I can only speak to my own workflow, but I build this app for the love of the craft. Everything I’ve contributed has been my own original work.

We have been fortunate to dodge, at least for now, the flood of slop contributions other open source projects have been subjected to, so we do not have a formalized AI policy in place as of right now. We are currently discussing the details of what such a policy would look like, since clearly there is community interest, but we are aligned in the belief that Mlem should be architected, designed, and implemented by humans.

The translation feature uses Apple’s native translation API, which uses on-device translation models. Apple is, unsurprisingly, tight-lipped about the internals of those.

We hope so! Germany is one of our largest user bases, and we’d love to offer native German. Unfortunately we don’t really have much control over this—our budget isn’t large enough to hire a translator, so we’ll get German localizations if and when a community member volunteers to provide them.

That’s from Apple—thanks for letting us know, I’ll see if I can turn it off because that’s a pretty obnoxious popup

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Thanks for letting us know! That link is out of date–the beta is still open, and you can sign up with this link. We’ll have the GitHub updated shortly.

Good spot! That is intentional–we’re building towards our 2.5 release, but are holding the version number at 2.4.1 in case we need to release a hotfix to the App Store.

The latest TestFlight build should be 642.

Dev here—just jumping in to mention that we had to remove the long press gesture for iOS 26 because of the new system tab bar gesture to drag the bubble around. We put considerable time towards finding a way to keep it or implement a suitable replacement, but did not find any good approaches and ultimately had to remove it and rely solely on the existing swipe up gesture. Our apologies for the inconvenience.

Welcome, and I’m glad you like the app!

You can hide all NSFW content in Settings > Account > Content & Notifications.

Thanks for the bug report! We’ll look into it.

Do the comments show up if you refresh the post page (swipe down)?

I actually just finished implementing glass controls! They’ll be available in the next build. I’ll look into time skip buttons as well, that is a useful feature :)

Thanks for the feedback! The native player is unfortunately a bit picky, and doesn’t work with every video/animated file format. To keep the experience smooth and consistent, we decided to use our custom viewer for everything rather than open a different viewer depending on the file format.

Are there any specific features of the native player that you would like to see in Mlem?

Thanks for the bug report! We’ll look into it.

Yep, that’s in the plans.

Nice, thanks for letting me know! I’ve updated the post.

Long term we want to integrate the more sophisticated iOS 26 tab bar design. Right now we still support iOS 18, which makes using those new features difficult because they are only available on 26. Once we drop support for 18, there’ll definitely be some tab bar upgrades.

Thanks for bringing this to my attention! We’re looking into it.

This is fixed in the latest App Store patch (2.3.1)

Thanks for the bug report! We’re working on this one and will have a patch out soon to fix it.

Thanks for the feedback! We’ll look into it.