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[–] jacaw@lemmy.ml 101 points 1 year ago (4 children)

We have Memmy which is pretty damn close.

[–] We1chy@lemm.ee 40 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Don’t forget voyager, it’s pretty much identical.

[–] princessnorah@lemmy.blahaj.zone 13 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Mehhhhh. I know it’s a PWA but I’d still rather a native app.

[–] We1chy@lemm.ee 23 points 1 year ago (1 children)

If you’re on iOS there’s a native app in beta on TestFlight. https://testflight.apple.com/join/nWLw1MBM

[–] Arn_Thor@feddit.uk 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Thank you! First impression of that app is really good.

Edit after a day’s use: it really scratches that itch. Smooth scrolling, looks great

[–] _finger_@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

No themes kills it for me. I hate dark black themes

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[–] TaintPuncher@lemmy.ml 32 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] Vamanos@lemmy.world 20 points 1 year ago

Team Memmy. It’s freaking great. And the amount of updates they post to the test channel. Fantastic. It’s nice logging in once a day and seeing some cool functionality pushed out.

[–] RojoSanIchiban@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Was gonna say, Memmy may as well be an Apollo fork from a couple years ago.

[–] Nurgle@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Voyager is “cleaner” looking, but Memmy is a native app which prob trumps that. That little rando freeze on voyager gets annoying after awhile

[–] exoplanetary@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Voyager is getting an iOS native version. There’s a TestFlight version out right now, it’s really neat. Definitely scratches that Apollo itch.

[–] punseye@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Is it truly native build with Swift? Or is it repackaged pwa?

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[–] greendakota99@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

Agreed! Sadly, I have seen it reported that the actual app version has the random freeze as well. Hopefully that’s able to be resolved now that its an app.

[–] esty@lemmy.ca 51 points 1 year ago (7 children)

voyager is basically apollo already tbh

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

Doesn’t look like it’s available in the app store

[–] esty@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

https://vger.app it’s a web app, there is an iOS TestFlight build that fixes a few of the bugs that running in safari introduces (and it has haptics!)

[–] w2tpmf@kbin.social 11 points 1 year ago

Lemmy.world has a voyager instance right on their server. https://m.lemmy.world

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[–] Fluid@aussie.zone 38 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Voyager is the apollo replacement, it rocks!

[–] victron@lemm.ee 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's awesome, I used it for a while. But I like native apps more. Also, does it have notifications? I don't remember ever getting one.

[–] freemicycle@lemmy.world 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Voyager has an app in TestFlight right now. Not sure what you consider native, but it uses the ionic framework. I stopped using the PWA on iOS due to a scrolling bug that couldn’t be fixed by the voyager dev. The ionic version seems to working well so far though!

[–] botorfj@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

i heard it was submitted to play store too

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[–] thantik@lemmy.world 21 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (3 children)

Honestly, it would be an amazingly trojan-horse way to drive reddit users to Lemmy. Leave Sync for Reddit up, and then just have it be a redirect to Lemmy under the hood, maybe even use the API to "migrate" people over - if only for copying their username and some basic data.

[–] Ducks@ducks.dev 16 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit would go after apps having Reddit in the name.

[–] thantik@lemmy.world 17 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

That was kind of the issue to begin with. That's why it's "For Reddit". Google even had this stupid naming scheme because "Reddit Is Fun" existed at the time, and they even had to change to "RiF For Reddit". The "For Reddit" part already mitigates that worry - as I understand, that was the entire point of Google enforcing that policy to begin with.

And honestly I'm just kind of being wishy about it. I'd have loved to see all of the Reddit apps basically Trojan horse their users into Lemmy rather than simply shut down. We can dream can't we? :P

[–] Osnapitsjoey@lemmy.one 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Reddit made that change to apps not Google. I remember when they wanted to have all reddit clients be "for reddit" because they were about to put out the official app

[–] thantik@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/28755825/android-app-naming-guidelines-first-word-as-company

This seems to suggest otherwise.

The reply from Google is that this guy couldn't name his app "xkcd Viewer"...he had to name it Viewer FOR xkcd...

So no, it wasn't Reddit who made that change to apps, it was Google, as I correctly stated.

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[–] icepuncher69@sh.itjust.works 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

RIF users too, talklittle made an app for tildes but blegg.

[–] Sigmatics@lemmy.ca 3 points 1 year ago
[–] TotallyHankScorpio@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Man, do I miss Apollo.....at least I can use Sync on my galaxy tablet

[–] PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Christian released a beans wallpaper so maybe Apollo for lemmy is coming?

[–] heyoni@lemm.ee 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Beans….lemmy…what’s the connection??

[–] PuddingFeeling907@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There was a post where a people just upvoted a can of beans

[–] heyoni@lemm.ee 5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

It would make so much sense…for Apollo to just handle Lemmy

[–] greendakota99@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I’ve actually figured it out.

Reddit.API replace with Lemmy.API. We’re in!

[–] heyoni@lemm.ee 4 points 1 year ago

lol we’re one regex away from going back to peak iOS app support!

[–] nachom97@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago

I still forget and open the app every now and then. Memmy is really close, im very happy with it.

[–] dango@kbin.social 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] NatoBoram@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I couldn't find the API for Kbin, so that's unlikely to happen soon

[–] Stovetop@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

As I understand it, the API is still in progress. Planned eventually but the service itself is still somewhat a beta.

[–] awwwyissss@lemm.ee 2 points 1 year ago

I heard something about the API coming out in the next month or so.

[–] kernelle@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

I actually got my sync to look like a better version of Baconreader, needless to say I'm pretty happy!

[–] JehovasThickness@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

Cries in Boost

[–] Dark_Blade@lemmy.world 4 points 1 year ago (3 children)

There’s Beans, another client that’s trying to do the whole ‘iOS’ aesthetic (though in a way that’s unlike Apollo) and Memmy, which borrows a lot of Apollo’s design aesthetic.

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[–] Tenthrow@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago
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