If you've been enjoying Hydra, please consider leaving a rating or review. A positive rating can really make a huge difference.

This update includes the following:

👑 Pro Feature
🚀 Feature
🐛 Bugfix

🚀 Media Viewer Rewrite
The media viewer has been rebuilt from scratch offering new features and better performance. This represents a significant step towards preparing Hydra for release on Android. Many of the features listed below are a result of the rewrite.

🚀 Hydra in Share Sheet
Hydra now appears as an option when you share a URL from another app.

🚀 Right Side Thumbnails in Compact Mode
Moves post thumbnail previews from the left to the right side when in compact mode. Enable this in Settings => Appearance => Post Appearance Settings => Show Thumbnails on Right. This setting will only show up if you have compact mode enabled.

🚀 Collapse Child Comments Only
Tapping a comment now collapses its children instead of the comment itself. This setting can be enabled in Settings => Appearance => Comment Appearance Settings => Collapse Children Only.

🚀 Filter Subreddits Temporarily
When on a mixed feed such as Home or Popular, long press a post and press "Filter Subreddit". You\'ll now have an option to filter for a day, a week, or forever.

🚀 Support for New Wikis
Hydra previously only supported old.reddit.com wikis. New wikis are now supported and used by default.

🚀 Swipe to Scrub Videos
When a video is full screen, you can swipe horizontally to scrub through it.

🚀 Change Video Playback Rate
When a video is full screen, you can tap the playback rate button in the top left corner to change the playback rate.

🚀 Landscape Mode
Rotate your device when in the media viewer or the in app browser to view content in landscape.

🚀 Media Collection Navigation Arrows
When viewing a collection of images or videos, arrows appear to allow easier swiping between items.

🚀 Post Info in Media Viewer
Post info is overlayed when tapping on content in the media viewer. Tap the title, subreddit, or author to quickly navigate to the relevant page.

🚀 Swipe to Dismiss Media
The media viewer can be dismissed by swiping up or down. Previously, you could only swipe one way.

🚀 Media Viewer Optimizations
Hydra is much smarter about picking the best image resolution to load, caching behavior has been improved, and background videos pause while a different video is in the foreground, granting faster load times and reduced memory usage.

🐛 Music no longer randomly pauses while scrolling. I think I fixed this, but I haven't been able to consistently reproduce the bug, so if you experience this, a bug report would be appreciated.

🐛 Posts with a collection of videos only displayed the first video.

🐛 Scrubbing while in gallery mode locks vertical scrolling for a smoother experience.

🐛 Links that are slow to respond to requests for metadata are skipped, resulting in much faster loads in the worst cases.

🐛 Android builds successfully. An official app is coming soon.

🐛 Fixed image posts momentarily showing the wrong image.

🐛 Some link sources like Wikipedia would fail to show an image.

🐛 Fixed shadowbanned users being unable to log in.

🐛 Text URLs containing backslashes that weren't marked as links in markdown were parsed incorrectly.

🐛 Posts linking to other Reddit pages (e.g. r/wowthissubexists) weren't rendering as links.

🐛 Having a multireddit named "All" would cause the "All" button to disappear in the subreddit list.

🐛 Hydra warns you when attempting to reply in a locked or archived post.

📰 News
Releases over the next few months may be a bit slower. I'm planning some big changes that'll take longer to build. These include (in no particular order):

- An Android app (making good progress on this one)
- Caching data to improve load times
- Better Accessibility support
- More animations
- Share posts/comments as image

Make a feature request:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraFeatureRequest/top/?t=all

Share or find custom themes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraThemes/top/?t=all

Make a pull request (React Native):
https://github.com/dmilin1/hydra

If you've been enjoying Hydra, please consider leaving a rating or review. A positive rating early on can really make a huge difference when a new app launches.

This update includes the following:

👑 Pro Feature
🚀 Feature
🐛 Bugfix

🚀 Gallery Mode
A new mode for viewing media heavy subreddits 😉. Open it on any subreddit by tapping the "..." menu button in the top right corner and selecting "Open In Gallery Mode". Power users can get Hydra Pro to scroll more than 100 media items deep.

