Great job developing this app. Worth the price

I really wanted to love this app but after a week of using it I really just find myself barely using Reddit anymore (you win, this is likely the best case scenario lol). This app having an “Open in Narwhal” / “Open Reddit link” button on the side is really nice and appreciated. This is somehow something the Hydra devs (another Reddit app) failed to make even something adjacent. However that’s pretty much the end of my compliments. The long and the short of why I dislike this app is because the design philosophy is just meant to be pretty I guess. It doesn’t feel cohesive or functional. Apollo back in the day when it was available through official channels was a perfect blend of pretty and function. This however feels a lot more pretty than function. I swipe right from the left to the right of my screen to go back on the app. However, this then makes the only way for me to reply to comments to tap this tiny button in the top right of their comment. Holding down and having a menu would be nice there. Also it feels like it’s hard to differentiate between the comments and posts a lot of the time. Even the comments themselves. The design is too minimalistic and again, trying to be too pretty. I don’t like it.

I’m not sure why this isn’t implemented but I’m seriously wondering why this app requires me to click on every post to view it. Pointless.

Your data and APi costs are not justified by a subscription at this cost. 🤡

The original Narwhal was my Reddit app of choice for years before the API changes. Like most, I’d prefer not to pay for social media apps, but this app is so much better than the official Reddit app that I’m happy to support the dev in this case. It keeps the minimalist, unintrusive experience of the original Narwhal and has improved upon the experience with better video playback and customization options. My only gripe is that I have to keep the official app because my mobile browser won’t open Reddit links in third party apps.

If the app would not take you to a main screen without payment, that isn't IAP, that's a paid app. Please at least be upfront about it

Pay for Reddit the small team that makes this app has crafted a wonderful experience. The Reddit app is really good from going from being OK; at least there’s no Blinky text on the website anymore. Reddit has banned all six of my accounts because the fascist mods on Starbucks and other places think there are the hyper kings of all information. Return. Banded Boston? You can still use Reddit and I go through anthropic Claude now thinking about how to ban every mod on every forum since I go back to AT&T. SVR one days.

There is no swiping for next post, and whenever you play a gif/media full screen, it’s muted by default with no option to start a video unmuted. There is an option to play media unmuted when you’re scrolling the front page but not when you select the video to watch? Not worth paying for a service when it’s literally missing functionality from the app it’s trying to make better. 0/10 unless you want to pay for a worse version of Reddit lol

Great app with lots of nice features and no ads or tracking. The lack of ads is really amazing. Two issues I’d love to see addressed are keeping read posts hidden after launch and showing the Reddit ban message when that happens. Spent a day not understanding why my upvotes wouldn’t work till I logged in on a desktop. — Edit: If you use multiple accounts and a Reddit mod gets a stick up their rear and your account gets permabanned, remove the app before you swap to another account or that account will get banned as well. Somehow they track you across logins, which is something that Narwhal should address. Conservative snowflakes and Reddit mods are trying to shut down any type of dissent towards the fuhrer. But I’ll get a lot of free time back since it was the only social media I used.

Ditched the Reddit app, like it so far.