Hydra Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience74.5% of reviews
Neutral6.0% of reviews
Negative experience19.5% of reviews

~ Based on 149 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Hydra

Is Hydra Safe?

Hydra - read, upvote, comment appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Hydra is 95/100.

This assessment is based on 792 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.8/5.

Safety Analysis

95.7% of ratings point to a safe experience
1.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
3.1% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 736 App Store ratings for Hydra.

Is Hydra Legit?

Hydra - read, upvote, comment appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Hydra is 75/100.

Based on 75 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Great alternative to Reddit app

Been looking for a new Reddit app since Apollo has been gone. The official Reddit app has too much junk, this is a perfect alternative.

Not a great app.

Any redit app that doesn’t have. Away to post images is a 1 star for me.

New to the App

I'm new to the app but these are the things immediately bothering me:

"Hide posts you've seen" doesn't actually do that. Not being able to vote on posts without having to pull a menu up or open the post and when you click on a new subreddit not being sure if I am subscribed to it until I hit the three dots in the corner.
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5 stars because I love the app

Can’t submit comments lately though. Just throws “Failed to submit comment”. I’ve logged out and in, restarted, tried different networks. I assume it’s some Reddit limiting verification going on, not specific to Hydra.

What are you doing devs?

Every update they make this app worse and worse. LEAVE IT ALONE OR GET A NEW DEV TEAM. App is absolutely abysmal now. Scroll to fast, crash. Quickly close out of a post, crash. Search for something, you guessed it, crash. Used to be enjoyable before. Now it's just garbage.

One of my favorite apps

Best way to experience reddit and I find the pro subscription worth it. Gallery mode is awesome and the filtering out options are great. There’s also so much customization. Hydra puts all other reddit apps to shame

Slopification continues

Charging people to download videos? No thanks. This app is a vibe coded disaster.

Downloading videos with audio only with a subscription. What a joke

Downloading videos with audio only with a subscription. What a joke?! Seriously??? What is this? Will go back to Apollo.

Just go for it you won’t regret it

No ads, intuitive, and flexible

This app is the only reason I still use Reddit

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

Pretty good

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

Very good Reddit client

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.

Elegant and always improving

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!

Still Missing Some Features

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.
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Not it

Doesn't work. Subreddits literally just missing posts

Doesn’t load anything

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

Even better than Apollo?

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.
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iPad doesn’t work

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

Excellent

App

Wer Apollo vermisst…

wird hier glücklich!