Memmy is the best iOS app so far

Loving Memmy so far!

The only two things I’d like to see are:

searching within a community (this is probably requested previously but I can’t search previous posts. Please let me know if I’m wrong here!)
the subscriptions tab to become a button within the dock at the bottom. I frequently move between my subscriptions and I find it a little tucked away at the moment.

Regardless, love your work. It’s always a bit rich making requests for something that is FREE! So, again, thanks for all your hard work and feel free to disregard the above.

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Regardless of whether Memmy is the most “iOS” like, it’s the most like Apollo (RIP). I do like Avelon and Voyager as well but Memmy is my favorite and just feels compact, clean, and right.

Far from it. Featurewise it is the richest, but it does not feel like home on iOS.
Regarding apps for lemmy I prefer
Avelon Mlem. This one is made with swift has checks all the iOS design guidelines boxes.
- I’m not very familiar with the iOS guidelines but try to refer to them sometimes. Are there any glaring issues you are aware of that Memmy has, with the guidelines, or is it more a lot of small things? I imagine it’s easier to stay within guidelines while using SwiftUI/UIKit but maybe it’s not.
  
  I can’t imagine what kind of iOS guidelines could make Memmy more comfortable to use. It’s so damn good.
  
  Take any of the Apple apps for example. They implement the frosted glass effect to give you a sense of foreground and background and it looks just super nice. I sent two feedback text to Memmy about this but this low hanging fruit hasn’t been implemented yet.
  Then the size of the big headers that shrink down when you scroll down to reveal more content. Just real eye sugar!
- As a dev it’s nice to check all the official guideline boxes, as a user I’d much rather actually have features.
- Are you saying Avelon or Mlem? They’re different apps, right?
  
  Yeah, Avelon and Mlem are different apps. I prefer Avelon. Memmy is great but I just prefer Avelon myself. Feels more my design style with the choices the dev has made.
- Definitely +1 for Mlem. It’s my main. I’d also like to give Bean a shoutout! While it’s not entirely Swift IU (far as I can tell), it’s way more Swift than Memmy and just as if not more feature rich!
  
  Bean isn’t swift, it’s React Native like us. If you mean more iOS like then maybe it is?

Glad you are enjoying it!
It's on the roadmap but we just haven't gotten around to it. Gk might be adding it soonish though.
We were thinking of maybe making the subscription drawer open from anywhere in the app if you long press the Feed tab icon. I've also been meaning to add some customization options for the tab bar on the bottom to let you change what options are there, but no promises on that coming any time soon.
- Point 2 sounds awesome 🙌

Personally I like Memmy too, Wefwef is great as well. Only thing I dislike of the latter is that it doesn't let you choose between app icons, but oh well.

I just wished Memmy could play gifs and open albums properly

Yeah that app is really great and looks really professional compared to every alternative. Keep up the good work!

It's my primary iOS Lemmy app currently (with Mlem as the backup). I am very keen on Voyager becoming a native iOS app though as a former Apollo user 👀 (sorry to admit that on the Memmy community!)
- Voyager is live in the App Store now 😉
  
  😱 so it is! Thank you, downloaded now!
- I think I've tried pretty much all the iOS clients for lemmy now, and Voyager is by far the best. Maybe I'm biased as a former Apollo user like you.
- It’s on the App Store but even that version isn’t native (written in Swift with Swift UI) as far as I can tell

There’s a lot of fantastic work going on with Lemmy apps, and I have several installed.
But I keep coming back to Memmy!

Memmy cannot pin/favorite a community without subscribing to it.
That is something that Apollo, Narwhal, Bean, Voyager, Mlem, and a few other apps have been able to do.
In fact, the only other app I use that also lacks such functionality like Memmy is the official Reddit app.
Memmy is nice, but such missing functionality has put it low on my list of favorite clients.

Memmy is working really well on the iPad as well and the enhancements you mention make a lot of sense. I use an Android phone and am switching between Liftoff and Sync at the moment.

Agree, I think it’s great!

Agreed.
Hey if the Dev sees this, some communities I subscribe to don’t let me post, I get an error saying “this language is not supported”. I (just today) deselected “Undefined” as a language choice in my web profile to see if that fixes it, but I wasn’t sure if there was a way to add language selection into the app to prevent these errors.

Memmy is the best!

Is iPad optimization on the road map?
- Not currently. Maybe once we are more or less "done" developing the core features of Memmy and know for sure we are not changing any layout stuff or anything. But it's too time consuming testing for both devices.
- Give Mlem a shot. It’s on the App Store and has a fully optimised iPadOS app

I’m still on ios 15 due to me running this 6s until it dies or is completely unsupported with security patches. So memmy is the only option I’ve found to work.

I stopped using Memmy yesterday after finding out that voyager marks post a read automatically on scroll. That’s the thing I loved about Apollo and what I consider a dealbreaker. Besides that, I prefer Memmy.
- We have this feature - just not enabled on default
  
  I figured it out: I was on an old app version (the one that didn’t show customizable app icons).
  
  Oh, I saw it just now. Boom; I switched back 😅
- Memmy has that feature too. You can check under settings >> content >> hide read posts. There's options to mark read on scroll.
- You do realize this feature exists in settings, right?

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