I know there are a ton of iOS apps for Lemmy. But what are they missing? What experiences would you like? It could be quality of life or big and ambitious features Many of you often have really good ideas and feedback, I’m looking forward to responses.

  • @CaptnKarisma@lemmy.mlEnglish
    23•1 year ago

    Voyager is cool, we have home, all and local. I would like a news sort option or at least be able to put any post with a news story link in its own category.

    • @picnicolas@slrpnk.netEnglish
      8•1 year ago

      If it had a split screen view on iPad, posts on a side bar and content on the main screen, I would be so happy.

  • @DerisionConsulting@lemmy.caEnglish
    11•1 year ago

    Most of them can’t do the basic formatting of Lemmy, so in my mind, they are basically useless.

    **Bold**
    Bold

    *Italic*
    Italic

    ^Superscript^Normal~Subscript~
    SuperscriptNormalSubscript

    ~~Strike-through~~
    Strike-through

    ::: spoiler spoiler
Soiled
:::
    spoiler

    Soiled

    • @HootinNHollerin@lemmy.worldEnglish
      7•1 year ago

      Voyager does bold and italic without needing to know those, but yea it would be nice to add the others you listed without the syntax. It also does crossposting, text faces (/¯ ಠ_ಠ)/¯ share comments and posts as images, preview,

      quoting

      , auto finding communities and users sorted by most pustular, porting subs from Reddit to communities, etc.

    • Resol van LemmyEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      On my client (Jerboa), all of these worked except for ^Superscript^Normal~Subscript~, honestly I don’t know why it doesn’t support this very specific formatting thing.

      • noodle (he/him)English
        3•1 year ago

        I wonder if it works differently on iOS, because it displayed all of those properly for me except for the super/subscript on Android.

    • andrew_bidlawEnglish
      2•1 year ago

      Connect did them all right. It has it’s own problems, but I’m staying with it and support the dev for now on.

  • /home/pineappleloverEnglish
    9•1 year ago

    I would say Eternity (based on Infinity) but reread and saw you’re on ios. If you want to escape the Apple-like design then you don’t have much of a choice.

  • @retrieval4558@mander.xyzEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    I’m a big fan of sync EXCEPT redgifs don’t work and it’s driving me nuts.

    Not to be horny on main but it is an issue lol.

  • RentlarEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    I know the title is iOS specific and not Android, I use Jerboa that works amazing for my needs. It’s lightweight, simple, supports dark mode, has card mode (thumbnail only, no inline preview) and reminds me enough of QuantumBadger’s RedReader.

    What I still need is:

    • To be able to save comments when I back out of the reply screen so that I can return to them. (The biggest want, I know some apps have that already)
    • To be able to play videos a little better…
    • To be able to do a search for anything other than communities
    • To be able to initiate crossposts and view crossposts
    • To be able to preload comments and view them offline when I have intermittent connection (I like to ride trains through wilderness).

    I know various apps have these features, haven’t heard if there’s one for Android that does what I like about Jerboa but also has the listed extras, but that is what would be ideal for me.

  • edricEnglish
    4•1 year ago

    Most lemmy apps do not embed videos/gifs and have to open them on the in-app browser. The only ones I know that can do it are Arctic and Avelon, of which the latter put scrubbing behind a paid subscription. So Arctic is one of my top lemmy apps, even though Thunder is my favorite for general browsing.

    Another minor issue for me is almost every app tries to look like Apollo, so they end up all looking the same. It’s one of the reasons I like Thunder because it looks a little different.

  • macnielEnglish
    3•1 year ago

    How could it be the perfect lemmy app when it only runs on iOS or respectively only runs on Android?

    • PlatypusEnglish
      8•1 year ago

      Because cross-platform apps inevitably feel out of step with the OS they run on. Native apps can use system components and behaviors and will almost always run better because they don’t need to be wrapped in a cross-platform framework. Admittedly a platform-locked app isn’t going to be a universally perfect Lemmy app, but it can certainly be a platform-specific perfect Lemmy app.

      With no disrespect to Voyager, its devs, or its users, this is why I can’t use that app despite its impressive feature set and high level of polish–the ui feels fundamentally wrong on iOS, and the fact that it’s a very direct Apollo clone but not written in native swift makes it feel like a knockoff.

    • Dame OPEnglish
      4•1 year ago

      Well, it could launch on one platform first, doesn’t mean it’s only going to be for one platform.