narwhal for reddit Reviews

App crashes frequently

Sophia Flowers

I’ve been using the app for a few months and at least a couple times a day the app screen goes dark and has to be restarted. Update: the app now offers an obnoxious loud beeping noise every time the scrabble advertisement pops up! Even if your phone is on silent you will still hear it!!

Excellent App With One Minor Bug

Kay17sunny

This is the best reddit app due to the ability to save subreddits, fast scrolling, and the fact it's the only reddit app I can download on my dinosaur iPod Touch. XP The only issue I have is the frequent appearance of these 1-second long, completely blank videos. There's literally no need for them at all, since there are already banner ads below the text. I know you can pay for no ads, but a 1-second long video of a black screen is not an ad; it's an annoyance.

Best reddit app. Period.

Temo Lara

I’ve tried sooo many different apps including the native Reddit app. And none of them were cutting it. This one is a game changer. You can tell it was made to be straight forward and no bs. I HIGHLY recommend those that already use this app to spend the few dollars to remove ads. My favorite, probably ever. Also shout out to the devs for the surprise when you reload the page in r/trees?. I see you?

Tons of customization & receptive devs!

zaephyr

I use Relay for Reddit on Android (and have since it was Reddit News), but when I got my iPad I was bummed to realize that Relay was Android exclusive. I saw a recommendation for narwhal and I’m really glad I did. While this app doesn’t always have everything that I want, or I have trouble finding a feature that it does, the developers have always seemed to be responsive to the comments that users are making. Narwhal gives me an easy and clutter-free way to browse my subreddits and I love it. I’d rate it a perfect 5/7! Thanks devs!

Intuitive, streamlined, like RES for mobile

Smothegreat

I've tried them all: redditisfun, bacon reader, the official app, and none compare to Narwhal. First a lot of things function in gestures. Swipe left to up vote and swipe more left to down vote. Swipe right to save a post or reply to a comment and more right to access other options. To go back or forward just swipe the page left or right. Pull from the left to bring up the customizable menu. It also supports the 3D touch so you can hard press to preview the post or thread (your choice in the settings). Comments, threads, and chains are collapsible with a touch. You can set it up to hide posts after you view them. I think this is on by default and can be a bit alarming if you aren't expecting it. Don't worry, if you want to go back and look at it again, you can go into your recently viewed through the menu. You can also unhide the post. There are ads I'm the free version but if I recall they are just banners and sponsored posts. I paid the $4 to remove these because I like to support developers and especially ones who do the one and done pay model. No subscription, you just pay once and you're good. The developers are just doing this on the side as a sort of passion project. Along with the no ads, the premium gives you more customizing options. I'm not sure which ones are under the pay wall because I paid after like a day. But my husband hasn't paid on his phone and the app is perfectly usable without it. And there's also a night mode which is available in the free version.

Too many ads now. Use something else.

Mowgli 29

I’ve used this app faithfully for years now. I was fine with the number of ads it showed in the free version. But all the sudden it started showing video ads for Starbucks every single time I opened it, or clicked on a post. It makes it completely unusable. I’m deleting it. Hope they fix it. I like the UI better than the official app.

New Update makes App Unusable

McNiler

While ads are understandable on a free app, the new video banner ad takes over the screen every 30-60 seconds, making the app almost unusable.

Been using this app for years and it’s easily the best

lkuecrar

Use it on the iPad and iPhone and love it on both. It’s rare that iPhone and iPad versions of apps are equally made. Usually one is great and the other is a mess or even worse, a stretched version of the iPhone app for the iPad; thankfully that isn’t the case and both are tailored for their specific screen and both work equally well. Recently swapped to a Galaxy S9+ but still use this app on the iPad. Not having this app on my new phone is a major bummer though. There isn’t an Android reddit app half as good as this one so I’m slumming it by using the official app. Would love to have this on Android one day!

Used to love it now, meh

Radicldreamer

This used to be a wonderful app, it was everything the official app wasn’t, user friendly and with a nice layout. Now, it has some REALLY bad lag issues where the entire app will seemingly freeze for up to a minute or more when viewing an imgur post. This is awful, sometimes it will recover while other times the app just dumps and brings me back to the iOS home screen, I kept waiting hoping it would get fixed but it hasn’t. I’ve had the issue on an iPhone X the newest iPad and an iPad Air 2

Auto plays ads

swaglet9000

Will randomly play video ads with sound automatically.

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