Reddit: The Official App
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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 or more NSFW humor, 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...
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My review
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4.5
200,933 total
5 136,416
4 49,460
3 7,646
2 3,143
1 4,268
Nick DeLisa
Themes The application itself is great. I really have nothing to complain about on that end. Functionality is good. Everything essentially works as it should. The only thing I can suggest is the ability to add themes or different color schemes. All we have right now is black and white, which is kind of lame. If the people want the ability to have a pink and purple poke dotted front page, give it to us! Really, any different themes or color schemes would be cool and add flair.
Fitz Meister Fitness
Awesome community Honestly, some of the people you find on these forums have you in tears with laughter sometimes. Only rated the app 4 star because 5 seemed too generous, but honestly it's a great app once you learn to navigate through it and it's a good source of free entertainment if you're sitting around bored. Slowly becoming my primary social media platform.
Aaron Dyer
Good, but needs better gif controls Currently gifs and pictures are open by tapping on them, which is fine. This becomes a problem due to the lack of controls that similar apps have for viewing gifs. If a gif is taking a while to load on this app, the app won't prevent your phone from sleeping. When your display goes dim, you tap the screen in order to restart activity timer. This closes the gif/picture and makes you have to try to reload it at the start, and the cycle continues. This can be solved by adding controls. Will re-review if fixed.
Jonathan Davis
Too easy It's too easy. My fingers glide through the app entering different aspects of it without any push back. As my fingers make my way through the app I can feel myself enjoying it more and more. My eyes at times can hardly handle what's in front but at the same time I am transfixed. I usually only last maybe 5 minutes in and I eventually climax and have to close the app but people say that's average. Please try it out, you won't ragret it.
Matt Mckamey
Great Very smooth and convient app but there needs to be a faster way to unsubscribe to a huge amount of apps. I didn't realize when I created my account that picking all those things I like was going to fill my subreddit bar with like 100 things. Now I'm using the search function to find specific things I really like and basically I want to unsub from everything it started me out with but I would probably take me a good 30 minutes considering i have to go to each subreddit individually.
James Tumlos
Great interface, but please do something about loading times App is easy to use because of the clean interface but please improve the loading time of the app and the subreddits. There's also this bug that when you join a community, it is not automatically added to your list on the left pane. You still have to restart the app for it to effect. Overall, reddit's one of the apps you just cant wait to open when you turn on your phone :)
User reviews
Themes The application itself is great. I really have nothing to complain about on that end. Functionality is good. Everything essentially works as it should. The only thing I can suggest is the ability to add themes or different color schemes. All we have right now is black and white, which is kind of lame. If the people want the ability to have a pink and purple poke dotted front page, give it to us! Really, any different themes or color schemes would be cool and add flair.
Awesome community Honestly, some of the people you find on these forums have you in tears with laughter sometimes. Only rated the app 4 star because 5 seemed too generous, but honestly it's a great app once you learn to navigate through it and it's a good source of free entertainment if you're sitting around bored. Slowly becoming my primary social media platform.
Good, but needs better gif controls Currently gifs and pictures are open by tapping on them, which is fine. This becomes a problem due to the lack of controls that similar apps have for viewing gifs. If a gif is taking a while to load on this app, the app won't prevent your phone from sleeping. When your display goes dim, you tap the screen in order to restart activity timer. This closes the gif/picture and makes you have to try to reload it at the start, and the cycle continues. This can be solved by adding controls. Will re-review if fixed.
Too easy It's too easy. My fingers glide through the app entering different aspects of it without any push back. As my fingers make my way through the app I can feel myself enjoying it more and more. My eyes at times can hardly handle what's in front but at the same time I am transfixed. I usually only last maybe 5 minutes in and I eventually climax and have to close the app but people say that's average. Please try it out, you won't ragret it.
Great Very smooth and convient app but there needs to be a faster way to unsubscribe to a huge amount of apps. I didn't realize when I created my account that picking all those things I like was going to fill my subreddit bar with like 100 things. Now I'm using the search function to find specific things I really like and basically I want to unsub from everything it started me out with but I would probably take me a good 30 minutes considering i have to go to each subreddit individually.
Great interface, but please do something about loading times App is easy to use because of the clean interface but please improve the loading time of the app and the subreddits. There's also this bug that when you join a community, it is not automatically added to your list on the left pane. You still have to restart the app for it to effect. Overall, reddit's one of the apps you just cant wait to open when you turn on your phone :)
It looks great with minor issues I recently transitioned to the official Reddit app from RiF and the UI is a lot nicer. The main issue I've had is that sometimes comments or gifs don't load properly and I have yet to figure out how to open up that content in a browser. Otherwise it's a great app that feels much more fluid.
