Protego for Reddit User Reviews

Name: Protego for Reddit
Rating: 4.6 (25 reviews)

Protego for Reddit

Edgar Sanchez

🔧 Utilities

Customer Experience

Positive experience81.5% of reviews

Neutral3.7% of reviews

Negative experience14.8% of reviews

~ Based on 27 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is Protego for Reddit Safe?

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Is Protego for Reddit Legit?

Protego for Reddit appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Protego for Reddit is 65/100.

Based on 65 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

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Not janky and has good blocking options

I’ve been trying to cut back on my time mindlessly browsing, and this app actually has a lot of settings to address this. Works better than my other options / workarounds. Seems to be worth the small fee and I hope the development continues

Mojo hime

a month ago

Response from developer

Thank you for the kind words!

Impressive

Clean design working well

Zakk_456

a month ago

Reddit page no scrolling

Had high hopes for this app as it states working without no login. But that is unfortunately not the case as this app can not remove or disable the Reddit upselling by requesting to use the official app on iOS and locking the page scrolling. In that sense I think what this app claims is false advertising.

✨✨

2 months ago

Response from developer

Thanks for the detail, it turned out to be very helpful. You were right that something is broken, Reddit is running a test that shows a fraction of mobile web visitors a full screen panel pushing the app, and that panel also freezes the page so it will not scroll. Protego did not recognize it: both the panel and the way it locks scrolling are new. I have reproduced both, and a fix is on the way. One separate thing, in case it also applies to you: if the Reddit app is installed, Safari itself shows a banner above Reddit pages. Safari draws that one outside the page, so no extension can reach it. Uninstalling the Reddit app is the only way to remove it. Sorry for the inconvenience. Email hello@getprotego.app if you would like me to let you know when the fix ships or if you have any more details, I've received your review on Aug 1st and I'm working on the fix on the same day. I hope to get this fix out in a day or two and hope you'll reconsider your rating if the fix works for you! Edgar

Great app for filtering Reddit and very responsive developer

The app does what it does very well and the dev is very responsive and open to feature requests. Strong recommendation.

Mr Tyrell

2 months ago

Makes reading easier

Works well and hides a bunch of clutter. The recent update added a lot of new features like hiding gif-only comments that used to take up a whole page, now neatly collapsed. The keyword filter is great for getting rid of trump everything everywhere. Honestly I wouldn't be able to use reddit without it.

its-paul-yall

2 months ago

Great app

Does what it says it’s supposed to do. But Reddit is still unfortunately a cesspool

HippityHoppityGimmeTheZoppity

2 months ago

This is THE APP TO HAVE

It’s such a useful and helpful app. If you’re the type of person who spends time on Reddit, you need this app.

Stephl01

2 months ago

Amazingggg!!

Really happy with Protego so far. It works exactly as advertised, is easy to use, and has made my Reddit experience much more enjoyable by filtering out the content I don’t want to see. Definitely worth checking out if you want a cleaner, more personalized feed.q

Jocy0521

2 months ago

Excellent Reddit Filter

Really impressed on how simple this app is to use, it makes filtering unwanted content on Reddit easy and the Safari extension works amazing

Jsrz-23

2 months ago

I have never reviewed an app/extension but…

All of a sudden Reddit isn’t complete trash anymore. Less than a dozen words in my filter list and my front page is completely different. As of now absolutely worth the $2.

CrappyService69

7 months ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for the kind words! Be sure to check out v3 of Protego which launched this week!

Works and it doesn’t

Definitely works, but scrolling Reddit stops working almost every time, so only get the first page load and nothing else.

jpspyro

8 months ago

Such a useful app!

Protego is such a useful app, yet is so simple to use. It’s an essential on my iPad.

A couple asks/suggestions:

- Is it possible to extend the keyword filtering to include the subreddit name? For example, politic* would filter posts with politic* in the title as well as subreddits with politic* in the name.

- Can the redirect to old Reddit toggle be added to the Quick View dropdown menu in Safari? Sometimes it’s necessary to turn it off just to quickly look at a page, and it would be handy to not have to go over to the app for that.

