Leomard - a native macOS client for Lemmy

Hello! I have made a macOS client for Lemmy - Leomard. It’s an initial version of the app, and my first macOS app made for the public.

Features

  • Mac-native client
  • Fast, small and light (only 9.2 MB)
  • Open source (GPLv3)
  • Beautiful responsive interface

Of course, it’s a very early version, some features are missing (ex. image uploading), and you may encounter a bug here and there.

Don’t forget to follow Leomard’s community: !leomard

Or jump straight to the project’s Git: github.com/Athlon007/Leomard

If you have questions, feel free to ask :)

Hi everybody! This is the initial release of Leomard - a native macOS client app written in Swift using SwiftUI. It’s still in very early phase of development, features are missing, but it’s a start. Feedback is most welcome!

Screenshots:

https://github.com/Athlon007/Leomard/blob/0.1/Assets/Screenshots/1.png?raw=true

https://github.com/Athlon007/Leomard/blob/0.1/Assets/Screenshots/2.png?raw=true

https://github.com/Athlon007/Leomard/blob/0.1/Assets/Screenshots/3.png?raw=true

https://github.com/Athlon007/Leomard/blob/0.1/Assets/Screenshots/4.png?raw=true

Changelog

  • Initial Release

Sent from Leomard.**

GalileoHumpkins,

I don’t even have a mac, but this is gorgeous! Keep up the good work!

Cardinal,

Great ui , but two things 1 : add multiple accounts 2 : some subscriptions don’t show on some lemmy servers like lemmy.pt , lemmy.fmhy.ml etc

athlon,
  1. Already in to-do list for the next version
  2. I have no idea why that’s the case, I am literally pulling data from Lemmy API and presenting it to the user.
Ender2k,
@Ender2k@kbin.social avatar

@athlon Nice! 2017 MBP on macOS 13.4.1.

MaskingTape,

Great start. UI def needs some tweaks (maybe it’s just the colors chosen?) but better than I can do lol

athlon,

Any specifics to improve?

MaskingTape,

honestly - if you just copy/use the three column design and color scheme from Reeder this would be damn perfect. I find the 3 column design (like mail, reeder, messages (ok thats only 2 but you get the idea) to be perfect on the bigger Mac screens.

I have 0 idea how hard this would be though.

macstories.net/…/reeder-5-review-read-later-taggi…

athlon,

Maybe.

mnrockclimber,

Posting from it now. Looks great!

lackthought,
@lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

test comment from Leomard please ignore

athlon,

https://i.imgur.com/kltcQsm.jpg

minorsecond,

Thank you so much for making it available on Intel. I got the last Intel MBP out of sheer bad luck lol.

athlon,

Let me know how it runs. I have no way of testing the app on Intel Macs. It should make no difference whatsoever, but who knows.

minorsecond,

It seems great! No issues so far.

lackthought,
@lackthought@lemmy.sdf.org avatar

runs fine on a 2017 macbook pro!

Che_Donkey,
@Che_Donkey@lemmy.ml avatar

awwww man shoulda called it Liger, the most ferocious beast.

…and the icon a sweet pair of nunchucks

…numchucks

…numbchunks

athlon,

I like (snow) leopards more, sorry!

a887dcd7a,

Will give it a try. Thanks for open sourcing it!

ultratiem,
@ultratiem@lemmy.world avatar

Let’s go with the native clients 🙏

Looking amazing 🙌

athlon,

Native is the way 🙏

Unfortunately, at work I usually have to settle for Vue.JS front-ends 😂

ultratiem,
@ultratiem@lemmy.world avatar

🤢

athlon,

From business stand-point - I absolutely get it. One codebase, many platforms.

But the dev part of me absolutely hates it.

a887dcd7a,

There are still milder ways for being cross platform… using certain frameworks or languages are pure self hatred 🥹

beefcat,
@beefcat@lemmy.world avatar

Vue JS is awesome, when making websites.

The fact that people make apps with it is what sucks. Not because Vue JS is bad, but because native apps always look and feel better. Always.

athlon,

I absolutely agree with you. Vue JS is my go-to framework, when I want to make a website nowadays.

Cramming it into an app and publishing it on App Store/Play Store though… shivers

skellener,
@skellener@kbin.social avatar

Any chance it can work with kbin as well?

athlon,

As of right now, Leomard is strictly tied to Lemmy’s API.

Kosta554,
@Kosta554@feddit.nl avatar

Love it!

fearout, (edited )
@fearout@kbin.social avatar

Haha, called it. Well, almost, I thought it was going to be an instance. Love the name :)
It’s great to see new clients emerge.

Btw, do you have any plans to support kbin once its api goes live?

athlon,

Oof, I am not sure just yet. First I want to strike for 99% compatibility of Lemmy’s API itself, then I can think about things like kbin. It’s too early to say.

fearout,
@fearout@kbin.social avatar

Ok, I see, thanks for answering. Good luck with your app!

tunetardis,

Nice! Got it up and running on an M1 MBAir.

I’d say the only thing I noticed is the comments on posts don’t seem to be coming up for me? It does show the number of comments, upvotes, etc. and has a field for entering a new comment.

At any rate, it looks pretty slick overall :)

outdated_belated,

Same. Also, doesn’t seem to let me sign in (on SDF); the login box goes away, but when I switch to the feed, the lane on the RHS says “Lemmy.world”. When I go back to the profile page, it shows me the login box again, suggesting the login actually failed.

outdated_belated, (edited )

Edit: ah, I think keychain access must not have worked. It didn’t prompt me; so I’m not sure how to grant it manually.

Edit 2: built from source and it did request access this time. I granted it, but the behavior seemed otherwise the same as above.

athlon,

That’s strange. I’ll try to take a look into it in the morning.

Honestly, I even tried it in the VM and it did work…

outdated_belated,

NBD, it’s a nifty app. I love native compiled apps.

OK, I opened it again and authentication appears to be working! Perhaps there was an additional issue with when I ran it from the Releases folder vs. when I ran it after moving it to /Applications in the sense that it invalidated the fact that I authorized KeyChain access prior to moving?

Comments still fail to load, though (can see 31 comments should exist, but it displays nothing; scrolling down doesn’t reveal them, either)

https://lemmy.sdf.org/pictrs/image/b36c6032-cea7-43f8-82d2-9a8563fc92f7.png

athlon,

Did the Keychain pop-up ever appear?

outdated_belated,

Yeah, it appeared on first open (the one that launched automatically when I compiled it in XCode).

stevehobbes,

Looks awesome!

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