Quick verdict
- What it is
- Store information collected; independent summary not yet available.
- At a glance
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- Free to download
- In-app purchases
Categories and search queries
Official categories
- News
- Social Networking
AppCorpus categories
Key functions
| Function | Availability | Access | Scope | Evidence |
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| Free app | Yes | Free | — | Store published |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Limited free | — | Store published |
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Pricing & paywalls
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- Free to download
- In-app purchases
Ratings & reviews
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5/5Best option for 2025
Having used too many Reddit clients (Alien Blue, Reddit app, ReddPlanet, Apollo, 2021 Reddit app + tweaks) this is by far the best option for 2025. It could still use a few additional features (content blocking, comment images, startup feed, and others), but development is active so I’m sure it’ll only get better from here. Give it a shot, it’s free anyways
Joe2351 · 31 Jul 2026
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2/5So much potential but too many problems to rate it higher than a 2/5
TL;DR the app is slow and sometimes unresponsive (which is not a deal breaker. If that was the only problem it would be a 4/5) but the app also causes my phone to overheat and drain my phones battery When I first downloaded the app I was looking for alternatives to Apollo. Hydra did a really good job as an alternative until I used the app for more than an hour. The app has its share of problems such as long loading times and unresponsive UI elements. These problems are pretty manageable and are not the end of the world. My biggest problem with this app is how I can’t use it for more than 15 minutes without my phone overheating the app becoming slow and unresponsive. Additionally, it would drain my battery rapidly. At first I thought my phone was the problem and tried deleting old apps, turning off background refresh, updating everything I could but nothing would fix it. I deleted and reinstalled the app but overheating and battery drain still happened. I really like the app and would happily give it 5 stars but the overheating issue coupled with the battery drain makes the app almost unusable
icaciul · 31 Jul 2026
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5/5Best thing since Apollo
I used Apollo for years and would have happily paid for it. Since it was discontinued, I tried everything else out there, from sideloading options to Narwhal and even the official Reddit app. None of them came close, and the experience was frustrating. Been using Hydra for a few days now, I’m happy to find something that is as good as Apollo was. I got the paid version and this feels like Apollo’s true successor. It even adds features Apollo didn’t have, like simple template-based filters that make browsing much easier. The only thing I’d love to see added is adjustable font sizing. Aside from that, Hydra is nearly perfect and easily the best Reddit experience available now.
Tolyaaaaaa · 31 Jul 2026
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2/5Bricked asking to join sub
For a while I used Apollo side loaded, but as with side loading it was an absolute pain trying to remember to renew the app and everything… Now using hydra it’s very *ok*… It has a lot of problems and little to no polish. It does work and it is probably the best/closest contender for Apollo alternatives but it has a ton of missing mini-features and still has problems loading some content (Although side-loaded Apollo had issue with certain content to). Ironically, the app got an update? Which completely bricks the app due to a pop-up saying to join the r/hydraclient subreddit with absolutely no way to remove it…
Tatertacoma · 31 Jul 2026
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5/5God-send of an app!
I needed this app in my life so badly! Reddit app is absolute is infested with ads and privacy intruding trackers. After Apollo was forced to close, I found alternatives to the Reddit app by side-loading but it was never perfect and always buggy and had to re-login every time the app was closed. This is better than even the Apollo app for me. It’s been mostly bug-free but the app was released relatively recently so if you find a bug, just report it and move on. They do fix the bugs! I’ve noticed much less bugs than when the app first released. They’re doing a banger job!
elta1130 · 31 Jul 2026
Privacy & accessibility
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Privacy
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- Data Not Linked to You — App Functionality — Diagnostics — Other Diagnostic Data Developer declared
- Data Not Linked to You — App Functionality — Diagnostics — Performance Data Developer declared
- Data Not Linked to You — Diagnostics Developer declared
Accessibility
No accessibility labels collected yet.
Versions
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2.10.0
Features - View Post Flairs - Make Posts with Flairs - Better Post Failure Messages - Live Text on Images - Press Tab to Go Back - Smoother Scrolling Bug Fixes - Fixed a bunch of video player issues, particularly involving sound. - Fixed videos continuing to play after exiting fullscreen if "Auto play videos" is disabled. - Lots of small tweaks in an attempt to fix some obscure crashes.
- 2.3.2
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2.4.1
Features - Filter Seen Posts - Share Images - Share Videos - Download Videos - Smarter Video Post Sizing - Mark All Messages as Read Bugfixes - Opening links, images, and videos marks a post as read - NSFW posts and hybrid posts (image or video posts with text) properly load thumbnails in compact mode - Clicking link post thumbnails when in compact mode opens the browser - Increased the hitbox size of the + button when adding an account to make it easier to tap - The subreddit name is no longer shown redundantly on every post when in a specific subreddit - r/all and r/popular will once again show subreddits - Fixed a rare app crash. Turns out certain kinds of SVGs would cause the image rendering library I'm using to crash. When scrolling, if a link post pulled OpenGraph data that had an image pointing to one of these SVGs, it would cause Hydra to completely crash.
