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TL;DR

Apollo Reborn 3.6.0 is a big feature release.

Gallery View now works on Home, Popular, All, Moderator Posts and any user profile — with real video controls and rotation. Reddit's interactive posts (live match threads, games, and other Developer Platform widgets) render inline instead of the "not supported on old Reddit" placeholder. Inline feed videos gained a scrubber you drive from the progress bar itself, plus an option to let feed videos play with sound.

The app icon picker has been rebuilt around browsable pack cards with a daily-rotating Spotlight, and any icon can now be pinned to its Light or Dark artwork. Apollo's Goodbye wallpapers are back for iPhone, iPad and Mac. There's also a configurable Share Link Host, a Blur NSFW Media setting, new swipe gestures, new and overhauled app icons, and a large batch of crash, theme, media and performance fixes.

⬇️ Download

Grab an IPA from the GitHub release and sideload it using your usual tool, such as AltStore, SideStore, Feather or Signulous.

Sideloading sources can be found on Apollo Reborn.

Find your best way to install

Not sure which installation method to use? Try our interactive Apollo Reborn installation guide.

Answer a few questions about your device and Apple account, and the guide will pick the installation path that will actually work for you — complete with step-by-step instructions.

Which variant should I use?

• Apollo-Reborn-3.6.0-GLASS.ipa — the iOS 26 Liquid Glass appearance. Most people on iOS 26 will want this.
• Apollo-Reborn-3.6.0.ipa — the standard build without the Liquid Glass interface.
• GLASSICONS variants — include the Liquid Glass icon pack.
• NOEXTENSIONS variants — remove the app extensions for signing setups that require fewer extensions.

Not sure? Try the GLASS build first.

✨ Headline features

Gallery View everywhere

Gallery View is no longer just for subreddits and multireddits — it now works on the Home feed, Popular, All, Moderator Posts and any user profile, opening that listing as a filterable media grid.

The grid also gained real video controls (play/pause, ±15s, a scrubber with time labels, pinch and double-tap zoom), rotates properly on iPhone, and inherits whatever sort the feed you opened it from was using.

Your own profile now has a "..." menu too — it holds Gallery View, Edit Profile, Recently Read, hidden and deleted content, and Share Profile, so the floating Edit pill and the nav-bar clock and eye icons are gone and the header is a lot cleaner.

(#904 — @icpryde)

Live interactive posts

Reddit's Developer Platform posts — live match threads with scores and commentary, games like Pixelary, and other custom widgets — now render inline in comments and in the feed, instead of showing the "This post contains content not supported on old Reddit" placeholder.

Detection is generic to any Devvit custom post, not tied to a specific app. It's opt-in under Settings → Apollo Reborn → Posts & Feeds, with a separate sub-toggle if you want the widget in comments but not in the feed.

Community Highlights and the feed also stopped fighting over pinned interactive posts, so a subreddit's pinned daily discussion can render as a live widget in the feed while everything else pinned stays in the carousel.

(#920, #939 — @icpryde)

Feed video scrubber and Unmute Videos in Feed

Inline videos already drew a thin progress bar along their bottom edge. Now you can grab that bar and slide to seek — no press-and-hold, no opening the player. It works in the feed and on the post's own video at the top of comments, across every inline video type.

Alongside it, Unmute Videos in Feed lets feed videos play with sound, with Never / Always / Remember modes — Remember follows the last thing you did with the mute button.

Both are off by default, so nothing changes unless you turn them on.

(#938 — @icpryde)

Redesigned app icon picker

The App Icon screen is rebuilt around browsable pack cards instead of a long list, with a Daily Spotlight row that rotates five icons each day, an adaptive grid that widens on iPad, and clearer selection state, borders and haptics.

There's also a new Icon Appearance menu — Light, Dark or System — so you can pin any icon to its Light or Dark artwork instead of it always following your phone's appearance.

(#912, #941, #894 — @IllIIllIllIllII)

Goodbye Wallpapers

Apollo's farewell wallpaper collections are back, under Settings → Wallpapers: 32 iPhone, 32 iPad and 36 Mac wallpapers, with a full-screen viewer (paging, pinch and double-tap zoom, interactive dismissal) and one-tap saving of the original image straight to Photos.

