2025-12-17
Bring back r/all
Swapping to a third party app until they bring back r/all
Updating
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#3 in Top Free Apps > News
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#13 in Top Grossing Apps > News
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#2 in Top Free iPad Apps > News
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#24 in Top Grossing iPad Apps > News
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Welcome to Reddit, the heart of the internet.
Reddit is a social network with something for everyone: trending topics, diverse discussions, and engaging communities and comment threads.
Redditors have authentic and interesting conversations around all sorts of curated content. You’ll find gaming communities, bloggers, meme-makers, fandoms, travel enthusiasts, support groups, AI forums, news junkies, artists, and creators of all types.
Reddit has over 100,000 online communities (forums where members post and comment) dedicated to specific topics. Some of the most popular communities are:
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Celebrities, politicians, and experts answer questions from users.
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Reddit’s discussion threads are where community members jump in with humor and insights for just about anything; pop culture, sports, entertainment, or financial advice.
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While karma doesn't directly impact your ability to use Reddit, more karma can increase posts’ visibility and help you get noticed. Some communities require karma to post or comment, which helps prevent spam or low-quality content.
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REDDIT, INC.
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Version
2025.50.0
Size
402.4 MB
Game Center
No
VPP Device Licensing
Yes
Rating
Rated 17+ for the following:
Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes
Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor
Infrequent/Mild Medical/Treatment Information
Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence
Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Infrequent/Mild Sexual Content and Nudity
Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
Frequent/Intense Mature/Suggestive Themes
Compatibility
iOS 16.0 or later
Devices
iPhone 5s, iPhone 6, iPhone 6 Plus, iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone SE, iPhone 7, iPhone 7 Plus, iPhone 8, iPhone 8 Plus, iPhone X, iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max, iPhone 11, iPhone 11 Pro, iPhone 11 Pro Max, iPhone SE (2nd generation), iPhone 12, iPhone 12 Pro, iPhone 12 Pro Max, iPhone 12 mini, iPhone 13, iPhone 13 Pro, iPhone 13 Pro Max, iPhone 13 mini, iPhone SE (3rd generation), iPhone 14, iPhone 14 Plus, iPhone 14 Pro, iPhone 14 Pro Max, iPhone 15, iPhone 15 Plus, iPhone 15 Pro, iPhone 15 Pro Max, iPhone 16, iPhone 16 Plus, iPhone 16 Pro, iPhone 16 Pro Max, iPhone 16e, iPhone 17, iPhone 17Pro, iPhone 17ProMax, iPhone Air, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro, iPad Pro (Cellular), iPad Pro (9.7-inch), iPad Pro (9.7-inch) (Cellular), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (10.5-inch), iPad Pro (10.5-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro (11-inch), iPad Pro (11-inch) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air, iPad Air (Cellular), iPad Air 2, iPad Air 2 (Cellular), iPad Air (3rd generation), iPad Air (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini Retina, iPad mini Retina (Cellular), iPad mini 3, iPad mini 3 (Cellular), iPad mini 4, iPad mini 4 (Cellular), iPad mini (5th Generation), iPad mini (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (7th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (2nd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi), iPad Air (4th Generation) (Wi-Fi + Cellular), iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi, iPad (8th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (3rd generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (5th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (9th Generation), iPad (9th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (6th Generation), iPad mini (6th Generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air (5th generation), iPad Air (5th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation), iPad Pro 11-inch (4th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation), iPad Pro 12.9-inch (6th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (10th generation), iPad (10th generation) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M2) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 11-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi, iPad Pro 13-inch (M4) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi, iPad mini (A17 Pro) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi, iPad (A16) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 11-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi, iPad Air 13-inch (M3) Wi-Fi + Cellular, iPad Pro11M5, iPad Pro11M5Cellular, iPad Pro13M5, iPad Pro13M5Cellular, iPod touch (6th Generation), iPod touch (7th generation)
Languages
English, Bengali, Chinese, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
App Store: Customer Ratings
Ratings & Reviews
4.8 of 5 (3,333,623 Ratings)
App Store: Customer Reviews
2025-12-17
Can I give less than 1 star? Please?
I got a strike and ban on my account because I commented the waving hand emoji (listed to the right) —>🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️🙋🏻♂️
2025-12-17
Not free speech
Mods can ban you for any reason they want. Don’t say anything bad about Christianity or you will get permanently banned. Reddit is filled with Christian cult
Members.
2025-12-17
Poor Engineering
Really bad, unresponsive, unintuitive UI. Poor backend performance. Far too many ads, failure to play media, etc. the fact that they banned 3rd party clients in favor of this slop is a joke. They auto play videos that are not even in the feed. Such awful, awful engineering.
If I was a computer science teacher, this would be my example of a horrendous production web application.
2025-12-16
Awful UI update
Every update is worse, but the latest is particularly horrid. Every change is now a desperate, clumsy, and aggressive attempt to generate revenue. F spez
2025-12-16
This trash app never works
Can’t load on iPhone. Doesn’t work. The developers know nothing. “Wow, SuCh EmPtY”
2025-12-16
Great but
It’s great but I don’t like how you have to comment on smth 10 times just to post on it but overall 10/10 would def recommend
2025-12-16
Most judgmental platform by far. Feeling depressed? RUN. Bullies are looking for someone like you.💯
Reddit easily has the potential to be the best platform for any type of conversation you’d like to engage in…. So much as you are 100% aligned to their personal and political belief system.
If not, you’re gonna get bullied.
The one thing I can say about Reddit is that it’ll definitely show you what people *truly* are when they feel protected from any and everything they say.. as long as it’s entirely anonymous to the public.
And because of this overwhelming amount of cowardice (people hiding safely behind their phones), it will sicken you.. because nobody today has the courage to be that real in person…
Henceforth you won’t see the fake version of these people, so you get to meet the nasty / sadistic side of EVERYBODY, who ironically are desperate in hiding that side of themselves from everyone they can.
Their families / spouses definitely know them all too well.. but the moment they walk out the door, everybody thinks they’re awesome. And you’ll be disgusted by this…
It’s also overbearingly political and sexist on threads that are entirely irrelevant to such talk, and Reddit heavily sides one way MUCH more than the other when trying to defend yourself..
Approximately half of the people using Reddit feel they are completely ignored, down voted for commonsensical comments, and deleted for simply having an opinion that differs / angers others who seemingly have a symmetrical view as this platform. In fact, many people will post similar comments as yours *showing* a similar response / feeling by many others.., only for it to be deleted because the moderator disagrees with you regardless of how statistically true it is.
So instead of being able to ‘agree to disagree’, these horrible and uneducated ‘tyrants’ only believe in free speech for themselves.. deleting anything they don’t “like.”
It’s not fair..
If you want fair, I’ve noticed YouTube is surprisingly the best. I keep offloading Reddit because of how disappointed I am at how nasty and disrespectful people are for simply having a different view on something that’s not hurting or insulting anybody. 💯💯💯
2025-12-16
Fun
I love Reddit because of all the useful knowledge and fun you can have here.
2025-12-16
Poor translation function
My English is terrible, and I want to translate it into Chinese, but I update the app every time, and the translation function is always bad in each new version. I don't know what you've updated; are you just trying to squeeze more users out of your data? It's shameless...
2025-12-16
Cesspool of low intelligence
Top posts are the only reason to go on this website. There are some lunatics tho on here in the comments
2025-12-16
yay
best app
2025-12-16
The Trailer Park of Social Media
This place has so much trashy content. This ought to be the last stop of your social media journey, because literally every single other platform is better than this one. Even Trump’s is better and that is saying a lot. Don’t waste your time.
2025-12-16
An unpredictable mess
The December 2025 app update has made Reddit uglier & less reliable. The search bar takes up too much screen space, the bar along the bottom with icons for Home, Create, etc. fully just disappears after clicking on any post and the app has to be forced closed and rebooted to get the bar to reappear. Clicking to read a post now displays the pictures weirdly large and makes it more awkward to scroll between pics/media and comments. Also, clicking on a post sometimes dumps you in the middle of the comments instead of at the top. I really hate the bugginess and awkwardness of this update
2025-12-16
Liberal Driven Platform
90% of the users of this app are left wing extremist. If you have a different opinion than them, your comment will be deleted. This app is the CNN of apps. False news and hate propaganda
2025-12-16
Privacy
I just wish Reddit was more private. I don’t like how everyone can see everything you post and comment and like. I wish there were better privacy choices. There are none basically.
