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Lemmy Apps Directory

The following is a directory of current Lemmy apps. This list includes apps that have released in the last 6 months, or have been confirmed to be in active development, with the most recent at the top. You can find a list including older apps here (unmaintained apps may have security or compatibility issues). The open source symbol indicates that an app is FOSS.


Android


icon Racoon open source
Source !raccoonforlemmyapp@lemmy.world
1.13.0-beta03 2024-11-01 GitHub Release

Raccoon for Lemmy is a client for the federated aggregation and discussion platform Lemmy. The project started as an exercise to play around with Kotlin Multiplatform (KMP) and Compose multiplatform and gradually grew as a fully functional client with many features.

Dev: @ akesi_seli@lemmy.world


icon Summit
Github !summit@lemmy.world Play Store
1.44.0 2024-11-01

Summit is an app for Lemmy that enables you to explore hundreds of communities with ease. Summit is optimized for Android and offers a smooth browsing experience.

Dev: @idunnololz@lemmy.world


icon Voyager open source
Source !voyagerapp@lemmy.world Play Store
2.18.4 2024-10-20 F-Droid

Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too. Please feel free to try it out!

Dev: @aeharding@lemmy.world


icon Jerboa (Official Android client) open source
Source !jerboa@lemmy.ml Play Store
0.0.77-alpha 2024-09-27 F-Droid

Jerboa for Lemmy An app for Lemmy, a federated reddit alternative. Jerboa is an app for Lemmy, a federated reddit alternative. Jerboa is made by Lemmy's developers, and is free, open-source software, meaning no advertising, monetizing, or venture capital, ever. Lemmy is similar to sites like Reddit, Lobste.rs, or Hacker News: you subscribe to forums you're interested in, post links and discussions, then vote, and comment on them. Behind the scenes, it is very different; anyone can easily run a server, and all these servers are federated (think email), and connected to the same universe, called the Fediverse.

Dev: @dessalines@lemmy.ml


icon Connect
!lemmyconnect@lemmy.ca Play Store
1.0.192 2024-08-22 APKPure

A native application for browsing the social platform Lemmy and the Fediverse.

Dev: @kuro_neko@lemmy.ca


icon Thunder open source
Source !thunder_app@lemmy.world Play Store
0.5.1 2024-08-20 IzzyOnDroid

Thunder is a fully open source, cross-platform, community-driven project available on GitHub. Fully free of advertisements and trackers. Thunder is still very early on in development and many more features are yet to be available!

Dev: @darklightxi@lemmy.world


icon Interstellar open source
Source Play Store
0.6.0 2024-08-19 Flathub

An app for Kbin, Mbin, and Lemmy; connecting you to the fediverse.

Dev: @jwr1@kbin.earth


icon Eternity open source
Source !eternityapp@lemdro.id Play Store
0.2.1 2024-08-09 F-Droid

A client for Lemmy, specifically designed for Android and written in Java. This project is a fork of the Infinity for Reddit project, and it is currently in the early stages of development. As such, expect many unfinished features and potential bugs!

Dev: @bazsalanszky@lemmy.toldi.eu


icon Boost
!boostforlemmy@lemmy.world Play Store
1.0.14 2024-07-14

Boost for Lemmy is designed to provide a seamless browsing experience for the decentralized social platform Lemmy and the Fediverse.

Dev: @rmayayo@lemmy.world


iOS


icon Echo
Website !echo@eventfrontier.com App Store
1.3.1 2024-10-25

Echo for Lemmy is a fully native iOS application built using fully native Apple SDKs. This means it feels right at home on your iPhone and is designed to be fast, efficient, and easy to use. No overhead from web views or cross-platform frameworks.

Dev: @fishcharlie@eventfrontier.com


icon Voyager open source
Source !voyagerapp@lemmy.world App Store
2.18.4 2024-10-20

Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too. Please feel free to try it out!

Dev: @aeharding@lemmy.world


icon Thunder open source
Source !thunder_app@lemmy.world App Store
0.5.1 2024-08-20

Thunder is a fully open source, cross-platform, community-driven project available on GitHub. Fully free of advertisements and trackers. Thunder is still very early on in development and many more features are yet to be available!

