Narwhal for Reddit Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience69.9% of reviews
Neutral5.9% of reviews
Negative experience24.2% of reviews

~ Based on 971 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about Narwhal for Reddit

Is Narwhal for Reddit Safe?

Narwhal for Reddit appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Narwhal for Reddit is 90/100.

This assessment is based on 17,288 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.5/5.

Safety Analysis

88.2% of ratings point to a safe experience
2.8% of ratings suggest some concerns
9.0% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 17,192 App Store ratings for Narwhal for Reddit.

Is Narwhal for Reddit Legit?

Narwhal for Reddit appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Narwhal for Reddit is 93/100.

Based on 93 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Not free

If your going force users to pay just charge for app up front that would at least be honest

No good

The actual Reddit account is free and far superior, I don’t know why you would charge for this app !

The best Reddit experience on iOS

Update 2026 - New update added inline images and gifs in comments, which was my last major want. App is practically perfect now imo. Dev is rad.

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. :)
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The last bastion of useable Reddit

This app is the only thing keeping Reddit usable these days. I’m so happy it exists and has so much customization available.

Best Reddit app period

Really love inline images in comments with new update.

Needs better closed Duo support

I use the Duo closed for browsing reddit and it isnt full screen. Please give an option to use the app full screen.

Best app

Narwhal has made using Reddit on mobile actually enjoyable. They constantly update the app with great features. I especially appreciate the customisation as I can filter out keywords and can avoid topics I don’t want to see.

Reddit back

I just subscribed to this yesterday, this morning Reddit is gone, ‘couldn’t find posts’ is all it says on screen.
Unsubscribe!!

Log out and log back in has sorted it.
Thank you

Couldn’t imagine using Reddit without it

I was a user of Apollo before it shut down, and this app fills that void perfectly. If you like a simplified, ad-free way to view Reddit, this is it. And the recent update that lets you view gifs and images inline in comments is great!

Took work to get logged in

All is good now. Nice app

Pay for Reddit?? lol

Why tf would anyone pay for this service to just patch you through to Reddit which is free. This started off as a nice idea but is stupid now that you have to pay for it

Not free

Zero mention of a subscription to use the app, and even though it’s presented as an option by calling it Pro, it is mandatory.

Hide posts half baked

Lack of auto hide recirculates the same content. Manually hiding when scrolling is lazy and defeats purpose of clearing what you already read.

Not free

This isn’t free to use.

Still has issues

I liked Narwhal and I would have kept it but, there were issues that after having it for many months still haven't been fixed. If I saved any posts to go back to later they wouldn't show up, if I tried doing a search inside a subreddit nothing would show up...but it did in the official app. There's quite a few things that still need to be worked on before I'll consider paying for it again, sorry to say.
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Kept nagging me for a rating so here you go.

A paid app should let you get to it it without the hassle of nagging reminders.

Paid app

Hopefully I saved you some time.

I can see!

The only thing I hate is that I have to use the official app on my Android tablet. Kudos this developer that replaced Apollo one.

Bait and switch

Might as well just pay for reddit premium now since you have to subscribe to this clone anyway. Who would pay for this over the actual app they are using?

Borderline scam

Brilliant first impressions, devs.
1) Open the app -> subscription required, free 7-day trial on the next screen. Except there’s no trial, only option are to pay monthly or yearly right away.
2) Get into the app after paying, immediately see an ad. Ad-free forever, indeed.
3) Try to log into my account, “Log in with Google” button cannot be interacted with.

Safe to say I will be disputing the one-month charge.
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