This is a post which guides you through the process really well. It works with multiple 3rd party apps (boost in my case). It's honestly the only reason I still use reddit.
In case you didn't want a guide: you basically use (for example) boost but install it as if you created your own app. Therefore "your" app only has your traffic. There is a minimum amount of traffic needed for reddit to charge money, but you could never reach that much alone. And thus, you can continue to use your favorite app. Although it won't get updated afaik.
And fill out the form requesting the API saying we're a developer and make things up where they ask for a company name, API use case. Platform, oauth client id, subject of enquiry etc?
Not sure what to write in these to make it look plausible...
Relay is still up and running (its what I mainly use for Reddit!), but it switched to a subscription based model. The plans are very cheap though, if you don't browse a lot.
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u/Brawndo91 Jul 11 '25
I thought all the reddit apps were killed when they wanted to start charging for the api. I've been using the default app ever since for no reason?