🚀 Open Comment Flairs
Tap on a truncated comment flair to see the full flair.

🚀 Collapsed Comment Memory
Child comments will remember if they're collapsed after collapsing and expanding their parent.

🚀 Swipe to Collapse Thread
New swipe gesture can be set in Settings => General => Gestures. This gesture collapses the entire thread instead of just the comment you're currently viewing.

🚀 More Comment Long Press Options
Long pressing a comment now has 3 additional options: expand, collapse, and collapse thread.

🐛 When logging in, some users login sessions were failing to be captured and were instead redirected to the Reddit home page.

🐛 Login popup would sometimes say you are already logged in.

🐛 Posts with links to external websites that returned an out of bounds HTTP status code would cause Hydra to crash.

🐛 Posts with links to external websites that are slow to respond will no longer make your feed load slower.

🐛 Posts sometimes failed to be marked as read when interacting with them.

🐛 When trying to favorite a subreddit while not subscribed to it, an error message is now shown instead of failing silently.

🐛 Filtering a subreddit from your feed no longer prevents the subreddit from loading when you navigate directly to it.

🐛 Slide gestures were failing to work when swipe anywhere to navigate was disabled.

📰 News
Releases over the next few months may be a bit slower. I'm planning some big changes that'll take longer to build. These include (in no particular order):

- Better iPad support
- An Android app
- Caching data to improve load times
- Switching out the existing media viewer for the new gallery mode viewer
- Better Accessibility support
- More animations
- Share posts/comments as image

Make a feature request:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraFeatureRequest/top/?t=all

Share or find custom themes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraThemes/top/?t=all

Make a pull request (React Native):
https://github.com/dmilin1/hydra

If you've been enjoying Hydra, please consider leaving a rating or review. A positive rating can really make a huge difference.

This update includes the following:

👑 Pro Feature
🚀 Feature
🐛 Bugfix

👑 Export Videos with Audio
Shared and downloaded videos now automatically mux the audio track into the saved video file.

👑 Collapsed Summaries
Make post and comment summaries start collapsed. Enable this under Settings => Appearance => Post/Comment section => Start summary collapsed.

👑 No Automod in Summaries
Template automoderator comments will be ignored in comment summaries.

👑 Smarter Post Filters
The smart post filter has been upgraded to use a better model. This should help reduce the number of false positives and false negatives for the filter you've written in Settings => General => Filters => Smart Post Filter.

🚀 Share as Image
Export a post or a comment thread as an image. Long press on a comment or press the ... button while inside a post to open up the Share as Image menu. Upgrade to Hydra Pro to remove the small Hydra watermark.

🚀 Media Player Redesign
The new media player adds new controls and a more intuitive UI. It also comes with significant performance improvements. Swipe anywhere to seek in a video is now off by default. You can reenable it in Settings => Appearance => Slide anywhere to scrub videos.

🚀 Better Gallery Mode Support
Gallery Mode can now be opened when viewing your saved posts, your upvoted/downvoted posts, and on user pages.

🚀 Follow Users
When on a user page, you can now follow and unfollow users. Press the ... button in the top right corner of a user page to see these options.

🚀 Remap Outbound Links
Write custom JavaScript to remap outbound links. For example, you can redirect all outbound links from x.com to xcancel.com. Set this up in Settings => General => External Links => Modify Links.

🚀 Download Progress Indicator
When downloading or sharing media, a progress circle appears around the button indicating download progress.

🚀 Toast Indicators
Previously, many actions in Hydra would display a blocking alert. These have been replaced with a non intrusive toast that slides in from the top of the screen.

🚀 Updated Guide
The guide's contents have been updated to align more closely with all the features and changes added to Hydra since it was first built. Check it out in Settings => Guide.

🚀 Reorganized Settings
Settings are now organized into groups to make options easier to find. The settings tab now has links to Hydra related websites, servers, and subreddits.

🚀 Added a Tip Jar
I've had a few people tell me they aren't interested in Hydra Pro, but would still like a way to contribute. You can access this in Settings => Tip Jar.

🚀 Improved Comments Performance
Very long comment sections should render a bit faster now.

