r/ApolloReborn

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

• Installation guide
• Apollo Reborn website
• Privacy policy
• GitHub repository
• GitHub releases

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

I don't use any scripts or any other API using apps, so it can only be talking about Apollo

We’re still a little way off sharing anything concrete, including timelines, what it will look like or how it’ll be distributed, but we’ve been keeping one more thing quiet.

Apollo Reborn is coming to Mac.

It’ll be a thoroughly Mac-assed Mac app - this isn’t simply the iPad app running on macOS. It is designed specifically for macOS and built around the features, interactions and little platform conventions that make a Mac app feel like a Mac app.

There’s still a lot to build, so we’ll have more to share when it’s further along.

In the meantime, work on the core app very much continues: we’re hard at work on 3.5.2, and hope to have fixes out soon for some of the bugs and crashes people have been experiencing.

For now, consider this your teaser. 👀

I recently got this problem in this post, but now it wont even show any update/free button. Sidestore shows the update on some pages, but I cant updated even though I installed it using the official download links. Any one has suggestion whats to do?

Is there a way to edit a theme so that read posts are dimmed like they are on the default Apollo theme?

We’ve been quietly experimenting with a proper iPad experience for Apollo Reborn, one that makes much better use of the larger screen, with a native iPad sidebar, multi-column browsing and a dedicated post view.

It also takes advantage of more of the features that make iPad apps feel at home on the platform, including keyboard shortcuts, menu-bar commands and other iPad-specific interactions.

There’s still plenty left to build and refine, but we wanted to share an early look at where it’s heading.

To set expectations, this is currently a back-burner project rather than an imminent release. Stability, performance, crash fixes and improvements to the core app remain our priority. We’re hoping to make the new layout available as an experimental option in an upcoming update, giving people the chance to try it early while we continue building and refining it.

Thanks to all the people who have suggested ideas for the iPad layout or requested it on our various platforms!