post combining happening so we didn’t see the same article posted four times in a row. The PieFed PWA does it right. Might be an API issue though.

  • paraplu@piefed.socialEnglish
    23·
    4 days ago

    Voyager for me. The compact mode is fairly compact, with small enough thumbnails that it can feel text-first. The few others that support piefed have had huge images with no easy way to fix that.

    • bonenode@piefed.socialEnglish
      10·
      4 days ago

      I really enjoyed using Thunder but then found Summit, which offers one killer feature Thunder doesn’t have while covering everything that Thunder has:

      Multi-communities!

      I got several gaming-related communities grouped, all the selfhosting communities grouped and I just need to check those multi-communities instead of each community one by one.

      Also Summit works a bit better for Piefed than Thunder, but I know that is work in progress, so no criticism there.

    • whimsy@lemmy.zipEnglish
      5·
      4 days ago

      Me too. But it refuses to load images of a fraction of the posts and I don’t really know why. And cross linking to some other instances is occasionally borked, it tries and then opens the browser.

      Apart from that it’s been fantastic

  • dan@upvote.au
    20·
    4 days ago

    I like Boost.

    Last time I said this, I got shunned for recommending a closed-source app. I generally try to stick to open-source, but Boost has a good UI, works well, and bugs are fixed quickly.

    • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
      1·
      3 days ago

      I like Boost, even paid for it. Sometimes won’t load mpegs or bigger files,but those are my only gripes

      • dan@upvote.au
        3·
        4 days ago

        Maybe I just haven’t encountered any bugs that took a long time to fix. It’s been pretty reliable for me.

    • LuigiMaoFrance@lemmy.ml
      5·
      4 days ago

      Also been using Boost for years and very happy with it. My only gripe is that oftentimes embedded images like custom emotes are displayed at an enormous screen filling size, so sometimes if a user includes multiple emotes in a comment I have to scroll several screens to get to the next comment. This never was an issue in the Reddit Boost app, and the fact that its been unaddressed for so long now has me worried that the app may have been abandoned. No idea if it still gets updates, I should check one day.

    • ouRKaoS@lemmy.today
      6·
      4 days ago

      I started using Boost during round 1 of the API debacle when Reddit is Fun got the axe. Boost was still up & going so I used it there for a couple months before it got killed, then came here & kept up with it.

      I haven’t had any major issues, just the occasional hiccup like spoiler markup formatting or other weird interactions.

    • Brad@beehaw.org
      1·
      4 days ago

      I also use Boost. Mainly because I was using Boost on Reddit before, and I really like the UX.

      • dan@upvote.au
        1·
        4 days ago

        I’m a software developer that focuses on front end development (full-stack but I like frontend more) so I’m pretty picky about UI/UX. Boost feels very nice and polished.

        • eldavi@lemmy.mlEnglish
          1·
          4 days ago

          what does boost give you that you can’t get from its default interface?

  • ApertureUA@lemmy.todayEnglish
    4·
    3 days ago

    Jerboa was the smallest one I could find on F-Droid. The lack of post search sucksssss but that’s probably a sign that I should get home and onto my computer regardless.