(#947 — @IllIIllIllIllII)

🚀 Smaller features

Share Link Host

Choose which Reddit-compatible host Apollo uses when sharing links — Reddit, old.reddit, vxReddit or fxreddit. It's respected by Copy Link, the share sheet and Share as Image, and only the hostname is rewritten.

(#857 — @JamesLautner)

Blur NSFW Media

A local setting for Apollo's native mature-media blur, with Reddit Setting / Always / Never. Unlike the Tag Filters overlay it keeps the post title readable.

(#874 — @jordanearle)

New swipe gestures

Swiping past the first or last image of a feed gallery now goes back or forward instead of rubber-banding, and you can swipe between Notifications and Chat in the Inbox — which also stopped the Inbox title sliding around when you switch tabs.

(#934, #900 — @icpryde)

Prefer Native Images

A new option under Comment Link Host: comment images upload through Reddit's native media upload wherever a subreddit allows image comments, so they render inline on every client, and only fall back to the link host where image comments aren't allowed.

(#952 — @icpryde)

New and overhauled app icons

A new Right to Repair icon, a refreshed Synthwave, and a full overhaul of the Classics pack with more faithful Liquid Glass recreations plus new Stonewall, Sloth-Kun and Sandals 'n Socks artwork.

(#888, #915, #927, #928 — @IllIIllIllIllII, @bajader)

Settings

Icon-Only Tab Bar moved under Settings → Interface, alongside the rest of the tab bar options.

(#867 — @JeffreyCA)

🔧 Fixes

Custom themes

Fixes the issue a lot of you reported on the 3.5.1 thread — with a custom theme and Pure Black Dark Mode on, nearly all primary text (post titles, comment bodies, usernames) rendered at the muted grey level. That's fixed, so you no longer need the Pure Black workaround. Also fixes the GIF and gallery-count pills rendering white-on-white on dark themes, Recently Read opening with a black background and mis-sized stats, and the remaining settings rows that ignored a custom theme's text colour.

(#860, #869 — @JeffreyCA, @DeltAndy123)

NSFW blur

Also from the 3.5.1 thread: Apollo's native NSFW blur ignored your Reddit preference on API-Key-Free accounts, so mature media never blurred in the home feed no matter what you set on reddit.com. Fixed, along with the Search tab pill painting its light-mode colour on dark themes.

(#866 — @jordanearle)

Hidden web views leaking video ads

Some of you saw a fullscreen Reddit video ad take over the app out of nowhere. That was our own code: five background scrapers (Community Highlights, Badge Book, Social Links, User Flair, the sidebar) loaded a live reddit.com page in a hidden web view, and when Reddit served a promoted video there, WebKit promoted it to its own fullscreen window above the app. Fixed.

(#908 — @jordanearle)

Crashes

Fixes five crashes reported against 3.5.1 — Filters & Blocks Edit and the Tag Filters toggle, switching accounts from the Inbox, token refresh, and Liquid Glass nav titles — plus a crash on malformed multireddit responses, and the theme kill-switch wrongly disabling a custom theme after a force-quit or an iOS prewarm.

(#864, #897, #923 — @jordanearle, @icpryde)

Community Highlights

Fixes highlights getting stuck at two entries when Reddit serves its bot-challenge page, excess padding on the collapsed bar, and the layout snap the first time you open a subreddit.

(#925, #926 — @icpryde)

Media and previews

Fixes images being cropped in multi-image feed carousels, link previews rendering as mojibake for pages in a legacy charset (EUC-KR, Shift_JIS, GB18030, Big5), tweet previews not rendering at all after x.com changed its guest-token flow, and Picture in Picture taking over for silent v.redd.it clips in Unmuted Videos Only. More sports clips play inline too, across MLB, streamain, dubz and streamin.

(#873, #922, #929, #944, #950, #951 — @icpryde, @DeltAndy123, @JeffreyCA)

Subreddits list

Fixes A–Z scrubbing going dead mid-drag on non-Liquid-Glass builds, and the black bands behind section headers.

