‎Bean for Lemmy
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‎Bean is the best way to explore the Lemmy and the threadiverse with a beautiful UI designed for iPhone and iPad, and with a number of themes, customisation, and view options to choose from, you'll be right at home with Bean. Gestures make it a breeze to navigate around. Upvote or downvote, comment,…

Hey everyone 👋

Bean for Lemmy is now available on the App Store for everyone to download!

The app is free to use with a “Pro” plan that gives you access to some premium features like push notifications and multiple accounts, as well as a bunch of customisation options with more themes and app icons available.

Thank you to everyone who tested the app over the last month. I’m really happy with what I’ve made in a short period of time but… This is just the beginning and I have so much more planned including mod tools, kbin supported more!

I hope you’ll check it out and I look forward to hearing your feedback ❤️

  • @orangeNgreen@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•2 years ago

    To everyone that enjoys the app, and especially those pleased enough to subscribe or purchase Lifetime Pro, don’t forget to rate and review the app in the App Store. Let’s help Steve build a user base!

    • steve228ukOPMEnglish
      3•2 years ago

      Thank you!! Yes, App Store reviews are a massive help ❤️

    • steve228ukOPMEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      The link for new TestFlight testers is already closed and I’ll be clearing the list at the end of this week. Testing for v1.1 will be opened up again as a new list soon.

  • @robmexx@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2•2 years ago

    Finally my go to Lemmy app is in the AppStore. Your app made the transition from reddit over to Lemmy much much easier for me. Thank you very much! Can’t wait what the future is brining… Will Pro carry over to testflight?

    • steve228ukOPMEnglish
      2•2 years ago

      Thank you! I’m glad I could help with the switch 😄

      All purchases in TestFlight are fake and aren’t connected to those made on the App Store.

      • @robmexx@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2•2 years ago

        Yeah, I know. I’ll get Pro in the official release and wonder if I’ll keep the Pro status if I support the betas in the TestFlight.

      • EighthLayerEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        Where is your preferred location for raising bugs?

        I have one where push notifications aren’t enabling correctly.

  • @timespace@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    0•2 years ago

    Please reconsider the lifetime price 🙏. I want to support your efforts but I don’t do subscriptions and $30/$50 is too high a price for an unproven system (lemmy) and developer, and an app that still has some large bugs/issues and lacks some (what I would consider “essential”) functionality. This sentiment has been said by others in other communities when discussing Bean as well, so I don’t think I’m off base.

    I said this elsewhere, but at $10 I have a feeling you’d get a lot more sales due to the price being in the impulse buy range, and low enough you’ll get FOMOers that are willing to throw down $10 to see what happens.

    $30 for the early bird price means you can never go lower than $30 for future sales (Black Friday or what have you). I think that is a mistake, personally, and you may disagree.

    • steve228ukOPMEnglish
      4•2 years ago

      I appreciate the feedback but I’m happy with the pricing.

      As always, please feel free to write a post with a bug report or feature request and I’ll do my best to fix it or implement it 😊

      • @timespace@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        1•2 years ago

        Bummer but I understand. Appreciate the reply. When does the early bird pricing expire? I might go for it anyway, you seem like a good dude and are very respectful and responsive so I want to support.

        • steve228ukOPMEnglish
          3•2 years ago

          Thank you, I really appreciate it!

          The plan is the end of the month so 31st August would be the last day

    • Dame English
      1•2 years ago

      What are the lacking “essential “ functions?

      • @timespace@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        3•2 years ago

        Here’s a few off the top of my head. I’ll start keeping a list as I use the app more.

        • No in-line gif or video support
        • Cannot tap to collapse a post
        • Can’t edit comments from your profile screen
        • Can’t tap a comment in your profile to go to that comment in the thread
        • No gesture to swipe from right to left to return to the previous post (ie you’re viewing the All lost, open a post/thread, read comments, swipe left to right to go back to All list, scroll down a bit, then decide to return to the previous thread - in Apollo, you could wipe right to left to return to the last thread)
        • No hide read posts button (you have to do it through a menu)
        • Not enough compact comment option(s) - ie it would be nice to have the upvote/downvote count shown at the top of the comment to the right of the username
        • No default sorting order by list type (ie all, local, subscribed lists)
        • Collapsing a comment thread from the middle of thread does not automatically bring you to the next top level comment
        • Not essential, but doesn’t support animated community logos
  • Horsey
    0•2 years ago

    can Bean work with kbin accounts? I know the two are federated, just wondering since that’s my home instance 😛

    • Dame English
      1•2 years ago

      There is also the Artemis app for Kbin. I use Artemis for Kbin and Bean for Lemmy. They’re both incredible apps.