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Apollo was an award-winning free Reddit app for iOS with over 100K 5-star reviews, built with the community in mind, and with a focus on speed, customizability, and best in class iOS features. It started development in late 2014 and ended June 2023.

Dev's Mastodon: https://mastodon.social/@christianselig

Twitter: https://twitter.com/christianselig

Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/selig.bsky.social/

PayPal: tipjar@apolloapp.io

Website: https://christianselig.com

All things related to Apollo, a Reddit app for iPhone with a focus on a clean, iOS centric UI with super comfortable and fast browsing. Feel free to post if you have any questions or suggestions!

Subscribe and join our delightful community!

You can also follow Apollo on Twitter: @apolloreddit

Supporting Apollo

If you're interested in supporting Apollo's future, buying Apollo Pro in the app helps a ton, as well as any donations in the app's Tip Jar! (Thank you, awesome person!)

If you have BTC, ETH, or any other cool crypto abbreviations, others have mentioned they'd like to donate cryptocurrency, and if so, here are some addresses: (Thank you!)

BTC: 1LamDwEtMYzeMF8F4evLVshgL6UaM1mU7e

ETH: 0x53FDee21dCA9555Cd6d28089c8eA7E118d7189B6

Litecoin: LQgNag4cmGTbedXQvahpi6eQydpSjgBWv6

Nano: xrb_1j7ppgbx47bbyk1ohbuy9nqghreo8pct8z1gcghyqj7kz7tmz9xnugjntx9k

(I add these based on request, if there's a different cryptocurrency you'd like to see added please PM me and I happily will!)

/r/apolloapp

772,936 Subscribers

122

I miss Apollo support

Yes we can sideload but bugs like the imgur-not-loading bug will never be fixed. I can see us slowly gaining more bugs as reddit breaks certain things in the API.

26 Comments
2024/05/10
18:33 UTC

11

Upvoted posts vanish upon refresh

Basically the title! I’ve sideloaded Apollo and it’s totally awesome. However I’ve noticed if I upvote a post, then refresh the feed, that post is gone! I’ve looked around various settings on the app and don’t see anything applicable to this. I know the settings from the reddit website has a feature that does this, but I don’t have it enabled. Anyone have an idea what’s going on here?

8 Comments
2024/05/10
00:47 UTC

9

Comments freeze up

Man Reddit’s app sucks ass (not Apollo). Haven’t been able to post comments due to the app freezing randomly when typing something out and forcing me to discard the comment. Congrats on making it so difficult to engage with Reddit on mobile. Guess I’ll just go back to lurking. Big surprise I’m even able to post this.

8 Comments
2024/05/09
23:28 UTC

4

Apollo used to have built in ASCII emojis. Does anyone have them?

¯_(ツ)_/¯

ᕕ(ᐛ)ᕗ

(ง’̀-‘́)ง

(╯°□°)╯︵ ┻━┻

┬──┬◡ノ(° -°ノ)

(͡•_ ͡• )

ಠ_ಠ

18 Comments
2024/05/09
13:08 UTC

0

How come Apollo shows subreddits as being “empty” but accessing Reddit through other means shows various different posts?

10 Comments
2024/05/09
05:32 UTC

470

i miss this app so bad

the official reddit app is the most unintuitive piece of shit ever

can we convince the apollo creator to re-launch apollo, even if it costs money for the app itself on the app store, and then have a setting to input our own api key?

53 Comments
2024/05/08
09:33 UTC

16

Saving videos stopped working

I have the app side loaded using sideloadly but in the past week every time i try to save a video it will say error sharing. I've looked at other posts that had the same issue ive tried different app versions ive tried uninstalling but nothing seems to work, and its was out of the blue basically worked just fine a week ago

11 Comments
2024/05/02
17:30 UTC

36

Apollo notifications shortcut - now with 2FA

An update to my earlier post here: https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/1c3quj6/ondevice_notifications_for_apollo_3/

I've updated the shortcut to support 2FA:

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d181bd4403c84fcf816381642b3f2a16

Dependencies:

  • Pyto
  • Pushover
  • Data Jar (free)

Intructions are basically the same, except you also need to specify the OTP code in the text box and install pyotp via Pypi in the Pyto app.

It looks like with Pyto you can simply request a free trial every 3 days to avoid buying a license but it's a bit of a pain.

2 Comments
2024/04/29
18:39 UTC

21

Any way to get notifications working on Sideloaded Apollo?

I was wondering, if I pay for an Apple developer account Am I going to receive notifications from Apollo?

9 Comments
2024/04/28
19:29 UTC

37

Apollo video saving is broken?

Today I’m trying to download video and after “Preparing…” popup it errors out end throws “Error while sharing.

I’ve tried different sideloading methods and different tweaks, but nothing works

19 Comments
2024/04/26
11:37 UTC

40

Missing

Every damn day, I miss Apollo. I'm sure I'm not the only one.

24 Comments
2024/04/25
18:40 UTC

19

Anyone setup side-loading recently? Getting 500 errors making Reddit app

Following the guide outlined here: https://www.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/16naxdo/how_to_install_apollo_via_altstore/

I've got SideStore installed and I've installed Apollo. I'm trying to set up the app from the Reddit preferences page (I've tried both: https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps/ and https://old.reddit.com/prefs/apps) but no matter what I do, I always get "an error occurred (status: 500)." response when trying to create the app.