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2.5.1
Features - Text Filtering - Open in Hydra Shortcut - Open Clipboard Links - User Flairs in Comments - Faster Post Loading - Inline Comment Images - Collapsed AutoModerator Bugfixes - Inline images in comments are now clickable and will open in fullscreen - Posts with multiple gifs will now display all gifs
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2.6.0
- Post & Comment Summaries - Advanced Post Filtering - Inbox Alerts - New Premium Themes - Support Hydra - New Free Themes - Save Comments - Save Posts Easier - Saved Indicators - Drafts - Apply Default Sort to Home - Hide Account Tab Username - Better Tables - Post Title Line Limit - Smarter Loading - View Patch Notes - Fixed API call duplication issues
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2.7.1
Pro Features: - Custom Themes + Sharing Features: - Auto Mark as Read - Support for Crossposts - Custom Startup URL - Highlight Post/Comment Text - Highlight Text When Replying - Image Gallery Count - Self Hosted Hydra Server Bugfixes: - Fixed the Apply Default Sort to Home setting not being applied when the app first started up. - Fixed navbar buttons sometimes being difficult to click. - Fixed multireddits having no navbar title. - Made the right to left page swipe gesture to go to the future post less sensitive. It should be less likely to trigger when scrolling. - Fixed show all comments button not appearing when a comment thread was accessed through the user page. - Fixed a rare bug causing post feeds to fail to load when a post has media without dimensions.
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2.7.2
Features: - Automatic Theme Switching - Hide Seen Posts per Subreddit Bugfixes: - Fixed push notifications not registering properly. - Fixed quarantied subreddits not loading. You'll now see a prompt the first time you try to access a quarantined subreddit asking for confirmation. - Fixed full screen images sometimes being pushed into the corner of the screen. - Fixed the image counter pill showing the incorrect slide number when using compact mode. - Fixed flairs for subreddits using non richtext flairs. - Fixed the long press menu being overly sensitive when looking at an image in fullscreen. - Fixed recycled posts temporarily showing the wrong image when scrolling quickly. - Fixed links occasionally showing the wrong image.
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2.8.0
Features: - Sidebars and Wikis - A to Z Subreddit Slider Bugfixes: - Fixed custom hydra server URL not being used for AI requests. - Fixed drafts not clearing after submitting. - Fixed summaries changing background color when pressed with certain themes set. - Fixed being unable to set the current theme when the system is in dark mode. - Made the hydra://openURL deep link case insensitive.
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2.9.0
Features: - Hide Tabs on Scroll - Swipe Anywhere to Navigate - Full Support for Long Press - Go to Previous Comment - Video Player Rewrite - Disable Video Autoplay Bugfixes: - Fixed authentication issues. Hydra now uses a new authentication system. - Fixed posts that link to comments not having a link to click on. Subreddits like /r/bestof should now be more usable.
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3.0.0
- Custom Icons - Move Next Comment Button - Quick Subreddit Search - Search + Sort - Customize Swipe Actions - Subreddit Filtering - Hide Post/Link Text - Optimized Subreddit List - Image Cache Improvements - Numerous bugfixes
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3.0.1
small bugfixes and app store metadata changes
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3.0.2
Better accessibility support and crash fixes
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3.1.0
Features: - Edit Custom Themes - Navbar & Tabs Changes - Improved Accessibility Support - Edited Indicator - Swipe to Collapse Comments - Open In External Browser - Swipe To Close Browser Bugfixes: - Swapped out broken links to old /r/HydraApp subreddit - Video player should cause less crashes now - Scroll to next comment button was not movable when swipe anywhere to navigate is turned on - Crosspost text was not truncating. Crossposts now follow the "Post text max lines" setting under Settings => Appearance. - Regression of text cutoff rendering bug - Refresh indicator was invisible on certain themes - Fixed settings picker being hard to read with certain themes - Image of certain dimensions would have their backgrounds flash when on light color themes - Custom sorts were sometimes not being remembered - Favorites would not showing up in subreddit list - Changing the theme would not working in certain conditions - Sidebar was failing to render due to Reddit removing user counts
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3.1.1
- Hydra no longer becomes unresponsive when making a partial drag to exit a fullscreen video or when saving an image from a comment - Slideable elements (like posts and comments) no longer interact poorly with the "Swipe anywhere to navigate" setting - The scroll to next comment button no longer stays on screen when swapping tabs - The navbar buttons no longer flash when using a dark theme while iOS is set to light mode - Improved performance by reducing some unnecessary rerenders - Swapped out some deprecated code from 3rd party libraries
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3.2.0
Features - Gallery Mode - Open Comment Flairs - Collapsed Comment Memory - Swipe to Collapse Thread - More Comment Long Press Options Bugfixes - When logging in, some users login sessions were failing to be captured and were instead redirected to the Reddit home page - Login popup would sometimes say you are already logged in - Posts with links to external websites that returned an out of bounds HTTP status code would cause Hydra to crash - Posts with links to external websites that are slow to respond will no longer make your feed load slower - Posts sometimes failed to be marked as read when interacting with them - When trying to favorite a subreddit while not subscribed to it, an error message is now shown instead of failing silently - Filtering a subreddit from your feed no longer prevents the subreddit from loading when you navigate directly to it - Slide gestures were failing to work when swipe anywhere to navigate was disabled
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3.3.0
Features: - Full iPad Support - In App Guide - New App Icons - Download More Videos - Disable Tap to Collapse - Reader Mode for Links - Improved Quick Search - Auto Open Keyboard - Video Player Improvements Bugfixes: - Modals and media views no longer break on iPads when using split screen, windowing, or rotating the device. - EU users were unable to type their login credentials. - Uploading images when making a post would fail for certain types of images. - Searching for subreddits that were less than 3 characters would fail. - Subreddit name was not showing when searching for posts. - old.reddit.com links open in Hydra instead of opening in a browser. - The image share menu now shows a thumbnail of the image. - Fixed some minor memory leaks. - Fixed a database query memory leak and optimized query performance.