2025-12-16
Bad bad
Bad
2025-12-16
Racist, sexist sestpool
Banned multiple times when ever I call out hard R n word users clearly from Eastern European countries. Mods are a virtue signaling power hungry evil. Sort your admin/moderator system out.
2025-12-16
Massive left wing echo chamber that Reddit allows and enforces.
Great app overall, but the Reddit admins are super biased to one side of the political spectrum. Politics wasn’t my main use for Reddit, but I would dabble in it occasionally whenever I saw a particularly stupid take or message. Used Reddit for a while, enjoyed it. Good layout and I really liked the subreddit system. Mini-communities and what not. Now, for why I’m leaving a 1 star review: Reddit is a massive left wing echo chamber that Reddit not only allows, but propagates. I’ve seen time and time again left leaning individuals say the most vile stuff imaginable, demonizing everyone who doesn’t agree with them, calling for people to die, open hate, and yet none of them are banned. But when someone who doesn’t follow the “Reddit hive mind” does something, even if it isn’t breaking the rules, instant ban without any appeal. Happened to me 3 times. I spoke straight up, proven fact with sources to back me up in a non-hateful tone, and oops, banned for hate because you talked poorly about the current poor group you’re not allowed to say anything negative about, even if you weren’t being hateful. Sorry guys, honest debate isn’t allowed here, facts are hate and statistics are racist. Other than the piss poor moderation Reddit has, Reddit is genuinely an enjoyable platform. My advice, stay away from politics. Even then, you’re liable to get banned from a 100+ subreddits because the same guys moderate a bunch of em, and if you upset them in one place, you get banned from all the places they manage.
2025-12-16
Stop Changing the UI
Reddit app is trash at best. The UI changes every other day it feels like. At this point I’m going to uninstall permanently
2025-12-16
Cant sort by top anymore
I really can’t begin to explain how pivotal of a feature this was for me and I'm extremely dissatisfied that it was hidden.
2025-12-16
Bring back r/all
App has been in constant decline since IPO, why would you remove r/all??? I’m not a fan of the personalized “popular” section it doesn’t feel like reddit anymore.
2025-12-16
Absolutely terrible
The only way they could get you to use this app was literally by removing every other alternative option in the Store. Do you like customization? Too bad. Do you like poor performance and ridiculous micro transactions? This is the app for you!
2025-12-16
Reddit is the best
This app is amazing
2025-12-15
New update took away swipe between home and latest and popular
No idea why but they removed the ability to swiped between feeds. Worst decision ever.
2025-12-15
External links
Seems the external links are broken and trying to mimic 𝕏 it seems but they did a poor job of it. Terrible experience. Please revert guy Los it wasn’t broken, why can’t you learn to leave good things alone?
Here we go again with the broken updates. Get it together guys. These changes are terrible.
2025-12-15
They removed /all
They removed /all, the only thing that made Reddit different from all the other social vacuum chamber. I deleted it and gave it a one star review. If they ever bring it back I’ll change my review and install the app again. Was fun while it lasted :(
2025-12-15
Banned for posting scientific facts
I was banned for posting Moderna’s own story about a death that happened during vaccine trials
2025-12-15
Access limited on app
With the most recent update, accessing r/All is not possible within the app. Instead of using the app, just access Reddit on Safari.
2025-12-15
Horrible update.
Unable view All subreddit at all after recent update. Will be deleting app and using browser instead.
2025-12-15
Update NOT good
Every time Reddit releases a new update, they screw up something. Something doesn't work. Now they have update setting profiles and made out more complex. On one of the profiles, the chat or message is completely disappeared. Why Reddit? Do you even test your app before releasing? Come one...
2025-12-15
Dmgns
I don’t know why it’s tryna make me buy it when it shows I don’t have to.
2025-12-15
I got banned for some reason
Hello I am not really rating it but this is more of a rant in early 2023 I did something to get banned apparently I don’t know what I did but everytime I make a new account I get banned I even made a new gmail but that didn’t work
2025-12-15
Worst company ever
If I could give this company a negative 10, I would most certainly do so. I have spent countless number of hours on the phone with them trying to resolve multiple issues. 1st I was being billed for a phone service that I never knew was disconnected. I do not live in the house. When I finally was able to switch carriers (because they are the only ones in my area) I was informed that I lost my phone number and there was no way to retrieve it back. 2nd, I have been switched from dept to dept and each time the person does not understand what I am asking or trying to help. I have returned equipment to the store and they still could not cancel service. I had to still call again to cancel it. I have gone in circles between the retention dept, the sales dept and the billing dept. They are the Worst Company I Have Ever Dealt with In My Liife!!!!
2025-12-15
Can’t have your opinion
The moderators will block you for having an opinion. And although if it doesn’t agree with them you get banned.
2025-12-15
Bring back r/all
I miss the old Reddit. This app is awful.
2025-12-15
Very good
Very good app
2025-12-15
Horrible
The latest version,4.8, is the worst iteration I’ve seen yet. The navigation is shot, and moving around the notifications tab was pointless busywork.
Also, on ioS, the user flair icons used in certain subreddits look miniaturized. It only happens on the app. On the mobile browser snd on PC, the user flairs are normal-sized. Please fix the code that messed it up!
2025-12-15
Real world input
Like the title says, it’s real world input from real people, on just about any topic you can think of. What’s not to like?
2025-12-15
Removed /all. Bye!
Bad decision after bad decision. Trying other sites.
2025-12-15
Cesspool of misinformation
The night after a significant tragedy was all over the news, my feed was filled with baseless nonsense conspiracies about the event. I didn’t follow conspiracy subreddits or anything of the sort, yet Reddit pushed them onto my feed.
I used to enjoy connecting with folks with shared interests in different parts of the world—they even added in-app games that were pretty entertaining. But content on even the most benign subreddits seemed to become more and more clickbaity and divisive over the last few years—most of the time, it’s impossible to tell who’s a bot and who’s not.
I have deleted my account and will no longer use this app.
2025-12-15
Bring back the popular page
Why is the popular page buried now in the menu. I like swiping easily between news, popular, and home. Why change that?!
2025-12-15
boi
aaaaand upvote✌️😂 reddit so tufff 🅱️OIIIIIIII ✌️🤣 🅱️EANZZZZZZ
2025-12-15
🦉
🦉
2025-12-15
Loves white nationalist
Will ban AA users for defending themselves but doesn’t do anything about the white supremacist commenters and their dog whistles
2025-12-15
Bring back r/all
The popular feed is trash!
2025-12-14
😭
Ts so ahh bru
2025-12-14
total art the great stars
📊
2025-12-14
Constant regression
Everything keeps getting more and more bugged and broken. The new in app browser has no content blockers and has ruined the experience of posts with links as the content leaving no other choice but to switch to the external browser. iPad app is a complete mess with UI bugs all over the place such as misaligned post content, varying widths for margins, and non uniform colors. The current experience is very poor.
2025-12-14
Left-Wing Liberal Trash
No matter what pages I follow or like they continue to flood my feed with anti-Conservative Libtard propaganda.
Pathetic
2025-12-03
The functionality of this app is absolutely pathetic
I don’t write reviews ever but this is such bad app development I had to say something about it. It’s like this app was built by a bunch of AMATEURS. I cannot begin to count the number of bugs I’ve experienced on this awful app just myself alone. Black screens, completely frozen screens, text boxes being frozen or unusable, unable to edit what was typed in text box so far, videos freezing, audio of a video perpetually playing when no longer watching the video, video freezing while audio works fine, unable to collapse or expand threads, unable to click on the reply button on a comment, unable to see anyone’s post or comment history at all, comments duplicating, random invisible notifications, turning the phone horizontal instead of vertical often times completely breaks whatever thread or video you were watching, AND SO MUCH MORE. I experience a mix of these every single time I use this app. It’s like a bunch of junior software devs got together and created a school project that wasn’t planned to actually be released as a product. Do not use the Reddit app, you’re much better off with the web version. How is this the real app for such a big company??
