My feed has been flooded with posts about the Sync app released for Android, with a lot of hype but also some complaints regarding pricing, ads, privacy, etc.

This made me really appreciate Memmy, with which I have had no issues so far, and am impressed with how clean and easy it has been to use despite being new.

So that’s all, just a huge thank you.

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[–] w00tabaga@lemm.ee 75 points 1 year ago (3 children)

I’ll second this. As a transplant of Reddit who used Apollo, Memmy seems to be heavily influenced by Apollo, which imo was an outstanding app.

I also saw all the posts about Sync and had to get caught up. Definitely makes me appreciate this app too.

[–] DBT@kbin.social 25 points 1 year ago (2 children)

You should check out Voyager too. It’s the closest thing to Apollo appearance-wise that I’ve used. I typically switch between that and Memmy.

[–] sgriff@lemmy.ml 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (4 children)

I can’t get on with voyager. What the dev has done with a React PWA app is amazing but not having haptics makes it feel too weird. And the new app version is just a web view and performance is awful for me, not sure if it’s better on newer phones. But i could learn a lot from what he’s done with React I’m sure.

[–] chase@midwest.social 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's a TestFlight available, which adds haptics.

[–] sgriff@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

Yea that’s what i was talking about with the app version. It just puts it in a web view on mobile, which makes it have terrible performance for me.

[–] TracingRay@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

The animations in Voyager iOS web app have lower refresh rate than in Memmy. Even on the latest iPhone.

[–] danielton@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There is a TestFlight that is a native iOS app now, complete with haptic feedback.

[–] sgriff@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Yea that’s what i was talking about with the app version that uses web view. It’s very laggy because of technical limitations of making a web app run natively

[–] hunt4peas@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

In my ANdroid phone on Android 13, haptics are present in Voyager.

[–] danielton@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Not so on iOS, unfortunately.

[–] hunt4peas@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 year ago

Oof

[–] GammaGames@beehaw.org 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I’m Voyager only. Was trying out a few other clients, but Voyager almost nails the Apollo feel

[–] nilloc@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thanks, I’ll check that. I’ve been beta testing Thunder and Liftoff! liftoff works nicely for browsing, but seems to have trouble posting using federation (tells my I’m not signed in anywhere). Thunder let’s me post, the the UI needs lots of work (now swipe forward, tough vote buttons and more).

[–] Yaeger@kbin.social 2 points 1 year ago

@nilloc Are you running the latest version of the Liftoff app? Had a similar issue until the latest upgrade and now it prompts me to select the profile before I post when I'm logged in with multiple profiles across separate instances.

@giantfloppycock @w00tabaga @DBT @GammaGames

[–] fraydabson@sopuli.xyz 2 points 1 year ago

Same. I bounced between all the apps for a few weeks but I’ve settled into only using voyager. It’s just perfect

[–] abfarid@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I'm also an ex-Apollo user. Memmy was my go to until I learned about Voyager. Don't even need Sync much, at this point, as this web app works for everything. If Voyager improves posting experience with rich text preview, it's simply perfect.

[–] spacedancer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Voyager has an app now too. It’s pretty snappy and has a similar interface as memmy and mlem.

[–] abfarid@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

On iOS, yes. It's in TestFlight, I'm waiting for a full release, other than the occasional scroll freeze, PWA is more than enough for me.

[–] kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Yeah sync's privacy is not the best, hoping the modding community can fix together a no-ads and less talking to 3rd party version of sync.

[–] Xepher@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Can you elaborate on this? Is it just because it's not FOSS?

[–] kostel_thecreed@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Not sure what to elaborate on, so I will just explain more in depth what I meant.

So, because Sync is a closed-source app, in order to modify it you will need to change the compiled code itself or to add your own code, hoping it doesn't affect the application.

no-ads and less talking to 3rd party version of sync. what I meant by this was that the modders would change 2 things : Ads and requests sent to 3rd parties (google, amazon, facebook, etc.). I have no clue how apk/android modding works, but I'm assuming all they have to do is remove the sections that add ads and talk to amazon, google, facebook etc with data.

Make sense? If not, let me know what doesn't and I'll try to explain it.