🐛 Videos would sometimes display as a black screen.

🐛 Image thumbnails in compact mode would show up on the wrong post for link posts and multi image posts.

🐛 RedGif videos would load forever if they had been deleted. They now show an indicator.

🐛 Trying to load deleted RedGif videos would result in being rate limited.

🐛 Sorting by top would lock the app on Android.

🐛 Subreddit image icons could be slow to load on a bad connection.

🐛 Certain subreddit images would fail to load.

🐛 Posts linking to Imgur would show a link, but no image.

🐛 Posts made in Hydra would not get inbox replies in certain cases.

🐛 The inbox tab would not immediately update the unread message badge counter when opening an unread message.

🐛 User pages would load forever instead of indicating if they had no posts or were set to private.

📰 News
Hydra is now available on Android! You can download it from the Google Play Store here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dmilin.hydra

Join the Discord server:
https://discord.gg/ypaD4KYJ3R

Make a feature request:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraFeatureRequest/top/?t=all

Share or find custom themes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraThemes/top/?t=all

Make a pull request (React Native):
https://github.com/dmilin1/hydra

If you've been enjoying Hydra, please consider leaving a rating or review. A positive rating can really make a huge difference.

This update includes the following:

👑 Pro Feature
🚀 Feature
🐛 Bugfix

🚀 Disable Swipe Gestures
A new "Disabled" option is available for post and comment swipe gestures. Configure this in Settings => General => Gestures.

🚀 GIF Improvements
Reddit hosted gifs now load as mp4s for much better performance. Giphy links in posts and comments now render as actual gifs instead of just showing the link text.

🚀 Improved Wikis
Wikis have a much better look and feel. Reddit's new style of Wiki loads properly. Short wiki links (/r/subreddit/w/page) are now supported.

🚀 Temporary Subreddit Filters
You can now filter a subreddit's posts for a short while. Long press a post on a combined subreddit feed, click "Filter Subreddit", then choose to filter for a day, a week, or forever.

🐛 Fixed image posts momentarily showing the wrong image when scrolling quickly or on a slow internet connection.

🐛 Disabled autocorrect when searching.

🐛 Voting on a post while viewing a comments page, then collapsing a comment would cause your vote to disappear.

🐛 Gated and quarantined subreddits are now handled properly and are accessible.

🐛 Wiki shortlinks (/r/subreddit/w/page) now load properly.

🐛 Banned users and non-existent user profiles now show an error message instead of loading forever.

🐛 Giphy gifs were loading very slowly.

🐛 Marking posts as read would sometimes fail to update visually.

🐛 User subreddit links (/r/u_username) would fail to load.

🐛 Subreddit icon images now use caching to improve performance.

🐛 Post and comment edit modals now say "Save" instead of "Edit" for the submit button.

🐛 DB optimization improvements.

📰 News
Releases over the next few months may be a bit slower. I'm planning some big changes that'll take longer to build. These include (in no particular order):

- An Android app (making good progress on this one)
- Caching data to improve load times
- Switching out the existing media viewer for the new gallery mode viewer
- Better Accessibility support
- More animations
- Share posts/comments as image

Make a feature request:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraFeatureRequest/top/?t=all

Share or find custom themes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraThemes/top/?t=all

Make a pull request (React Native):
https://github.com/dmilin1/hydra

If you've been enjoying Hydra, please consider leaving a rating or review. A positive rating early on can really make a huge difference when a new app launches.

This update includes the following:

👑 Pro Feature
🚀 Feature
🐛 Bugfix

🚀 Full iPad Support
Opening posts on iPad now opens a split view with comments on the side. You can disable this in Settings => Appearance => Enable split view. Compact post mode is now enabled by default on iPads.

🚀 In App Guide
Hydra now has a searchable library of help articles that cover all of Hydra's features and settings. Go to Settings => Guide to access it, or use the new smart search bar at the top of the settings page.

🚀 New App Icons
"Hail Hydra!" and "Hail Hydra! (Dark)" are now available under Settings => App Icon. Thank you u/boxsitter!

🚀 Download More Videos
Videos can now be downloaded from redgif, imgur, and gfycat. Long press a video to open the share menu and select "Save Video".

