Voyager for Lemmy Review
I love the Voyager app so much. It’s open source and privacy focused with lots of great features.
As my first and currently only starting point for Lemmy I found it to be one of the most accessible apps out there.
As my first and currently only starting point for Lemmy I found it to be one of the most accessible apps out there.
Expected a community of like-minded people
Do you dislike how reddit's upvote system encourages engagement farming?
Do you dislike AI?
Do you dislike lifeless corporatization?
Do you dislike memes without any depth?
Do you dislike keyboard warriors that run on pride instead of their own selfless values?
Then don't touch this thing.
Do you dislike AI?
Do you dislike lifeless corporatization?
Do you dislike memes without any depth?
Do you dislike keyboard warriors that run on pride instead of their own selfless values?
Then don't touch this thing.
Share links open an ad for voyager instead of the post/comment
If a link to a post or comment is shared from voyager instead of taking you to the post or comment it takes you to an ad for voyager. If you use a different lemmy, or piefed app this means you cannot see the post or comment in your app.
Make it better
I regret updating to the October 2025 version. More images fail to load in my feed than before, and when I go back to All from a sub, it freezes. This version did not fix the mandatory reload when memory is low-ish.
GOAT’d
Why is this free—THANK YOU! The New Apollo!
Better than many, but still a lot of bugs
I’m glad this dev is still active. So many good Lemmy apps have been abandoned. Overall this app has a lot of the best features, but the bugs are still too numerous to tolerate.
When I block a user or community, the first time, the app helpfully hides the post and I continue on. Later, if I block another, the feed JUMPS and I have to figure out where I was.
There are TONS of image/video posts that simply will never load on this app, yet they work flawlessly in nearly all other apps.
The worst, though, is the crashing. It seems like this app doesn’t do a good job of keeping its memory cleaned up. If I scroll (sorted by new) the app will crash after about a day’s worth of my subscribed feed. I can sometimes mitigate this by manually clearing the cache a few times during my browsing.
I would love to see a merger between this app and the Arctic app. I walked away from these bugs and switched to Arctic, but it has sadly joined the abandonware heap.
Devs, I’m back on V-GER for now because the abandoned Arctic has begun to fail with server timeouts. You’re getting a second look out of me after some time. All of the bugs I walked away from are still here. I hope they’re on your priority list somewhere.
When I block a user or community, the first time, the app helpfully hides the post and I continue on. Later, if I block another, the feed JUMPS and I have to figure out where I was.
There are TONS of image/video posts that simply will never load on this app, yet they work flawlessly in nearly all other apps.
The worst, though, is the crashing. It seems like this app doesn’t do a good job of keeping its memory cleaned up. If I scroll (sorted by new) the app will crash after about a day’s worth of my subscribed feed. I can sometimes mitigate this by manually clearing the cache a few times during my browsing.
I would love to see a merger between this app and the Arctic app. I walked away from these bugs and switched to Arctic, but it has sadly joined the abandonware heap.
Devs, I’m back on V-GER for now because the abandoned Arctic has begun to fail with server timeouts. You’re getting a second look out of me after some time. All of the bugs I walked away from are still here. I hope they’re on your priority list somewhere.
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Fantastic app
Makes viewing Lemmy from the phone very intuitive and many of the features put it on par or better than comparable (now defunct due to corporate greed and exorbitant API access costs) third-party apps for Reddit.
Need notifications
Love the app, really needs per community and per thread notifications.
Great app, terrible and extremist community.
Doesn’t matter where you go on Lemmy. It’s violence and more violence. It’s an extremist haven that should be avoided at all cost, unless you want to find yourself slowly brainwashed to revel in bloodshed.
I spent two years there after the Reddit API fiasco, and finally, I’m done. I’ll miss it, but not enough to tolerate calls to violence.
It may seem strange to see this review coupled with a 5 star rating. The developer is top notch though, and the app is perfect.
It’s what you encounter across the fediverse though. I have no reason to believe that the developer behind this app is in any way responsible. Otherwise it would be a one star review. I have no complaints with the app, though, just the community.
I spent two years there after the Reddit API fiasco, and finally, I’m done. I’ll miss it, but not enough to tolerate calls to violence.
It may seem strange to see this review coupled with a 5 star rating. The developer is top notch though, and the app is perfect.
It’s what you encounter across the fediverse though. I have no reason to believe that the developer behind this app is in any way responsible. Otherwise it would be a one star review. I have no complaints with the app, though, just the community.
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A great way to use Lemmy
Voyager is a great replacement for Apollo for Reddit. All functionality I used to use in Apollo is here and works beautifully. Fast performance and rock-solid stability. Keep up the great work!
No longer working on iPhone
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Grown on me, like the look now
It quick, bugfree, and I prefer it to the other app that supports piefed right now so this may become my main
I really like how the large post view here, it's my second favorite after thunders card view, it's faster than thunder tho
I really like how the large post view here, it's my second favorite after thunders card view, it's faster than thunder tho
Cant post comments
Can’t post comments from the app. I wish I could but I can’t. I have so many comments I’d like to post but the app refuses to let me. I have so much to offer the Lemmy community that you will never know
Great until today
No longer working on iPhone since the update.
Voyager for lemmy is a sleak, powerful, and convenient way to interact with the fediverse
It feels almost luxurious to scroll social media without ads embedded every few posts. Voyager’s word filtering and blocking capabilities give you precise control over what is in your feeds. Really excellent experience compared to traditional social media.
Not my favorite looking one out of the bunch
But its quick, bugfree, and I do prefer it to the other app that supports piefed right now so this may become my main
Fantastic Lemmy app
Clean and simple to use and fast, reliable, and I’ve used it daily for nearly two years - actually even longer from when it was just a PWA, and it has been absolutely amazing. Great support and compatibility for all my devices across all operating systems to have a familiar and feature rich interface for lemmy no matter what device I am using. Open source, respects your privacy, the best way for an app to be. It single-handedly facilitated my transition from Reddit and my favorite Reddit app into lemmy while doing more, and for that I will be forever grateful :)
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Awesome
This app rocks
Like I never left
A seamless transition from Apollo to Lemmy.
Feels like home from home. Which is just in time because fork spez!
Feels like home from home. Which is just in time because fork spez!
Reddit alternative
While not nearly as big it is an alternative to doom scrolling. Good alternative to people permanently banned from Reddit also!
Please add the ability to post gifs in comments like Reddit
Please add the ability to post gifs in comments like Reddit