(#936 — @icpryde)

API-Key-Free and AI

Fixes mature listings returning the placeholder user on API-Key-Free accounts configured with a custom User-Agent, cloud AI Summaries failing on newer OpenAI models, and bounds streaming responses so a malformed endpoint can't exhaust memory.

(#887, #889, #890 — @Thetromboneman1, @jaredrossberg)

Performance

Scrolling and launch are smoother — shared state synchronisation is tighter and cache serialisation and image decoding stay off the critical path.

(#859 — @ryannair05)

🐛 Found a bug? Want a feature?

You can submit a bug report directly from inside Apollo Reborn, optionally attaching a sanitized, fully reviewable crash report.

Reports and requests can also be submitted through the website:

• Report a bug
• Request a feature

When reporting an issue, please include your iOS version, Apollo Reborn version, build variant and signing method wherever possible. If you are using an iOS beta, please also include the exact beta version.

🔗 Links

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• GitHub releases

Please only download Apollo Reborn builds from the official links above.

With news like this coming out of the wood work and reddit actively trying to kill its own community, digg would've slowly been getting more and more people jumping ship to come to digg. obviously stuff like this takes time and requires moments like this so people get fed up but they need somewhere to go and digg was the place to do that just like years ago when people jumped from digg to reddit but sadly digg killed itself before it had a chance to shine.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/08/reddit-signals-ominous-upcoming-changes-for-old-reddit-com/

SO i posted a few days ago my final fantasy theme I was working on for claude, original post can be found here, then I got a lot of praise for it so I decided to work on it some more before sharing it. Now it feels complete.

So first I used as the base to change themes I used u/TurbulentFail5486 Yume forge theme manager which this person made a lot of nice themes for claude you can see the original post here.

I decided to use this but modified it so I can add my own themes and then created my final fantasy theme from scratch as yume forge doesn't have an option to add your own themes.

If u/TurbulentFail5486 wants to use any of the code I made to add my custom theme option then please do so that way we can share themes more easily for claude.

Also ume forge doesn't have an option for adding settings to said themes to turn things on or off but for the final fantasy theme it has those options so if you want sounds or no sounds, and a few other changes as can be toggled in the yume forge settings under the final fantasy theme just tap the little dot top left corner.

I also added a fun easter egg if you want to call it that into the game so at random intervals 5 - 10 minutes chocobo will run onto the screen, 2 are simple interactions running through the text. box but then he will do 1 that is really fun and knocks the characters over lol. SO this just happens at random of the the 3 animations but you can test them i left the option in settings if you want to just make the interaction happen.

SO I hope you all enjoy and you can download it here

So just wanted to tease a new upcoming feature I was working on and got it working, this is almost ready but we will have full native chat support and mod mail support. yes we currently do have mod mail the key difference this version works api key free as well. so full chat support that works with images, gifs, snoo, emoji etc is all there and all without needing an api key.

also for you people struggling with the constant logging out when you leave the app for awhile, u/corderjones and u/DeltAndy both worked on a fix so that should be out later today or tomorrow the latest :)

Do we have any artists here? I'm looking for an artist or 2 who would be interested in making a banner for us for the subreddit.

We are also looking for an artist who can make some apollo snoo looking png images as well.

Also looking when we do releases like making a funny image loosely based around the upcoming update.

If you are someone who is willing to help out with that kinda thing you can leave a comment here or DM me.

It's not paid as we don't get paid working on reborn either it's just the community helping each other out.

