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.
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.
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.
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.
There’s a TestFlight available, which adds haptics.
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.
The animations in Voyager iOS web app have lower refresh rate than in Memmy. Even on the latest iPhone.
There is a TestFlight that is a native iOS app now, complete with haptic feedback.
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
In my ANdroid phone on Android 13, haptics are present in Voyager.
Not so on iOS, unfortunately.
Oof
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.
Voyager has an app now too. It’s pretty snappy and has a similar interface as memmy and mlem.
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.
Can you elaborate on this? Is it just because it’s not FOSS?
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.
Make sense? If not, let me know what doesn’t and I’ll try to explain it.