Dawn vs Shitter

Dawn

Here lies the fork of greatest open-source Reddit app (by Tunous)

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Shitter

Lightweight Android app for Mastodon (by nuclearfog)

Android App android-app social-network Apk Mastodon mastodon-app mastodon-client

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Dawn		Shitter
	Project
17	Mentions	22
443	Stars	227
-	Growth	-
0.0	Activity	9.3
about 1 year ago	Latest Commit	13 days ago
Java	Language	Java
Apache License 2.0	License	Apache License 2.0

The number of mentions indicates the total number of mentions that we've tracked plus the number of user suggested alternatives.
Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.

Dawn

Posts with mentions or reviews of Dawn. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-02-26.

UPDATE: indefinite hiatus for the foreseeable future (8/18/2022)
3 projects | /r/slideforreddit | 26 Feb 2023

Dawn
What's in your wishlist for RedReader?
1 project | /r/RedReader | 14 Dec 2022

I would love it if REDReader swipe voting adopted the Dawn model: https://github.com/Tunous/Dawn
Just got a new phone, any apps that you find 'must-haves'?
3 projects | /r/androidapps | 16 Jul 2022

Dawn: Clean and minimal Reddit client https://github.com/Tunous/Dawn
Top rated alternative FOSS apps to access social media with privacy in mind (05/2022)
22 projects | /r/fossdroid | 14 May 2022

Reddit - RedReader , Stealth, Dawn
Unfurl, a library for generating link previews
5 projects | /r/androiddev | 20 Mar 2022

I actually don't lol. This is old code that I extracted out from Dank.
Thinking about forking an open source reddit apps and adding features I want. What are my options other than infinity?
3 projects | /r/androidapps | 22 Jan 2022
⟳ 0 apps added, 24 updated at f-droid.org
6 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 23 Nov 2021

Dawn for Reddit (version 0.12.3): Unofficial client for Reddit
Dawn - the greatest open-source Reddit app
1 project | /r/RedditAlternatives | 17 Sep 2021

1 project | /r/selfhosted | 17 Sep 2021
Private front-end for Reddit written in Rust
2 projects | /r/selfhosted | 8 Sep 2021

Here you go! Looks like you can grab it on fdroid.

Shitter

Posts with mentions or reviews of Shitter. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-10-23.

⟳ 4 apps added, 72 updated at f-droid.org
29 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 23 Oct 2023

Shitter (version 3.4.4): A lightweight Mastodon client focused on privacy and low data consumption
fritter not working
3 projects | /r/fossdroid | 21 Apr 2023

I thought you where shitting me, but it's real: https://github.com/nuclearfog/Shitter
Mastodon and twitter in one client??
1 project | /r/fossdroid | 20 Jan 2023

Shitter
⟳ 4 apps added, 16 updated at apt.izzysoft.de
8 projects | /r/FDroidUpdates | 20 Jan 2023

Shitter (version 69): lightweight Twitter/Mastodon client
Shitter for Android swithced to Twitter API v1.1
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jan 2023
Today Marks the End of an Era
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 20 Jan 2023

Shitter[0] app for Android also is a good lightweight client.
[0] https://github.com/nuclearfog/Shitter/releases/tag/3.0.1
Fritter is the only Twitter client that keeps working (Android)
2 projects | /r/PrivacyGuides | 20 Jan 2023

If anyone is looking for a minimal barebones AF Twitter client, this works as well. https://github.com/nuclearfog/Shitter
Shitter – A lightweight Twitter and Mastodon app for Android
1 project | /r/CKsTechNews | 13 Jan 2023
Shitter 3.0 – a lightweight Twitter and Mastodon app for Android
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 13 Jan 2023
Any method to remove the recent tweets popup in Twitter app
3 projects | /r/androidapps | 10 Jan 2023

Don't use the official application, and try Twidere, Fritter or Shitter, depending on what you're looking for.

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Dawn and Shitter you can also consider the following projects:

MifareClassicTool - An Android NFC app for reading, writing, analyzing, etc. MIFARE Classic RFID tags.

fritter - A privacy-friendly Twitter frontend for mobile devices

warpinator-android - An unofficial implementation of Warpinator for Android

twittered - Twitter API client for Java developers

TextPad - Simple Text Editor for Android

TwidereX-Android - Next generation of Twidere for Android

EdXposedManager - Companion Android application for EdXposed

mollyim-android - Enhanced and security-focused fork of Signal.

Tinfoil-Facebook - For those users that require a Tinfoil Hat when logging in to Facebook. It creates a sandbox for facebook's mobile site.

Signal-Android - Patches to Signal for Android removing dependencies on closed-source Google Mobile Services and Firebase libraries. In branches whose names include "-FOSS". Uses new "foss" or "gms" flavor dimension: build with "./gradlew assemblePlayFossProdRelease".

unfurl - Generate link previews, inspired by Slack.

Xtra - Xtra is a Twitch player and browser for Android.