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Why is Avelon still the only iOS app that can display GIFs? (lemmynsfw.com)
submitted 10 months ago by BreakingAnonymity@lemmynsfw.com to c/lemmyapps@lemmy.world
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I guess it’s not a very widely requested feature? It’s interesting to me that Avelon is literally the only iOS app among the many that exist so far that has been able to enable GIFs automatically animating and displaying on the timeline instead of just displaying a link to the GIFs location. I prefer a couple other apps over Avelon in terms of other features but I still end up just staying with Avelon because of this one feature none of the other apps have.

Also, I don’t really expect anyone to know the actual answer to my question I’m mostly just venting and hoping to get this noticed by some app developers.

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[-] CreatureSurvive@lemmy.world 14 points 10 months ago

!arctic@lemmy.world supports in-line gifs/webp/videos/etc, basically all media types supported by iOS except for webm. I would assume most clients are only displaying the thumbnails in-line to reduce data consumption, and memory requirements, but that is just a guess.

[-] BreakingAnonymity@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 10 months ago

I’ll check it out. Thanks.

[-] orangeNgreen@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago

I think Arctic can play gifs in the timeline.

[-] loopy@lemm.ee 5 points 10 months ago

!lemma@lemmy.world is on iOS, plays gifs in posts and comments, and even has a gif scrubber that does not come as a premium feature

[-] bjoern_tantau@swg-empire.de 2 points 8 months ago

Isn't !voyagerapp@lemmy.world also on iOS? It does support GIFs. At least on Android.

[-] Aurelius@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago

Quiblr is a progressive web app. Gifs play fine

this post was submitted on 04 Jan 2024
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