Connect

kurononeko

About this app

Connect is a native Android app for browsing the social platform Lemmy and Piefed.

Connect highlights:
- Completely free. 100% access to all functionality with zero ads or tracking.
- Easy to understand. No understanding of federation or ActivityPub required
- Fast. A native application that loads quickly and isn't heavy
- Clean UI. No ads, Material v3 everything.

Features:
- Full Piefed support, the only Android app to support all Piefed functionality
- Offline mode, browse even when offline and on the go
- Cloud sync, keep your settings safe
- Alerts, get notified when your favourite community has a new post
- User Notes, History, Deep customization support, Themes, and more!

Hi, I started this project after leaving Reddit and being dissatisfied with the current Lemmy apps. I wanted a browsing experience similar to what I was used to and I hope others who are in a similar situation will enjoy Connect.

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Ratings and reviews

I'm liking it so far! It definitely needs some development. One minor thing that i've noticed is that the download button for images and media puts them in my downloads folder, and then the only way to find them to share on other platforms is to go to my file explorer. I've just been screenshotting things instead. Also there are a few typos in the settings, "effect" should be used instead of "affect" when using it as a noun

Overall I like this client. It's stable, fast, and I like the layout. The only reason I'm not giving it 5 stars is because there's this super annoying issue I have over mobile. When you zoom in on pictures (as one has to do to read most things on mobile), it will snap back when you move around. In other words, you zoom into a comic and try to move the picture down so you can read the first line and it automatically snaps you back out and into browsing. Super annoying. UPDATE: dev is correct!

Decent, but I wish it'd use my device's default browser when I open a link. I'd assume that's chromium I see? When opening a link on lemmy (and indeed most apps that have links to click), it pulls up what seems to be an instance of Firefox, with the option to open it in the main Firefox app. Very sleek compared to Jerboa though and much more intuitive.