After a year in development and six months in beta, we are thrilled to announce that Mlem for Lemmy 2.0 is available on the App Store!

We’ve rewritten the app from the ground up–it’s still the same Mlem our users know and love, but with significant performance improvements, a set of new features that were infeasible in our v1 app, and a fresh new design that feels right at home with the latest versions of iOS. There are more changes than we could list here, so the best way to see what’s new is to just download the app, but some of the highlights include:

Media Enhancements

2.0 ships with a brand new image viewer and full support for gifs, videos, and animated webps. We’ve even added loops.video embedding–link posts to loops.video will display the linked video directly in Mlem.

Color Themes

In addition to the standard light and dark, Mlem 2.0 offers OLED, Solarized, and Dracula color themes, with more on the way. If you’d like us to support your favorite theme, let us know!

Markdown Handling

Powered by our custom cmark fork, Mlem 2.0 supports the full range of Lemmydown syntax.

Enhanced Post Composer

You can now create crossposts directly in the post editor (+ -> Crosspost), and can even post to multiple communities from multiple accounts at once. The keyboard now also sports a comprehensive set of Markdown editing tools.

French Localization

Mlem is now available in French, thanks to pylapp.

And More…

  • Guest mode: you can now browse instances without an account
  • Added a new Tiled post layout
  • Keep place on switch: you can now switch accounts without reloading the app. This behavior can be toggled in Settings -> Accounts or accessed by long pressing an account in the account switcher.
  • You can now search for posts and comments

Compatibility Notice: Mlem 2.0 supports iOS 17 and later. If you are on an older iOS, you won’t be able to download this update but will be able to continue using the previous version of Mlem.

Thank you to all of our beta testers, whose feedback and support has been invaluable.

Cheers,

The Mlem Group

Mlem is a free and open source project. 100% of our funding, which pays for things like server time, comes from our generous donors; we do not, and will never, run ads or sell data. If you’d like to help support Mlem, you can donate here.

  • LCP@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    29 minutes ago

    Congrats on the release! Just got around to updating the app on my iPad.

  • Walican132@lemmy.todayEnglish
    2·
    3 hours ago

    Are filters broken or am I using them wrong? For example I previously filtered the phrase “PlayStation lifestyle” to block that particular website however I am still seeing its posts since updating and re entering my filters.

    • Eric@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      1·
      23 minutes ago

      We updated the filtering logic in 2.0 to make it more reliably filter keywords around punctuation, but it looks like that broke multi-word filters. Sorry about that, we’ll have it fixed in the next build!

  • chase_what_matters@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2·
    8 hours ago

    I’m wondering how difficult it would be to allow us to change text size. Compared to the rest of the UI, comments feel large and bold.

    • Sjmarf@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      5 hours ago

      You can change the text size for the app as a whole by going to System Settings -> Accessibility -> Per-App Settings (at the very bottom) -> Mlem -> Larger Text. We don’t currently offer a way to change this for only part of the app, such as for comments only.

  • StraponStratos@lemmy.sdf.orgEnglish
    1·
    8 hours ago

    Ahh I am not a fan, it feels very clunky and bloated. And the cards seem to unnecessary.

    It takes even more clicks to share a link post now, and it was already annoying enough already.

    • Sjmarf@lemmy.mlEnglish
      1·
      5 hours ago

      Thank you for your feedback. We’re sorry that you aren’t completely satisfied with the update.

      And the cards seem to unnecessary.

      We decided to switch to the card styling to provide better visual separation between posts in the feed. This was in response to feedback from some of our users that posts (and comments) felt too squished together. Is there anything in particular that you don’t like about the cards?

      If you don’t like the background color of the cards in dark mode, you can revert to the pure black background by enabling the OLED theme under Settings -> Theme.

      It feels very clunky and bloated

      “Bloated” as in “too many unnecessary features”? We’re trying to strike a balance between having a wide array of features to tailor to everyone’s needs, and providing a simple, clean experience that’s approachable to new users. If you have anything specific in mind that you think we should revisit, let me know.

      It takes even more clicks to share a link post now, and it was already annoying enough already.

      The UX of the post composer has been tricky for us to work out - we’ve tried many different designs so far. I’ll do some more prototyping and see if I can cut it back down from 3 -> 2 taps :)

  • XNX@slrpnk.netEnglish
    3·
    1 day ago

    Looks great! Was the hide read posts button removed? Cant find it

    • Eric@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      7·
      1 day ago

      Mlem is written in SwiftUI, which unfortunately is not compatible with android. There are some promising projects to port Swift apps to android, but nothing mature enough that we could feasibly support both platforms, though we’d like to if/when the cross platform Swift ecosystem matures enough for that to be realistic.

  • QuarterSwede@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    2 days ago

    Been using 2 since the beta and wanted to say great job to the devs. It’s very good and better than Voyager. Looks native and the markdown keyboard is super good.

  • BeigeAgenda@lemmy.caEnglish
    8·
    2 days ago

    I searched for it on f-droid, too bad open source iPhone apps don’t show up there 😁

    • Eric@lemmy.mlOPMEnglish
      4·
      2 days ago

      Haha not yet, though there are some promising transpiler projects to bridge SwiftUI over to Android—nothing’s mature enough yet to make supporting both platforms viable, but it’s only a matter of time.