Features

• Add the Apollo Classic Liquid Glass app icon to the in-app icon picker (#660: u/IllIIllIllIllII)
• Add a Remember Post Sort toggle in Settings > General > Comments that restores the comment sort you last picked for a post when you reopen it (#570: u/icpryde)
• Add a Tap to Play mode for inline GIFs and a new Inline Media settings sub-screen that gathers the Inline Media Previews, Alignment, and Autoplay controls plus a new Inline Media Size slider (#602: u/icpryde)
• Play short-clip host links — streamff, streamin, streamain, dubz, dropr, bangr, and MLB clips — inline as real videos with autoplay, fullscreen, mute, and PiP, just like Streamable posts (#596: u/icpryde)
• Replace Hide Bars on Scroll with a Left / Right / Off picker for the collapsed Liquid Glass tab bar (#645: u/icpryde)
• Make the account switcher and Custom API settings reflect each account's actual sign-in mode and credentials instead of showing one global state (#603: u/icpryde)
• Add Hidden Content Recovery to profiles so you can find hidden, removed, or deleted posts and comments and view archived copies when live content is gone (#633: u/ostechgit)
• Enable viewing and changing user flair while using API-Key-Free mode (#653: u/icpryde)

Fixes

• Fix the Reddit account being silently wiped seconds after sign-in on devices where iCloud Keychain sync is active (#579: u/ostechgit)
• Fix inline GIF autoplay not being honored under Never / WiFi Only for GIFs on slow hosts, and paused GIFs losing their play overlay and opening the media viewer when tapped (#602: u/icpryde)
• Fix converted native menus on Liquid Glass builds using the old fade animation instead of the iOS 26 glass morph that blooms the menu out of the tapped button (#600: u/icpryde)
• Fix Tag Filters double-blurring media on top of Apollo's own "tap to view" overlay when Blur mature (18+) images and media is enabled, including compact NSFW thumbnails (#585: u/JeffreyCA)
• Improve Recently Read Posts so revisited posts move to the top and the screen refreshes in place when you return, while fixing stale, resurrected, or crashing rows during refresh and deletion (#632: u/JeffreyCA)
• Fix bulk Hide Read Posts and unhide actions silently skipping 50 posts when processing more than 50 at once (#650: u/icpryde)
• Fix notification-backend account registration failing when Reddit credentials were omitted from upload-task request bodies (#642: u/nickclyde)
• Improve feed scrolling smoothness by reducing repeated translation, link-preview, and flair work as rows enter the viewport (#652: u/icpryde)
• Fix comments flashing blank when voting or returning from the app switcher, including translated comments briefly reverting or changing height (#627: u/icpryde)
• Fix long posts failing to translate and improve Apple's language detection for clearly foreign short post bodies (#629: u/icpryde)
• Improve Deleted Comments recovery reliability and coverage, render recovered Markdown correctly, and stop row-height updates from animating against comment collapse (#630: u/icpryde)
• Fix Auto Hide Read Posts ignoring Popular and All when Disable in Subreddits is enabled (#649: u/icpryde)
• Fix direct Reddit images appearing as link cards instead of inline images in API-Key-Free feeds (#654: u/icpryde)

Download the latest update:

Download the latest update from Apollo reborn website or our github

The organization has been onto me for a while now but with my trusted divergence meter I can finally stay a step ahead of them!

El Psy Kongroo!

I know native anime tracking has been requested before, but I wanted to explain why anime needs dedicated support. Trakt is great for tracking conventional TV shows and movies, but it often struggles with anime. Anime seasons, split cours, specials, OVAs, and movies may be organized or identified incorrectly, which can cause inaccurate episode progress, broken season listings, duplicate entries, and missing or incorrect metadata such as titles, posters, and thumbnails. This makes Trakt unreliable as the primary tracking service for anime fans.

Community add-ons such as Kitsu or Animeo can provide partial workarounds, but they cannot offer the same reliable, app-wide integration as native support. They may use indirect methods to update lists and can run into problems with title matching, episode mapping, syncing, or keeping progress consistent across the app and the tracking service.

Proposed solution

I would love for Nuvio to add native support for AniList, MyAnimeList, and Kitsu. These are three of the main services anime fans use to manage their libraries, and integrating them directly—similarly to how Nuvio supports Trakt—would make anime tracking much more accurate and dependable.

Ideally, the integration would support two-way syncing of watch progress, list status, ratings, start and completion dates, and rewatches. It should also correctly handle anime-specific formats such as split cours, specials, OVAs, ONAs, and related movies while using each service’s anime IDs and metadata to avoid incorrect matches. Users should be able to choose their preferred service, import their existing library, and decide how conflicts are handled when their local progress and online list differ.

