Hey everyone! I’m thrilled to announce Lemma, yet another Lemmy client for iOS!

As a longtime fan of Christian’s work with Apollo, like many others in the Lemmy community, I embarked on developing Lemma when Apollo closed its doors. My goal was to create a native feeling iOS experience that captured the essence of Lemmy.

What began as a personal project to challenge my technical skills has now evolved into something remarkable. I’m delighted to share Lemma with the world, even though it’s still in its beta phase. I’m continuously working on adding more features every day. At the moment, the focus is on optimizing the viewing experience and discovering new communities. Soon, I’ll be incorporating features like submitting new posts and responding to existing posts and comments.

Key Features:

  • Super-Charged Media Viewer
    • From videos and GIFs to (Imgur) albums, Lemma supports it all.
    • Lemma goes the extra mile by parsing the body of posts to find even more media than most other apps. For example, it can collect all images inside a markdown post, displaying them in a neat image album overview.
  • Powerful Search
    • Lemma seamlessly integrates with Lemmyverse.net, making it easier than ever to discover new communities.
  • Fully Customizable
    • Personalize your experience with 16 themes (both dark and light mode), 6 comment color themes, and a compact post viewing mode.
  • Swipe Gestures
    • Upvoting, downvoting, or saving a post? With Lemma, it’s just a swipe away.
  • Share as Image
    • Sometimes, a picture says more than a thousand words.
  • Safari Extension
    • Effortlessly open Lemmy content in Lemma using the built-in Safari Extension.
  • Cross-Post Support
    • Stay updated with cross-posts in your feed.
  • Multiple Accounts

TestFlight

In the coming days, I’ll be launching Lemma on TestFlight for a closed beta. If you’d like to be part of Lemma’s development, sign up using the form below:

https://forms.gle/38YK7Merm1MzzcP89

Join the Lemma Community:

Excited about Lemma? Want to connect with other users, share feedback, and stay up-to-date on the latest developments? Join our community at lemmy.world and be a part of shaping the future of Lemma!

!lemma@lemmy.world

  • eoddc5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    82·
    2 years ago

    Was this built off of memmys open source build? It looks incredibly similar.

    Icons. Icon placement. Layouts. Bottom bar. Theme drawer.

    • gromdroid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      114·
      2 years ago

      I can see where you’re coming from, since I have a separate page on my homescreen with all the iOS Lemmy apps as well, but I built this UI myself. However, I must admit that my design has been greatly influenced by Apollo (like a lot of other Lemmy iOS apps). In fact, I have a folder filled with Apollo screenshots that I captured before it went offline, using them as a source of inspiration. While I genuinely believe that Memmy is an exceptional app with a lot of features that I haven’t even built yet, my main objective was to challenge myself into building an app that has the same native iOS feeling like Apollo.

      • eoddc5@lemmy.worldEnglish
        713·
        2 years ago

        I’m curious why the layout is identical though. It’s not some random “it’s all inspired by the same thing”

        Your icons are the same. Layout is the same. It’s a little odd.

        • slin@feddit.de
          41·
          2 years ago

          You realize that Memmy looks like Apollo? That’s not “Memmy’s look”, that’s Apollo’s look that every iOS app tries to copy (including web app like voyager).

  • eoddc5@lemmy.worldEnglish
    115·
    2 years ago

    It looks nice but there’s absolutely no reason you need to collect anyone’s personal information for this

    Pre release of a Lemmy app you’re asking people to give you their first and last names and personal emails.

    No thanks man.

  • L1C4U5E@lemmy.world
    51·
    2 years ago

    Looks really nice from the screen shots! The more options the better. I went ahead and signed up to hopefully get in the closed beta.

  • scytale@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 years ago

    If it can embed and play gifs and videos within the app instead of opening an in-app browser, it will definitely put it in front of the race between other apps currently available. I’ll wait for the open beta so I don’t need to sign up with an email.

    • armrods@lemmy.world
      12·
      2 years ago

      Wait what, no other iOS app is doing that? I’m glad I’m using Sync on Android (bet others app do it too)

  • mrgoodc4t@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    2 years ago

    @gromdroid do you think you’ll add the finger scrubbing of gifs/vids in the future? It was one of my favorite Apollo features and one I haven’t found replicated on a lemmy app yet. The first one that can do that like Apollo did, has my use for life

    • gromdroid@lemmy.worldOPEnglish
      41·
      2 years ago

      That’s definitely on my list! Together with Share as Image, those two were my absolute favorite features of Apollo

  • iBaz@lemmy.world
    1·
    2 years ago

    Not sure how I feel about this, I designed a VERY similar app icon for Christian to use with Apollo. :/

  • higgs@lemmy.worldEnglish
    11·
    2 years ago

    Looks like the best Lemmy app for me if the performance is fine. Do you have an ETA?