2025-09-25
Reddit is full of weirdo leftist but there’s really awesome stuff too if you avoid them!
Ready it gets a bad rap because of all the weirdo leftists that post their ramblings from their mom’s basement after vigorously, touching themselves to weird anime porn. Well, this is true, and that there is copious amounts of “larping” going on if you can avoid those pockets of blue haired septum piercing ex baristas then it really has lots of smart people with useful information. Not to mention there is so many hot naked moms on here is worth it just for that lol!
Truthfully, if you’re in your automotive stuff repair renderings and just discussing different stuff, you can get a lot of info you can’t really find on any other messageboard or website. Because it’s actively used if you have a question about a car it doesn’t take three weeks for someone to reply. You usually get a reply pretty quickly. And those with lots of karma, make it easy for you to tell if they are just yanking your chain or actually giving you useful information. If Reddit could just read itself from the propaganda that is pumped through it daily it would be one of the best social media platforms around.
2025-09-12
MLB 9innings
Love this game since it had the little fat guys running around and was hacked for ages over 10 + years ago.
Remember ppl ?
When you could go back & forth , steal any base including home. Boy has it evolved with graphics , game play & PRICE !
GAME tends to be addictive as I own 8 teams , bought 3 and have spent maybe 5,000$ or more by just not knowing what to do or buy in my early years . But with discord & other apps to stay in tuned things are now great. Met many good ppl on here that I’ve actually or hung out with in real life . The game is real fun & brings ppl together in many different ways . Would like to see the game made HARDER to make such power teams & prices be a little better & prizes change up every month . Other wise let’s give it 4.5 overall out of 5 stars . What does worry me is 1 day the creators say that’s it boys & girls . All those thousands are now bye bye .
Peace & Love & Thanks com4us for years of interrupted enjoyment and aggravation, which comes with the territory, but love the game thank you
2025-08-31
Stupid app impossible to get accounts banned or took down.
I spent like an hour reporting this huge page full of men talking about women just “being holes”. “To let men grape them” “they don’t have a choice”
“Feminist sl*ts need it more than anyone” “stay stupid let men do whatever they want to you” mind you there were vids of grape. I reported it and nope. Apparently it doesn’t violate guide lines? Not to mention there were girls that looked reallyyyy young. Lots of glamorizing violence like smacking women and hurting them to get them to obey to you. Cause “even in their sleep they don’t get a choice. Sleeping is consent.” Mind you women were crying and apparently it doesn’t violate guidelines?… ok well if that doesn’t violate guide lines what does? Do women have to d!e before people start taking it serious? They were mad at feminist for “ acting smart” instead of giving in and having self respect. “Women don’t need education they need to stay dumb.” They posted women betraying other women too and said that the Women that betrayed the feminist has earned her right to be used. Not to mention they called women that were dressed with skirts and stuff sl*ts but when a woman was dressed modest they said women don’t deserve modesty. The way they were idolizing s*x offenders too is crazy. I mean it was stacked to the brim of these disturbing things. These pages need took down. These predators have a whole different thought process that doesn’t need to be a community.
2025-06-26
How is this a 5-Star app?
Reddit is a good platform. The app however is pathetic. There have been dozens of different platforms in the past that used the Reddit API and made it so much easier to consume content on Reddit, review saved content and find new stuff. These apps that let you login are all but gone. The default app actively makes it hard to use the platform. It’s super easy to scroll and hit a limit where no new content populates. Why can’t we filter post on the main feed of all reddits I’m following? You go back to the app and it insists on showing you content you’ve already scrolled passed and chose not to engage with. It’s super easy to turn your device orientation, swipe how you’re not suppose to, click something and your feed resets. There’s a frequent bug where after 30 seconds using the app I can no longer upvote, click into a post to see comments, I can literally only scroll. And then I hit the bottom and new new content populates. This app is so unusable and I typically deleted it for weeks at a time.
Update.. now the app crashes after scrolling for a few minutes. It will slow down, then my headphones disconnect, then the app crashes and all my widget disappear. How is this app allowed on the App Store in such a broken state?
2025-05-25
Love Reddit Except
I do really enjoy Reddit. Find myself at times thinking I’ll go on for a few minutes, and it’s an hour later. What I don’t like about Reddit is how easily people can have you blocked. Or flagged , kicked off. With what they’re calling hate speech. Or saying you’re a racist. Then you have to fight it each time. I also don’t like how they don’t show what it is you’re being kicked off for. Not until fighting it did I actually know what I actually said. One example for why I was kicked off. It was a feed of Elon Musk’s Trans kid. I said she was a trust fund kid. I said nothing homophobic, racist or sexist. I said she was a trust fund kid. How’s that even bad. I would love to be a trust fund kid. But they had me kicked off for saying that. They said I was a racist and what I said was hate speech.
Nobody should have to fight something like that. Of course it was overturned. That god Reddit has rational people taking a look at it. But it shouldn’t even be able to go that far.
I also think those people should then be flagged. Or have some type of repercussions for that. It’s bullying.
Like I said I really enjoy it a lot. But there are to many groups on here. Where if you don’t agree with them. Then you shouldn’t be able to enjoy Reddit, and they will get you banned so you can’t.
2025-05-07
Reddit in 2025
Be me, joins Reddit for like a month. Made a completely new account never posted anything before, use the forums to ask for help or innocent questions. Half of my posts get auto modded or down voted because of one little particular pet peeve. It’s like the website is managed by the most sensitive subhuman morons to ever exist. Ask a question? Banned or down voted, have a genuine concern over a topic of conversation? Why were you even talking in the first place? This just feels like Twitter if everyone was Elon and needed to feel the urge to be so right that it’s insufferable to everyone else trying to exist on a website made to be a forum based service. The fact the moderation doesn’t even get any better is even worse, my issues mirrored above are probably not even 1/4th of the worse things you’d encounter on Reddit. Thats saying something, because I know if I could I’d rate this negative 12 stars, just to elaborate how much of a waste of time this app is and how little enrichment it brought to me and probably millions of others. At the end of the day, what is showed for it? Probably nothing since Reddit won’t do anything about this, they won’t fully read or acknowledge ANY of these claims and just give a half written apology for the review. What a waste of time.
2025-04-12
Fix the video player
It’s a toss up whether or not the video player works on mobile which is why I wrote this… meanwhile they are too worried about flooding my feed with useless ads I don’t care about and will never buy, 0% chance I will spend any money on Reddit or anything I remotely related to it especially when basic features don’t work. Also I got a warning for upvoting something because it “promotes violence” so if I was you I would just not upvote anything at all anymore because who knows what they’ll determine is violent at this point, theres literally gore subs where you can watch people die which are somehow still alive and well… meanwhile anything related to Luigi is too much for them I guess because the guy happened to be a CEO, I wouldn’t be surprised if I was banned just for writing this review. I will say the app has been useful to me, however you can tell the quality is getting worse with ads disguised as posts and comments, and the unnecessary bans and warnings that people get, it’s a matter of time that they will force you to pay to use the app at all, and this app will turn into an echo chamber.
2025-03-15
Awful replacement for third party clients
I don’t need to go into what Reddit did when they ended third party clients - there’s plenty of discussion of how horrible that decision was elsewhere. What bothers me is that this first party app is so awful. For months now, there has been a bug where all interaction just freezes up. Can’t scroll or anything, but at least that one isn’t terribly frequent. There *is* a terribly frequent bug where individual links won’t work - no feedback whatsoever when you tap them, not even to say “this couldn’t be loaded.” If this isn’t a bug but rather the underlying post cannot be accessed, then it’s just terrible UX. And for the past week or so, there has been a new and exciting bug where most of the app works, but you can’t interact with the content of comments. This means you can’t click on links and can’t make in-line images larger.
