The best Lemmy app so far is "Wefwef" hands down. If you loved Apollo you'd love this.

EDIT: This is now resolved, because @ruud@lemmy.world is awesome.

hi! wefwef dev here.

https://wefwef.app is getting rate limited by lemmy.world. The growth in traffic over the last 24 hours has been incredible.

That's why you're probably getting error messages. Hang in there, we're working it out. :-)

In the meantime, self host (it's just a simple docker container!) or use a community deployment (if you trust the administrator).

I like Memmy, but Wefwef is great too!

Apollo just died, deleted app and now I’m here. Goodbye Reddit

6+ year Apollo user here and I tried a bunch of apps prior to this one that just didn’t quite have the UI and features I was looking for. If you used Apollo, you’ll feel 100% at home on WefWef; it’s almost identical.

Weird name but it’s really an amazing app, it was the final thing to click and made lemmy a full Reddit replacement for me.

Whoa. I’ve been using Memmy lately but this one is like a carbon copy of Apollo. Will there be the feature to see saved posts soon?

feels weird having an iOS centric UI on android but I'm loving it so far

it even respects my phone's dark mode!

Edit title: Best Lemmy app*

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Swipe to the left to delete.

Just saved this to my home screen, am I right in saying that it's just a webapp and not a full blown app? Seems to work fine so far!

I agree with all the things you said. Including changing this weird name.

It’s absolutely amazing. The thing I’m missing the most though is to be able to customize gestures/swiping like on Apollo. I’m so used to upvoting/downvoting by swiping left, and going back one page by swiping right, from wherever I swipe (on Apollo I only reply by long pressing a comment).

It’s so weird how eerily similar it is to Apollo haha, but I’m more than happy to use it. I’m using Memmy at the moment, first day using Lemmy!

How did they nail the Apollo look and feel in a web app? Incredible. Been on the Mlem testflight but this is just soooo familiar. I hope this gets an official app on the app store!

This is astoundingly good. Like, I didn't know webapps could be this nice. It's kind of amazing.

You weren’t kidding. This is amazing!

This is so fantastic, it really does have that Apollo feel. I had my doubts with it being a webapp, but it's so comfortable and familiar, I've switched to it....despite the name, heh

Just installed it to my Home Screen. Acts just like an app. I’m new to these web app type things and spaced instances, but baby steps.

This already seems a lot better than Reddit.

Thunder and Memmy both have swipe interactions as well and they’re not web apps.

Man, this is instantly better. Just wish the text editor had better support for markdown

omg it's Apollo! (without keyboard shortcuts)

I agree, I just wish it ran smoother and was more reliable. I'm experiencing a lot of "failed to load", "failed to upvote", and "failed to comment". A community you can't engage with is no community at all.

Best web app I’ve ever seen. Thank you!

(Side note: please change the name to something better. I recommend the name Voyager to keep up with the theme)

+1 for Voyager!

I love it! The Lemmy web interface was acting a bit wonky at times, this is a great improvement.

Just downloaded it because of this post and I gotta say, it's fucking brilliant.

Just stumbled upon this app a couple of hours ago and….. holy shit it’s just like Apollo! Excellent stuff.

Wow nice! I just replaced the Apollo icon on my Home Screen with this.

Looks great and feels like Apollo!

I’m so confused. How can it be so rich without being a full blown app? I have been enjoying Memmy, but can’t really find what separates the two.

So when I login to an instance, am I sending my credentials through the wefwef.app server? Because that makes me nervous.

Incredible app! Never realized a web app could be so sexy.

It really does feel like I'm using Apollo!

Very Apollo like. Lightweight. As mentioned in above comment, I am also wondering about the username and password but I am not a code reader so I will trust the community to confirm.

Really liking it so far. It’s super impressive how much it’s eased my migration from Reddit. I feel right at home here already. Almost!

I'm having trouble even logging in - it's saying my credentials are no good, but I used the same credentials to login to lemmy.world. Had a brief look at what it could be, so I'm waiting on it to get more stable.

I'm using it now and I must say I'm damned impressed. It's so seamless. Drastically improved user experience. Not quite what I was used to (sync) but I can get used it. Feels intuitive!

Absolutely the closest thing to Apollo. Hoping all the customizations Apollo had come next!

Wow, now this is a reddit replacement! I love it. Thanks for the recommendation!

i'm writing this from the app. it looks and feels like apollo, so this is amazing. i really look forward to further development!

Oh my god, this looks incredible. Thanks for this!

Just installed it to my Home Screen. Acts just like an app. I’m new to these web app type things and spaced instances, but baby steps.

This already seems a lot better than Reddit.

I nearly cried when I saw the interface. I love the Squabbles community, but wefwef will make me a Lemmy user

Coming from RIF is there an Android app with a similar or next best UI?

So far seems like Jarboa, connect, and wefwef are the number one mobiles

Thanks, installed. But still rooting for Memmy too! Love everyone who is stepping up to the plate for the mobile app scene!

I'm blown away what a great experience this is for a web app. Really.

