I am happy with Jerboa. I used to use Boost and Infinity for Reddit. I tried out Infinity, Voyager, Sync and connect. So far, Jerboa has been the best experience for me.

I keep flip-flopping between thunder and liftoff. I like the visual design of liftoff but thunder feels easier to use … I could probably fiddle about with their settings and make one that last bit better than the other in either direction but I’m not sure wich way to go. (Posted from Liftoff)

Sync > Thunder > Jeroba

Edit: I’m keeping the spelling lol

Jerboa. It works for me. I used to use Relay and while it had more features, I really am not missing it that much.

Personally there is not much to into a decent app: after all it is just text and images.

I’m surprised by how much of a big deal apps are for the users. I would have kept Jerboa if it was more stable. I got Connect for no specific reason and don’t really see a reason to try anything else… I was still using old reddit and an app called Slide, so I guess I’m some removed user or something. Happy that those apps brings more users tho.

I am using Sync, and I paid for a year of it. A year from now, I’ll evaluate and maybe pick something else. Do I care if it costs a tiny bit of $ for a solid app experience that performs better than the rest, because it has dedicated development resources? Nope. Having read the details on what data is collected, do I have privacy concerns? Nope. Do I think folks have gone a little over the top about certain things? Yes. Bad enough having to leave reddit without making it even more complicated.

I’m using Sync, while waiting for Boost.

I prefer my own app, but that’s a given :P

I did like many aspects of the official Reddit app until they enshittified it, so I’m reusing some concepts it had. It’s still in alpha phase, and even then, there’s some things I liked that I’m not sure I’ll implement. I particularly liked the second tab in the bottom navigation bar when it had your list of subscribed subreddits and an alphabetical scrollbar. That was super awesome. I’ll definitely try to add something like that in the future, probably after I get feature parity with the official UI.

I’m avoiding pop-ups by editing the current relevant components. So, when you press “submit”, the error message will be inside the form instead of as a pop-up. Or when you report a post, the form appears inside the post instead of as a pop-up. It’s much more intuitive to use and I think I can make it faster to use.

I like sync but I’m into the m.lemmy.world on my phone, I love pwas

Jerboa is open source and has been working perfectly fine for me.

I just downloaded infinity to give it a shot and I find the UI to be a little rougher around the edges. The most noticeable is the layout of posts on the feed - the icons dont look like they are consistent sizes and the lack of grouping compared to Sync (like having a box around both vote and vote count) makes it look more cluttered. I also think the default theme color (the intense blue color) kinda hurts my eyes because it’s too high contrast maybe, so changing that was the first thing I did- I think having a milder default would provide a better out of the box experience.

I have no major gripes about the base functionality, they’re both functional enough for me but the aesthetics of sync win for now. Also it seems like both sync and infinity don’t collapse the comment you pressed and only the replies, making it seemingly impossible to collapse top level comments which inconveniences how I read threads, by collapsing top level comments as I go down the thread - long top comments stay expanded so I have to scroll past a lot more.

Those are my first impressions based on never using either sync or infinity (be it lemmy or reddit) before like this week.

Edit: Just downloaded Connect too, looks very similar to Sync in level of polish so I think those will probably be my top 2

Voyager.

I’ve tried Connect, Liftoff, Thunder, Voyager, and Infinity. It’s just bugs galore. The back button will take you to the wrong activity, comments won’t post (due to the app not the instance), some instances or accounts won’t load, and a laundry list of UI or functionality bugs. Liftoff gave me the fewest issues of all of them, apart from using Lemmy in the browser.

But Sync really is polished, and the experience is night and day. I’m a big FOSS proponent, but I don’t think it’s wrong for a developer to want to make money when their income source suddenly disappears and they need to pay bills (and region-specific pricing is coming soon). The level of customizability, spit and polish in the other apps doesn’t even come close. I’m sure they’ll get there eventually, but I think it’s a mistake to drive away passionate developers who want to help Lemmy succeed.

I’ve given pretty much every app or browser front-end a fair shake at this point, and I’m gladly choosing Sync for now.