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Hey, I made this! Cool to be on HN. :D Thanks for all the kind words.
Heya Christian - huge fan of the app. I was wondering if you could share some of your journey / early designs for the app? It’s one of the most well designed mobile apps I’ve used and I’d be curious to see how it evolved in your mind.
The biggest advantage for me over the official app is that it doesn't automatically open why I try to load Reddit links in Safari. Afaik, ios doesn't provide anyway to forcibly disable that behavior system-wide. That behavior is a deal breaker for me, so I can't have any official apps installed.
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How about fixing Apollo's existing messaging features first anyways? It is very frustrating to use.
Could you elaborate?
Apollo is cool, but I found myself going back to Narwhal after trying out both for a while. I love the comments on top of the media view for Narwhal, and Apollo hasn't matched that experience. The app looks awesome though, either way they are both amazing apps.
Not only is Apollo the best Reddit app for iOS, it might be one of the best 3rd-party iOS apps out there, period. It’s incredibly well-designed, very fast, and it’s updated very consistently. Christian, the developer, is a former Apple guy, and it shows — the level of attention and care he puts in is unparalleled. I’d love a hand-curated (by someone with good taste) list of apps of this quality. Anyone know of one?
Apollo is cool, but I found myself going back to Narwhal after trying out both for a while. I love the comments on top of the media view for Narwhal, and Apollo hasn't matched that experience. The app looks awesome though, either way they are both amazing apps.
Creator of narwhal here! Thanks for the kind words. We are working on an all new version and hope to share something soon :)
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I’m still using Alien Blue. The reader mode for external websites and the multireddit categories is what I’m missing most in other Reddit apps
Yo, Apollo dev here. Could you clarify a bit? There's a setting to make Apollo always use reader mode for websites, and you can create/edit/view multireddits in Apollo as well, I don't think Alien Blue even had multireddit support? ( https://www.reddit.com/r/AlienBlue/comments/2kd9yz/does_alie... )
- In AB dark mode there is no white flash! The screen stays black while the page is loading. In Apollo the screen goes white until the page is finished loading.
- In AB the reader mode forces all sites into reader / minimal HTML mode whether or not the website wants to allow reader mode
- In AB the reader mode seems to get more images and other content which is left out of reader mode by websites. It also seems to be less confused by some websites that display something other than the main content when reader mode is selected.