# Voyager for Lemmy

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Canonical page: [https://chrome-stats.com/d/app.vger.voyager](https://chrome-stats.com/d/app.vger.voyager)

## Overview

- **ID:** `app.vger.voyager`
- **Platform:** Android
- **Type:** Android app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Alexander Harding
- **Category:** SOCIAL
- **Downloads:** 37,124
- **Rating:** 4.33 / 5 (498 ratings)
- **Version:** 2.47.4
- **Last updated:** 2026-07-06
- **First published:** 2023-07-30
- **Publisher country:** US
- **Size:** 14 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-05
- **Store listing:** [Google Play Store](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=app.vger.voyager)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://getvoyager.app/privacy.html](https://getvoyager.app/privacy.html)

## Description

Voyager for Lemmy is a free and open source client designed to bring you closer to the Lemmy community without compromising your privacy. It guarantees an advertisement-free and tracker-free experience, ensuring your discussions remain uninterrupted and secure. The app supports multiple accounts, allowing users to switch communities quickly and manage their conversations efficiently.

Navigating Voyager is intuitive with its gesture-driven user interface. Users can customize their experience with settings like compact or large post feed modes, marking posts as read automatically on scroll, and hiding read posts for cleaner browsing. The app also features a beautiful interface for private messages and offers full community involvement in its development, with the source code openly available on Github.

## Rankings

- #338,288 — Overall

## Permissions and access

### Permissions

- `android.permission.ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`
- `android.permission.INTERNET`
- `android.permission.VIBRATE`
- `app.vger.voyager.DYNAMIC_RECEIVER_NOT_EXPORTED_PERMISSION`
- `com.android.vending.BILLING`

## Review summary

Voyager for Lemmy is a popular, ad-free Android app praised for its responsive UI, customization, and alignment with Lemmy features. Users appreciate frequent updates and developer responsiveness. However, recurring issues include login problems, limited control over vote mechanics and UI colors, lack of federated account management, and occasional bugs with posting and browsing communities. Overall, it is regarded as a solid alternative to the web interface with room for improvements in reliability and customization.

### Pros

- App is intuitive, responsive, and offers good customization options for Lemmy users.
- User interface is clean, consistent across platforms, and has a smooth, fast performance.
- No advertisements or data collection, providing a free and reliable experience.
- Developer is responsive and listens to user feedback, with frequent updates and bug fixes.
- App supports most features of Lemmy well, making it a solid client alternative to web browsing.

### Cons

- Login issues including connection errors and trouble verifying accounts occur for multiple users.
- Limited ability to customize UI elements such as vote colors and swipe actions causes frustration.
- Lack of features managing federated nature of Lemmy, such as account sign out or multi-account handling.
- Problems with posting comments or replies, including generic errors, affect usability.
- Some bugs related to community browsing, media posting errors, and inconsistent post loading remain present.

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