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3.4.0
Features: - Disable Swipe Gestures - GIF Improvements - Improved Wikis - Temporary Subreddit Filters Bugfixes: - Fixed image posts momentarily showing the wrong image when scrolling quickly or on a slow internet connection - Disabled autocorrect when searching - Voting on a post while viewing a comments page, then collapsing a comment would cause your vote to disappear - Gated and quarantined subreddits are now handled properly and are accessible - Wiki shortlinks (/r/subreddit/w/page) now load properly - Banned users and non-existent user profiles now show an error message instead of loading forever - Giphy gifs were loading very slowly - Marking posts as read would sometimes fail to update visually - User subreddit links (/r/u_username) would fail to load - Subreddit icon images now use caching to improve performance - Post and comment edit modals now say "Save" instead of "Edit" for the submit button - DB optimization improvements
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4.0.0
Features: - Media viewer rewrite - Hydra in share sheet - Right side thumbnails in compact mode - Collapse child comments only - Filter subreddits temporarily - Support for new wikis - Swipe to scrub videos - Change video playback rate - Landscape mode - Media collection navigation arrows - Post info in media viewer - Swipe to dismiss media - Media viewer optimizations Bugfixes: - Music no longer randomly pauses while scrolling. I think I fixed this, but I haven't been able to consistently reproduce the bug, so if you experience this, a bug report would be appreciated. - Posts with a collection of videos only displayed the first video. - Scrubbing while in gallery mode locks vertical scrolling for a smoother experience. - Links that are slow to respond to requests for metadata are skipped, resulting in much faster loads in the worst cases. - Fixed image posts momentarily showing the wrong image. - Some link sources like Wikipedia would fail to show an image. - Fixed shadowbanned users being unable to log in. - Text URLs containing backslashes that weren't marked as links in markdown were parsed incorrectly. - Posts linking to other Reddit pages (e.g. /r/wowthissubexists) weren't rendering as links. - Having a multireddit named "All" would cause the "All" button to disappear in the subreddit list. - Hydra warns you when attempting to reply in a locked or archived post.
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4.1.0
· 24 Jul 2026
Features: - Fast account swap - New multireddit sort options - Smoother gestures - Faster post & comment rendering Bugfixes: - Hydra would not load any data if you were logged out. - The video player would restart the video when changing device orientation. - Scrolling horizontally on wide tables in comments would sometimes slide the comment instead. - Videos in comments would link to an unreachable URL. - Video thumbnails would load at the lowest quality when video autoplay was disabled. - Posts with media that Reddit failed to process would not load. - Changing device orientation while seeking through a video could cause Hydra to crash. - Posts linking to certain RedGifs URLs would cause Hydra to crash. - Posts in compact mode would sometimes show the wrong thumbnail. - The post and link description max lines settings in Settings => Appearance could not be set to 0. - Tweaked the media viewer animations to feel more fluid. - The Hydra Pro offer modal would show up even if you were already subscribed. - Clicking on post media would sometimes fail to mark the post as read. - In light themes, videos would flash when a scroll gesture started on them. - Changing orientation while scrolled deep in gallery mode would cause visual bugs. - Clicking on links in compact mode would sometimes open the thumbnail as an image instead of opening the link. - Accounts with "Don't show thumbnails next to links" enabled in their old Reddit preferences would cause images to fail to load.
Alternatives
- Reeder. — Same category + similar ratings
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- Last verified
- 31 Jul 2026
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