Dev: @darklightxi@lemmy.world


icon Lemmios
!lemmiosapp@lemmy.world App Store
1.9 2024-8-12 TestFlight

Lemmios is a client built for Lemmy. Discover and browse through all parts of the fediverse in an intuitive way.

Dev: @mrlavallee@lemmy.world


icon Arctic
Website !arctic@lemmy.world App Store
1.1 2024-06-11 TestFlight

Arctic For Lemmy is a free and native iOS client for Lemmy. In the spirit of the Fediverse, Arctic is completely free and private. No data of any kind will be collected from your device, and no pesky advertisements, Ever. Arctic was built specifically for iOS and runs natively on pure Swift. Enjoy browsing feeds with embedded content that keeps you out of the browser, and in the app. Engage in the conversation using the rich markdown editor, and intuitive post composer

Dev: @CreatureSurvive@lemmy.world


icon Mlem open source
Source !mlemapp@lemmy.ml App Store
1.3 2024-05-05 Website

Mlem is the first native SwiftUI Lemmy client on the AppStore. It feels right at home on your iPhone (and soon iPad and Mac). With tons of options for customizing your your experience.

Dev: @ericbandrews@lemmy.ml


Linux

icon Neon Modem Overdrive open source
Source Site
v1.0.5 2024-05-28 GitHub Release

BBS-style command line client that supports Discourse, Lemmy, Lobsters and Hacker News

Web


icon Tesseract open source
Source !tesseract@dubvee.org Web UI
1.4.19 2024-10-21

Formerly Tesseract for Lemmy. Now “Tesseract for Sublinks” Development is now targeting the upcoming Sublinks project. As Sublinks aims to provide initial compatibility with Lemmy, Tesseract will continue to work with Lemmy for the foreseeable future. Once the Sublinks project moves into its native API phase, Lemmy support will be dropped from Tesseract.

Dev: @ptz@dubvee.org


icon Voyager open source
Source !voyagerapp@lemmy.world Web UI
2.18.4 2024-10-20

Voyager is an Apollo-like open source web client for Lemmy. It's a mobile-first app, but works great on desktop devices, too. Please feel free to try it out!

Dev: @aeharding@lemmy.world


icon Quiblr open source
!quiblr@lemmy.world Web UI
2.X 2024-10-18

Quiblr aims to build an intuitive, accessible, and modern interface to connect users to the fediverse.

Dev: @Aurelius@lemmy.world


icon Photon open source
Source !Photon@lemdro.id Web UI
1.31.4 2024-09-20

An sleek web client for Lemmy using mono-ui, a custom design system.

Dev: @Xylight@lemdro.id


icon mlmym open source
Source Web UI
0.0.50 2024-07-21

a familiar desktop experience for lemmy.

Dev: @


icon Lemmy-UI open source
Source !lemmy@lemmy.ml Web UI
0.19.5 2024-06-19

The official web app for Lemmy, written in inferno. Based off of MrFoxPro's inferno-isomorphic-template.

Dev: @dessalines@lemmy.ml


icon Alexandrite open source
Source !alexandrite@lemmy.world Web UI
0.8.13 2024-03-04

Alexandrite is a desktop-first alternative Lemmy client.

Dev: @sheodox@lemmy.world


~Updated 2024-11-01~

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[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 20 points 8 months ago (4 children)

Finally!

Our community now has a comprehensive list of Lemmy Apps pinned to our page. This was made possible by the previous work of @rist097@lemmy.world's original Megathread, the Lemmy Apps Directory, as well as support from community members @zabadoh@ani.social, @SatyrSack@lemmy.one, @threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works, @Blaze@reddthat.com, and others. Thank you!

Please consider this post to be a work-in-progress. It took me a little longer to assemble than I originally thought, because I really wanted it to be as complete as possible to begin with. I've included some additional links for folks to quickly find or learn about these apps, as well as reach out to the creators with kudos. I hope to solve some of the issues that existed with previous directories. Among these are a few open questions for the community:

  1. This list is sorted by latest release to include more current information at the top. Is there a wiser way to communicate this?

  2. Should out-of-date apps be removed? There are some apps that are officially discontinued but still very usable, such as tesseract. There are apps that have not had an update in over 6 months but are still popular, such as Liftoff! What makes sense as a criteria for inclusion?

