The Reddit App is the official mobile client for Reddit, a network of topic-based communities. People post links, images, videos and text, discuss them in comment threads and vote on what rises to the top. It runs on Android and iOS, and you can use it with a free account. An optional Reddit Premium subscription removes ads and raises some limits.
Home, Popular, News and Latest feeds
Home shows posts from the communities you have joined, plus recommended posts unless you switch recommendations off in the privacy settings. Use the menu in the top-left corner to switch to Popular, News or Latest. Popular collects the most popular posts across Reddit, while News gathers news shared by communities. Latest is an app-only feed that shows your followed communities sorted by newest first.
Custom feeds go further. You name a feed in the Custom Feeds menu, then search for communities and add them. Several related subreddits then appear as one stream. A custom feed can stay private or be shared publicly. Muting a community removes it from your feeds while leaving it reachable directly.
Finding communities to join
Explore Communities, in the left-hand menu, suggests subreddits from your favourite communities, local and global trends, featured picks and topics. Joining a community adds its posts to Home. Each community’s About tab lists its rules, including any formatting requirements for posts.
Posting, comments and votes
The Create button starts a post, either from the main screen or inside a community. Depending on what the community allows, a post can be a link, an image, a video, an AMA or a poll. You can create polls only in the mobile apps. You add a title and body, choose tags or flair, and mark the post as NSFW or as a spoiler from the overflow menu. After publishing, you can edit the body but not the title.
The Reddit App saves comment text as a draft while you type. You can finish the reply later from the Drafts menu. Upvotes and downvotes on posts and comments decide what surfaces in feeds.
Search and Reddit Answers
You can narrow search to posts, communities, comments, media or people. To search inside a single community, use its own search bar. You can sort posts by relevance, hot, top, new or comment count. You can also limit them to a time window.
Typing a question and tapping Ask instead sends it to Reddit Answers. This AI search summarises relevant posts and comments into an answer with inline citations and suggested communities. It uses only Reddit content and leaves out private, quarantined and NSFW communities.
Chat requests and group chats
A chat starts from a user’s profile or from the Chats tab in the inbox. The first message arrives as a request the other person accepts or ignores. In the chat settings you decide who may send requests: everyone, accounts older than 30 days, specific people or nobody. In group chats the creator is host and can remove members.
Anonymous Browsing and app controls
You choose Anonymous Browsing from the account switcher under your avatar. It is available only in the Reddit App. While it is on, browsing and search history are not saved to your account or used for recommendations. Posting, voting and chat are unavailable. The session clears when you switch back or after 30 minutes of inactivity.
Other settings cover dark mode, video autoplay, per-type notifications and blocked accounts. On iOS, you change mature-content preferences on the website. Where machine translation is offered, feeds, posts and comments can be shown in your device language. Premium adds ad-free browsing, new-comment highlighting and longer video uploads.
