Description
Apollo is an app for Reddit built for customizability, smoothness, gestures, and taking advantage of everything iOS has to offer. Apollo is a beautiful Reddit app built for fast navigation with an incredibly powerful set of features. Thanks to features like the Jump Bar, fully customizable gestures, and a super-charged Media Viewer, browsing Reddit has never been this amazing. It's created specifically with iOS design guidelines in mind, so it fits right at home on your device, and with input from thousands of Redditors helping sculpt and perfect it over several years before launching:
• Jump Bar, for super-fast hopping between subreddits
• Super-charged Media Viewer for an amazing experience viewing images, GIFs, videos, albums, and more from a variety of sources.
• Tabbed interface for easy navigating
• Incredibly powerful Markdown composer for writing comments and posts
• Full inline Imgur uploading, both images and albums
• Large or compact posts depending on your preference
• Dark mode (can be automatic)
• Fully customizable gestures
• Safari View Controller for browsing articles and links
• Inline previews of media in comments
• 3D Touch support
• Beautifully organized Inbox
• Filtering and blocking
• Face ID / Touch ID / Passcode lock
• Moderator features
• Tons of settings to tweak
• GIF scrubbing to go backward and forward in time
• Multiple accounts
• Powerful search
• Full Markdown rendering
• Unobtrusive Volume Indicator
As well as much, much more and it's constantly evolving. If you have anything you'd specifically like to see, come to the ApolloApp subreddit and we'd love to hear it! Apollo is an unofficial app, and side effects may include an incredible browsing experience.
Change Log
v3.0.0 marks the move from the solo-maintained Apollo-ImprovedCustomApi to Apollo-Reborn: now a community-maintained project under the Apollo-Reborn org. Join us at r/ApolloReborn (https://www.reddit.com/r/ApolloReborn/) and check out our new homepage at apolloreborn.app (https://apolloreborn.app/)!
The pace of contributions over the last couple of months has been incredible, and a shared org lets us keep that momentum going sustainably: more reviewers, more shipped features, faster turnaround on issues, and a project that doesn't depend on any one person's availability.
We're also pulling the broader Apollo sideloading workflow together under the org:
• apollo-backend (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/apollo-backend) - a self-hostable revival of Christian's original notifications service for push notifications, inbox checks, and watchers on sideloaded builds.
• In-house IPA release pipeline — each release now publishes ready-to-install Apollo IPAs (Standard, No Extensions, Liquid Glass) and an AltStore/SideStore/Feather source directly from this repo. Huge thanks to @Balackburn (https://github.com/Balackburn), whose Balackburn/Apollo (https://github.com/Balackburn/Apollo) source has provided Apollo builds for the community over the years and is the model we're carrying forward.
Thank you,
Apollo Reborn team (@JeffreyCA, @icpryde, @jordanearle, @nickclyde, @DeltAndy123) ❤️
Sideloading sources
• These can all be found at http://apolloreborn.app (http://apolloreborn.app)
Features
• Post GIFs in comments: a new Gif button in the compose toolbar opens a built-in Giphy browser (trending + search) and uploads selected GIFs natively to Reddit (#276 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/276): @icpryde)
• Requires a free Giphy API key — set it in Settings > Custom API > API Keys > Giphy API Key. See the in-app Giphy & ImgChest API Key Setup guide for instructions (#285 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/285): @icpryde)
• Inline playback honors Settings > General > Autoplay GIFs/Videos with a static cover + play overlay when paused
• Add Image Chest inline album support: bare Image Chest links show the first image inline and open an in-app album viewer with tap-to-hide controls, idle auto-hide, and per-image pinch zoom (#241 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/241): @icpryde)
• To set up Image Chest, create an account at https://imgchest.com, generate an API token at https://imgchest.com/profile/api, and paste it into Img Chest API Key under Settings > Custom API > API Keys
• Add Subreddit Headers: view subreddit banners and display icons on subreddit pages, with optional tap-to-set custom local images that can be reset anytime in Settings (#266 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/266): @jordanearle, @icpryde)
• Compact u/username and r/subreddit cards in rich link previews show avatar/icon, display name, member count, and an about snippet, with long-press peek into the native profile/community view (#262 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/262): @icpryde)
