# Hydra - read, upvote, comment — The best way to browse

> Fast, fluid, native iOS client for browsing subreddits with advanced features. (iPhone/iPad app by Dimitrie Milinovich.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hydra-read-upvote-comment/id6478089063 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Dimitrie Milinovich](https://appshunter.io/developer/1637204263)
- Category: News, Social Networking
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.80/5 from 716 App Store ratings · 140 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 17+
- Requires: iOS 15.1 · 58 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2025-02-20
- Data updated: 2026-08-26
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hydra-read-upvote-comment/id6478089063/reviews.md

## What is Hydra?

Hydra is the best client for browsing your subreddits and the ultimate experience on iOS. It's fast, fluid, and designed to make browsing more seamless than ever before. If you're looking for a powerful yet beautifully simple client, Hydra is the way to go.

"Hydra makes Reddit feel like a natural part of iOS. Everything just flows." - u/goosewatergoose

"This app is what you get when the developer really understands what a great user experience should be. It’s everything the Reddit app isn't" - DAC, UK

"Long time Apollo user. Found the app a month ago. Great work so far, just wanted to convey the props" - @gruthsc3 (Discord)

Hydra is crafted with a native iOS design, making it feel right at home on your device. It loads fast, responds instantly, and makes browsing an incredibly intuitive experience. Packed with powerful features, it's built to be the ultimate companion for both casual browsing and hardcore Redditors alike.

Features that make Hydra shine:

- Lightning-fast loading for seamless scrolling and browsing
- Multireddit support for organizing and following your favorite topics
- Favorite subreddits to keep your go-to communities at your fingertips
- A beautifully designed, native iOS experience that feels right at home
- Gorgeous image and video viewer for an immersive media experience
- Multiple account support so you can switch effortlessly
- Quick access gestures to upvote, downvote, reply, and more with a swipe
- Markdown support to get the most out of your posts and comments
- System share menu integration to easily share content anywhere
- Full inbox access for messages and notifications
- Private messages support to stay connected with other users
- Powerful search to find posts, subreddits, and users in an instant
- Customizable themes to match your style
- Compact mode for an optimized browsing experience
- Highly customizable UI to tailor Hydra to your needs
- Blur NSFW content and spoilers for a safe browsing experience
- Low data mode to keep your usage efficient
- Beautiful, intuitive UI/UX that makes using Hydra a delight

Hydra is always evolving with new features and improvements based on feedback from the community. If there's something you'd love to see, drop by the /r/HydraApp subreddit and let me know!

Hydra is an unofficial client, but it just might be the best one you've ever used.

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This is an unofficial client for the Reddit service (Reddit is a registered trademark of Reddit, Inc., and this app is not affiliated with or endorsed by Reddit).

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Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

## Key features

- Lightning-fast loading
- Multireddit support
- Favorite subreddits
- Native iOS design
- Image and video viewer
- Multiple account support
- Quick access gestures

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Hydra Pro | $2.99 | per month |


## Chart rankings

- #188 in Top Free · News (US App Store)

## What do users think of Hydra?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 🚀 Massive potential
- 👍 Closest thing to Apollo
- 👍 Best option for 2025
- 👍 Better in almost every way
- 👍 Superior Reddit Client++
- 👍 Best Reddit app ever
- 👍 Great app
- 👍 Chop one Apollo off, a greater app will return
- 👍 Great Apollo alternative
- 👍 The best client since Apollo
- 👍 The best way to browse Reddit

**Cons**

- 🔒 Sketchy security

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Expect some bumps

**Most requested features**

- Customizing the gestures and hiding the username on the tab bar
- Content blocking, comment images, startup feed, and others

## Recent user reviews (10 of 140)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hydra-read-upvote-comment/id6478089063/reviews.md

### 5/5 — This app is the only reason I still use Reddit

*2026-08-18, version 4.1.1*

Great app, I don't think you even have to be signed in to use it - I wasn't for a while because it was just nice to not need to use the browser version of Reddit and even the browser version is better than the official app! This app is great

### 4/5 — Pretty good

*2026-07-28, version 4.1.0*

This is definitely better than the awful official reddit app, but recent changes have made videos restart when going full screen and they take forever to load, which is pretty annoying. Stuff also sometimes is slow to load in general, but perhaps that’s Reddit’s API? Overall recommend

### 5/5 — Very good Reddit client

*2026-07-27*

It’s a good Reddit client with cool features like gallery mode. Loading the feed however is a little on the slower side and saved videos don’t have audio.

### 5/5 — Elegant and always improving

*2026-07-24, version 4.1.0*

Nothing out there compares to the simplicity and elegance Hydra offers. It feels natively Apple. The dev team is actively involved in making this the premier Reddit experience with frequent updates. Love it!

### 3/5 — Still Missing Some Features

*2026-07-17, version 4.0.0*

The app is basically good, and can be configured to act a lot like Apollo did back in its prime. The one glaring omission is that you still can’t set videos/GIFs to play muted by default. You have to manage the volume on your device, rather than just allowing audio when something that requires it comes along. It’s very clumsy and disruptive for an app that is otherwise a pretty decent browsing experience.

### 2/5 — Not it

*2026-07-15, version 4.0.0*

Doesn't work. Subreddits literally just missing posts

### 1/5 — Doesn’t load anything

*2026-07-09, version 4.0.0*

Won’t load a single post, feed, or sub.  Is this app decommissioned or something?

### 5/5 — Even better than Apollo?

*2026-07-04, version 4.0.0*

Hydra is very similar to Apollo, but has an improved gallery mode and doesn’t require using a Reddit API. Happy to support with the Pro membership, but also great without.

They don’t use the official API, so I think there is a possibility that Reddit will update something that breaks Hydra. It’s been going strong since launch though, and I don’t notice any slowdowns compared to apps that use the (expensive) API.

### 3/5 — iPad doesn’t work

*2026-07-04, version 4.0.0*

Nothing loads on iPad , works fine on mobile as of July 1, 2026

### 5/5 — Excellent

*2026-07-01, version 4.0.0*

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## Frequently asked questions about Hydra

### What does Hydra do?

Hydra is a native iOS client designed for browsing subreddits. It aims to provide a fast, fluid, and seamless experience for users to read, upvote, and comment on content within their favorite communities.

### What are the key features of Hydra?

Key features include lightning-fast loading, multireddit support, favorite subreddits, a native iOS design, an immersive image and video viewer, multiple account support, quick access gestures, markdown support, and full inbox access.

### Is Hydra free to use?

Hydra is available for free with in-app purchases. While the core functionality is free, users may have the option to purchase additional features or enhancements through in-app transactions.

### What devices is Hydra compatible with?

Hydra is designed for iOS devices. It leverages a native iOS design to feel at home on your iPhone or iPad, offering an intuitive user experience.

### Who is Hydra best suited for?

Hydra is ideal for both casual Reddit browsers and hardcore Redditors on iOS who are seeking a powerful, beautifully simple, and highly customizable client that offers an enhanced user experience compared to the official app.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 4.1.1 — 2026-08-01

Features:
- Added a button to restore purchases

Bugfixes:
- Nothing would load for logged out users on a fresh install of the app
- External links would not open properly when set to open in Brave Browser
- User page URLs formatted as /r/u_username would fail to load
- Posts with only a source mp4 resolution would fail to load
- Made EULA and Privacy Policy more prominent in app settings

### 4.1.0 — 2026-07-24

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.

### 4.0.0 — 2026-05-16

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.

### 3.4.0 — 2026-03-13

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

### 3.3.0 — 2026-02-26

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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