I just find Boost’s design very very appealing. I would go as far as saying its my favorite Android App in General. I don’t really care if its not FOSS. I don’t use Lemmy because its FOSS but because Reddit sucks now. But I have to say wefwef is also very clean.
Idk why, but i found wefwef after trying jerboa, thunder, and liftoff and somehow wefwef is the only one i found great in UX. Been an infinity user before and wefwef only improved upon that.
I do wonder why people are waiting and wanting these proprietary apps. Instead of using the open source ones more in the spirit of Lemmy and waiting for them to improve. These third party apps made sense for reddit since reddit was closed source and the official app was a pile of garbage whose only purpose was making people see as many ads as possible. But that’s not true for Lemmy anymore, the official apps are already pretty nice and open source, so improvable by everyone (including Sync/Boost developers).
But I guess going from reddit to Lemmy is already a large break and people want to not have to change more than necessary. And Sync/Boost devs want to continue making money makes sense of course as well. I’m interested to see how all that goes.
For me, it was how amazing Sync’s navigation was. I found myself trying to use Sync’s gestures in other apps–they’re THAT intuitive and reliable. I’m honestly surprised Google or Apple haven’t poached the developer to work on making the UIs of their built-in apps work more consistently.
For now wefwef is really good and does everything I need this type of app to do (mainly adjustable font sizes for my old man eyes with a minimalist interface which I prefer over the information overload that most seem to prefer, different strokes and all).
No dev was talking against that, so i guess that point is correct.
Apollo made 500k a year alone from subscriptions, i have no clue what they’ve paid for the API prior though, but these guys are loaded.
The RIF dev spoke out:
"Regarding the ‘millions,’ word the CEO publicly threw out, I will say RIF earns under a million per year, " Andrew Shu, RIF’s developer, told Insider over email.
I think the difference here is that we know the interface and trusted developer choices of those apps.
I’m currently using Connect for Lemmy right now and I’m still excited for Sync because I’ve used it for years.
But each update for Connect so far has been extremely good with quite a few features added. It’s also incredibly straightforward to use. So at this point I’m curious how Sync will step into the ring.
Hell, it could have all the same features as Connect, but add previewing with a hold and that’d be an amazing thing for compressing posts. But also Sync can cater to left-handed people like me with its customization.
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