BookWyrm vs Raccoon for Lemmy
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
BookWyrm
This is an Android client for BookWyrm – a federated social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. It is just BookWyrm put into a webview element, nothing special – but it adds some convenience on top: * bookwyrm links can be made to open with the app (e.g. clicking on the link to someone's userprofile will open that from your own bookwyrm instance) * thanks to that, you can immediately follow them easily if you want. * it lets you easily return to your own home timeline when viewing something like posts, on another bookwyrm instance, because the 'back' button is then modified for that. * You can also search for books by scanning the ISBN, no matter what instance of Bookwyrm you use. This application is not an official client! (An official client does not exist yet, as far as I know) The ISBN scanning feature is created with the zxing-android-embedded library.
Raccoon for Lemmy
Raccoon for Lemmy is fully open source, and intends to offer an ad-free and as functional as possible experience on Lemmy. In this app everyone should feel at home, so great importance is given to localization and customization of the UI. Main Features: view post feed and comments with different listing and sort types; possibility to upvote and downvote (with configurable swipe actions); community and user detail (with info about moderators/moderated communities); user profile with one's own posts, comments and saved items; inbox with replies, mentions and direct messages; global search with different result types (all, posts, comments, user, communities); create and edit new posts (with optional images); cross-post contents to other communities; reply to post and comments (and edit replies); mark posts as read (even while scrolling) and hide read contents; custom appearance (color scheme, fonts, text sizes, post layout, etc.); custom localization (independent of system settings); block users, communities and instances; report post and comments to moderators; support for multiple accounts with account-specific settings; lazy scrolling (referred to as "zombie mode"); explore all the communities on a given instance in guest mode; multi-community (community aggregation); view the moderation log; community moderation tool (examine and resolve reports, ban users, feature posts in community, block further comments from posts, mark comments as distinguished, remove posts/comments, review all created posts/comments, edit/create community) save drafts for posts and comments anonymous mode with quick instance switch admin tools (purge users/posts/comments/communities, feature posts locally, hide/unhide communities)
| Feature | BookWyrm | Raccoon for Lemmy |
|---|---|---|
| License | BSD-3-Clause | GPL-3.0-only |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHubIzzyOnDroid | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | NotesSocial | NotesBrowserSocial |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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