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Reddit is a tough place to love sometimes. When we published the first version of this review back in April 2016, I wrote about how I spent years avoiding the site like the plague. While that’s no longer the case, there are still some deep, dark corners of Reddit that should never see the light of day. Even in “normal” subreddits, it’s hard to have an innocuous discussion anymore without it devolving into a Facebook-esque political debate or whatever else people feel like arguing about.
Nevertheless, you can still have a great time browsing Reddit, as long as you follow two rules:
Rule #1: Stick to a handful of subreddits that cater to your exact interests. The more niche, the better. When you find a community you love, cling to it for all its worth.
Rule #2: Use an awesome app to keep up with those subreddits, and maybe do the occasional browsing elsewhere.
With that second rule in mind, we’re back with a new and improved review of the best Reddit clients for iOS.
A lot has changed in the two years since the first edition of this article. Two of the apps from our original list are gone, another one was replaced by Reddit’s own app, and we’ve got a couple new challengers on the list — one of which has in fact become our new top pick. We were as surprised as anyone.
Apps on Our Radar that We Haven’t Tested Yet (or Were Disqualified):
The whole point of third-party Reddit apps is that you get to bypass having to use the site itself or Reddit’s own app, neither of which offer the greatest experience around. If they did, we wouldn’t have written this article and you wouldn’t be here anyway.
Therefore, we have a handful of criteria that every Reddit client worth its salt should try to meet. The best Reddit apps…
On the value front, what we’ve discovered is that nearly every app in our tests was free to download but offered some type of in-app purchase, typically to remove ads and/or unlock features. The upside of free-to-download Reddit clients is that you get to test the entire field without paying a dime. However, it should go without saying that once you’ve chosen a favorite app of your own, you should pay for the IAP and support that developer’s work.
—Josh Ginter (editor-in-chief, The Sweet Setup)
Last October, developer Christian Selig introduced Apollo to the world, after nearly three years of work following an internship at Apple. It quickly got a lot of positive responses on Reddit and elsewhere, and thus our attention was drawn.
Apollo 1.0 showed a lot of promise for a new contender in this space, and it’s only improved significantly since, releasing an average of one update per month without a single update being a waste of time.
In the beginning, I wrote that I would be spending time with Apollo for this review, and here I am to fulfill that promise. Let’s get to it.
When you first open Apollo, one of the first things you’ll notice is that it feels right at home on iOS. From the iconography to the colors to the clean, sensible layout, you’d almost think Apple were the company behind this app.
The navbar along the bottom gives you access to common functions:
This navbar is persistent, so you can always get to those places no matter where you are in the app.
As you’d expect, Apollo is smooth and easy to interact with. Everything makes sense, to the point that it almost doesn’t warrant mentioning. Whereas our previous top pick Narwhal is the kind of app that took a lot of liberties in its design and personality compared to most apps, Apollo gives off a more spartan, straightforward vibe.
There aren’t many things about Apollo that you might call “charming” or “whimsical,” but that’s just fine for most people, if not preferable.
Before you dive too deep into Apollo, we suggest heading to the Settings tab in the navbar and configuring things to your liking. (Notice how much the list looks like Settings.app in iOS?)
Apollo offers many ways to craft your ideal experience. Let’s go page by page, skipping some of the more self-explanatory ones:
Basically, if there’s something you want to adjust about your Reddit browsing experience, chances are Apollo’s got a setting for it.
The Posts tab on the navbar is where you can view all the standard places on Reddit: your home page, the r/All page, any multireddits you’ve set up, the subreddits you’re subscribed to, and your “Favorites.” You can hit the plus (+) button up top to add a new subscription, favorite, or multireddit.
Browsing through any of those categories is pretty straightforward.
Browsing around in Apollo is pretty simple: just head to the Posts tab on the navbar and choose from any of your subreddits, multireddits, or favorites, or you can just tap through to your home page or r/All. Swipe from the left side of the screen to go back to the previous one. You get the drill. Like I said, Apollo was designed to make sense to everyone of all levels of tech-saviness, so you don’t have to worry too much about getting lost.
However, there are a handful of somewhat hidden functions worth knowing about:
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Alternatively, you can go to the Posts tab, hit the plus (+) at the top left, and choose Add Favorite there to type in a subreddit of your choice, although it won’t attempt to autocomplete search results for you. (Narwhal has one advantage here in that it allows you to add specific user profiles to your shortcuts list in addition to subreddits, but for most people that feature isn’t too important.)
No app is perfect, right? While we have no straight-up complaints about Apollo per se, there are some things we’d like the developer to consider in the future:
In the first edition of our review, Narwhal quickly rose to the top of our rankings. It was far and away more enjoyable to use than any of the others on the list at the time, and it continues to be a wonderful option.
