[Self Promo] My Lemmy client, Bean is now available on TestFlight

Hey 👋 I’ve been working on a new Lemmy client called Bean for the last few weeks and I’ve put out an early beta.

It’s missing some features at the moment but I’m working to get it feature complete by early next week and would appreciate some feedback as I develop!

You can find out more over at !bean but here are a few screenshots.

Let me know what you think if you do check it out.

https://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/f2d1a543-739c-44c8-b7a1-9f74744d9dfa.pnghttps://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/0dcaceb4-846a-4bac-ad59-5466e4605c81.pnghttps://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/11e7a3a8-fd7b-437b-88c0-8a5f8c329278.pnghttps://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/dadc9751-eace-463c-a542-da5627cbd3da.pnghttps://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/2831d382-9c29-4678-a6c3-67723ad2da48.pnghttps://lemmy.world/pictrs/image/a568a91b-0be9-431b-bd2c-0a845a3ce05b.png

nixx,
@nixx@lemmy.ca avatar

I’ve been using it for a couple of days now. Very nice so far

Keep up the great work.

spiderman,

This app really looks nice! Any ideas on bringing Bean to android?

steve228uk,
@steve228uk@lemmy.world avatar

Yep! It’s built in React Native so once the iOS version is feature complete, I plan to move onto Android.

mikeboltonshair,
@mikeboltonshair@lemmy.world avatar

So I’m basically running all the current iOS apps and up until now Memmy has been the smoothest, until I tried Bean, I don’t know what you’ve done but there is absolutely zero scroll lag, which is the most important part of any app for me, looks great too

thisisdee,

Hi, thanks for posting (and with the Self Promo tag!). I’ve added your app to the pinned post.

Just a quick reminder with the new rule clarification around self promo, this is the only post allowed for this app. Future posts should be in your own community. Speaking of, it looks like your post’s community link has an additional !bean at the beginning ([email protected]). The web UI is currently linking fine and ignoring the first part, but it might be broken with different parsers.

steve228uk,
@steve228uk@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks for the heads up, I’ll get that fixed! 😊

And I really appreciate the rule on self promo, thank you so much for allowing it ❤️

itscozydownhere,
@itscozydownhere@lemmy.world avatar

Wow I’m in, it’s really slick

steve228uk,
@steve228uk@lemmy.world avatar

Thank you! 😄

ymhr,

This looks great, so polished already!

There’s one thing missing that I’ve noticed a lot of Lemmy clients are missing that I used extensively in reddit clients, and that’s the button to skip to the next level comment. It makes long comment threads much nicer to read. Any chance we could get that added?

steve228uk,
@steve228uk@lemmy.world avatar

A couple of people have mentioned this today so I’ve added it to my list 😊

TheDudeV2,

Please add one more vote from me for this feature. I miss how it was implemented in Apollo.

FYI, your willingness to add it to your list has me signed up for TestFlight now. I look forward to seeing updates on this, thus far, excellent work.

ymhr,

You rock, thanks!

willya,
@willya@lemmyf.uk avatar

Nice, time to flick the bean.

Javish,
@Javish@lemmy.world avatar

This is looking VERY promising!!! Really digging it so far.

uhauljoe,
@uhauljoe@lemmy.world avatar

ok no one cancel me but i think i like it better than memmy, and ive been stuck on memmy for weeks now

it reminds me of alien blue from years ago!! i’m really excited to dig in and start using it!!

edit: i did have to change the icon bc as a woman, a pink bean looks like a vaguely sexual app lol so i picked tutti frutti

HeavenAndHell,
@HeavenAndHell@lemmy.world avatar

cancelled :/

uhauljoe,
@uhauljoe@lemmy.world avatar

that’s fair lol

orangeNgreen,
@orangeNgreen@lemmy.world avatar

I agree. I’m still on Memmy for now, but with a few more features Bean could take the lead for me. It just seems very clean.

steve228uk,
@steve228uk@lemmy.world avatar

I’m definitely not going to cancel you 😇

BlueDepth9279,

Memmy is amazing, but the latest update was a step back with respect to bugs so I switched to Mlem for the last few days. The Memmy developers were releasing updates once a day though so that couldn’t sustain forever. I’m sure the app will bounce back.

That being said, the little bit of time I have used bean it’s been very impressive, I already seeing this be my go to Lemmy app. The app is polished and has a lot of features so far! Great work!

steve228uk,
@steve228uk@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks so much for checking out Bean! Hopefully you’ll stick around once it’s feature complete 😄

yelo,

Writing this from Bean, and from my short time with it I do like it. Bright future ahead for all the fediverse and Lemmy apps!

steve228uk,
@steve228uk@lemmy.world avatar

Thank you! I too am writing this from Bean ❤️

BitingChaos,
@BitingChaos@lemmy.world avatar

I’ll give it a good flick.

FlickOfTheBean,

Damn I’m late for my own joke

jeanofthedead,
@jeanofthedead@lemmy.world avatar

Lookin’ like a baked bean…

A BAKED… A BAKED BEAN‽

ToastyBanana,

Holy shit dude, I was not expecting to be blown away by your super smooth app! This will give Memmy a run for its money…

I have a few remarks, tapping on the “comments” section in my profile does not render them properly!

The themes and app icons are awesome!

While I can use the stock CC slider for font size, it would be nice to have in Bean settings, especially since fonts are in one of the logos inside settings 😄

steve228uk,
@steve228uk@lemmy.world avatar

Thanks so much, I really appreciate it! Aware about the issue with comments and a new build with a font slider is rolling out on TestFlight right now 😊

Yuper,

I love it! My favorite one so far. Looks very polished. My only concerns are 1) how do I get the images big like in your second screenshot and 2) please let me customize the swipes.

steve228uk,
@steve228uk@lemmy.world avatar

If you tap the icon in the top left corner on home to change the view. Customising swipes is on the list but I’d love to know what exactly you’d like them to be.

porsche,

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    steve228uk,
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    Thank you, that means a lot! 🥰

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