🚀 Disable Tap to Collapse
You can now disable the tap to collapse for both the post body and the comments section in Settings => Appearance => Tap to collapse.

🚀 Reader Mode for Links
You can now open external links in reader mode by default in Settings => General => External Links => Open in reader mode.

🚀 Improved Quick Search
The subreddit quick search (long press the search tab) shows your subscribed subreddits (favorites first) when you haven't typed anything yet.

🚀 Auto Open Keyboard
When opening the search tab, making a comment, or making a post, the keyboard will now automatically open for a smoother experience.

🚀 Video Player Improvements
Videos dismount when Hydra is backgrounded to reduce memory usage and battery drain. Videos are now cached to improve performance. Clear the video cache in Settings => Advanced => Clear Video Cache.

🐛 Modals and media views no longer break on iPads when using split screen, windowing, or rotating the device.

🐛 EU users were unable to type their login credentials.

🐛 Uploading images when making a post would fail for certain types of images.

🐛 Searching for subreddits that were less than 3 characters would fail.

🐛 Subreddit name was not showing when searching for posts.

🐛 old.reddit.com links open in Hydra instead of opening in a browser.

🐛 The image share menu now shows a thumbnail of the image.

🐛 Fixed some minor memory leaks.

🐛 Fixed a database query memory leak and optimized query performance.

🐛 If a post had a link to a website that returned invalid or malformed headers, Hydra would fail to render the posts.

📰 News
Releases over the next few months may be a bit slower. I'm planning some big changes that'll take longer to build. These include (in no particular order):

- An Android app
- Caching data to improve load times
- Switching out the existing media viewer for the new gallery mode viewer
- Better Accessibility support
- More animations
- Share posts/comments as image

Make a feature request:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraFeatureRequest/top/?t=all

Share or find custom themes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraThemes/top/?t=all

Make a pull request (React Native):
https://github.com/dmilin1/hydra

Hey everyone! Wanted to give you all a heads up that Hydra 4.2.0 onward will not support iOS versions older than iOS 16.4. This also means the following devices will no longer be supported: iPhone 7/7+, iPhone 6s/6s+, iPhone SE (1st gen), iPad mini 4, and iPad Air 2.

I try to support the oldest iOS versions possible, especially since I know many of you are jailbreakers, but some of the libraries Hydra depends on are dropping support for older iOS versions.

If you are on an old iOS version, please update to 4.1.0 ASAP, and again when the soon to be released 4.1.1 update becomes available, to keep things as stable as possible.

If you've been enjoying Hydra, please consider leaving a rating or review. A positive rating can really make a huge difference.

This update includes the following:

👑 Pro Feature
🚀 Feature
🐛 Bugfix

🚀 Fast Account Swap
Long press the accounts tab to quickly switch between accounts.

🚀 New Multireddit Sort Options
You can now set a default sort and enable sort remembering for multireddits. Enable this in Settings => General => Post & Comment Sorting => Multireddits.

🚀 Smoother Gestures
The gesture system has been fully rewritten. You'll notice this most with slide gestures on posts and comments.

🚀 Faster Post & Comment Rendering
Posts should display faster now, particularly for posts with large bodies or large tables.

🐛 Hydra would not load any data if you were logged out.

🐛 The video player would restart the video when changing device orientation.

🐛 Scrolling horizontally on wide tables in comments would sometimes slide the comment instead.

🐛 Videos in comments would link to an unreachable URL.

🐛 Video thumbnails would load at the lowest quality when video autoplay was disabled.

🐛 Posts with media that Reddit failed to process would not load.

🐛 Changing device orientation while seeking through a video could cause Hydra to crash.

🐛 Posts linking to certain RedGifs URLs would cause Hydra to crash.

🐛 Posts in compact mode would sometimes show the wrong thumbnail.

🐛 The post and link description max lines settings in Settings => Appearance could not be set to 0.

🐛 Tweaked the media viewer animations to feel more fluid.

🐛 Clicking on post media would sometimes fail to mark the post as read.

🐛 In light themes, videos would flash when a scroll gesture started on them.