Bumping Narwhal down to second place was way harder than we thought it’d be. It actually came very close to remaining our top pick. It took some of our renowned nitpicking prowess to make the final call, which you’ll see in the sections below. We felt even more torn about this whole thing than we did with Tweetbot versus Twitterrific, if that tells you anything.
From the get-go, we’ve always appreciated Narwhal’s features and attention to detail.
On the main screen, you can tap the Narwhal logo at the top to toggle between light and dark modes. Both are enjoyable to look at, which is more than some iOS apps can say. (For example, the dark mode in Tweetbot is way better-looking than its light mode in our estimation.) In both modes, Narwhal gets the balance of text and UI colors just right. There’s also a “true black” option for dark mode that got added a few months ago, and it’s just… *kisses fingers*
The one thing that bugs us about this shortcut toggle is that it’s only available on the main page. When you’re anywhere else in the app, the only way to make the switch manually is by going to Sidebar → Preferences. I’ve long wanted Narwhal to add some simple universal gesture for this, à la Apollo’s long-press at the top or Tweetbot’s two-finger swipe up/down.
Out of our top three apps, Narwhal’s the only one with an always-visible New Post button while viewing any main feed outside of a comment thread (it’s the + button at the top). The other two apps keep that function tucked away in a menu somewhere, and as much as we enjoy a good scavenger hunt, it’s nice of Narwhal to keep that option front-and-center.
Another button that’s nearly always visible is the pixelated envelope icon at the top, which opens your messages inbox. From there, you can switch “tabs” to view sent messages, comment replies, mentions, etc. When you’ve got new messages/replies, the envelope lights up in a pleasant-but-eye-catching orange and white.
Even the pull-to-refresh bar is a nice touch. Pull down and you’re treated to the app’s charming narwhal mascot chewing on a piece of bacon, who gives a joyful smile when you let go to refresh. In “night” mode, the narwhal wears groovy sunglasses and floats in a field of stars in space. Amusing touches like these go a long way to making any app more enjoyable to use.
Another thing I want to mention is how smooth the whole app feels. It never stutters while loading content — even on a throttled LTE connection, threads and comments load surprisingly fast, if not the external links themselves — and it certainly never feels like a chore to use. A lot of care went into every interaction and detail.
When you tap to open something from the feed, it loads the external link (if there is one) and the Reddit comment thread simultaneously — external content at the top, thread title and comments at the bottom. Swipe the thread downward offscreen to view the external link in full (tapping the “view comments” bar at the bottom quickly brings them back), or swipe upward to view comments only. If you’re deep down in the comments, tapping the top status bar quickly hides the thread. The point is, it’s easy to switch to the other view at any time.
Voting on links, threads or comments is done by swiping a little to the left to upvote, or further left to downvote. Once a vote is made, a line on the right marks that thing with the appropriate color (orange or purple, respectively). The vote counter itself will also match that color.
This is a clever solution for both letting you vote on things and showing that you’ve done so, all without having onscreen arrows to clutter things up. I don’t care how big your device is, screen real estate is precious.
Voting isn’t the only thing you can do with gestures. For example, swipe a little right on a thread title to save it, or further right to hide it altogether. Pretty simple.
Comments in threads have similar actions: Swipe a little right to reply, or further right to bring up advanced options:
When viewing a thread, you’ll see an ellipsis (…) button next to the New Post (+) button at the top, which displays a list of options:
Occasionally you’ll also see a “Refresh link” option on that list, but we’ve found no rhyme or reason yet as to which posts will show it and which ones won’t ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Whenever you’re viewing a main feed of some sort — i.e. your front page, a subreddit, or a list of search results — there’s a horizontal toolbar hidden at the top of the list (you’ll have to scroll up to see it) that gives you quick access to certain contextual functions.
Depending on where you are in the app, you may see the typical Reddit sorting options (hot, new, rising, controversial, top, etc.), a toggle for large/small thumbnails, a button to sort search results by relevance, or when you’re viewing a multireddit, buttons for viewing that multi’s subreddits and/or creating a copy of it for yourself. While viewing a standard subreddit, you get buttons for subscribing/unsubscribing and viewing the sidebar.
Narwhal’s sidebar makes it easy to access any subreddits and multireddits you’re subscribed to, along with your saved posts, your own profile, posts by your friends, and more. There’s also an option to switch accounts, which is awesome if you’ve got multiple handles for different purposes.
Narwhal offers a wealth of customization features so you can create your own ultimate Reddit browsing experience. Apollo isn’t exactly lacking in this area, but Narwhal blows it out of the water.