Ady16517

a year ago

Response from developer

Hey Ady16517, I know this is a late response but just wanted to thank you for the kind words and let you know that the new v3 of Protego now supports native filtering of communities with wildcards like "politic*", just go to Protego > Filter > Communities. Regarding the old Reddit toggle, I'm working on something for this and will hopefully have an update soon!

Highly recommend

Being able to filter out certain keywords and names has made using Reddit so, so much better. Highly recommend this for everybody.

Penage

a year ago

Response from developer

I appreciate the kind words!

Makes Reddit usable

Reddit is a cesspool of bias and groupthink. At the same time, this isn’t the early 2000s anymore where individual forums were more prevalent. The top results for many searches are all be on Reddit now, and I’ll admit there is often genuinely useful information there. The downside is that it seems 90% of active users there are terribly obnoxious. As someone who does not care to make an account for Reddit and wants to spend only as much time as necessary on the site, this app really helps filter out the fluff. One keyword filter list later, and I went from 74 blocks in a month to just shy of 3k in a few seconds of testing it out on a political subreddit. Thank you for this app!

ChiefDkay

a year ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for the review! Glad it’s making a difference!

Reddit takes forever to load

Hi there,

I just wanted to let you know that I’m really happy with the application. It works just like I expected and I’m using it all the time.

The only thing that’s bugging me is that the Reddit tab takes forever to load, especially after I filter the posts. Is there anything you can do about that?

Akshay Udupa

2 years ago

Works half the time

I have installed this on my phone and iMac. When the app is active and I open reddit, half the time it filters out most of my keywords, but not all. The other half of the time, it doesn’t filter anything at all.

Punatic

2 years ago

Thank you!!! This is fantastic!

I was so pleased to find your extension! I’ve just purchased it and already added some filters that seem to be doing wonders. Reddit has been so depressing recently, the percentage of positive posts in recent months have been buried by an avalanche of negative ones so I just stopped browsing it entirely which as a long time Redditor, was also disappointing. SO glad to have found your app.

Azz3879

2 years ago

Response from developer

Awesome! I'm so glad to hear Protego is improving your Reddit browsing experience! If you have any questions or suggestions don't hesitate to send me a message via the About tab in the app!

Works well!

I really enjoy using Reddit but the non-stop deluge about certain public figures and topics was starting to impact my well-being. Reddit removed the ability to filter posts containing key words. I found this app to fill that gap and it has been doing the trick!

Doobwa

2 years ago

Response from developer

Thank you so much for the kind words! It makes me very happy to hear that my app is a having a positive impact on others!

Sort of works sometimes

What a great idea because I can’t look at Reddit otherwise since 1/20/25. Often it will work and not show me any content with my designated words. It will even show that it’s filtering. Then just stops and won’t start working again, keeps showing me words I want to block. Statistics stop getting updated. Not sure what the issue is but I have the latest version. I would gladly pay for this if it always worked.

2 years ago

Response from developer

Hi! First of all thank you so much for trying out Protego. I’ve been trying to track down the issue you mentioned, I think it only happens when launching Safari right after installing a Protego update. For now, if you run into this issue again, please force close Safari and relaunch it. I’m working on reproducing this so I can create a bugfix as soon as possible. Thank you so much, hope I can earn those other 3 stars because App Store rating are super important for brand new apps. I’ll keep you updated, feel free to email me at hello@getprotego.app if you have more info on what triggers this bug. Edgar

Sanity saving!

Like lots of people right now, I felt it was best to take a step back from social media for the sake of my own mental health. It seemed impossible to engage with it without seeing a certain few people’s faces and names everywhere I looked. Protego has changed that! It works flawlessly on my phone and my computer, filtering is almost instantaneous and it means I can scroll through what’s happening in the news without it being dominated by those I’m trying to avoid. The next 4 years will certainly be much less anxiety producing than they would have been otherwise. It really is worth its weight in gold for me!

MichaelPorter1991