Introducing Apollo, a brand new Reddit experience for iOS. Gorgeous, iOS centric...
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Introducing Apollo, a brand new Reddit experience for iOS. Gorgeous, iOS centric design, an incredible Media Viewer, fully customizable gestures, a full Markdown editor, and sculpted by thousands of Redditors. (xpost r/Apple)
First impressions: As a long die-hard Narwhal fan, this might win me over, too early to tell though.
What I like over Narwhal:
Icons. Narwhal’s share sheets are huge lists of text (and they lower cap everything), super hard to read. Apollo has icons.
Same for Settings. Narwhal was a simple app at first, then they started adding unnecessary amounts of new features and crammed and crammed everything into the Advanced submenu. Can’t find anything. Apollo has icons.
Swipe forward and backwards. Love it. You can open a post, go back to the post feed, and back into the post again without losing your context.
Content filters seem to sync with the web site. Narwhal’s is local. I’ve had to recreate my filters several times after switching phones.
Other impressions:
Posts and comments feel more cluttered compared to Narwhal. But most of it is stuff I don’t need to see.
The indentation and color scheme was super hard to get used to. I constantly lost my place. Think I’ll get used to this the more I use it.
Selection mode is nice. It’s a weird solution but hey, Narwhal can’t select text.
I’ll keep using this for now and see if it’ll continue to work for me. So far, so good.