These are pretty core functional behaviors that would be caught by regression testing at any competent software firm - or, for that matter, by the one-man development team that made my favorite third party app before Reddit forced him to shut it down with their absurd API fees.
You’ll use this app because you have to, because the web browser experience is actively hostile on mobile. But it’s inarguably a worse experience than the alternative apps were a couple years ago, and I can’t wait till a decent alternative service comes along.
2025-03-11
Enables hate, harassment, violence, and defamation
I liked to use Reddit to look into information on specific topics and firsthand experiences in certain situations. It’s helpful in that regard, but it is also a platform that allows for groups of people to spew horrible, offensive, and dangerous rhetoric. This has been proven true throughout time, and many individuals have been subjected to extreme pressure and abuse due to Reddit pages that are dedicated to hating one person. I don’t know why Reddit has no problem with this, and it’s a shame that an app as popular as Reddit is known to be okay with allowing its users to say/act however they please. A specific example that is happening currently is the situation regarding Ethan and Hila Klein. For months they subjected to horrible, defamatory comments made about pretty much everything in their life. Criticism is one thing, but these “snarkers” on the Reddit pages dedicated to hating them have called CPS on them. A CPS worker had to waste time and resources by going to their home and investigating the tip that was called in. The line regarding “criticism” has been passed a long time ago. These are real people, with children do not deserve this. And this is ALL happening on Reddit. Reddit is allowing an angry, hateful mob to continue to harass these poor people. So overall, I would say don’t download this app, if you have a question about something simply use another platform to find your answer.
2025-03-05
An Endless Source of Knowledge, Fun, and Community!
Reddit is truly an amazing platform that offers something for everyone. Whether you’re looking for expert advice, niche communities, or just a laugh, Reddit has it all. The sheer variety of subreddits means you can find people who share your exact interests, whether that’s a hobby, profession, or even a shared experience. I love how interactive and supportive many communities are—whether it’s answering questions, offering tips, or simply sharing stories.
The layout is clean and user-friendly, making it easy to navigate between different topics and discussions. It’s also a great place to learn new things. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve found useful, insightful, or inspiring content that’s shaped my perspective or helped me solve a problem.
Reddit also has an excellent balance of content. From in-depth discussions to lighthearted memes, there’s always something fresh and entertaining. It truly fosters a sense of belonging and community—whether you’re posting or just lurking, you’re never alone here. Highly recommend it to anyone looking to connect, learn, or just have fun!
2025-01-25
Only certain opinions are allowed
If you point something out that doesn’t drive with someone it gives them a ticket to turn around and harass you and somehow it’s OK. Opinions aren’t allowed on here. They don’t really take care of bad behavior properly. No one can have an open discussion about anything without taking every comment personally and turn around and attacking that person. It’s really sad but most of it is the younger generation that can’t take a comment or read something that goes against what they think their precious little ego can’t handle it .I came out here to get information, but some people want to rule and control and block your every comment. I could give an F less about karma points so I guess there are a bunch of people controlling that and I don’t really care get a life - full of a bunch of NPC liberals with no brain think. some the information is useful but again you have to remember that a lot of stuff is deleted so everything is lean ing towards one opinion so there might as well not be an opinion if there is only one correct one- that’s not how communication and expression is meant to be if you’re the type of person who can’t take other peoples comments you need to be off of Reddit, but that’s the only people who are on here.
2024-11-20
A broken mess of an app for a decent social media platform
Jeez, where do I start? - The video player takes days to load a 5 second video. - The app sometimes refuses to load anything on cellular data, even when my phone has full bars and loads other apps with no problems. - a misclick can force the app to scroll all the way to the top of the page with no way to go back down where you were other than manually scrolling - sometimes the app refuses to load a png or jpeg image on cellular data, and refuses to let me comment anything - sometimes the app lags or glitches making you comment/reply the exact same thing twice instead just once - there are WAY TOO MANY ads, and no way to decrease their amount or get rid of them. I’m surprised there aren’t any popups or anything - the ads always load long before anything else does - if you forget your password, you could easily make a brand new account with the same email by accident Reddit themselves couldn’t pay anyone to use this app, but they’re trying to force everyone to use this broken mess.
Edit: the latest update leaves you unable to upvote, which is the primary way of interacting with posts. It also leaves you unable to comment, forcing every single user to just observe with no interaction whatsoever
2024-11-03
Reddit became Nightmare Mode
Reddit was used to work out perfectly in last 2months but Reddit has completely turned into the most useless social media platform I have seen who doesn’t allow new users to join Reddit has keep my new accounts un activated whenever I created it and join a community and post my post doesn’t show up or get view which means the account is useless for me because I can’t even get followers anymore or message inside anymore it’s been same thing for the past two months till now this bug has not been fixed yet I don’t understand if someone can’t join Reddit anymore I keep creating new account and never work out and I deleted it and create more same issues what exactly is happening with Reddit what is definitely going with Reddit update I think this new version of Reddit is just a waste of intelligence and time wasting since we the customer can’t get in Reddit like other Social Media platform to be honest Reddit used to my best social media platform not until is getting more worsened by day no changes about this problem why do my account keeps gets inactive and never works and that makes me deleted Reddit from my phone for now I don’t know when this bug is gonna be fixed
2024-07-09
Profoundly disappointing
This app is very pretty to look at as long as you don’t want to actually do anything but look at the homepage. The user experience is choppy and bloated; anything more than a few pages of scrolling and the app begins to slow down from dropping a few frames to actually freezing. There is no setting to always allow NSFW content, so the user is warned by a full screen pop up at every turn off of the front page. Carousels of photos do not fall evenly into the preview slots, so after three pictures in a ten photo carousel the user sees half of one image and half of the next rather than one entire image. Longer carousels are worse. Getting four photos in and then clicking the preview image brings you to the first image in the carousel, a UI problem solved ten years ago on even the simplest of apps. External and internal advertisements are everywhere. There is no clear way to disable incoming notifications or suggestions from Reddit; even with all relevant settings changed the suggestions remain. This app is a significant downgrade for the user in nearly every way from the third party apps which Reddit shut down some time ago.
2024-07-05
Good app but some problems
I tried posting pictures on the Reddit mobile app today. It gave me such a hard time about uploading photos. I would upload them and then they would disappear over and over again. It took me probably an hour to get the photos I want to upload and stay uploaded. And then when I finally posted it, the photos were totally different than what the photos look like in my photos app. They looked edited, like really gray. The color of the photos was essential to this post so I had to delete it. It was really frustrating. The app worked great for me up until this point and it’s not a huge problem if I don’t post, so I’ll continue to use the app and wait for improvements.
Other than that, I’ve had a great experience on Reddit so far. I enjoy reading random stuff or stuff I’m genuinely interested, getting other people’s opinions. There’s an absolutely huge amount and range of information on Reddit and I appreciate it, I can always find an answer in some corner of the app. Reading other reviews, it depends on which subs and communities you’re active in. But that part isn’t the developer’s fault but the users. So I don’t think that should be included in a review tbh.
2024-06-21
forced to use the app
i search random things all the time on the web and reddit sometimes has the answers but every single time i click the web page the annoying “view in app” pops up then will block everything but 1 reply??? how inconvenient of a website to be and ridiculously annoying. just let me use it. just as annoying as google wanting to force you to use their app every search it get’s extremely old quick. I just tried to find a power rangers meme and the thread “hadn’t be reviewed” so it wouldn’t let me view it so i click go to the app and what a big surprise it didn’t work and did not take me to the thread. so I don’t have any filters on Google, but Reddit won’t let you look at anything unless you’re signed in. this isn’t an 18+ website or even require a subscription so why is it so strict? all i know is that this is a great app made terrible for the dumbest reasons and it ruins all the good things about reddit. let people do things without blowing the map with ridiculous notifications don’t even work when you try to use them to forward you to the app. It’s the same exact thing as Instagram and it’s inability to let you see what you’re looking up on the web. Maybe just don’t have web searches then if you’re only going to be an app?
2024-04-01
Finicky at best.