Trakt could remain the default for general movies and television, while AniList, MyAnimeList, or Kitsu could be used specifically for anime. Proper native support would solve a problem that add-ons cannot fully address and would bring Nuvio to another level for anime viewers.

We now have the new and improved custom themes and now it is much easier to share your wonderful themes simply with an image, simply go to

settings > appearance > theme manager > click on your current theme to edit > Share

You then can apply the theme either scanning the QR code or simply uploading the image in the theme manager.

So this is a new thread so we can keep it cleaner and share your themes ^_^

I just wanted to share with you a new small feature we added, I saw lots of people complain about how hard it is to tap the icons in the info line so I came up with a magnifier feature to make it a lot easier! Also the comment bubble actually takes you straight to the comments and not just to the top of the post. As usually tapping anywhere else will just take you to the top of the post like normal.

Lots and lots and lots of bug fixes and qol improvements and we have a massive update coming for theme builder we will share with you shortly.

Just thought this was a fun little thing i saw people complain about since the days of apollo at the beginning so enjoy :)

We are looking for a moderator who has experience moderating other subreddits, we need help just setting up all the things you'd expect in a sub like filling out all the mod rules, setting up the mod tools so they are easier to use when needed and things like that.

IF you have experience moderating a subreddit and wanted to help us out then let me know if you are interested.

Features

• Add a Theme Builder in Settings > Appearance > Themes to create, save, and manage multiple custom themes that behave like Apollo's built-in themes, including importing and exporting themes to share them (#454: u/jordanearle, u/icpryde)
• Add AI Summaries in Settings > Apollo Reborn > Apollo AI (off by default, iOS 26+) — generates post, discussion, and linked-article summaries entirely on-device using Apple's FoundationModels (#489, #491: u/jordanearle, u/icpryde)
  • Post summaries appear in the comments header between the title and body, and discussion summaries appear above the first comment on larger threads; summaries stream in token-by-token and are cached to disk so reopening a thread is instant
  • Includes per-type controls and a Tap to Summarize option that avoids auto-fetching a linked article's page until you ask for it
• New experimental API-Key-Free Mode in Settings > Apollo Reborn > API Keys to use Apollo without API keys by signing in to reddit.com directly! Supports browsing, voting, commenting, and saving. (#442: u/nickclyde)
  • In this mode, images attached to comments and posts now upload straight to Reddit's own CDN instead of falling back to Imgur (#495: u/nickclyde)
• Add multi-account credentials so each signed-in account can use its own Reddit API key (or web session) instead of sharing one, with a redesigned account switcher to add, edit, reorder, and remove accounts, and support for Reddit "Web app" confidential clients (#505: u/DeltAndy123)
• Add Picture-in-Picture for videos and GIFs — a floating in-app miniplayer that keeps playing as you scroll through the comments (drag to reposition, swipe to hide, double-tap to resize), with optional handoff to the iOS system PiP so playback continues when you leave Apollo (#467: u/JeffreyCA)
• Add Img Chest as a media upload host in Settings > Apollo Reborn > Media Upload Host for single images and albums, with thumbnails and host labels in Manage Uploads, the ability to delete Img Chest uploads, and an improved album viewer with share, Save All, an accurate loading percentage, and swipe-to-dismiss (#434: u/icpryde)
• Revamp the Subreddit Sidebar to render new-Reddit's structured content above the existing markdown — community stats (subscribers and created date), a Search by Flair chip row that jumps straight to a flair's posts, related communities, resource links, and a table of contents (#462: u/icpryde)
• Add an opt-in Community Highlights carousel in Settings > Apollo Reborn > Subreddits, showing a subreddit's pinned posts as tappable cards at the top of the feed, with tap-to-collapse, spoiler blurring, and an optional Load All Highlights mode that surfaces the full set of pinned posts (#463, #499: u/icpryde)
• Expand Filters & Blocks with per-subreddit keyword and post-flair filters plus subreddit-name filtering that hides any subreddit whose name contains a word (e.g. circlejerk) across feeds and search (#507: u/icpryde)
• Improve Direct Chat with inline images, GIFs, and emoji/snoomoji in message bubbles, ImgChest-backed image sending, a recipient avatar in the composer, a Direct Chat inbox filter with avatars on every row, and an Inline Media in Chat toggle in Settings > Media (#488: u/icpryde)
• Add Apple's on-device Translation (iOS 18+) as a translation provider in Settings > Translation > Primary Provider, alongside Google and LibreTranslate (#460: u/icpryde)
• Show a user's Social Links on their profile page (#465, #496, #498: u/icpryde)
• Move Rich Link Previews into its own settings section with a combined Body, Comments, and Color sub-screen, and replace the preset card colors with a full color picker (grid, spectrum, sliders, eyedropper, hex) plus quick swatches, a live card preview, and exact full-fill card coloring with automatic text contrast (#504: u/icpryde)
• Add Include Link and Share as Video options to Share as Image — attach the post's Reddit link alongside the rendered image, or export the post as a video (#484: u/icpryde)
• Add Inbox Comment Scroll so tapping a reply in the Inbox lands on the linked comment instead of the top of the post (#457: u/icpryde)
• Improve the user flair selector to handle old (CSS-class) and emoji-based flair systems, add a custom-emoji picker, and show clearer empty states instead of errors or walls of blank rows (#474: u/icpryde)
• Show moderator avatars in the subreddit Mods list (#459: u/icpryde)
• Add 0.75× and 1.25× playback speeds to the fullscreen video player (#476: u/icpryde)
• Add a hold-for-2× gesture — press and hold the right side of a fullscreen video to play at 2× while held, then release to restore the previous speed (#479: u/icpryde)

