Reddit: The Official App
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Description
Funny cat photos, trending news stories, and the best discussions on the internet—these are just a few of the awesome things the official Reddit app does best.
On Reddit, there’s a community for every subject imaginable: your favorite sports team, relationship advice, memes, the latest in news and politics—all in real time.
And if you like gifs (or jifs, jiffys, glyphs, ifs, however you choose to mispronounce it), we’re positive you'll love it.
What’s that you say, girl? “What about a community dedicated solely to images of cats standing on their hind legs?”
We got that, too.
Whether you’re into movies or space travel, baking or weight training, cheesy dad jokes, world news or Hollywood gossip—or all of the above—you can instantly share your content and ideas with an audience of millions.
We’re not saying Reddit is like all your favorite apps put together. But if we were saying that, we’d tell you it has:
• the trendy headlines of Twitter
• the educational content of Quora
• the viral pics of Memebase and Imgur
• the jokesters of Tumblr
• the lols of 9GAG and theCHIVE
• the cringeworthy personal stories of FML and Fail Blog
• the rage comics of fourchan
• and the powerful, human stories found only on Reddit.
(Oops, we went full circle.)
So the next time you’re bored and need a break—wait, you’re bored right now? Why are you still reading this? Download the app already!
Those cats won’t stand on their hind legs forever...
Privacy Policy: https://m.reddit.com/wiki/privacypolicy
User Agreement: https://m.reddit.com/wiki/useragreement
Content Policy: https://m.reddit.com/wiki/contentpolicy
What's New in Version 2.6.1
- Resolved issue causing scroll lag and excess battery usage (your phone shouldn't heat up so much anymore)
- Fixed issue where webview was displaying desktop versions of websites
- Other small bug fixes & performance improvements
Customer Reviews
Reddit is awesome
So if you like anything the internet has to offer, Reddit is essentially the nexus of all things internet. Jokes, memes, videos, music, arbitrary data, contextual data, news, anything you can think of on the internet, Reddit has it in abundance, all neatly organized into communities/categories. If you looking for a way to waste time, Reddit is the app to get lost in. You can stare at your phone for hours. Days even. It's been about 14 years for me and I've yet to look up. My life is in shambles but I'm still entertained and that's all that really matters. Right? My wife left me because I ignored her for Reddit but it's worth it because the app contains all aspects of the internet in an easy to access hub. Right? I haven't showered since I was 18 but people can't smell you through your phone screen? Or see that you've gained 75 pounds from eating nothing but delivery and Chinese takeout. Right? You guys can't smell me so I think my life choices were good ones. Right? God i hope I'm right...
Reddit functions are great, but there is one flaw
Copy and paste is completely lost in this app, especially trying to grab a URL. Countless times I've been on my phone and wanted to copy a link and paste it into a different tool, but have had to wait to get back to my desk, find the reddit post again, then grab the link on a desktop browser.
Other than this, the Reddit app is intuitive, great to browse, and lets me comment and edit comments easily enough.
Another small issue is when receiving a notification, it is not clear if it refers to a post response, a comment reply, etc. Once you tap the notification, you have to tap another lit up icon (posts, comments, etc.) to see what actually updated. It's easy to miss this second lit icon. I would recommend an "activity" page that previews the new content as unread/bold, provides the appropriate icon next to the preview, and then allows the user to jump right to that piece of content.
Works Well, File Size is a Enormous Issue
The official reddit app generally works well. There are a fair share of bugs throughout the app, but most are patched in a reasonable amount of time. One glaring issue, however, is the file size of the app and documents. After some use this app uses approximately 1 GB of storage on my phone. It is unacceptable for a single app to use more storage than the next 7 apps combined, accounting for nearly 10% of the storage available for user data on my phone. This problem used to be a lot worse when the app first launched, taking up nearly 2 GB, but it mostly went away until the most recent version where the amount of data has crept back up to 1 GB. There are a few things that could be designed better in the UI, the comment section for example, but the front page works great. It can always be improved, but the app serves its function well.
- Free
- Category: News
- Updated: Mar 21, 2017
- Version: 2.6.1
- Size: 22.5 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: REDDIT, INC.
- © 2016 Reddit, Inc.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 8.0 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.