I’m currently using Memmy for Lemmy, Mammoth and Ice Cubes for Mastodon, and the official Pixelfed beta.

Also using Insporation* for Diaspora, but I wonder if the devs have abandoned it. Wish there was a dedicated Friendica app as well.

What are you guys using primarily? I wouldn’t mind branching out a bit.

  • willya@lemmyf.ukEnglish
    16·
    1 year ago

    iOS I’m bouncing around until one comes out on top. Memmy and Avelon are currently winning. Mlem, Bean, Thunder close seconds. Spend all my time on Lemmy. Couldn’t really get into mastodon.

      • Cralex@lemm.eeEnglish
        4·
        1 year ago

        First you need Testflight, which is an app you can use to test apps in development, even before they’re in the App Store. Then you come back to the message that you replied to and click open the Avalon app in the TestFlight app to accept the invitation to test it. Then you can install it from TestFlight.

  • TrippyFocus@lemmy.mlEnglish
    121·
    1 year ago

    Was using Memmy but switched to voyager recently and liking it a bit more, reminds me of Apollo. It’s still pretty early for all the apps though so I have a few and I check them occasionally to see how they improve.

      • kryllic@programming.devEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        It stands for Progressive Web App. It allows websites to be treated as a standalone app without having to download it from a storefront. When done well, it’s hardly distinguishable from a proper native app. It’s a cost-efficient way to create a cross-platform app that works with basically any browser.

        • hummy_bee@mander.xyzEnglish
          2·
          1 year ago

          Thanks. I think I get it now. I have been using voyager, followed the instructions and always wondered how it installs despite not being on the appstore. From how you’ve explained it, it seems to be less taxing on the phones computing resources, right?

          • kryllic@programming.devEnglish
            2·
            1 year ago

            It should be no more taxing than a web page, so I think you’re correct. I have both apps and haven’t done a direct performance comparison, but I will say the PWA seems to be just a tad snappier, imo

  • darreninthenet@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    I like Ivory for Mastodon (it’s by the guys that originally made Tweetbot for Twitter) and I use Voyager for Lemmy (basically it’s Apollo reborn) and am trying out Liftoff as it has a few features I like that Voyager doesn’t (yet) and testing Artemis for Kbin.

  • mysoulishome@lemmy.worldEnglish
    6·
    1 year ago

    Love Ice Cubes for Mastodon and Voyager for Lemmy. I’ve tried to use others besides wefwef/Voyager but after soooo many years using Apollo it just feels so comfy. Navigation, the font, the way things are organized and displayed. I’m a creature of habit. I am hoping more features are added like a solid text editor, add photos to comments, user profiles, messaging…

    I probably should keep trying others and at least test them & leave good reviews so the feddiverse keeps building and apps can compete with other social medial bullshit.

    • loaf@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I love Ice Cubes, minus the load time. The “share as image” feature is nice, plus the AI “help” in posting doesn’t hurt either.

  • Matthias@lemmy.ruhr
    5·
    1 year ago

    I use Mlem for Lemmy, Ivory for Mastodon, Kimis for Firefsh and also the Pixelfed beta.

    I tried so many apps for each service and all have some very good features, but also bad ones. IMHO there is not the one app for everyone and it can be a long journey to find the right app with the preferred features.

    • Fades@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      I have not found anything that rivals Ivory for iOS at least, it is Tapbots after all

    • loaf@sh.itjust.worksOPEnglish
      3·
      1 year ago

      I love Mammoth, but their new beta killed off a few features that I used pretty frequently (like sharing posts as images).

      On the flip side, it’s more streamlined and much faster loading times. The new “For You” section still needs a bit of work though.

      • orangeNgreen@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Ah, I’m on the App Store version. I don’t use Mammoth a whole lot. At least not yet. Somewhere down the line I’ll probably test out some more apps. I’ve really only tried Mammoth and the official app so far.

      • pexavc@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 year ago

        Interesting, so is it like sharing the text body of a post or comment as an image? I’d be interested in adding a feature like that. It’s pretty easy to do.

  • jumper775@lemmy.mlEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I’m on iOS using mlem, which has so far been the best app I’ve used for it. It used to be somewhat unpolished and lacking, but in the latest update most of the bugs have been ironed out and the image viewer is in existence. Lemma also looks really promising although it’s still in early early development. For mastodon I use ice cubes although for my uses of mastodon I might just download an rss reader.

  • Callie@pawb.socialEnglish
    5·
    1 year ago

    I was using Lemmios and thought it was pretty good, but after switching to Voyager from seeing recommendations, it fixes a lot of the issues I had with Lemmios. Namely how non-sticky Lemmios felt when scrolling.

    Lemmios

    it felt like when I tried to scroll down, it would move the post to the left or right too easily.

    Voyager

    However, as I’m typing this, the currently text is going below the typing field and I have to manually scroll to see what I’m typing.

    For as little as I use mastodon, I definitely prefer Metatext, it feels good to scroll, everything is decently close together and fairly easy to navigate

  • malamignasanmig@group.ltEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    im using memmy and thunder. i would like to try the other apps on my ogse but they all require the latest iOS. i also like pixelfed but could only browse it using pixeldroid in android because of the same reason.
    if its not unreasonably difficult, i hope devs will consider compatibility with older systems as some of us are not using the latest iphones.

    • itsyourmom@artemis.camp
      1·
      1 year ago

      My iPhone is old, and I don’t have the newest iOS update. (Currently I don’t have enough storage space on my phone and can’t part with my pics)…Artemis is working great for me. It just released publicly in Beta. And has plans to include Lemmy very soon.

  • pexavc@lemm.eeEnglish
    4·
    1 year ago

    https://github.com/neatia/Loom

    It’s open source and the TestFlight link is inside with a macOS build.

    Shameless plug but have been working on this for more than a month now. And it’s reaching a relatively stable state.

    Available on macOS and iPad as well. Would love to hear what you think, if you have time to give it a shot.

    • TacoEvent@lemmy.zipEnglish
      2·
      1 year ago

      Just wanted to drop in and say that I love the unique design! It’s a little unhinged maybe but we absolutely need more fun apps like this for the fediverse. Will be trying it out. Thanks for working on it!

      • pexavc@lemm.eeEnglish
        2·
        1 year ago

        Haha thank you. Definitely trying to make it fun. Slowly tying them all the added features together in a hopefully, meaningful way.

        And no problem. It’s been really fun building this so far.