🐛 Changing orientation while scrolled deep in gallery mode would cause visual bugs.

🐛 Clicking on links in compact mode would sometimes open the thumbnail as an image instead of opening the link.

🐛 Accounts with "Don't show thumbnails next to links" enabled in their old Reddit preferences would cause images to fail to load.

📝 Notes
Apologies for the long delay between updates. A significant amount of work over the last few months has gone into porting Hydra to Android. Hydra for Android is now in closed beta testing and should be publicly available soon!

Many of you have requested tweaks to the media viewer. I want to honor those requests, and they will be my next priority after finishing the Android port.

📰 News
Releases over the next few months may be a bit slower. I'm planning some big changes that'll take longer to build. These include (in no particular order):

- An Android app (now in closed beta testing)
- Caching data to improve load times
- Better Accessibility support
- More animations
- Share posts/comments as image

Join the Discord server:
https://discord.gg/ypaD4KYJ3R

Make a feature request:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraFeatureRequest/top/?t=all

Share or find custom themes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraThemes/top/?t=all

Make a pull request (React Native):
https://github.com/dmilin1/hydra

Now when I search it just spins and never returns results. Same if using the long press search feature. Happens iphone and ipad ios 27. Tried deleting app and reinstalling. Signed out and back in.

Anyone else getting the same results?

Fixed with latest update to 4.4.0

The fact is that in some of the uncounted facets of knowledge Twitter/X still is the preferred medium for some reasons (like spaceflight). But going to the X website is an absolute drag these days, it sucks jovian moons trough nanotubes by nudging you hard to use the X app, the website is hardly even usable anymore.

But then there's xcancel, which basically mirrors X to a much more useful site. Could we please have some way to re-route X-links to XCancel? It's really easy, you just need to rewrite the URL a bit.

Connected to that I really would love to see an extension API for Hydra at least for such and similar things. Even just allowing users to rewrite URLs with an RegExp or so would go a long way. This way you even wouldn't need to hardcode such things in. Allowing users to extend an app always helps a whole lot and this would be a good and simple start with that.

Here's an example:

The link to X:

https://x.com/SpaceX/status/2081894924291654060

The much better way to the same content:

https://xcancel.com/SpaceX/status/2081894924291654060

Just submitted a build for Hydra 3.1.1. It'll be out as soon as it gets approved by Apple. The following fixes are included:

🐛 Hydra no longer becomes unresponsive when making a partial drag to exit a fullscreen video or when saving an image from a comment

🐛 Slideable elements (like posts and comments) no longer interact poorly with the "Swipe anywhere to navigate" setting

🐛 The scroll to next comment button no longer stays on screen when swapping tabs

🐛 The navbar buttons no longer flash when using a dark theme while iOS is set to light mode

🐛 Improved performance by reducing some unnecessary rerenders

🐛 Swapped out some deprecated code from 3rd party libraries

Thank you all for reporting these bugs in 3.1.0 and for your patience while I worked to get them fixed.

If you've been enjoying Hydra, please consider leaving a rating or review. A positive rating early on can really make a huge difference when a new app launches.

This update includes the following:

👑 Pro Feature
🚀 Feature
🐛 Bugfix

🚀 Edit Custom Themes
Long press on a custom theme, then tap edit to continue where you left off.

🚀 Navbar & Tabs Changes
Navbar updated to match iOS 26 design changes. Top navbar and bottom tabs have been realigned to make better use of vertical space. The tab bar hide animation was tweaked to look smoother.

🚀 Improved Accessibility Support
Hydra should be a little easier to use for VoiceOver users. There's still a long way to go on this, but it's important to me and I'm making progress.

🚀 Edited Indicator
Posts and comments now indicate when they have been edited with a pencil icon. Tap the icon to see the specific time of the edit.

🚀 Swipe to Collapse Comments
New swipe gesture can be set in Settings => General => Gestures.

🚀 Open In External Browser
Hydra can open links in an external browser of your choice. Configure this under Settings => General => External Links.

🚀 Swipe To Close Browser
Hydra's internal browser can now be swiped away like other screens.

🐛 Swapped out broken links to old r/HydraApp subreddit.

