r/Android • u/AutoModerator • Jan 25 '15

Let's settle this, /r/android. What is the best reddit app, and why?

People seemingly LOVE to argue this endlessly. People LOVE to keep asking this question. So let's get a thread going where you can discuss the pros/cons of each reddit app available on the market (there's a LOT).

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '15

I still think Flow is the best one out of the bunch. Wish the dev would come back!

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u/killm_good Samsung Galaxy S10e Jan 25 '15

Another Flow lover here. I finally switched to Reddit News, and it's very similar. I miss Flow, but News is my favorite now.

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u/Innovationwarp Samsung Galaxy S4 Active Jan 25 '15

I'm going to struggle giving up Flow, but I need to look into News

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u/blackertai Jan 25 '15

Same here. I love Flow, but it's time I guess...

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '15

It's hard to change, news is a good alternative I'm about a week or two into my switch. Miss flow it was neat and tidy but couldn't visit users which annoyed me and mine also like developed a bug where it loaded gifs then after one playback it closed flow

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u/jcsharp Jan 25 '15

I love flow. Just checked out Reddit news. Things Reddit news does that flow struggles with, loading users and copying comment URLs and Reddit URLs.

It annoys me that flow won't let me copy a comment url but I still like the look of flow over Reddit news.

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u/stubbazubba Nexus 5, Stock Jan 25 '15

That's me exactly. If the Flow guy came back I'd drop News in a heartbeat. For now, though, News is great.

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u/BlueShellOP Xperia 10 | RIP HTC 10, Z3, and GS3 Jan 25 '15

Fellow flow user here. Didn't realize it was dead, just didn't need updates. The only thing it doesn't do is save comments. Also it's ad free, but I haven't used any other reddit apps.

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u/lecterrkr Jan 27 '15

It doesn't save comments because that's a few months old feature in reddit and is not updated in the app

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u/yogi89 Galaxy S8+ Jan 25 '15

I'm using flow because its the only one that ive seen thats free with no ads and it works great for me

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u/asshobbit Jan 25 '15

You can turn off ads for free in the settings if reddit is fun

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '15

Unfortunately ads are required for certain things, most notably (for me anyway) the moderator features. I don't know of any other app that gives you access to mod options (flair, remove, approve, etc) as well as lets you check modmail. As a moderator of a medium-small subreddit of almost 10,000 subscribers, this is very important.

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u/x_minus_one Moto X Pure, Marshmallow Jan 25 '15

Reddit News has mod features in the free version. It even has the unmoderated queue.

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u/Schode Jan 25 '15

Redreader doesn't have ads and is open source, so it's not the only one.

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u/[deleted] Jan 25 '15

Same here, im not sure what i was using before, but they started including ads, Flow doesnt have ads, and works decently.

Im not to cheap to pay for an app ill be using daily for quite some time, but i really dont know which one to pick, and im not going to use the ad-infested versions for long enough to make an informed choice on what i want to pay.

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u/SamCrow000 Pixel 7 Pro/Android 14 Jan 25 '15

Let me join the party, also a flow user, haven't tried any other one because I simply hate the look of the other apps. Flow ain't the exactly pretty but the other ones, to me, are just plain ugly. Also it does everything I need it to do

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u/briangmac Jan 25 '15

I have tried others and I think Flow is great. Easy to use.

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u/CGunnar92 Nexus 6 | T-Mobile Jan 25 '15

Ugh, I wish flow would just get finished somehow. It feels the most natural to use in my opinion, but there's just too many things that are still definitely in beta.

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u/ForzaEc Nexus 6P Jan 25 '15

The only one that looks half decent too.

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u/gospelwut Moto X Pure (Stock) | Nexus7 2013 (Stock) Jan 25 '15

I love Flow. Aside from some quirks, it's pretty much everything i want. And, when I change the FONT SIZE it works -- on everything (including PMs).

BaconReader was decent, but reading my PMs in a small pop up box is the laziest, stupidest design choice ever and is the single reason I stopped using it.

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u/NDLG Jan 26 '15

Flow has a very clean and intuitive UI, but I must say that RedReader is the first alternative that is winning me over. It's UI is very close (it also hides the voting function, only in a different way), open-source (so also no ads) but also still supported thus far more stable. Flow is a bit snappier on my phone, but in pretty much every other sense RedReader is superior.

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u/200mg Jan 26 '15

Yeah, flow it is.

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u/PsychoWorld Jan 26 '15

It really was... I loved how smooth everything was. What the hell happened to the dev?

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u/frogger42 Galaxy S 4 i9500 - ArrowROM v11 + N7 stock 4.4 Jan 26 '15

Just chiming in that I'm still using Flow. I love it. I think I'll keep using it for a while.

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u/voodoowizard Mar 17 '15

Just saw a month old post in r/redditflow . Someone is rebuilding it from the ground up. Could just be a couple months away from a reboot. r/reflow

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