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What's your favorite third-party app that feels native to iOS/Android? (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by 8bit@lemmy.world to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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It seems that many popular mobile apps nowadays have their own design language. I like uniformity between my apps so I greatly respect when an app developer takes the care to design their app to follow their OS Human Interface Guidelines. For example, apps like Apollo (and wefwef/Voyager for Lemmy) rose to popularity partly due to looking and feeling like native iOS app

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[–] TenderfootGungi@lemmy.world 19 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Apollo. Sigh

[–] Sivar@lemmy.world 2 points 1 year ago

I’m glad this was the top comment

[–] TheLonelyDude2049@lemmy.fmhy.ml 11 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Sync for Reddit.

[–] godless@latte.isnot.coffee 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Definitely. Just waiting for Sync for Lemmy, can't be long.

[–] TheLonelyDude2049@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah, it's coming soon.

[–] berkat@lemmy.world 6 points 1 year ago

The best was defintely Apollo. Memmy seems to be trying to push the native iOS UI forward, but it's early days for that app.

[–] EliasChao@lemmy.one 3 points 1 year ago

Ivory from the Tweetbot devs, although is not purely Apple-y, it feels like it belongs in the platform while also adding something of their own.

[–] jerkjaguar@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago

It was Joey for Reddit. Currently on Connect for Lemmy

[–] radix@lemm.ee 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Anyone have an example of an Android app that feels like this?

Personally I don't see the appeal of adhering to an existing design system just to make it feel "native". I'm using Voyager on Android and it's not native-feeling at all since Voyager is very Apple-inspired, but that doesn't feel weird/bad. Discord is another app I use every day (though not for Lemmy) and it's certainly not designed to feel native on either Apple or Android.

[–] 8bit@lemmy.world 3 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lemuroid and Libretube are good examples. I personally think they’re beautiful and match great with stock (Google) Android Material Design

[–] AugustMetronome@slrpnk.net 1 points 1 year ago

I'm really enjoying Ice Cubes for Mastodon. It really fits in with other iOS stuff well. And I'm using wefwef for lemmy too.

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