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As per title, what app are you currently using? Why do you think it's the best one? I've seen a lot of app being developed (just to mention a few: Mlem, Memmy and Thunder) and I can't decide what to use

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[–] [email protected] 31 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There are a bunch of options each with their pros and cons, here’s what I’ve found so far:

Mlem

  • Feels very Apollo like with things like slide to upvote and reply
  • Doesn’t seem to be able to handle inline images and media (so you sometimes miss post information)
  • Switching to new communities is not intuitive (you have to click the community name and type with the “Subscribed” toggle pane open)
  • No guides on how Markdown works
  • No message inbox

Memmy

  • Has an inbox (not something I’ve seen from the others)
  • Has Apollo like slide interactions
  • Easy to find and switch communities
  • Text is a little too small
  • Found a couple of visual bugs (obviously this is all very beta!)

Liftoff

  • Seems to show all the post information you could want (community it was posted too, which community that user is part of, etc)
  • Feels a little bit like the official reddit app
  • No Apollo like slide interactions
  • Some interesting choices when trying to find communities (showing the full sidebar)
  • Colours are a little constrasty
  • A couple of UI bugs
  • I don’t love the rounded corners on everything out of the box

Thunder

  • Pretty polished
  • Slide interactions are great
  • Nice Markdown editor
  • Not found any graphical bugs
  • Some UI elements (subbing / unsubbing from a community) aren’t always clear
  • Written in flutter so may not give a true “native” experience

Personally I think I’m gonna stick with Thunder for a bit, but I’m swapping daily at this point.

Given that any development on these really only kicked into gear in the last few weeks everything these devs are doing is incredible, they’ve all come a long way in such a short time!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I can’t find a single one of those in the app store, all they all in beta or some developer mode?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

On iOS you'll find them in TestFlight, for android on their githubs

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They’re all in test flight, an online search will usually throw up their GitHub page with either a link to their lemmy communities and the TestFlight sign up page.