Loading times on comments Often times many comment sections won't load at all and there are a lot of loading issues in general which make using the app much harder than the desktop version from chrome on mobile. Interface and platform is good overall, just not what I was expecting with an updated version and new phone. Some subreddits also will randomly block me, but only on the app. I've experienced this with /r/overwatch and /r/gifs
Comments not loading well It seems to work ok, though comments take a longer while to load than they do in the Chrome app. The ability to immediately see large pictures in the front page without having to click links is very worth it, though. I'm not sure if the issues are due to the app or because of my internet connection.
Great This app is great. It's fast, responsive, and feels lightweight. My only issue is an odd problem that occurs whenever I resume using the app after locking my phone whilst using it. When I resume, the application refuses to load any new posts, I get an infinite loading sign if I scroll all the way down.
Kinda lacking Before this, I was using BaconReader. It was fine, but I thought I'd try this. Some things are a little more intuitive than in BR, but some options don't really exist. Like when I'm in a user's profile and want to read more than just a snippet of a comment, I touch it and it takes me to the entire post instead of just the comment. Kinda dumb. Switching back.
I love it but... I'm being held under duress to give this review. Not really, they just keep asking me to put a review in so I am giving one. The app itself is great, allows me check all of my subscribed subreddits under a convenient side menu, posts and links are easily accessed. Great app 5 stars.
Nice Interface Runs pretty decent and has a nice, clean, interface. However, it will, at times, decide not to allow gif images to load. This is not source specific, all gifs will fail to load fully when this happens. Reloading app does not seem to fix, so you just have to wait it out. Minor nuisance in a relatively well-executed app. :) Five stars if fixed.
Comment loading broken Installed about 6 weeks ago and worked perfect until a recent update probably a week or 2 ago. Now comments are stuck on loading unless I close and reopen the app and revisit the thread I was trying to view. Comments will load but only for that thread. When I want to read the comments for another thread, I have to close and reopen again. Frustrating I have to keep doing this with every thread.
Do you know the definition of perfection? Initially, when you first visit the website reddit, there is a lot of negative things about it. Many people who, enjoy the pain of others. I am one of them and, I gotta say, this app is perfect for me. It gives meany features that help me keep up to date with my favorite subreddits and users. 11/10, would not uninstaller for a large game again.
Great design and features but won't load large batches of comments 9 times out of 10, the app WILL NOT load threads where comments have exceeded 800 or so. Have to switch to the mobile site instead to read them. Pretty frustrating. Other than that, a very competent app.
Crashes way too often I have to hand it to Reddit, their official app has forced me to interact with my family more. By incessantly crashing, and I mean incessantly, it made me watch TV with my wife. It crashes while scrolling, crashes while loading, crashes while reading comments. Once it crashed while submitting a crash report. I've taken to emailing them with each crash instance. Will update when I get a response. Update: still buggy but tolerable. Crashes less often. Probably better off with "Reddit is fun"
Good app for the most part The app is pretty good. Only complaint is recently they made it super easy to collapse posts. 9 times out of 10 when trying to click a link I collapse the post instead. Never had this issue a few updates ago, wish they would give an option to disable that.
This app is terrible Constantly attempts to load comments and sometimes the content itself of a thread. I have to exit out and go into my phone settings to stop the app just to go back into it for it to actually work quite often. Don't waste your time. Go to one of the other 'reddit readers'.
Some basic functions are not available The app is fine, good layout and such. However, I do not have the option to perform basic functions such as deleting a post or comment. I also cannot view how many upvotes I have on comments, just posts. And if there is a way to delete or view upvotes, it is very hidden. Also, if I want to view an entire comment on a thread, it takes me to all of the threads comments rather than the comment I selected.
Latest version does not work!!! Ever since the last update, this app is completely broken. When you open a thread, the only way to display comments is to sort by answers, which is a horrible way to sort. Also, viewing your own posts in your account and replying is really horrible. This is just a bad app. Alien Blue was so much better.
Pretty good 👍 App is decent. Infinite scrolling is definitely a plus. My one complaint would be that after leaving a thread in a sorted forum it sometimes goes back to the starting point at the top of the page which can be irtitating when you've scrolled through dozens of posts or more
Would give 5 but I notice, sometimes when I click the back button at the top of the screen, it would bring me back to the first page of my front page and reload it. I am unsure if anyone had the same problem with me. But hopefully, it will get fixed in the next update. Overall, I enjoy browsing reddit but that minor issue sometimes bugs me.
Love it but will not load at all with slower internet speeds App runs great with my regular "high speedy data" but when slowed down it won't t work at all. I have other apps (like Facebook, messenger, Yahoo mail, etc) which still work and load properly even at slower speeds. I would love to see it work similarly to these apps even with a slower internet connection.