Oh wow. This is really nice! Thanks for sharing!

One thing that bugs me, and I found the same with Thunder, is that I cannot sort posts by Top (Day, Week, etc.). Any reason why that is?

I'll be honest, I settled on using Jerboa after trying all other Android apps, I sincerely thought wefwef was iOS only. Oh boy was I wrong, it's hands down the best app of the bunch, and by really really far. I opened an issue today for compact mode and here it is, already!

If only there was a way to navigate top comments easily, that would be amazing!

You are a beautiful being.

This is nice! my only suggestion would be the ability to minimize cards for a text feed, if that's something that's eventually possible.

I like how smooth wefwef is, but if I could keep everything from auto-expanding (i.e. just scrolling through titles instead) it'd be closer to the old.reddit / RiF experience 🙂

I like it! I’m still trying to make sense of Lemmy and this app helps a lot. Thank you to everyone involved!

Where is all the nsfw stuff though

Apollo instantly crashes when I open it. Is there any way to get the Apollo json file export?

Wefwef supports importing it so you get subs of similar names

I missed my chance to download the JSON file on Apollo. Am I SOL?

What a beauty! You got me! BTW: The keyboard did not appeared when I wanted to write here. A reboot of the iPhone helped.

I know this is an Apple sub, but is there an Android version? Checked the store and didn't see it, but not sure if it has to be sideloaded (which always seems sketchy if it is a legit app).

Doesn't really work that well for me, doesn't show the icon on the app button, can't change appearance in settings Using it through Firefox, not sure if that's the problem

Oh yeah this app is great. Good job, devs!

iPhone 14 user here. Anyone else have trouble with the keyboard not coming up for login credentials? I also tried cut and paste function but my details aren’t recognised despite being 100% correct.

Wow! Really nice recommendation!!!! This is exactly what I was looking for to engage more with the Lemmy community

I use Memmy. I'm really liking it so far. Its not on the app store yet so you have to install it through TestFlight, go to the github on your phone, and then click the invite link. Isn't perfect but great so far

This app is awesome, thanks for sharing! Congrats to the developer

This is amazing. Using it in my iPad Mini right now!

Indeed it's awesome, thank you!

Thanks for the post. Installed to Home Screen on iPhone. Working nicely to start. Looks good.

I've not tried it (and I'm on android), but just gotta mention: pretty cool that we're all in a spot to discuss/rate/complain about/debate so many different apps for Lemmy now.

Very nice. Thanks for the call-out!

It looks great but I’m getting so many errors on it. Error loading posts, error voting, error opening messages…

Absolutely. If it just simplified the sign up by randomly choosing a non controversial instance to register on (vlemmy.net, reddthat.com, lemm.ee etc), it'd already be recommendable to non-lemmy users.

beehaw.org is too controlling, lemmy.world is overloaded and blocked by beehaw, and lemmy.ml is having trouble federating with kbin. I'm sure these will be addressed later and they're all still usable... but yeah

Also, +1 to Voyager, wefwef does not go down well with non-lemmings

Totally agree. I never thought the best client would be a web app on my home screen, but here we are!

Giving this a go, and enjoying it so far.

I don't have an "add to home screen" like the instructions say to do.

If I didn’t know any better, I’d say this just is Apollo, but pulling from a different API.

Been trying out Lemmy and have been looking for a good Apolo Alternative. I joined on lemmy.world, but pretty much any 3rd party app will just return "Record not found" or "User Not Found" or "Something went wrong"
Would this be due to lemmy.world's update to 1.18? or have I done something wrong?

If you're loving wefwef because of it's Apollo likeness, then you need to checkout Memmy

It actually introduces all the features Apollo had with native haptics, slide interactions and navigations, push notifications, and more. The developers have been working hard and pushing releases daily (sometimes multiple per day).

As an Apollo users for the last 6 years, Memmy has been by far the best iOS app for Lemmy that I have tried (which have been Mlem, Thunder, Liftoff (prev. known as Limbo)

I’m brand new to Lemmy but this looks great and makes me feel at home already! Thanks for the recommendation

It's pretty good but so far, I prefer Connect for Lemmy. They are both close though.

Just joined and downloaded. This is a great app!

It's indeed a great app! Impressive!

Bumped into this app yesterday and it’s so user friendly! Can’t wait for more features to be added.

This is an awesome app, thanks!

Wefwef is gorgeous for sure and eerily familiar to ex Apollo users. It does show the red error message a lot though. It even said my user doesn’t exist when I logged in, but somehow I am still logged in. And it only lets me upvote every second click. We’ll see if it lets me post this.

But visually it’s a pretty stellar effort.

I never used Apollo, but I love wefwef (and the name is great, don't change a thing ;)

Yooo that’s amazing. I was using Memmy but I’ll switch over to wefwef. It looks just like Apollo!

It’d be great if I could login. It keeps saying I have the wrong password, but I copied right from LastPass like I do here lol.

trying it out now. so far liking the design. does feel like apollo/iOS.

Thank you! Looks good!

