Voyager hands down
this post was submitted on 29 Nov 2025
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Took a look and love it, mostly because it looks like an iOS app but on Android. I've really missed iOS app design and this is just refreshing lol.
At least in iOS, it reminds me a lot of what used to be the Apollo app for Reddit. Voyager is fantastic and currently includes working, but limited Piefed compatibility.
Voyager is a direct copy of Apollo. Which is good because Apollo was awesome on iOS before Reddit forced it and many other apps to cease development. Assholes
For me it reminds more of some rather spartan apps that are economic with their interface — namely RedReader for Reddit. No fluff in the UI. Which is why I like both these apps, however Voyager would be better if it was implemented natively instead of in React or whatever it uses.
There's a problem that it seems to use a lot of memory, because it's a web browser in disguise. As a consequence, any time another app needs memory, Voyager is killed by Android and starts again from the main page, forgetting what I was doing. Oftentimes it's enough to switch to the actual browser and back again for Voyager to restart, which is ironic for a link-aggregator app.
Its animations are janky for the same reason, and get in the way of some functionality like collapsing comments.
Voyager's UI is great, mainly because it's not flashy, but a native app with that UI would be a lot better. RedReader for Reddit is much smoother to use.
I'm quite happy with Voyager, never used anything else.
Maybe you should use something else in order to see the larger picture. It‘s hard to know what you really want when you don‘t compare.
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How do I enable seeing downvotes weighted against upvotes in it? It doesn‘t do it on iOS on default which is weird.
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Im using Summit. Its really nice and the developer is active and listens to the community!
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.idunnololz.summit
Seconding Summit, it's a good one
Third for Summit
Fourth for Summit.
Say what you like, Summit Squad are nothing if not dedicated.
Summit is peak!
I replaced Sync which is what I used for Reddit, for Summit. No issues at all and actively developed, unlike Sync. It's clearly taken a lot of inspiration from Sync's feature set and I am very happy with it.
That's the client I use alongside Mlem.
Thunder. The only one which is FLOSS, on F-Droid, updated, and actually good.
Connect is great, extensive filtering available. I use it as my main and jerboa as backup.
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Boost!
The best by far. He had a great app for that other shit site.
Try it, you'll like it. Guarantee.
Tried boost for reddit but I didn't like the ui and it seems like they've still got the same ui on the Lemmy version
As in the other comment... You can change all types of UI settings.
Layout, fonts, title font colors, comment font colors, etc.
Honestly, so much available, it's actually a little overwhelming for me.
The current Lemmy version is very customizable. I think it has seven basic types of views, which are further customizable how you like. You can kinda make it look like whatever you want.
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I’ve been pretty happy with Blorp. They have mobile and web clients available
+1 for Blorp, moved there from Voyager after seeing active development.
Blorp dev here. Thanks for the support! Not only is the app actively maintained, but I do my best to lurk in the comments and help people with any issues.
You are doing a great job, thx!
Oh, I forgot to mention the desktop app!!
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I’m using Voyager — I’m a very superficial user but it gets the job done.
I use Raccoon. It's on Fdroid. Pretty neat UI :)
What is happening with Raccoon? There is no update in a long while now.
May be unpopular, but I haven't found anything that works better than jerboa. It's maintained by the Lemmy devs. It's simple, open source, customizable.
Thunder is cross-platform, and IMO has one of the best looking UIs.
Eternity is great
Used to be my main and fav client (after Jerboa), but it hasn't been updated in a year and Summit is just plain better and almost as customisable
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Kinda depends on what features in sync made you like it.
Overall, boost, connect, thunder and summit each get close to parity, but only close. But, you could say that in reverse, (that sync only gets close to parity with any of them) it isn't a slight against any of them.
Eternity is another one that I've had good use of, but development on that seems to be stopped as well, so I dunno if that's a useful option.
Past those, you get less similarity in ux and ui than would make sense to compare. Like, the apps that mimic voyager (or whatever the popular iOS reddit app was called), things are laid out so different that if you used sync as a primary, you aren't likely to enjoy that ui.
On a phone, I kinda favor connect over sync, despite it looking very unlike it compared to boost or eternity. But on a tablet, nothing else does double columns in portrait worth a damn for me, and aren't great in landscape either. But boost and eternity come the closest to the visual ease sync has.
that's sync
I was going to include screen shots of the ones I have on this tablet, but uploads shit the bed and are being weird after that one. So no promises that I can do them all
boost
eternity
connect
and interstellar since it does piefed better than anything else I've tried, and still does lemmy just fine.
Decided to install thunder and summit long enough to give a visual
thunder
annnd summit
As you can tell, everyone has a slightly different approach to the UI. But they're even more variable in what settings are available, little niceties, etc. Theming is all over the place from a bare bones light/dark/oled to the relative broad visual options of boost and sync. None of them are bad at all. They're reliable, work even on older devices without bogging them down, and are all easy enough to get going with.
Blorp has been amazing for me, thats what I am using rn.
2nd blorp!
I guess I'm the only one here actively using Boost. I like it. Been using it since long before it was a Lemmy client, haha!
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I use Voyager (and boost, and sync before that). I like Voyager (now that I'm used to it), but I wish the medium sized thumbnails in compact mode were slightly larger.
I think there's a way to make that happen. Sorry I don't use apps, I just played around with it in the past, but I recall not liking it until someone told me how to make the images larger - buried VERY deep in the customizations somewhere - and then afterwards it became my favorite app (except I don't actually use apps, but IF I did, it would be Voyager. Or Thunder. And with full sized images that don't cut parts out.)
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Connect is good for me, don't know what the situation with the dev is though, seems like development might have stopped
I'm still here and actively developing :) all the latest updates are on beta while I polish things up. Glad you're liking Connect. Cheers!
Awesome to hear that! I've only half been paying attention to the Connect channel
I main Connect since LiftOff died and Jerboa has been breaking more and more.
Eternity hasn't been updated in a while, but it still works great.
I've tried Jerboa, then Sync, then Summit, and now I'm using Thunder. There were always small things that annoyed me enough to start looking for a new client after a few months, but I've had this for... a year or so now? It's very customizable, so that's nice.
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