For a company that wouldn't stop at anything to score a few extra dimes, this app is remarkably poorly optimized. Sometimes the home feed will show only one subreddit, sometimes it'll outright stop loading posts, and the touch controls aren't the best at all, which is very surprising. On iPad, a decent number of buttons (for example, the upvote and downvote buttons) are tiny. Honestly, the size of the buttons makes it seem like they don't want you to vote. The buttons were so small, that I accidentally tapped an advertisement instead of the upvote button. Swiping is poorly utilized, as you can't swipe to quickly upvote/save posts, instead swiping will simply close posts. The landscape orientation is also very poor, and is too much of a hassle. I don't even know why they made landscape even an option outside of media, because it's just cumbersome otherwise.
If I have to give this app one plus, it's that it makes finding new subreddits quite easy. It recommends subreddits that have a similar vibe as the ones you've viewed, which is sorta good, if you ask me. Unfortunately, the minuses outweigh the pluses by a lot. If the planets align, and you somehow get five minutes of this app's best, then yeah, it's decent I guess.
2024-03-27
New UI gestures oversight
Within the past day or two there was an update to UI gestures when tapping into a post. Functionality before was that you could tap a post to pull up a full view of the image/video/media. For galleries, you could swipe left and right to either end and stay in the post. There was a button for the comments section. Swipe up went to related posts in the same subreddit/feed. Swipe down went back to the card view of the feed. This works fine.
With the new change, when swiping left, you don’t hit a stop with galleries anymore. It will move on to the next recommended post. If that post is a gallery as well, you have to swipe through ALL the images in the gallery to get to the next recommended post. There’s no other way to continue seeing recommended posts. There’s also no way to stay confined within a single post/gallery anymore since there is no stop.
Swipe up used to be next recommended post, replaced with comments. There was already a button for comments in at least 2-3 places I could think of for a post. Now, the new gestures make the UX more difficult instead of intuitive. They weren’t all that intuitive to begin with, but this makes it more redundant for comments, and harder for post discoverability. I’d love to see more customize-ability with these settings, or at least a way to revert.
2024-02-15
Censorship is unreal
So I wanted to make a post first to the admins but since I can’t this will have to suffice. I challenged a lot of the narratives that were coming out regarding vaccine efficacy and waning immunity back in July from preprints (that are now published). Instead of accepting the debate, I was permanently banned from several subreddits. Okay, fine. So I create a new account because your company essentially banned my speech. I posted completely different comments on a totally different topic (and nothing controversial either) that just so happens to be in the same subreddit. What happens? Permabanned. I used a completely different email and everything. Literally it must have been through my device ID. Like you shove content down my throat automatically, and whenever I create an account (forgetting I was banned) that account now gets auto banned just for using the device. Not ONLY was I vindicated by what I was saying through the science, but now I am unable to speak on any other topics just because I posted something some of the mods didn’t personally like several months back. This is the issue with censorship. You silence voices and create an echo chamber, and additionally those voices that are silenced now become enemies of the entire system.
2023-12-04
Honestly just use the website
I wanted to give the app a try, I really did. Mostly so that I wouldn’t have to look at the ugly “USE APP” button plastered on top of the mobile website. But I just could not do it. Even if you turn off notifications, the app has in-app little orange indicators that they constantly pester you with. Every day it sends me a popular post from a subreddit I am already subscribed to. There’s an annoying little orange dot that won’t go away until I look at it. Multiple times per day it gives me a little notification about subreddit chats or something. I’ve literally never used subreddit chats and do not want to. Somehow the list of chats that it notifies me about keeps growing, AND THE STUPID ORANGE DOT WILL NOT GO AWAY UNTIL I TAP ON ALL OF THEM. There is no way to turn this off. This is by far the most frustrating app user experience I’ve encountered.
update: now it’s not even possible to get the mobile website to stop asking you to download the app. do yourself a favor and just quit reddit altogether. ask yourself why a company that basically only makes money on advertising is so insistent that you download their app, to the extent that they are removing features from their formerly functional website to influence your decision.
2023-10-09
This app is straying further from god…
Honestly. If I could give this a 0 star review I would. This app wont be better than thier 3rd party counter parts for a couple of reason. 1. Got to do multiple steps just to save photos. Don’t know what the issue is with long pressing and saving a photo but here I gotta go thru 2 menu options just to download a image I wanna save…. Regardless if its a image to save for a build in a game or a image for a wallpaper… 2 steps too many. 2. CANT SAVE VIDEOS. The only reddit app used to let you save video to a device. Then it was changed…. Which is why I used Apollo (will always be the best reddit app) in the first place. Anytime I wanna save a video I could only save it in app and or crosspost it. I got friends that don’t use reddit (I can see why now) so I used to save videos I thought was helpful or funny so they didn’t have to go to their site or download the app to see it. If you wanna gatekeep people from using your api at least find out what they were doing over your garage app. That way it was more justified for removing the api( better word, extorting) usage and making this app better. Ill see how this app changed but its been months now and its only gotten worse so I’ll probably wont change review.
2023-09-17
Keeps resetting my notification settings
I have repeatedly (and repeatedly, and repeatedly, and—) changed my settings so that I don’t get random notifications for things like recommended or trending posts. I only want notifications for things like replies to my own posts and comments, and changing the settings temporarily fixes this for me. However, without fail, after maybe a couple months it randomly resets so that all notifications are selected and I start getting a bunch I don’t want again, and have to go back in and deselect a bunch of them all over again. Based on the tons of complaints I’ve found all over Reddit’s own platform, this has been an issue for a very long time for many many people and there doesn’t seem to have ever been any attempt on Reddit’s behalf to solve it. Considering this is the only app I’ve ever had this problem with, it seems like at this point they either just really don’t care whether their app works right or they’re actively trying to annoy their user base with unwanted notifications on purpose. Honestly the app is fine otherwise, this really is the only reason I’m rating it one star because it’s such a stupid bug for an app this size to have, unless it really is on purpose but either way I get more annoyed each time it happens. This should be an easy fix guys, so dumb.
2023-09-13
They need a new moderator system.
I’m tired of my account being temporarily banned for 7 days on certain subreddits when I don’t do anything wrong. If a mod doesn’t like something you say that’s all it takes even if it’s civil. If you try to appeal it, most of the time the message won’t even send. The mod and appeal system is a joke, because the mod that made the ban refuses to change their mind. The app is broken half the time and doesn’t work. Either server error or try again later.
I never bully or harass anyone. My latest ban was because I gave my opinion on a post that someone asked for opinions. Yes that’s it. The mods reasoning was “don’t yuck someone else’s yum”. The OP was literally asking for fashion advice. I was civil and simply stated I didn’t like ONE out of the 7 outfits in question. That resulted in my account being temporary banned for 7 days.
They allow anyone to be moderators and if they don’t agree with you, they can do whatever they want. I see many bullying comments that get ignored. I guess on Reddit you’re allowed to be a bully as long as the mod agrees with you. Freedom of speech is only allowed on Reddit if the mod agrees with you. Broken app and broken mod system.
2023-08-21
The website is great but this app is hot garbage
I enjoy using Reddit for all types of things from help with specific subjects, to entertainment. That is why it pains me to say that this app is horrible. On mobile, Reddit forces you to use the app to view content from many of its subreddit but the app has to be closed and restarted every few minutes due to bugs. There are many issues but my biggest complaints are videos playing their audio over other videos, comments don’t post sometimes and sometimes they post twice, sometimes the app just stops loading things as if my internet went out but I check other apps and my internet is just fine, and the most common/most annoying bug where the video will play for about 10 seconds then mute itself. I unmute it then 10 seconds later it mutes again. I can’t use this app for more than 10 minutes without experiencing one of these bugs and the only way to fix it is to close and reopen the app. There are far more apps and if you have slow internet, watching videos is basically impossible as every time you fast forward or rewind it has to reload the whole thing and the video doesn’t play unless it’s fully loaded. There are many bugs and some have been around for a while. The website is great, but the app is hot garbage.