Love it for now. Hopefully Apollo joins Lemmy. Is there a similar UI theme for Desktop?

sucks that it downs to woe half the time.

Is there a way to hide read posts?

It feels so weird iOS interface but a PWA, I’m a fellow Memmy user

Can’t upvote this fast enough! Hands down best lemmy experience so far. Will be hard to beat.

Is there actually an app or is this all web based? I can't figure it out.

So I’m weird and don’t actually have any apps on my Home Screen. I just use Spot Light and the the App Library screen. Is there anyway to get a web app to show up on the App Library? Because I don’t like how this one app is different from everything else on my phone and has to live on the Home Screen.

Other than that, I agree! It’s a pretty sweet app this far.

This looks great! Keep up the amazing work.

One suggestion for wefwef is to be able to browse all communities of the particular instance you’re logged in to, or even better, have a page of all instances and the communities they encompass

It’s got some bugs, but I already prefer it over Mlem. Feels more like home…

Have couple of questions if someone can answer. I went to search for "television" community and found one with more subscribers and nothing after the word "television" and also saw one with very few subscribers and it had "television@something". So is it like we can have 2 communities with same name? How does one know which to subscribe to?

And this question is specific to wefwef app, I went to the television community page and everything there is big posts each occupying half of my page with a pic or something. How to have this more consice?

definitely would use it if it wasn't a web app. still amazingly good for a web app though!

Spread the word!

This app is great. Thanks for pointing it out.

Are there any other PWAs or iPhone App Store apps worth checking out?

Edit: actually it’s broken I can’t comment from it. The iOS keyboard doesn’t open when opening the form to comment.

Edit2: it was fixed today!

Looks amazing, very close to apollo

Very impressed so far myself!

I've never used Apollo and I'm mostly using kbin. However I heard of wefwef like half and hour ago, decided to check it out cus why not and damn, it's so so good!

I was using the official Reddit app (or the desktop site) and in all honesty I didn't think it was too bad, probably because I just got used to it and didn't use any other app as a comparison, but after using wefwef for not even an hour, I can absolutely say I was missing out.

For me (iPhone 12) The keyboard works in the web interface but not in the installed app. The cursor is there and the grey bar with the “Done” button, but no keyboard below that.

Just deleted Apollo, to say nothing of my Reddit account, and this is great! Kudos to the dev team! This could legitimately make Lemmy my new Reddit replacement, not just my ‘tapering off’ fix.

Is this iOS only or is it available for Android? I can only seem to find connect on android

thanks for posting it, hand no idea this existed 🥰 only downside is having to switch account for certain actions, it would be cool to have everything in one place

For me, it’s failing trying to log into Lemmy.world

Really enjoying this one, thank you for the suggestion

Liking this very much so far!

I have been using Memmy and trying Mlem, so far Memmy seems amazing with each days updates... it is insane how much it has improved just over the past 4-5 days..

Guess I'll try Wefwef too so I can compare each of them. :)

Tried it out, but it kept saying my account didn't exist and couldn't fetch any posts, etc.

macOS Sonoma's new feature to add sites as web apps to the dock works beautifully with wefwef.

https://i.imgur.com/ZLHPwky.png

Great app, thank you for this !

At the moment I agree. I have a couple of other iOS native apps but I keep coming back to wefwef. Also it runs better on my iPhone XS

Artemis looks promising though. Looking forward to it.

@Demigod787

I'm waiting for the option to block communities and people. then I will be able to happily use wefwef.

edit, I'm not against anybodeyor anything, but there are times that some entity gets spammy.

I installed the app. But have a question. Before logging in, it asks me to select a server. Now I created my account on ".ml" domain so here too I had to selected that only because when I selected ".world", it told me invalid credentials. Is that expected behavior?

Then you havent tried Memmy :)

It doesn’t work on an XR. The interface is too tiny to click login unfortunately.

Looks like a sweet solution!

Using Wefwef right now until Sync becomes available

I wish there were a black theme but I like the app a lot

Well crap…. Got to my Apollo too late. (For the export)

Nope. Hangs up incessantly.

I've been using Memmy as it is an actual app and not a web app, and it has a theme actually designed by Christian Selig, the developer of Apollo. Plus it allows logging in to any Lemmy instance and not just the most popular ones.

Wow it looks reaaaaally good. Doesn’t seem to be a dark mode though?!

Also, praying for marking posts as READ as we scroll past them. Best Apollo feature

Is there no way to use it with a feddit.de account?

Cant seem to log into my account on it

Can you use this with kbin?

This is fantastic!

This is a great app I opened it up and I'm blown away. Can I make a suggestion. Add classic view. Some of us don't like the images/thumbnails right in our face.

Thanks

How do I save an image from a post to my phone?

web app so installation is pretty straight forward.

Ugh.

Web apps only work if you have a launcher that supports home screen icons. Not everyone does

So, no way of installing it for me, not straightforward 🤣

I dont get it why there is a c/proprietarysoftware aka !apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world on a open source software like lemmy? I thought apple enthusiasts doesnt like open source at it is not safe?