Gophercle (app review)

★★☆☆☆ An extremely minimalist Gopher client for Android. I kind of like the text-based toolbar, though I had to experiment to figure out what each button does. ^S does search, settings, adding a page to bookmarks, etc. |^| shows your bookmarks @ lets you enter a new URL ^R reloads <- goes back a page in your history. (As with DeBurrow, the system back button closes the app.) Menu items are also displayed using text labels, which furthers the retro look and feel. Downloads get saved to the app’s data folder (…/Android/data/org.biotstoiq.gophercle/files/Download), not to your regular Downloads folder. This includes images, which aren’t displayed in the app itself. There’s also no good way to jump from Gophercle to the web and back: It desn’t tell Android it can accept gopher links, and it doesn’t recognize the h…URL menu syntax for linking out to the web. It does support both light and dark mode, though! Like Pocket Gopher, Gophercle has been discontinued, and can only be installed from…