Reddit: The Official App
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Description
Reddit anywhere with the official app (even from the office restroom).
Get the latest news, trends, and memes on the Internet first on Reddit. You get to decide what’s worthy: top content rises to the front page thanks to your upvotes.
There’s a Reddit community for every subject imaginable: your favorite sports team, relationship advice, memes, silly gifs, the latest in news and politics—all in real time. What’s that you say? “What about a community dedicated solely to photographs of cats standing on their hind legs?” We got that, too. (Cat.)
The best part about Reddit, after all, is you. Whether you’re into movies or space travel, coding or baking, world news headlines or Hollywood gossip, astronomy or astrology—or all of the above—instantly share your content and ideas with millions.
With the official Reddit app, you can:
• Browse all of Reddit, wherever you are
• Search and discover communities by topic or interest
• Submit your own comments, images, links, and stories for others to view and discuss
• Customize Reddit with themes (including night theme)
• View in either compact view or card view
• Stay up to date with your orangereds with Inbox: messages, comment replies, post replies, and mentions.
Privacy Policy: https://m.reddit.com/wiki/privacypolicy
User Agreement: https://m.reddit.com/wiki/useragreement
Content Policy: https://m.reddit.com/wiki/contentpolicy
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Customer Reviews
The "Gold" standard for mobile is finally here!
What you have here in the release of an official Reddit mobile app, finally, is the easiest and prettiest way to use Reddit from your phone. I do most of my internet use from my iPhone, and have been using "alien blue", the current standard Reddit client app. This official Reddit browser for iPhone cleans up the interface in every way, giving you preview images of every article for you to scroll past on the home page--rather than a list of headlines. It's gonna take some getting used to seeing it this way, much more like an RSS feed style client, but it is a much more beautiful and vibrant approach to browsing. There is also a lot more information easily accessible than ever before in the setting menu (like the day you signed up for Reddit, proudly displayed in an easy to see location at the top of the bar!), and another huge improvement in this app is that it is so much easier to discover and search for new subreddits. I'm glad the developers have finally released what will now become the standard way to enjoy Reddit from a mobile phone. 5 stars.
Decent
It's always nice to use a first party app but other third party apps have been around for so long that they really have set the precedent and this app simply falls short. Biggest issue in my opinion would be the fact that you have to go through a three step process to watch a gif... You tap on the post, tap the play button, and you watch the gif on QuickTime... On BaconReader, you can simply tap on the image, the gif automatically plays, and tap to close. This app is also missing the 'rising' category which is where the goldmine is for finding posts before they hit frontpage and reaping that karma. It also lacks the ability for you to change your default 'homepage' or the first page you see when you open the app. I usually like going through r/all instead of my frontpage of subscriptions. There is no option to change that. The app is smooth, fast, and intuitive. However it lacks some key features and options that other apps have provided for years. Not to say that this app should replicate those apps, but it should at least do things that third party apps do better. This app looks great, the comment sections are gorgeous, and it looks like a proper iOS app.
No functionality or customization
All I wanted was for the bugs in Alien Blue to be fixed. Now, reddit has decided to go the opposite route and simply remove everything.
It's mind-boggling how many features that I've taken for granted in Alien Blue and are my primary means of browsing reddit that are no longer a thing in this app. No more swipe to collapse comments, you have to hit the tiny arrow to collapse comments or else it will bring you to that user's profile. Worse yet, no more holding a thumbnail to view an image or video. Now you need three clicks and the resulting loading times to be able to view a gif. And no more in-app player for gifs if you don't want it to stop the music you're listening to. You can't import your subreddit ordering from Alien Blue. Your comments and comment replies are now in completely different menus. You have to go to the post in order to view your comment or comment reply; you can't just expand it with a click.
I could go on but it's honestly not worth it. Just go back to Alien Blue if you can. If that's not an option, just use a third-party app where people's complaints are actually answered.
- Free
- Category: News
- Released: Apr 07, 2016
- Version: 1.0
- Size: 6.4 MB
- Language: English
- Seller: REDDIT, INC.
- © 2016 Reddit, Inc.
Compatibility: Requires iOS 7.1 or later. Compatible with iPhone, iPad, and iPod touch.