Hi everyone!
It’s been quite the journey, but Avelon is finally on the App Store!
Click here to download!
The app is includes a lot of awesome features requested by the community, including:
- Sleek design that fits right in on iOS & iPadOS
- Highly customizable look & behavior
- Mark read on scroll & hide read posts
- Customizable swipe gestures
- Multiple account support
- Smart link previews in posts and comments
- Support for videos, gifs, photos & other media
- Custom font support
- Write replies with markdown highlighting
- Privacy focused - the app has no tracking of any kind
- Gallery mode + hide bars on scroll = full immersion … and a lot more!
Screenshots
Here’s some cool app store screenshots of the app:
Developing this app has been one of the best development experiences I’ve had, and I feel very privileged and happy to have been able to contribute to Lemmy in this way. Nothing is more motivating than seeing so many people already enjoying the app and providing suggestions and feedback.
I really hope you enjoy Avelon, and I’m looking forward to hearing more about what everyone thinks. Keep the feedback coming!
Thank you, Sigve Rokenes
Big Congratulations evgiz,
I’m sure the love and fan base for Avelon will only grow from here on just the way we loved it here in TestFlight…
I wish you all the success and growth with Avelon development.
Thanks and really happy for you.
Well said. +1. Thank you for Avelon!
This is an amazing app, and such a better experience and UI than I was seeing in other Lemmy apps. I’m curious if you knew that opening the app kills playing audio (music or podcasts)? Autoplayed videos & GIFs are muted by default already, so I’m confused why my already playing audio is stopped on app load? Edit: I should mention that this does not occur if the view setting is “compact”. I do t generally use that setting, but I wanted you to know.
The app is not bad. The browser needs reader mode. Give the choice to make it all black.
Looking at adding reader mode for the next version!
I hope you can keep reader mode with the browser you’ve used. I love the done/close button being in the bottom!
Not sure that’s possible unfortunately. Apple is a bit strict with their default web view so it can’t be customized as much. I’m pretty sure the one I’m using now doesnt support it unless I do some kind of custom web parsing stuff from scratch
Well that’s unfortunate. But I suppose the improved features would be worth it.
I’m pretty awestruck by the way you can swipe down to close websites in bean. Maybe you can implement something similar? It’s really intuitive and convenient.
When I redo the in-app browser I’ll consider making it a sheet you can swipe down, sounds pretty nice. Kinda annoying when the close button is at the very top
Great! Even better if you could add a “add to reading list” button
Thanks for this app, I really love the clean UI and responsiveness, also the features like individual hide read post settings.
Is this a native Swift app?
Yeah!
This is actually awesome. Other apps with that amount of features and polishness, like Bean, are ReactNative apps.
Installed and set it up and it’s a very nice and impressive app! Will jump between voyager, memmy, and this to see which one I stick with.
It would be nice to be able to view pictures in landscape mode, sometimes portrait is too small on a phone. Loving the app!
Fantastic app. Thanks for this. Been using lemmy more since this app.
I’m really digging this app. Very well done and well made.
Would it be possible to get a sort by top 6 hours? I know that was never a standard for Reddit, but I’ve found it a valuable tool for browsing Lemmy.
Already supported, just disabled by default. Go to Settings/General/Sorting and enable “Show Additional Options”!
May I suggest having the fuller option being the default and allowing the user to remove sort options they don’t use?
Are you planning to have a feature to expand video and gifs to full screen? I had to switch to other apps for this feature at the moment.
Also, just wondering if you have any thoughts on adding support, or creating an Avelon for kbin when the API goes public?
Haven’t looked much at the kbin api yet. Whether Avelon will support it greatly depends on how good the api is and how difficult it will be to maintain it in parallel with Lemmy
Is this opensource? (Does the fruitstore allow that?)
Apple’s Appstore doesn’t forbid Open-Source or FOSS apps.
If that were the case, Signal for iOS wouldn’t exist :P
The search bar shifts when scrolling under explore. Can you lock it at the top or even better at the bottom for one handed use? 😉👌
Love the app. Two questions.
I feel like I’m missing something obvious, but how do I create a new post? I can reply easily but when I’m in a community I don’t see any way to create a new post. I assume I’m missing something obvious.
Second, the full page swipe is fantastic and something I love from Apollo. Would it be possible to support swiping the other way also? In other word, I open a post, accidentally swipe right, but then I could swipe left to go back exactly where I was. Another thing Apollo did so well.
Thanks for an awesome app.
Thank you!
Adding posts in not supported yet unfortunately. It’s a bit tricky to make a nice UI for that on mobile, but I’m working on it.
Love full width swipe back myself. I’d love to add the “forward again” swipe too, but it’s a quite a bit more complex to do. I’ll probably look at it eventually, but gonna focus on some other things first.
Let me know if you have any more feedback!
Sounds good. I just thought I was missing something obvious. Thanks again for all the hard work!
This app is beautiful.
Thanks.