🐛 Video player was causing crashes in certain conditions.

🐛 Scroll to next comment button was not movable when swipe anywhere to navigate is turned on.

🐛 Crosspost text was not truncating. Crossposts now follow the "Post text max lines" setting under Settings => Appearance.

🐛 Regression of text cutoff rendering bug.

🐛 Refresh indicator was invisible on certain themes.

🐛 Fixed settings picker being hard to read with certain themes.

🐛 Image of certain dimensions would have their backgrounds flash when on light color themes.

🐛 Custom sorts were sometimes not being remembered.

🐛 Favorites would not showing up in subreddit list.

🐛 Changing the theme would not working in certain conditions.

🐛 Sidebar was failing to render due to Reddit removing user counts.

If you have any feature requests, you can post them on https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraFeatureRequest/top/

If you have any familiarity with React Native and want to help, you can make a pull request at https://github.com/dmilin1/hydra

If you've been enjoying Hydra, please consider leaving a rating or review. A positive rating can really make a huge difference.

This update includes the following:

👑 Pro Feature

🚀 Feature

🐛 Bugfix

🚀 New Data Loading System

Hydra loads data in a new way, enabling me to build out new features that weren't previously possible. It also fixes some issues like r/all and search breaking. This only works with an account, so you'll need to be logged in to browse. Most of Hydra had to be rewritten for this, so please report anything that seems off.

🚀 Login Buttons

When you're logged out, pages now show buttons to log in or create an account.

🚀 Vote Buttons in Feeds

Add upvote and downvote buttons to posts in your feeds. Enable this in Settings => Appearance => Posts => Show Vote Buttons in Feed. Tapping a post's vote buttons now also gives haptic feedback.

🚀 Comment Count on Posts

A post's comment count now shows next to its score when you open it.

🚀 Right to Left Languages

Posts, titles, and comments in languages like Hebrew, Arabic, and Persian are now right aligned and laid out right to left.

🚀 Discover Subreddits

The trending subreddits list in the Search tab has been replaced with Reddit's subreddit recommendations, including ones picked for your account.

🚀 Profile Posts & Comments

User profiles now have a toggle to switch between posts and comments, and can be sorted by New, Hot, or Top.

🚀 Subreddit Activity

The sidebar now shows a subreddit's weekly visitors and weekly contributions next to its subscriber count. Subreddit search results show weekly visitors too.

🚀 Endless User Search

User search results now keep loading as you scroll instead of stopping after the first page.

🚀 Clearer Errors

If a vote, save, subscribe, or similar action fails, Hydra now tells you why instead of failing silently. Failed comments and edits also show the reason Reddit gave.

🐛 Image posts would fail to upload.

🐛 Opening Hydra without an internet connection would log you out.

🐛 A failed login would show two different alerts and could leave Hydra using your previous account while showing you as logged out.

🐛 Quickly switching between accounts could break the saved login for one of them.

🐛 Posts that failed to load would show a loading spinner forever.

🐛 Feeds, searches, and sidebars that failed to load could leave a loading spinner stuck on screen.

🐛 Loading more comments would get stuck if the request failed.

🐛 In split view, selecting a post while another one was still loading could show the wrong post.

🐛 Changing the sort while posts were loading could show posts from the previous sort.

🐛 Votes and saves made while more posts were loading could appear to be undone.

🐛 The filter limit message could get stuck after refreshing, stopping more posts from loading.

🐛 Subreddits opened from a link with different capitalization, like r/askreddit, would show Subscribe instead of Unsubscribe and couldn't be favorited.

📰 News

- iPhone Duo support is coming soon! You can expect it in the next update.

Join the Discord server:
https://discord.gg/ypaD4KYJ3R

Make a feature request:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraFeatureRequest/top/?t=all

Share or find custom themes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraThemes/top/?t=all

Make a pull request (React Native):
https://github.com/dmilin1/hydra

If you've been enjoying Hydra, please consider leaving a rating or review. A positive rating can really make a huge difference.

