It was the first app that made Reddit easy on an iPhone. I wasn’t a Reddit user, I was an Apollo user.

Christian had a great rapport with his users. We felt like we were in a journey together with a guy who really cared about what he was doing.

And the app itself was really really fabulous. Great features. Well organised.

I’m confident the devs at Wefwef or Mlem will look at Apollo as a template and make the fediverse happen quickly.

Ease of use is key.

It was just such a great app. Features such as hiding read posts, auto scroll back when you accidentally scroll to the top of your feed, appearance customizations, and a great dev who took feedback and improved the app based on what people wanted.

Its got a sleek and easy to use UI, is jam packed with features like customisable gestures, no ads, a great media player and (I think) lots of accessibility features.

It’s also wonderful that the dev loved his app and continually updated it

It just has so many unique features. Like sharing a comment or post as a screenshot including a customisable number of comments above it and the post itself. Very useful for quickly sharing or saving comment chains with context, without fiddling with collapsing comments and cropping. Or categories for your saved posts and comments so you could organise. A reminder function built into the app. A subreddit watcher that alerts you whenever certain keywords were posted in a sub. And many more. Lots of things that required more than just developing an app to access an API and display stuff. Gestures were the best I ever used. UI was clean and useful without fiddling with customisation. I was on Android until last year and tried many apps, Apollo beats them all.

But I think it was at the centre of attention because the developer is very responsive and Apollo is the app for Reddit on iOS. On Android you have users spread out across Sync, Boost, RiF, Joey and many more.

The official app is just featureless in comparison. I’m left-handed and you can’t even move the pictures of the posts to the left in compact view so I can access the picture/link/Video without reaching all the way across my phone. Might sound insignificant, but it’s something very simple that every Reddit app I used had and a deal breaker for me.

I know your asking about Apollo but I’m going to be the idiot who chimes in even though I used Reddit is fun. I used RiF because the native app was annoying and slow, I also didn’t want to see full screen images as I scrolled. RiF would give me a clean list of the topics from my favorite subs but not load full screen images so I could scroll through faster looking for the subjects I wanted to read/see at that moment. I just felt like I could find more of the topics I wanted faster than with the native app which also didn’t exist when I started using RiF. I’m using liftoff now and I’m annoyed at the images loading but I imagine there will be something that’s “cleaner” (by my standard) or a way to customize liftoff.

Good news. You can instal Wefwef and get the Apollo experience on android now. Give it a try and see how awesome it’s been for us iOS users