best app for lemmy?

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

Very happy with sync

I use voyager. It's good. FOSS btw

Eternity! Can't imagine using anything else at this point.

Boost. One-time cheap payment to get rid of ads. No subscription like Sync (which is otherwise also a great app; it was not subscription based when it was available for Reddit).

I like Boost because when I revisit a post, all the new comments are highlighted.

Sync. Voyager was good too.

I'm switching between Thunder and Eternity, both still in development but already solid for me.

Bookmarks should be associated with your account

I really enjoy boost.

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.

Sync for Lemmy

Sync was my go-to Reddit app for nearly 9 years.

It does have ads, but with a one time purchase you can get rid of them. I've paid that and then I also plan on getting the subscription in the future for additional features.

The price is definitely a bit on the higher side, but I'm happy to support the development of the app I left Reddit for.

If you are able to, please support the apps and Lemmy instances you use.

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The absolute bare minimum is to show text as it was written. Most of the apps don't even deal with formatting post correctly, so I am happy to stick with a browser.

If your app of choice does not display the following correctly, let the devs know via a bug report

Bold = Bold v. normal.
Italic = Italic v. normal.
Superscript = ^SuperScript v. normal.
Subscript = _Subscript v. normal.
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I'm using connect and really like it!

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

Boost

Disclaimer: I use kbin 99% of the time.

That said, I love using Connect when I use Lemmy

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.

I've tried Jerboa, Liftoff, and Connect. They all seem fine, but Connect is the one I stuck with.

Eternity for Lemmy!

Personally i use boost Because i used to use its reddit counterpart

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).

Eternity

Was super excited for Boost as I was a paid user

Then it came out and was missing many of the features of Connect

Came back to Connect and haven't looked back

I'm using Connect. It has its issues, but it's tolerable.

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

I'm quite happy with boost. I've used eternity before, and it's a pretty good one, too. Like someone else said, there are many apps, so it's a matter of preference. You're probably going to have to try out a few before you find one you like.

My rankings based on personal experience and nothing else:

Boost
Liftoff
Thunder
Connect
Lemmotif
Jerboa

I know Lemmy has a general preference for FOSS but Boost just feels like home, and the amount of ads on the free version is tolerable to me.

Thunder! It is

FOSS
Cross-platform (Android/iOS and you can even build for desktop or web)
Has some neat features that I haven't seen in other clients, like a really customizable FAB, material you theming, multiple anonymous instances, ping time and version info for instances, already supports 0.19 including new features like instance blocking, an advanced share that can create a microblog style image to share posts
Very good accessibility
and lots more.

Coming from Relay for Reddit, I feel very at home in Thunder!

Since I haven't seen it mentioned yet, I've been using Liftoff for a while now, and I've found it to be a fairly good experience. My main annoyance is that, if I open a notification of a reply to a comment, the process to see the original context for the reply is...convoluted, to say the least. Other than that, great app.

Connect nice clean UI and whery stable

I’m using Memmy for iOS. Works fine for me so far.

Ha, I was going to say jerboa is my favorite so far.

I'm having a different experience, haven't had any bugs and the updates seem to add features/stability without introducing any bugs on my device, I'm also on Android.

What kind of things are making it unusable for you?

Use to use sync a lot but I gotta say summit has been working really really well. The dev is active and has actually fixed a bug I posted about in their community.

Photon is great! It has all the features of lemmy-ui and looks really nice

Link: https://phtn.app

Eternity. It's based on Infinity for reddit

I float between Connect and Boost. Both excellent.

I've tried most apps, but I'm perfectly OK with the Firefox on Android web experience for Lemmy.

I've had no complaints about it, it doesn't annoy me about downloading an app like most other mobile websites. So, sometimes, simplicity is best.

haven't seen any comments mentioning connect yet, so that would be my recommendation. by far the most fully featured and smooth lemmy app imo and its my favorite. I've used most other apps but I always come back to connect because of all the different ways I can customize it and all the settings I can change that I simply don't see in a lot of other apps.

I have tried a vast majority of them and there were many I like some features of, but they end up falling to the way side. I always go back to using, "Connect" For Lemmy. Has every thing I want.

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?

It would probably help if you mentioned which app you are having issues with and what device you are using. I recently stopped using Jerboa because of login issues and started using Voyager. I find it's less of a smooth experience but some of the other bugs I had with Jerboa like back spacing removing the space before the previous word aren't present.

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

Saved posts are linked with your account. If you login to your account in a web browser you should be able to find it under your profile followed by the saved section.

I’m quite happy with Avelon

I'm enjoying liftoff. I'm a former Relay user and this feels closest.

I tried Sync, Boost and many others. They all feel bloated and some have ads. I went back to Jerboa and never looked back. I do miss some features from Sync. Like the advanced search function. But they'll probably come soon.

For iOS the only one that can do swipe right to go back anywhere on the screen is LiftOff. It’s a crucial feature for me so there are sadly no alternatives.

connect isn't foss but it's very well working

Eternity

wefwef/voyager is "not buggy" and i also have thunder

Raccoon for Lemmy came out in Early Access the other day and I'm checking that out to replace Liftoff, since it's unlikely Liftoff will get updated before most of the instances update to 0.19 and break the app.

Bookmarks/saved should be per account if the app implemented that correctly. Go to https://lemmy.world/u/Grimy?view=Saved to see if they saved.

mainly using Eternity and Summit. both are pretty amazing

Bookmarks (saved posts and comments) are usually associated to the account since there is support for it in Lemmy APIs (PUT /post/save and PUT /comment/save respectively) so even if you change client you should find them there.

The answer to your question is subjective, what I like about Lemmy is that there are many clients (web and mobile) so you can choose what you like the most, and many of them are even open source.

Is there really the need for an app specifically for it?

Its called Firefox.