The amount of apps being developed for iOS / Android is getting really crazy now and new apps keep popping up every day. Updated list below:
- Artemis (iOS, Android, kbin, lemmy): link
- Kbam (iOS, kbin, lemmy): link
- Memmy (iOS, lemmy): link
- Mlem (iOS, lemmy): link
- Morpha (iOS, lemmy): link
- Thunder (iOS, Android, lemmy): link
- Beyond (iOS, Android, kbin, lemmy): link
- Jerboa (Android, lemmy): link
- Slide (Android, lemmy): link
- Sync (Android, lemmy): link
- Connect (Android, lemmy): link
- Summit (Android, lemmy): link
- Lemon (iOS, lemmy): link
- Liftoff (iOS, Android, lemmy): link
- Boost (Android, lemmy): link
- Bean (iOS, Android, lemmy): link
- WefWef (Web App, lemmy): link
Most apps on the list are lemmy apps, meaning they don’t work with kbin. Artemis is specifically designed to work with kbin, not sure if or when any of the other ones will go in that direction or become interoperable as there are some challenges with the kbin API at the moment. Having said that, a new API is in the works (https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/357) so things should get better with time.
Some of the apps are in a very early stage of development so it may happen that they adjust OS availability and platform support.
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Not much love for Kbin! </3
But I get it, without an official API, it’s a lot of work to get one going. I just refuse to use Lemmy, so I’m committed on getting a Kbin app ASAP. We’re just about to have alpha.1 build ready and it’s pretty darn usable.
Plugging our magazine here:
https://kbin.social/m/ArtemisApp
EDIT: me not going w Lemmy was due to devs. I still think it’s a viable platform for the fediverse, especially with all the instances out there besides theirs (and being open source). Kbin being completely separated just felt like the right choice for me when picking between the two.
Just communicate with the kbin developers a lot, ernest did disable the api for now because he might change it.
Yeah, following along the active PR for the site’s API closely :)
Rn using homegrown one based on their DTOs. Using a scrapper. Just so we can run a small scale private beta. Has help us get a lot of the core functionality in place. Currently the app is looking pretty good.
Tankies? Not familiar with that one.
I signed up for kbin because it was easier to understand. Lemmy looked neat but figuring out which instance to join was hard. As for the developers supporting China… well, Lemmy is open source and the whole point is to make something where you don’t have to agree with the people running it.
I’ve seen that “problem” a lot, but they give away the source code for free as proper communists should do, and then it’s out of their hands. Just don’t go to lemmygrad.ml.
I with you here but we should avoid fragmentation by all means. Having two competing platforms that aren’t interoperable would be a huge disservice.,
By the way, upon full release Artemis will be functional for both Lemmy and kbin, AND be available on both iOS and Android.
Alpha testing should be starting in the next day or two.
Lol 9 for lemmy, 1 for Kbin. At least I won’t have to worry about crippling indecisiveness.
Still, excited for the outlook of the fediverse right now.
Kbin currently has no functional API, which makes it much harder to develop a kbin app.
Edit: Also I’m pretty sure that one is iOS only so I can’t use it 😭
@gk99 There is work ongoing: https://codeberg.org/Kbin/kbin-core/pulls/357
If there isn’t one already, we should pin this post and keep it updated with all the apps that are coming out.
Might need @ernest to do it since he’s mod.