2023-07-25
Good Until Recent Update
I have been using the app for about 3 years now and it was great….Until the latest update. The problem in question is related to photos. You use to be able to click a photo and then double-tap to zoom in….Now you cannot. On top of that, it now opens the photo with the post text forcibly overlaid at the bottom. This will cut off the content for some of the photos. You use to be able to “light-tap” and the overlaid text would disappear, but now the “light tap” just does nothing. It also disables the ability for me to do the “force click” on my iPhone. Using the pressure sensor on the screen you could essentially “right-click” and it would bring up the share menu. All three of these features disappeared/appeared in the last two weeks. It’s absolutely awful and makes browsing Reddit an absolute chore. I’m not sure who or what made them change direction on such an simple feature. Making it infinitely more complicated without providing any actual features/improvements.
Edit: Additionally in another new update. They made it so that if you click the like button, it actives the share button automatically afterwards….Now every time I like something, the app lags and tries to get me to share it….I have to close it and the app to get it to stop.
WORST UPDATE IN THE HISTORY OF APPS.
2023-07-12
Terrible App
If I could leave a 0-star rating I would. This app has problems galore that looking through reviews of it from the past 6 months would only list probably half of them. More development time was probably spent in creating those tacky Reddit NFTs than on this app. Previously you could use reliable and helpful third-party apps that had three times the features than this sorry-excuse for a web browser, but now this is all that remains since they charge absolutely ludicrous prices to the developers of the third-party apps who can’t possibly afford to pay it. I barely ever use Reddit anymore: previously I would surf Reddit via Apollo (an actual competently developed app), but I refuse to use this waste of phone storage space in Apollo’s place. As a result, I and many others have stopped browsing Reddit almost entirely. We all have much better things to do on our computers than waste time on Reddit of all things. As per usual of the dim-witted and greedy Reddit leadership, this lapse of sane decision-making will no doubt hasten the sites already imminent death because no one in their right mind would use an app that still has the same major bugs, issues, and missing features that it did when it released years ago.
2023-07-03
A forced, and frustrating, mess
Let me be clear: I have used the Apollo app for my Reddit needs for about 2 years now. Prior to this I was using the official Reddit app. I didn’t “hate” the official app, but in comparison to so many apps in the App Store, it felt very behind and lackluster. Bad loading times, the UI was horrible, and just an overall poor experience that I put up with because “it’ll get better.” After switching to Apollo on a whim, I found a solution to every single issue the official Reddit app had for me at the time. Everything, every little detail, was so thought out. The UI, the gestures to comment, upvote/downvote, etc. was so useful and felt so natural on an iPhone.
However, Reddit has forced Apollo to close, and I decided to give the official app another go. While it improved since I last used it, it certainly is not the best app to use Reddit on. That one is gone, all by Reddit’s own doing. Reddit should really take what Apollo did so well and use that to build onto their own app. The little details do go a long way, and I genuinely believe the Reddit app could benefit by taking these details and working them into their app. But the fact that they are, for lack of better term, forcing this decision to use a much worse app is truly a shame.
2023-07-03
Instagram 2.0
Final Update: I’ve used this app for 5+ years and am now deleting it. Between the rearranged USI making it harder to enjoy, the recent API issue, and the ads, my god the ads. It seems every third post is an ad and they’re never anything I’m interested in. There are thousands of Christian’s ads that are just completely tone death. Also the content quality has just diminished. It’s great for wasting time but there really isn’t anything that interesting going on anymore. I wouldn’t recommend it, it’s just a huge waste of time. I’m deleting it for good now. Finally time to go out and touch grass.
The recent updates have really killed the magic of Reddit. It feels like an Instagram clone now. They made the list of subreddits harder to access and replaced them with a “feed” of popular stuff that I’m not interested in. The ads and recommended communities are excessive and Intrusive. Very much has gone from, online form for discussion, to social media “check out my avatar” and upvote my posts! A lot of the magic that made Reddit unique has given way to the pressure of becoming a social media platform. If you want to look at pictures get Instagram instead. Has been a great opportunity for me to quit though. This app is a complete waste of time and would not recommend. Given 2 stars just for what Reddit used to be. The interface has ceased to be user friendly
2023-06-29
Stay back, and don't come back until their API prices are reverted.
As of now with the abysmal prices of Reddit's API plus their absolutely narcissistic way that they have handled the community's answers, the user are now less valuable than the revenue their API calls produce. Many apps will be shutting down TOMORROW because the prices they have been given are madness. For instance, Apollo, a 3rd party app that has been running for the past 10 years, and has even been recognized by iPhone (i.e. WWDC) is 24 cents for every 1000 API calls, with each call being sent for just about anything you do. Comment? Call. Post? Call. Upvote or downvote? Either one is a call. With all of those costing 24 cents to Apollo to give to Reddit, this amounts to 2 million dollars, MONTHLY. Keep in mind, the sole maker of the app, u/iamthatis AKA Christian, ran the app and only supported himself through completely optional extras. Apollo won't even be the only casualty of such a change. Narwhal, Reddit is Fun, etc.
u/spez AKA Steve Huffman, you have gave each and every moderator team, the people who made your servers live, a singular clap then a "Screw you". Maybe that 2 Million a month won't be so worth it when you'll have a community that loathes you, and if you don't know what "loath" means, which I completely understand by this point, this means you'll be considered the enemy of Reddit.
2023-06-20
The only social media/sharing site I use
I've been using Reddit for 6 years, and while there's been a lot of changes-some good and some bad-it's still the best media platform, by far. The voting system and user content personalization keeps the content fresh and of decent quality. I never get bored. There's such great variety on here: politics, science, literature, world/local news, popular news, comedy, idiotic comments, philosophical conversation, support groups, --the list is literally endless, and if you can't find the sub you want, they're very easy to make up (although moderating can be a pain sometimes, I hear). The app itself is well-designed, and easier to navigate than it's sister app, Alien Blue. That said, I wish there was a way to easily (or at all) quote (c&p) other users and/or to access the content on the site in safari. I actually have the question our on r/reddithelp as to whether these are possible (I thought they were), so if I find they are, I'll update the review.
Update, June 2023. My how the mighty have fallen. I’m not even wasting my time outlining all of the ways Reddit has let its users down. I’ve begun to suspect it’s intentional, as the last bastion of progressive discourse online. Regardless, and for many, many other reasons, after over a decade as a user and sometime-mod, I’m absolutely done with Reddit. This site is destined for the garbage.
2023-05-11
Changes to the app has been crappy to say the least 👎🏻
Most recent version does not show long image captions. Some previous versions only let you see the caption when you click the image (hate it). Some older versions show the caption on top of the image (which is what I prefer), but it cuts off and does not show the entire caption. What’s worse is that instead of showing “more” to let users see the full caption when you click the image, doing that completely makes the caption disappear! Please make it so the image captions are either fully displayed on top of the photo without having to click on the photo, OR make it so captions are partially displayed on top of the photos and clicking the photo displays the entire caption or gives us the “more” option to see the full caption.
Also, PLEASE stop changing the UI and please stop showing me subreddits that I did not join. I only want to see the subreddits I joined when I open the app. If I want to see other subreddits, I will manually search them up!!
2023-04-19
Constantly making terrible updates, never to be fixed
Devs can’t leave a good thing alone. App is constantly being updated and every time it is, it gets more frustrating to use. Good features are constantly being taken away and not replaced. Meanwhile, frustrating features that don’t make sense are all more common. Click on post title, and it no longer takes you to comments. It opens video player instead. Try to swipe on comment to collapse, and it changes the post entirely. It’s really feels like the people that make this app don’t use it at all. Not to mention they switched to a native video player that doesn’t work a large percentage of the time. What once was a reliable system, has been replaced by a faulty system that is consistently not working. It’d be different if this was experimental, or fixed with time. Instead, these changes are introduced with no concern for the user base, and what feels like no intention of being fixed. The community does not receive it well, and announces their displeasure. Then they are left that way, to never be touched again. Not very happy with the way this app has been managed the last few years. Going to have to switch to an alternative.
2023-03-25
Word’s Can’t Explain…Or Can They?