  3. I excluded apps that were announced but never released, such as Warami. Is there a place in this list for those?

  4. Are there any devs who do not wish to be tagged in this list? Just let me know (preferably by DM).

  5. How do we feel about including donation links in this list? On the one hand, I think it's good to help people easily support those making the tools. I did not include them in the first draft because ultimately, I think that should be the responsibility of the devs and the individual app communities to decide how they promote.

  6. FOSS apps are marked with a open symbol. This seemed to be an elegant way to distinguish them without disrupting the list too much. Please double check that I correctly labeled the apps on this list!

  7. I did not test the formatting on every app. I know that there are some that do not yet have correct implementation of spoilers, etc. I am not sure how to keep the list usable without some way to collapse parts (possibly remove apps?). Would it be better to use simpler formatting at the expense of ease of use? Let me know your thoughts.

  8. If you see any missing or incorrect information, please comment or message me and I will correct it within a day (usually much faster).

Finally, I did not include Lemmy tools/extensions/scripts on this list, since it quickly becomes a rabbit hole if there is any desire for completeness. I will probably start a separate discussion thread for those.

This list belongs to all of us, so please share your thoughts on how to improve it!

[–] Mechanize@feddit.it 8 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Could you consider using ISO 8601 style dates (YYYY-MM-DD) ? Or words for the months?

Aside from that: great job!

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago
[–] cynber@lemmy.ca 4 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)

Thank you for putting all this together!

Potential conflict of interest: I help with !instance_assistant@lemmy.ca

Having a separate list for extensions would work nicely, although I think it fits to have the extensions listed here. There are few actual browser extensions for Lemmy/Kbin/Mastodon. There are a lot of scripts, and we were working on incorporating the better scripts into the extension for the same reasons you mentioned above. Scripts are harder to manage and review

My thoughts on the questions.

  1. "last stable version" sounds like a good way to sort it, for readers. It might become cumbersome for you to manage unless you can automate it somehow.
  2. I'm leaning towards flagging or removing out of date apps because of potential security issues. Could you contact devs after a few months to ask if it is being maintained?
  3. A big list of every app would be interesting for data. It isn't helpful for users, so I agree with keeping them off
  4. I have a donation link. I don't think it should be included in guides or lists either
  5. I like the formatting, as a reader. Consider if it becomes too cumbersome for you and your team to manage. I'd rather have a list that stays up to date and doesn't cause headaches for the maintainer
[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

My theory is that if we start with an up-to-date list, we can crowdsource updates without too much trouble. In theory?

I'm letting this settle for a couple days before tackling the discussion of what tools to include. I'd love to hear your thoughts about inclusion criteria! Feel free to reply or DM me.

Maybe we could have a "nominate for removal" process to deal with out of date apps. Some are obvious, but some are less so. Not every app will have a release every 6 months.

[–] Blaze@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 8 months ago

Nice list!

My theory is that if we start with an up-to-date list, we can crowdsource updates without too much trouble. In theory?

One way to do this could be to have a GitHub repo where the list is hosted. That way if someone wants to update it, they create a pull request that can be accepted by the moderating team

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)
  • Having source link for proprietary apps is misleading.
  • The repo link should mention its F-Droid repository.
  • FOSS icon would look cleaner next to the name, instead of its own column.
  • Photon community link is broken.
  • Lemmy-UI is missing
[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 3 points 8 months ago (1 children)

Thank you! Let me know if this is what you had in mind with these changes.

Photon community link is broken.

Hmm. It's identical to the others and it's working for me. Can you let me know what you are seeing? Feel free to DM screenshots if needed.

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

It's identical to the others and it's working for me.

The difference is that the community name is capitalized. I'm using Photon, so I guess it doesn't support it, while lemmy-ui frontend does.

[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

They turned the !community@instance.url into an actual link, so photon doesn't convert it into a photon url

[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 1 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (1 children)
[–] Xylight@lemdro.id 2 points 8 months ago

Oh I see now. fixing soon

[–] threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

@threelonmusketeers@sh.itjust.works

Thanks for the shoutout :) I don't think I directly contributed to this list though.

Thanks to everyone who did contribute! It looks great!

[–] gedaliyah@lemmy.world 2 points 8 months ago

Actually assembling the initial list was mine, but There is no way I could have done it with key input from people in the community. I'm glad you like it!