Great community, app adds nothing I can't see any difference between the app and reddit in browser of the same device, except app doesn't nag you to download app but nags you to rate app instead. I'd give five stars if it was easier to use - links and other clickable things bigger for thumbs so I don't miss tap for example
Switched from IOS I absolutely loved the reddit app when I had an iPhone and thought it would be a seamless switch over to Android. The Android app is missing key features that made me fall in love with the app on ios. Unless I'm missing something the Android app doesn't have a quick button that allows you to scroll to the next relevant comment. You cant long press the home button to switch accounts. Overall a good app but not as good as their iOS version - big letdown IMO.
Dumbed Down IPhone Version For some reason they took out the button to download images that they have in iphone. Pressing and holding doesnt work the majority of the time. Takes up to 30 seconds of constantly pressing and holding to get results. The images are also zoomed in while scrolling and you have to click on it to see it fully, unlike the iPhone version where the full image is displayed. After a few pages it won't load anymore, some videos/gifs won't load at all.
Works pretty well...but missing a few key features There should be an option to open a link in an external program (like Chrome, YouTube, Imgur, etc.) Instead of opening it in a web browser. There should also be a way to save where you are on the front page if you go to a different app. It's annoying to have to scroll down for ages to get back to where you were. Also, lately comments have not been loading at all on any post I view.
Slow; better to just use Chrome App often enters infinite loading loops while trying to look at comments or subs in general. Open the same page in Chrome, content loads immediately. Also features unintuitive UI that obscures notifications, fails to load gifs 50% of the time.
Honestly, I'd use the app "Reddit is fun" rather than using this. Most of the time I need to reclick, reswipe, reload something in order to see it because it simply does not load. Same thing happened when I was subscribing, things just did not pop in my subscription folder, until I reloaded the app 3 times.
Please Fix the App Reddit is great, but this mobile app is almost useless sometimes. It is most definitely not 50% faster as the mobile website claims. Gifs and pictures will occasionally never load, no matter how strong my internet is. It's very frustrating.
Way too annoying! The gifs and pictures only work when they feel like it. Have a 50/50 chance it wil load after the first few scrolls down. Doesnt keep your scrolling space if the app has been multi tasked. Really starting to piss me off, going to use reddit is fun instead
Poor performance Comments fail to load the majority of the time. While scrolling front page, content will often stop loading. Have to force stop app and reload. Pretty disappointing this is the 'offical' app with performance like this. No other apps I use have connectivity issues.
Find your specific subreddit Reddits worth it once it's set up customized specifically for you. I only had storage space for one App on my old phone which I had for 2 years...... lol I was broke, ok? No app was greater to cover more entertainment than anything else, nothing's worth it like Reddit's worth it. I'd kill myself just to make sure it's around until I die, but not today.
Easy to use Edit: recently the app just stops loading anything and refuses to work for hours at a time. I have this issue both on wifi and mobile data. It wont load the feed or any comments. I am enjoying the app much less because of this. I will change my rating if this provlem is fixed. OLD REVIEW: Streamlined and to the point. Only thing I don't like is if you use the back button instead of the x it exits the app sometimes. Really though this is the best way to browse reddit.
Competitive with the best 3rd party apps Beautiful and easy app. My only two complaints: can we pay to remove ads in the app please? And when clicking on a comment in my profile it directs to the comment thread but not my particular comment. This makes it hard to navigate in a 400+ comment string.
Watered down and slow. Not completely broken, but I'd rather just use chrome. Missing the most basic of features you would expect from a Reddit app. No notifications, the messages section is unintuitive. Trying to click a link in a comment often closes the comment instead. Posts just won't load half the time, but if you open them in chrome, they load instantly.
Pretty cool portal...could be a little more user friendly If you aren't super familiar with Reddit then this app could be a little confusing at times. It takes some figuring out. It makes exploring anything but Frontpage hard. You aren't just going to stumble onto a new subreddit by accident.
Good, needs an update.. The app works. I can do most things I use daily from the mobile app which is convenient. After the 7.1.1 update, some things are broken such as the read indicator. I would like to see some UI refinement as some areas require extra movements. I would also love to see a WYSIWYG for posting.
It's okay but needs improving The app takes all of the content of the main site and displays it in a fashion that is easily accessible for mobile users. However, the search is very flakey and will frequently display no results for something you're 100% exists, you just end up with the try again cat, and when you do try again you're left with an endless loading icon
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What's New
1.14.2:
New:
* Performance improvements
* Increased the supported minimum Android version from 15 to 16
Fixed:
* Issue where the app refreshed the main feed and the post detail pointed at the first new post
* Issue where clicking the comment button didn't scroll to the top of the comments
* Cleaned up comment sort icons
* Fixed a crash when subscribing to a subreddit
* Fixed deeplinking crash
Additional information
Updated
December 21, 2016
Installs
1,000,000 - 5,000,000
Current Version
1.14.2
Requires Android
4.1 and up
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