I’m currently trying Voyager. Initial impression is that it seems like a great app.

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It’s on my Home Screen, but I wish it was easy to send images. That’s the only major downside, trying to share an image from Lemmy only shares a link.

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I never used Apollo. Back when I used Reddit I just used the official app. Glad to see some Lemmy apps have left TestFlight though.

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official reddit app

How could you do this to yourself?

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Avelon is also a really nice one. All Swift too I think.

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Tried them all and Avelon is my favourite

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Are these actual native apps, or more react/web view in an app wrapper?

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Depends on the app. Mlem is native, and Voyager is a web view app wrapper. But Voyager definitely doesn’t feel like a web view. It was written to feel like a native app, I’m really impressed. And that’s coming from someone who generally hates web apps.

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Voyager used to be a web app, but has now gone native too.

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Yeah Voyager has both a native iOS app and an installable Progressive Web App

iOS App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/voyager-for-lemmy/id6451429762 Android App: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.vger.voyager Installable Progressive Web App: https://vger.app/

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Pretty sure its still a web app under the hood.

A web app doesn’t magically turn into a native app when you put it on the app store. The way it gets installed, and the system access is different, and better for stuff like notifications…

But the word “native” refers to applications made using the native SDK, which in Apple’s case is Swift. I’d be extremely impressed if the devs re-wrote the entire app in new code. But that would be unnecessary.

You can have non-native apps on the app store. A lot of your apps probably aren’t native. SDKs like flutter, used by liftoff and thunder, make development much easier in exchange for the resulting application running a bit less efficiently. Flutter applications can also run on both Android and iOS, and even desktop, with little additional work.

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I settled on using Bean. Great app!

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Same. Kinda sad that the Memmy development slowed down so much that now it’s kinda behind the pack. Switched over to voyager and it’s real good 👍

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