First of all if anyone thinks that you will be treated fairly, that you will have a voice, or a place where you can have a different mindset from everyone else, where you don’t feel like the website is controlled by the Gestapo, or Stalin’s NKVD, or feel pressured to “go with the flow” to be treated as “sheep”. Well then this app isn’t for you. Because it certainly wasn’t for me. It doesn’t matter how polite you are, how cordial or reasonable you are you have to build up “Karma” and a reputation to even post a comment. I had a comment stating “Mario Cart Be Like:” and it got taken down because it quote: “Violated rules and guidelines” but yet everyone on that same page is using curse words and other vulgar types of language. I put in an inquiry to see if I could get the situation resolved and I was a bit frustrated but at the same time I wanted to make sure I was being respectful. And I was essentially told to give a less “triggered inquiry” So me being me I chose to be the bigger man and apologize even though I had nothing to apologize for. But I stated to them many times that I come in peace and my objective is humor but not the type that makes targets or victims of anyone. And they told me to give a less “triggered response”. Which tells me the wheel is spinning inside their head but the hamster is dead. If you can’t stand ignorance avoid this.
2023-03-06
Zero Customer Service
I was actually a huge fan of Reddit. I frequently purchased coins to give away fake internet awards, I purchased many of their collectibles and I finally started paying for premium. I much preferred Reddit over other social media apps like Discord and Twitter, but that all changed thanks to my experience these last few months. I was just before my two year cake day and ended up with something I’m told is an “IP ban” a ban evasion that never occurred because I was no longer banned in the sub at the time the comments were made.
It all started after I was unbanned from a community and as soon as I posted my first comment in that sub, I received a temporary ban. After the temp ban was over, I reached out to the subreddit mods and to support to make sure that I was officially in the clear to make comments in that sub again. The mods said I was fine, but Reddit support never responded. I took a chance and made a comment on that sub again and, boom….permanent ban. I have made multiple requests to support with zero response, other than “the ban stands”. It’s as if nobody is reading or investigating what I have been explaining. Any reasonable person could look at the evidence I am providing (screen shots from the mods) and see that the permanent ban was in error.
2023-02-08
Coolest people and App
You get to Scroll through Weird Avatars some Reptilian features some Asian,some Bohemian like all with different colors. I found it took too long to match up the character Avatar and the Colors I wanted but was Happy to find One I could deal with. So then you anonymously search vast subjects your interested in. Because you believe No One Can Identify You, You can be Free to Tell the Truth about something and that is so needed today when some people and some in powerful positions are telling us what we can say and what we can’t. Why do some people want to have total control over others? We don’t become our Best Self without the Freedom to Think outside the Box. Respect others perspectives. Sure some have decided to strictly stay true to their own convictions, culture, or education, but we can all learn something from each other from personal experiences that can be told on a Social Media platform that won’t shame you, or threaten to cancel you. We Become Better at Being Human when we remember we are All Humans Being.
2023-02-04
reddit still requires work in a lot of areas
I downloaded reddit for the pure enjoyment of having some place to post and interact with different communities. However, I noticed when receiving a follower you don’t have the option of “knowing” who follows you but you get a notification saying that person followed you. It’s annoying not being able to see who interacts with your posts from time to time or who follows you. Another thing is inbox messages you can’t delete them from your reddit inbox meaning they’ll stay there until you delete your account completely. Wish that wasn’t the case but sadly that’s how reddit is, the app isn’t really successful in managing followers like you can easily remove them on instagram or check who’s following you. Spam bots follow but you can’t get them to unfollow you which is ridiculous.
Although I love reddit and the platform because you can post anonymously on reddit posts. I wish they’d focus on the important things of the app, like managing inbox messages and managing your followers or remove followers from your profile without deleting your account.
2022-08-30
Let’s talk about the app itself, and not the website
Honestly I’d have to recommend that anyone installing Reddit for the first time find a different app to use it. Long time Reddit users have almost always hated the official app, but I never really understood their problem with it. I liked the UI, and there were a bunch of useful QoL features that other Reddit apps didn’t have.
That is no longer the case. ~1.5 years ago every update started breaking or outright stripping those features. They’re always small changes. No one change really makes that big of an impact. Things like no longer being able to change the view (card, normal, compact) on search results, the weird comment ‘tray’ that prevents you from swiping horizontally between posts, the endless compatibility issues with various embedded video hosting sites, etc.
The official app isn’t as broken as some people make it out to be. However, I still advise that new users not climb onboard the sinking ship. Any features you like/get used to in the official app will be removed before long, and there will be no way to get it back. Find an app made by a 3rd party that factors community feedback into development decisions.
2022-07-08
The UI “updates” are terrible and not user-friendly!
HEADS UP! THE PREVIEW IS NOTHING LIKE WHAT THE APP LOOKS LIKE NOW!
Continuously, Reddit App developers change the UI not to fix bugs but to make a worse experience for users. Reddit used to have a UI design that set it apart and was functional. Now the app is designed to emulate other social media apps and it does not fit with existing design choices. The new video player is somehow worse than the video player that existed previously (and was never fixed, despite constant bug reports). Sorting options have been removed from the top of the tabs and placed within the profile menu (and only lets you sort for home now). That means instead of one click to sort, it’s now three. They’ve decided, in their infinite wisdom, to change how the upvote, comment, and share buttons are displayed. Instead of across the entire bottom of a post, spread out so you know what you’re clicking, it’s all now squished to the bottom left of the post. They choose to overhaul the design of the UI repeatedly, straying further and further away from what made Reddit unique while not fixing any of the existing issues. I could go on and on about the horrible choices they continue to make, and how they don’t listen to the community about what we actually want out of the app, but they clearly don’t listen (duh).
2022-06-22
Worse All The Time
If I want to seek out new subreddits, I will do that. If I’m curious what videos other users are watching, I will find out. But when I launch Reddit, I want to see the feed I’ve curated for myself first and foremost. The ads are awful enough. Reddit’s suggestions only add to the clutter. That I can disable these suggestions is beside the point. I am able to decide for myself what I want to see and participate in.
Even more frustrating are the icons at the top of my feed that notify me there are live audio conversations in various subreddits. Although I’d disabled every so-called feature that seemed remotely related, I could not rid myself of these icons. I wondered, did I have to visit each individual subreddit to disable these? Are they permanent UI fixtures? The answer to the last, according to a comment on a changelog post, is yes. For now, at least, and for too long. The team “will be building a toggle” to opt out of the live bar. They implemented the feature and didn’t bother to provide users a choice in whether to participate. They’ll get around to that.
Create separate feeds for suggestions and live dialogue, put them beside Popular and News, fine. I’ve no doubt some percentage of the user base are interested. But don’t opt in on my behalf.
2022-04-18
Where are my communities?
Well, it finally happened - I finally ditched the official Reddit app for a Reddit client. A lot of users have had issues with many of the updates and general usability of the official app
over the last couple of years but I hung in there. The final straw for me was when an update released a couple of weeks ago made it so my communities no longer display and it times out whole searching for them. I researched it, and others are experiencing the same thing which has been reported to Reddit but no fix has been provided in the handful of subsequent updates. I tried out a few other options and landed on an app that is reminiscent of Reddit’s glory days, complete with a responsive developer who interacts with the community and updates the app based on suggestions from actual users. Sorry Reddit, I love the platform but your app has degenerated so much I’ve decided it’s time to go - I’m leaving you for a third party app. Even if this bug were to be fixed and you change your ways, I’m happy with my new crush and don’t foresee myself coming back to you. It was fun while it lasted and I’ll look back on those years fondly, but you’ve changed for the worst - best of luck to you and your developers. Off I go, to spend time with my new Reddit squeeze :)
2022-04-05
Now requires account to follow
I’m not really into social media due to the lack of privacy and mundane content. Reddit is the most I do. I really liked that I could follow more positive, uplifting feeds and as a result didn’t have to stroll thru everything. Since it was updated (the previous one, not the one 5 days ago), now it asks you to create an account to follow specific feeds. I don’t know if you can still view only your chose feeds cuz I don’t care to create an account when I didn’t have to before. Looking at Reddit in its entirety influences me negatively, hence the reason I only followed Calvin & Hobbes, Earth Porn, Humans Being Bros, and Animals Being Bros. Before the update, Reddit started with my feed and I had the option to view Popular. Now all you have is Popular and News. I gave the new update a try for over two months but now I find myself feeling anxious or angry after strolling Reddit, just as I used to do before I began following more positive feeds only. Creating an account may be a simple matter for many but it’s not for me. To me it’s another way for tech to have some of your private information when it’s not necessary. I don’t do comments or votes so why should I have to sign in? So after giving the new Reddit a try, I’ve decided it’s best for me to delete it.
