The one I’m using is becoming so buggy to the point of being unusable. It was never really great tbh, what are most people using?

As an added question, are bookmarks associated with the lemmy account or the app?

Edit: I’m on android, currently using Jerboa.

  • qooqie@lemmy.world
    521·
    9 months ago

    What OS? For iOS I’ve used quite a few and voyager has been the best of them all

    • Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.worldEnglish
      171·
      9 months ago

      I’m also on Sync, but there are a few things I’m unhappy with that have me looking at other apps.

      First, the dev isn’t active on Lemmy. He’ll make an announcement post every few months and reply to comments for a couple of days before going radio silent again. I’m worried he’ll abandon the app out of disinterest or low motivation, like he did for a year after his UI refresh wasn’t well received back in the Reddit days.

      Second, that inactivity extends to app development. Major, easily replicated bugs (like the crash on startup if you have “hide account names” enabled) linger for weeks to months without a patch. This also goes back to the Reddit days and isn’t new behavior.

      Finally, he puts basic app features behind a paywall with a much higher price than normal IAPs ($16/year or $99 to permanently enable them). This includes features that used to be free in Sync, like tagging users or color highlights. It also includes things that Lemmy already does for free, like backing up subscriptions (though that was only recently added to Lemmy, so he might move it to the basic app eventually). Just removing ads with no other benefits costs $20, which is more than any app I’ve ever used charges.

    • Otter@lemmy.caEnglish
      1·
      9 months ago

      I used sync on Reddit ages ago before switching to Boost. Both are pretty decent, but I prefer Boost here as well

  • Octopus1348@lemy.lol
    15·
    9 months ago

    I use Voyager. It gets updates fast but it looks like an iOS app. I rarely encounter any bugs here. Voyager also has mark read on scroll and disabling infinite scrolling (add a Load page 2 button) Sync is also good, it deals great with vertically long images and is a native app.

    • hperrin@lemmy.world
      2·
      9 months ago

      There’s a setting to make it look like an Android app. It’s got a couple quirks, but it’s good enough.

      • Octopus1348@lemy.lol
        2·
        9 months ago

        I know, for me it looks ugly, I don’t like the old Android UI (before Material You)

        Also, I have no reason to use it if the iOS one looks better.

    • M137@lemmy.world
      1·
      9 months ago

      Sync has been really weird for the past few weeks, I stopped using it until there’s an update (which hasn’t happened before since several years ago when I started using it as a reddit app).

      I’m currently on Boost, and it’s at least usable, though not super great, but good enough for now.

      • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
        7·
        9 months ago

        There was one, Artemis

        It was developed prior to Kbin having a proper API for user interactions, and thus only worked on the developer’s instance - which was running a modified Kbin version with some APIs implemented.

        I believe it’s all packed up shop now due to the developer’s instance unexpectedly going offline, and possibly some IRL circumstances with the dev… more info here: https://wedistribute.org/2023/12/artemis-shuts-down/

      • thanevim@kbin.social
        4·
        9 months ago

        Sadly, no. One was in production and was pretty stable, but suffered performance issues (at least for me? But an S21 Ultra really shouldn’t have performance issues) and now the Dev has gone inactive…

  • 𝒍𝒆𝒎𝒂𝒏𝒏@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    142·
    9 months ago

    FOSS? Voyager, or maybe Eternity if you prefer something with a more native feel

    Non-FOSS? Sync

    Bookmarks should be “saved posts” and associated with your Lemmy account

  • DeadNinja@lemmy.world
    11·
    9 months ago

    I am also a former Jerboa user and although I kinda liked it - the sole reason that I moved away from it was the lack of a proper search feature (It is already well-known that the Search bar in Jerboa is basically only for communities; Jerboa can’t search for posts, comments or users.

    I have lately been using Eternity - and the main reason is that Eternity is a fork of Infinity for Reddit, and Infinity was a complete app by its own merit - so although Eternity is not updated frequently, it is very unlikely that I will miss any essential feature in Eternity for Lemmy.

    Just my 0.02.

  • OceanSoap@lemmy.ml
    113·
    9 months ago

    I’ll be that person and say I simp for sync. If you’re hardcore FOSS though, you probably won’t like it.

  • theherk@lemmy.world
    7·
    9 months ago

    For iOS, I’ve been testing Arctic, Avelon, Bean, Lemma, Memmy, and Mlem. All good, but none seem better or more reliable than Voyager (wefwef).