Fixes

• Replace the misleading "Error Loading Notifications — contact developer" alert on free-Apple-ID sideloads with a clear Notifications Unavailable explanation, since Apple only grants the push entitlement to paid Developer accounts, so push, watchers, and inbox alerts can never reach those builds; paid-account sideloads and App Store/jailbreak builds are detected and left untouched (#492: u/federgilad)
• Make deleted comment recovery faster and more reliable, with cleaner labels on recovered comments and a heads-up when enabling it that comments may load slower (#418: u/nunoo)
• Fix the tweak's settings screens only following the system light/dark mode instead of Apollo's own color theme, along with related cell coloring glitches when switching appearance (#440: u/iCrazeiOS)
• Keep a profile's avatar, banner, bio, and social links visible even when Show User Profile Pictures is turned off (#487: u/icpryde)
• Rework the feed and subreddit search bar so the navigation bar fully hides on iOS 26 instead of floating half-visible, and add an opt-in Keep Search Bar In Place mode in Settings > Apollo Reborn > General (#451: u/icpryde)
• Fix link-preview card text showing raw HTML entities like & (#461: u/icpryde)
• Fix the SUBREDDIT SUGGESTIONS header overlapping the first row on the Search tab (#478: u/icpryde)
• Fix the modern subreddit list tinting the whole navigation bar when the Home row is selected (#453: u/icpryde)
• Fix the profile-picture tab icon greying out after opening a direct chat room from the Inbox (#458: u/icpryde)
• Fix the translation globe spacing in the Liquid Glass navigation bar (#455: u/icpryde)
• Fix Pixel Pals opening their menu over media, web views, and modals (#506: u/icpryde)
• Hide the redundant GIF caption beneath inline GIFs (#464: u/icpryde)
• Improve the manual sign-in fallback UI on older iOS versions (#480: u/Alstruit)
• Fix Hide Mod Subreddits stripping the moderator badge and mod tools when every moderated subreddit was hidden; the Subreddits list now filters display only, leaving the app-wide moderator roster intact (#500: u/icpryde)
• Restore the follow-thread Live Activity in the Reborn widgets so a self-hosted notification backend can render and update it again (#490: u/nickclyde)
• Show the website name on a link card when the scraped title is only numbers, instead of a bare number like a single-page app's match ID (#503: u/icpryde)

Download the latest update from:

our website or github

I'm working on tinkering with filters and blocks so any ideas of things you'd want added to this that you think is missing? let me know now while im working on it