Looking at r/redditdev and the Reddit status page, it doesn't look like there's any known outage on the Reddit side. It makes me wonder if the side-loading instructions (at least the part about making a Reddit app) are stale? Has anyone made an app and got side-loading up and running more recently than 4-5 months ago?

6 Comments
2024/04/24
14:55 UTC

3

Refreshing sideloaded apolllo without itunes/PC

I will be traveling in a little but, but will not have access to my PC to do the weekly refresh for my sideloaded Apollo through sideloadly/Itunes. I will have access to Wifi. What other options do I have? edit: without jailbreaking

TIA

2 Comments
2024/04/23
23:41 UTC

556

The official Reddit app is actually doo doo butter.

I never used Apollo. I think I used yet another Reddit app or something.

Having recently just gotten into heavily using Reddit, I have to say that the phone experience is AWFUL. The design choices are ass backwards.

Clicking on a comment CLOSES IT. In what world of UX and UI is that ok?

The … on comments and posts is too difficult to hit and sometimes I can’t even upvote or downvote because the icons are so small

There was either no thought or the creators of the reddit app are very much hostile towards its users.

92 Comments
2024/04/23
18:11 UTC

158

Uh-oh…

After working flawlessly for the last several months, the sideloaded app isn’t playing ball anymore.

49 Comments
2024/04/22
23:26 UTC

15

Updating the sideloaded app without losing filters (AltStore)

Hey, I’m using the app sideloaded through AltStore. I want to update it, since it’s a version almost from the time of the original API fiasco, and there have been some improvements since then (like Imgur API support, for example)

However, I’m afraid of losing my literally almost 1500 filters. Will updating the app by downloading a newer version, then sideloading it again wipe the filters? And if so, is there any way to preserve the filters?

Thank you

8 Comments
2024/04/22
11:50 UTC

0

I installed the Apollo ipa file. How do I log in to my account?

3 Comments
2024/04/21
12:18 UTC

38

Would it be possible to distribute modded Apollo to AltStore Pal in the EU?

14 Comments
2024/04/21
08:41 UTC

0

How do I install Apollo on iOS? Via sideload

7 Comments
2024/04/21
07:58 UTC

3

Can you buy apollo ultra in the sideloaded version?

I’m wondering if this is possible

5 Comments
2024/04/20
00:48 UTC

2

Apollo not letting me sign in

Its giving me an invalid client id: sideloaded using signaulous

I have signed in im good

5 Comments
2024/04/20
00:09 UTC

265

New reddit design hides content and auto-scrolls to ad when clicking on posts

29 Comments
2024/04/18
01:43 UTC

0

Apollo is not working on one device but works on others?

My gf has Apollo on her iphone through startup app. It is my account. We have it on 2 TVs at our house, my phone and her phone.

It has worked fine on all other devices except her phone. Her phone was working good, but overtime it has slowly gotten worse. It will freeze, she will get play back errors app will crash… Why would this be?

How can I troubleshoot just her phone to try and fix this?

5 Comments
2024/04/16
00:41 UTC

627

So apparently a clunky red logo is the new Reddit app look

It’s bad. It’s really bad. If only third party apps were properly permitted and could skip this ugly bullshit.

77 Comments
2024/04/14
22:32 UTC

36

On-device notifications for Apollo <3

Ok this is a bit silly XD but it works!

https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/d05acd61514c48b4b1d206aab0959539

I created an iOS shortcut that interacts with the reddit API, polls messages in the inbox and then sends notifications for messages it hasn't seen. Basically exactly what I did with this script: https://github.com/m4rkw/apollo-notifications - but implemented as an iOS shortcut.

Obviously this is very limited as it can't be easily run regularly, however it could still be useful for people who aren't very tech savvy and/or don't want to run a server or mess about with python. It could be executed once an hour with timed automations for example, or automated for whenever specific apps open or close in order to run more frequently. Perhaps those people who can't figure out python/server stuff can have a solution to get at least some notifications rather than none.

Points to note

Instructions

  1. Get the dependency apps listed above

  2. Create a personal use app here: https://old.reddit.com/prefs/apps/ make a note of the client id and client secret

  3. Get Pushover, create an app for Apollo, give it a cool Apollo icon etc, and make a note of your pushover user key and the key for the apollo app you created in Pushover

  4. Edit the shortcut and replace the following bits of text in the text blocks near the top with your values:

  • REDDIT USERNAME
  • REDDIT PASSWORD
  • REDDIT APP CLIENT ID
  • REDDIT APP CLIENT SECRET
  • PUSHOVER USER KEY
  • PUSHOVER APP KEY

Now when you run the shortcut it will check for new inbox items and send you notifications for any that it hasn't seen before. When the notifications are opened they will automatically redirect to the message or comment in Apollo (assuming you have url redirection enabled in Pushover, can't remember if this is the default or not).

4 Comments
2024/04/14
10:55 UTC

0

Reddit IPO

Does anyone got reddit IPO at 34$?? Or everyone started with 50 at starting when booked an IPO!!

3 Comments
2024/04/11
04:00 UTC

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