Narwhal for Reddit

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It is free for a week and then it’s $4/month. That would be ok if it told you that anywhere before you download and install it.

Literally, the reason why I downloaded this app was because it said “no ads” in the app description. Yet, I can’t even access the app unless I am paying a monthly fee. This is one of those times where I wish someone who made this app would explain to me why they think this is the way to market the app. To me, This just makes the app and those associated with it look very, very sketchy business wise. Really be that terrible if you stated that ads were included unless paying a subscription?

No ads, but you pay us to remove the ads, so like, it’s a subscription, but that’s not advertised in the description. You’re welcome for the free download and delete.

Update 2025 - Dev has continued to release updates with top requested fixes and features pretty regularly (latest has an “open in app” Safari extension, woo!). Still waiting on a few key things like in-line images in comments, but this feels a few updates a way from perfection honestly. Worth the price of admission and you should absolutely consider an "extra support" subscription. The dev is super active in responding to feedback on the subreddit and clearly committing a ton of their free time to continuous improvements. The app itself outshines Apollo at its peak (for me) and is very close to reaching how happy I was with Sync on Android. There's a heavy focus on customizablity, and it can take a bit to find what fits your usecase best, but everything flows so well once you've tuned it. The simplified subscription cost and not having to constantly keep an eye on your API usage is a huge plus, too. Very excited to see how this grows in the future. :)

I had high hopes but Narwhal was only a marginal improvement over the official app. I wanted the ability to hide read posts. The menu item exists but I continued to see the same posts I had read - and upvoted etc - over and over. Might be worth the monthly fee to avoid ads but I’m already a Premium user. Oh well. I miss Apollo.

You need to pay up in order to get in. 👎🏻no thank u

That’s all

Only paid option available

It’s okay. It needs a better layout and a clearer, easier way to know when mail, comment responses, etc occur