2022-02-28
Perfect App
Reddit is the best social media app available out of every single social media app that the majority of the population uses, like even though TikTok is very main stream right now, it can get really old, always seeing the same videos and what not, but Reddit however is like a fresh breath of air, constantly updated, pages for every single content out there- literally anything you can think of and you want to see wether it’s just a hobby, something funny, wanting to learn new stuff or even just people fighting, wanting to find something new, or you are curious legit anything you can think of you will be able to find a Reddit page for it, I never have any issues with Reddit— no lagging, no connection issues, I never seen the same videos over and over again, the app is super easy to use and learn so no excuses to not have the app unless you just really don’t want to download it or have an account, you can just go through Reddit with a guest account aswell, perfect app! Deserves all 5 stars I gave it, keep doing you reddit !! 😁😁😁☺️
2022-02-07
Not Working, Design Changes Hurt User Experience
This app was working just fine until the recent updates where Reddit has (1) swapped the video player with a TikTok wannabe video players and forced videos to sticky to the top of posts and (2) replaced the bottom communities tab that conveniently listed recent communities, favorited communities, and all other joined communities with an Pinterest-like browse tab which includes none of my communities. Now to get my communities list I have to tap a More button in the left - which is difficult to reach on an iPhone 12 Max - to open a side pane that wasn’t loading until I opened and closed the app a bunch of times (suggested by an admin on r/Redditmobile). What’s even worse is that if I want to jump to another one of my communities I **cannot**. I’m forced to tap the arrow in the top of the screen to exit the community, then I have to tap the More button to open the pane AGAIN, and then I can scroll to my desired community. The extra tap is annoying and frustrating. I wish these forced changes were optional so I could sidestep these weird choices whatever leaders at Reddit are forcing because they want to increase engagement in more boring normie communities that may have more ads.
2021-11-20
The Real Problem
So I’ve been on Reddit for around a week and I really loved it! The community was great and there was a lot to do there until recently. One day I went on and seemed to not be able to comment or post anything. I then found out a thing called being Shadowbanned which is what reddit dose to people if they break there rules. I find this reasonable as there needs to be a moderated platform for people. I looked more into it and went to the subreddit r/shadowban to see if I was shadowbanned and turns out I was. I then took the past 30 mins to got though the comments and posts I ever made and didn’t see anything. Of course if I got shadowbanned I have to happen to break the rules somehow, so I went to the mods them self’s to not be unshadowbanned but more of what I did wrong. Unfortunately to the dismay of me they never replied so I sent them any message asking kindly what I have done. The same thing happened and to this day I still don’t know why I got shadowbanned. Though all of this I’ve made 3 accounts and all shaowbanned trying to to break the rules, one of those accounts I literally made only 3 comments. I never written a Apple review before but this app has gotten me so upset I had to write a review. Reddit needs to implement something for people and get there acted together if they ever want me back again, I’m really disappointed with everything they did.
2021-10-10
Somebody Janked Up iOS Users Posting This Update
Sooooo... I literally CAN NOT post anywhere now because I am getting the message "Not Allowed In This Community" on every single subreddit. I can comment, vote, give awards, and even spend currency on your app without any issue...
??!!BUT I CAN'T POST ANYWHERE BECAUSE YOUR iOS APP IS MAKING ME AS EITHER NSFW OR SOMETHING ALONG THAT LINES THAT'S LEFT ME BARRED FROM DOING THE ONE THING I USE REDDIT FOR!!??
It's not just myself but also many other iOS users whom are experiencing the exact same problem with no response, fix in app, tech support, or an update to fix this MAJOR BUG. If you aren't aware of this issue by now then you should be. An I can go figure you are all well aware; but you just don't care unless it is affecting a large majority, all users, or could hinder the income of this lazy but more than capable to be a better company regardless of current worth it should/could be... Money and Power must truly be something... Because every company that is built on a foundation of users like myself; every last one of these companies have forgotten why they are running a social networking community to begin with. For the user becomes a thing of the past... Every time... An it becomes ALL ABOUT HOW MUCH MORE OF A PERCENT THEY CAN NET NEXT ROUND
2021-08-20
Fix the Bottom Bar Please!
Writing a review hoping this gets fixed so I can change the rating to five stars. The app will randomly change the orientation of the tabs at the bottom of the screen. Sometimes the app will open with my home page and five buttons at the bottom with the notifications on the far right, which is ideal. However, sometimes it opens to the world news tab and instead of a notifications tab, there is one that says “more” with three dots, where I can then click on notifications from a menu. Not only is this an annoying extra couple steps, there is no need for it since there is nothing else. On top of that, when I view my notifications this way, I cannot get to my profile in the same notifications tab. I can bring up the sidebar while viewing notifications, but when I click on my profile it just returns to my notification feed. Thought it was something that surely would have gotten caught and fixed quickly but the app was updated two days ago and this is still happening.
2021-06-14
I haven’t had any issues with the app till now—video player, I’m looking at you.
Man, sometimes I like to watch 5 second long videos, read the comments for a couple minutes, and get on with my day. Unfortunately now I can’t even do that because the video keeps looping, which turns my comment reading session into a torture session. Come on, is that tiktok ripoff trend so lucrative that you have to jump on it too? Nobody on Reddit wants tiktok on the platform—if they did they’d be using tiktok. Stop trying to be like the social media giants and go back to being your own thing! That’s why your user base exists and you’re gonna lose a lot of us if you keep making these awful choices.
Ok but for real, the video player UI is just awful. On everything else the upvote/downvote buttons are on the left, but on the video player they’re on the right. The pause button is tiny. Pressing the “comments” icon takes you to the video instead of the comments, and to read the comments you have to pause the video first (if you care about your sanity). Scrolling on the video no longer takes you to the comments but to another random video.
You can do better. Or wait, how bout you just go back to what was there? I never had an issue with the old player.
2020-07-23
One annoyance...
I honestly like the official Reddit app way better than any other third-party apps I've tried. However, I have one minor annoyance that's grown into a major gripe over time: whenever I use Safari to Google search something, and a Reddit post is in the search results, if I click the link there's a pop-up that says "See Reddit in..." and I have the option to open the page in the Reddit app or continue with the web browser. My problem is, whenever I try to open the page in the Reddit app, I'm sent to the app store as if I hadn't installed the app. I have never been able to open a link from Safari in the Reddit app, and I've tried everything. The app is up to date, I've tried opening the app before clicking the link and it still won't take me to the app.
Honestly, if this was fixed I'd give 5 stars. The Reddit app is really good. But this is just so annoying, and it's difficult to search for a specific post within the app so there's no real workaround. So I'm just hoping the devs see this and find a way to fix it. I'm using an iPhone XR 128GB, if that matters.
2020-02-08
A huge thank you!
I have been a Redditor for a few years now and always look forward to updates on the app. I don’t usually use the computer so I appreciate any and all updates to mobile. My all-time FOREVER FAVORITE & also what coincidently brought me to Reddit in the first is No Sleep. For the longest time, I couldn’t subscribe to series with one click. I tried to read how to fix the problem and or do it manually but could not figure it out. I knew from web searches this wasn’t an isolated problem. It sucked that I had to save the story then login on the internet to subscribe. But just for old times sake I clicked “here” and it worked! I appreciate all the time and effort everyone puts in, even though most of Reddit only comments and complains about Reddit. I can’t afford to buy premium monthly but I do when I have extra spending money and love to give awards the few times I have. I wish it was a bit more cost-effective but other than that you have a fan/user for the life of this platform!