The main preferences screen gives you basic options for turning night mode on/off, enabling or disabling push notifications, tweaking fonts and text size, and enabling or disabling auto-refresh on launch.
The advanced settings is where it gets fun. You can change the app icon, choose whether to auto-play gifs on Wi-Fi or otherwise, manage content filters, customize what appears in the sidebar, set a passcode lock, collapse AutoModerator comments, customize the UI in myriad ways (including the exact threshold for how far to swipe right/left on things before the secondary option appears), and way more options than I can list here.
I’ll just sum it up by saying that if one of our top picks was for the “power users” subset, the nod would go to Narwhal.
Narwhal has improved by leaps and bounds even since we first reviewed it. However, there are still some straggler issues that need resolving:
Formerly our 2nd place nomination, Antenna (known in a past life as AMRC) has been bumped down to 3rd place thanks to Apollo. It’s not a bad app by any stretch.
In fact, one of the things I like about Antenna over both Apollo and Narwhal is that it’s the most lightweight and snappy of all, with a simple interface that feels like an ode to old-school app design — in a good way. I can’t say for sure if it’s actually loading anything faster than the other apps, but it certainly feels that way. You know how some websites are more enjoyable to browse when you view them without HTML or CSS, keeping just the plain text? Yeah, that.
What Antenna lacks in high-falutin’ design, it more than makes up for in simplicity. Navigating and interacting with the app is a breeze, with no fancy gestures to worry about:
That said, Antenna’s simplicity belies its bevy of advanced features. From the Settings page, you can customize most of the same things you can in other apps and then some — for example, it lets you decide whether or not to keep a history of your recently viewed posts in the left navbar, what happens when you 3D Touch something, and the data limit of your cellular usage.
Now, it bears mentioning that some of what we’d consider basic functionality is walled behind Antenna’s $3 “Pro” IAP, which unlocks things like:
Once you do unlock the IAP though, Antenna becomes a sleeper knockout of a Reddit experience. Again, this is one of those things where some people will actually prefer the experience of Antenna over our top two picks. It’s really up to personal taste at a certain point.
Two years later, BaconReader still stands out in my mind for being one of the only apps to prompt me with an EULA on initial launch. Not exactly a good first impression.
Aside from that, this app has seen a lot of visual upgrades since we first reviewed it, with improvements to loads of minor details that make BaconReader nicer to look at and use:
I’m pleasantly surprised how far BaconReader has come these past couple years. I’ve yet to find anything I straight-up dislike about it anymore, other than the “Swipe in Comment Cell” function being a bit buggy when I have it toggled on.
That said, it still doesn’t have quite the level of polish of apps like Narwhal and Apollo. It’s one of those things that’s hard to put a finger on.
At first glance, Wormhole appears to be a solid entry. It has a nice clean design and things are easy to read for the most part, but once you dig into it a bit, you’ll find it’s made some odd choices:
I could keep nitpicking, but suffice it to say that Wormhole needs a lot of tuning up before we can consider it as a top contender.
This app just feels weird to use. Tap a post with an image and it loads the image alone, with no way to reach the comment section directly from there (as far as I can tell, anyway). You have to go back to the list and swipe left on the post to reveal a little speech bubble icon, which then takes you to the comments.
Tapping on comments in a thread doesn’t collapse them as you’d expect — again, you have to swipe left to do that — but rather brings up a menu of options for upvoting, downvoting, saving, etc. However, you can already reach those three particular functions by swiping right on a comment, so this just feels redundant.
Telling the app to hide posts seems to do nothing…? And if you tap on the “porthole” button on the navbar, the three buttons at the top — Swap, Browse, and Actions — are a little confusing to use. Just weird all around.
On the plus side, the way Submarine handles gifs is kinda neat. You can tap a post to open the gif image, then pull the gif down to the bottom of the screen à la the YouTube app, where it will continue to animate as you browse around elsewhere. Similarly, the gif can be dismissed by flinging it offscreen to the right. When you’re viewing the gif full-screen, you can pause the “playback” and even skip to other parts of it by tapping the progress bar at the bottom.
I also appreciate the 1Password login functionality when you open the app for the first time.
There’s really not much to say about Beam. You can do basic things with it and not much else, and the design isn’t that great besides. I will say that I like the app icon a lot, and it does have a handy all-in-one search bar that lets you use a search term to search for subreddits or posts, as well as open a specific subreddit or user profile — all from one place. Unfortunately, that one feature isn’t enough to put it anywhere near our top picks list.
If you’re going to browse Reddit on iOS, we recommend Apollo, Narwhal, or Antenna — in that order. However, as we’ve stated several times in this review, it mostly comes down to personal taste and your own order of preference may differ from ours. Luckily, they’re all free to download, so you can try all three before you make a final call.