cross-posted from: https://lemm.ee/post/4709002
Hi everyone!
It’s been quite the journey, but Avelon is finally on the App Store!
Click here to download!
The app is includes a lot of awesome features requested by the community, including:
- Sleek design that fits right in on iOS & iPadOS
- Highly customizable look & behavior
- Mark read on scroll & hide read posts
- Customizable swipe gestures
- Multiple account support
- Smart link previews in posts and comments
- Support for videos, gifs, photos & other media
- Custom font support
- Write replies with markdown highlighting
- Privacy focused - the app has no tracking of any kind
- Gallery mode + hide bars on scroll = full immersion … and a lot more!
Screenshots
Here’s some cool app store screenshots of the app:
Developing this app has been one of the best development experiences I’ve had, and I feel very privileged and happy to have been able to contribute to Lemmy in this way. Nothing is more motivating than seeing so many people already enjoying the app and providing suggestions and feedback.
I really hope you enjoy Avelon, and I’m looking forward to hearing more about what everyone thinks. Keep the feedback coming!
Thank you, Sigve Rokenes
Yes I am missing this too. How about also the option to see the instance that the poster is from. For example pedroparamo@lemm.ee. I appreciate your great work and thanks
Oh boy, if this can play gifs and videos natively without opening the in-app browser, it will definitely be front runner for the best app so far.
Looks great. I’ve downloaded it and look for to trying it out and seeing how it compares to Memmy.
I use both and I prefer Avelon most of the time. It’s sleeker and more responsive, probably because of the native code.
Love how it looks! Is there any chance of getting a ‘skip to next top level comment’ button that Apollo and other clients have?
Yup, definitely wanna add this. The swipe-to-collapse-thread gesture is the closest thing atm
Congratulations on the release! Is the Test Flight build going to be updated going forwards, or will it be just the main release?
Good question! I’m still gonna use testflight before release, so if you wanna see what’s coming earlier and are comfortable with a few more bugs then just keep using testflight.
The testflight version is temporarily outdated just now cause I had to focus on getting the release ready. This won’t be the case in a couple days or so
