Fedilab

tschneider

About this app

Fedilab is a multifunctional Android client to access the distributed Fediverse, consisting of micro blogging, photo sharing and video hosting.

It supports:
- Mastodon, Pleroma, Pixelfed, Friendica.

The application has advanced features:

- Multi-accounts support
- Schedule messages from the device
- Schedule boosts
- Bookmark messages
- Follow and interact with remote instances
- Timed mute accounts
- Cross account actions with a long press
- Translation feature
- Art timelines
- Video timelines

It's an open source application and the source code is available here: https://codeberg.org/tom79/Fedilab

Ratings and reviews

It's a decent app for mastodon on Android, with many good features. But lately, I've had a few problems with it. User names are often shortened on the timeline, not all the time, just randomly reduced to 2 or 3 letters, or even just 1, or a part of the first letter, such as half a capital T. Also, I get no push notifications on my phone (though I do from Moshidon app). A post to the developers about it produced crickets, unfortunately.

Lots of features! I particularly like the LaTeX rendering which very few Android Mastodon clients have. I only have two complaints: a minor one is that when rendering LaTeX the "remove left margin" setting is not honored; a more annoying one is that the notification counter is buggy and very often fails to go down to zero even after reading all notifications and refreshing them.

Fedilab works much better than the free clients I have tried and has the best "pick up where you left off" features of any social media app I have used. Feature request: give some form of feedback when "working" to "Fetch more messages". This can take quite a while given the nature of the Fediverse and there's no way of knowing that it's still loading. Thanks!

What's new

Added:
- Display a QR code on profiles

Fixed:
- Fix tap on messages in conversations
- Pronouns taking too much place