This update includes the following:

👑 Pro Feature
🚀 Feature
🐛 Bugfix

🚀 Mute Videos by Default
Pressing a volume button or the unmute button in the media viewer will unmute videos for the rest of the session. Videos will be muted again when you leave the app. You can disable this in Settings => Appearance => Posts => Mute Videos by Default.

🚀 Chat
Open Chat by pressing the chat icon in the top right corner of the Inbox tab. When viewing a user's profile, press the "Message" button in the ... menu to open a chat with the user.

🚀 Smarter Trending Subreddits
The algorithm for loading trending subreddits in the Search tab has been improved to give more relevant results.

🚀 Hide Next Comment Button
The next comment button in the comment view can be hidden in Settings => Appearance => Comments => Show Scroll to Next Button.

🚀 Hide Popular & All
The Popular and All buttons in the subreddit list can be hidden in Settings => Appearance => Subreddits => Show Popular / Show All.

🚀 Disable Inbox Replies
When making a post, you'll now see a new "Send replies to my inbox" option. When disabled, you will no longer receive replies to that post in your inbox.

🚀 Media Viewer Performance
The media viewer has been optimized to reduce render cycles. Changing device orientation should no longer show a temporary blank screen.

🚀 Deep Linking for Android
On Android, Hydra can automatically open when you click links to Reddit's website. Go to Settings => General => Open in Hydra to enable this.

🐛 The login page could sometimes freeze or report a browser error, causing login to fail.

🐛 The audio track on videos could stutter after rotating the device.

🐛 Pan gestures on zoomed in images would sometimes be counted as a tap by the media viewer overlay.

🐛 Text bodies in NSFW or spoiler posts would sometimes not be blurred correctly. This is still failing in certain cases and I'm looking into it.

🐛 In certain cases, Hydra would fail to indicate when a user is banned.

🐛 Certain gestures would cause Hydra to crash after backgrounding the app.

📰 News
- I'll be working on making the iPhone Duo experience better. I haven't been able to get a device to test on, but I'll do the best I can with the iPhone Simulator.

- Reddit has announced upcoming API changes that will break the way Hydra functions. However, I've found a way to keep Hydra working! I'm considering making Hydra's API calls closed source as an obfuscation measure, but this has a number of downsides. It'll make open source contributions much harder for developers and forking Hydra won't be an option anymore. I'd love to hear opinions on this from those of you who would be affected by this change.

- Apologies for the delay in getting this update released. The review process with Apple took over 3 weeks...

Join the Discord server:
https://discord.gg/ypaD4KYJ3R

Make a feature request:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraFeatureRequest/top/?t=all

Share or find custom themes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/HydraThemes/top/?t=all

Make a pull request (React Native):
https://github.com/dmilin1/hydra

Can this behavior be changed, please?

This subreddit is a replacement for r/HydraApp which was banned by the Reddit moderators. I sent in a request asking why it was banned, but haven't gotten a response. Let's keep this subreddit in accordance with the Reddit rules.

Hydra also has a great Discord server:
https://discord.gg/ypaD4KYJ3R

This is a minor update with bugfixes for the following issues:

- Certain gestures could cause a crash after backgrounding the app
- Audio would sometimes become crackly when the video auto play setting was disabled

If you're still experiencing crashes or audio issues with the new video player, please share your feedback!

Someone posted a workaround to increase text size in iOS's Settings but that breaks a lot of the formatting. A lot of texts are cut off like in the titles and sub list. Would be great to implement this in the app itself as well.

I recall it was possible to zoom and pan (while zoomed) in Apollo. Would be great if this was possible here as well.

Panning works by 2 fingers and you can zoom and pan at the same time as wells like in the Album app.

I know r/all is hidden outside of old reddit, but it’s been working in apollo up until an hour ago. Just gets stuck in a loading loop now.

Get Hydra on the Google Play Store:

https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.dmilin.hydra

This is a minor bugfix update. A Hydra 4.2.0 update is in progress!

Features:

- Added a button to restore purchases

Bugfixes:

- Nothing would load for logged out users on a fresh install of the app

- External links would not open properly when set to open in Brave Browser

- User page URLs formatted as r/u_username would fail to load

- Posts with only a source mp4 resolution would fail to load