Download Arctic on the AppStore!
I am thrilled to announce that Arctic is now available on the AppStore! Looking back, it’s amazing to see how much progress Arctic has made in the last six months. Initially, I began working on Arctic as a personal project to fill the void after leaving Reddit during the API fiasco. I had no intention of releasing it publicly. Now, I have a fully-featured Lemmy client, a fantastic group of beta testers on TestFlight, and an official release on the AppStore.
However, the journey isn’t over yet. I have many exciting plans for Arctic, and this is just a significant milestone. Going forward, I plan to release more targeted updates on TestFlight and create a public roadmap for AppStore releases.
I would like to thank everyone who was involved with Arctic’s TestFlight for all the valuable feedback and suggestions that have helped shape Arctic!
Links
- Website: getarctic.app
- TestFlight: testflight.apple.com
- AppStore: apps.apple.com
- Issues: github.com
- Community: !arctic@lemmy.world
Congratulations on the release, and thank you for your work so far!
I’m excited to see what comes next.
I love using Arctic!
Perfect! Thank you. I went to make a donation through the app but forgot it’s TestFlight mode so it isn’t real. Do you have a buymeacoffee.com or other means? Want to help in order to get widget support (⊃｡•́‿•̀｡)⊃
I do have a buymeacoffee, you can also find it in the sidebar for the Arctic community, or on getarctic.app. I’m not able to add a direct link to other payment options in the app due to AppStore policies.
I’m working on a bug fix, and feature request build right now, but the next release I will add some widgets and other extensions. I know we talked about this a couple of weeks ago.
Working on widgets today, I’ll hopefully have a few ready by this evening.
I didn’t quite get them ready yesterday, but I almost have the first set of post feed widgets ready.
I’ll hopefully have these ready by tomorrow, I still have a bit to do improving the layout and adding variants for the display style. I have a bunch of other ideas for widgets too, but if you have any requests, I’m happy to add them to the list.
Congrats on the release!
I wish you add widget support
This is planned. I should have widgets in the TestFlight build by next week.
Cool, I wish the widget is I can my latest home feeds from widget without opening the app
Congratulations. That’s great news! Should we continue to use the test flight version, or switch to the AppStore one?
Thank you! I’m very excited about it.
Should we continue to use the test flight version, or switch to the AppStore one?
It really depends on how you want to use Arctic. Currently the latest TestFlight release is the same as the AppStore version. Going forward, the TestFlight will usually be ahead of the AppStore version, but you may encounter more issues. So if you’d like a more stable experience, go with the AppStore version, or if you want to help test new features, stick with the TestFlight version.