• Long-press peek now works on usernames and subreddit links in threads and comments (#262 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/262): @icpryde)
• Show banned profile state with a dead Snoo overlay on user profiles, and surface comment author hints for banned/suspended users (#271 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/271), #278 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/278): @icpryde, @jordanearle)
• Add editable user flair text support to Apollo's flair selector (#255 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/255): @nunoo)
• Rich link previews now support translation alongside the rest of post and comment content (#262 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/262): @icpryde)
• Subreddit list (Modern mode) polish (#262 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/262): @icpryde)
• Add 41 new Liquid Glass icon variants by @jryng under a new New Variants group, plus new Aperture Science and ApollOS icon sets by @bajader, and reorganize the in-app App Icon picker into groups to reduce clutter (#287 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/287), #254 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/254): @DeltAndy123, @jryng, @bajader)
• Add Inline Media Alignment option in Settings > Custom API > Media to left-align, center, or right-align inline images that don't fill the full content width (#273 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/273): @lampemw)
• Rename Custom API to Apollo Reborn Options in Settings, polish the Thanks To screen with maintainer/code/icon & design groupings sourced from "contributors.json", and add an Apollo Reborn Subreddit row that opens r/ApolloReborn in-app (#294 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/294): @icpryde)
• Mask API keys in Custom API settings: Reddit, Reddit Secret, Imgur, Img Chest, and Giphy fields show dots when idle and reveal only while editing (#276 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/276): @icpryde)
• Add Buy Us a Coffee screen in Settings with maintainer links, and move Apollo's original Tip Jar to Settings > About above What's New (#294 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/294): @icpryde)
Fixes
• Fix scroll freeze / loading-spinner lockup while scrolling threads with rich link previews (#262 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/262): @icpryde)
• Fix comment layout shifting around as user avatars load in (#262 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/262): @icpryde)
• Replace placeholder filler text in rich link previews with skeleton loading bars, and reduce flicker when previews reappear (#262 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/262): @icpryde)
• Fix a stray translucent star/blob on rich link previews when using Share as Image (#262 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/262): @icpryde)
• Fix visionOS (Vision Pro) use-after-free crash on multireddits (#270 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/270): @rebelancap)
• Fix X and Edit buttons touching the top of the account switcher popup on Liquid Glass (#275 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/275): @lampemw)
• General stability improvements around rapid subreddit navigation and image loading (#262 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/262), #266 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/266): @icpryde, @jordanearle)
• Smoother scrolling through threads with lots of rich link previews (#262 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/262): @icpryde)
• Keep user profile cards and peek previews up to date when an account is suspended or banned (#278 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/278): @jordanearle, @icpryde)
• Fix launch crash when opening a banned user's profile (#276 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/276): @icpryde)
• Fix crash on Reddit link previews in some comment threads (#276 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/276), #280 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/280): @JeffreyCA, @icpryde)
• Fix Reddit-hosted GIFs stopping animation after leaving and returning to a thread (#276 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/276): @icpryde)
• Fix Giphy GIFs posted from Apollo not rendering in the official Reddit iOS app (and showing a "image was probably deleted" placeholder when editing in Apollo) (#289 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/289): @icpryde)
• Fix Compact link preview cards growing to hero size and overlapping the next comment after voting on a comment that contains a link (#290 (https://github.com/Apollo-Reborn/Apollo-Reborn/pull/290): @icpryde)
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Screenshots & demos
Rich Link Previews, Profile & Subreddit Cards · #262
Subreddit headers · #266
GIFs in comments · #276
Version
3.0.0 (286)
Last Updated
May 29, 2026
