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: [email protected]

Or jump straight to the project’s Git: https://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:

Changelog

  • Initial Release

Sent from Leomard.**

  • ultratiem
    42•2 years ago

    Let’s go with the native clients 🙏

    Looking amazing 🙌

    • @[email protected]OP
      12•2 years ago

      Native is the way 🙏

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

      • @beefcat
        4•2 years ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]OP
          1•2 years ago

          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

        • @[email protected]OP
          4•2 years ago

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

          But the dev part of me absolutely hates it.

          • @a887dcd7a
            2•2 years ago

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

  • CommunityLinkFixerBotBEnglish
    26•2 years ago

    Hi there! Looks like you linked to a Lemmy community using a URL instead of its name, which doesn’t work well for people on different instances. Try fixing it like this: [email protected]

  • @[email protected]
    10•2 years ago

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

  • @[email protected]
    5•2 years ago

    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 :)

    • @[email protected]
      1•2 years ago

      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.

      • @[email protected]
        1•2 years ago

        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.

        • @[email protected]OP
          1•2 years ago

          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…

          • @[email protected]
            1•2 years ago

            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)

  • @a887dcd7a
    2•2 years ago

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

  • Che Banana
    2•2 years ago

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

    …and the icon a sweet pair of nunchucks

    …numchucks

    …numbchunks

    • @[email protected]OP
      1•2 years ago
      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.
  • @MaskingTape
    2•2 years ago

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