ImgGallery vs Alien Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ImgGallery
Access Imgur and Reddit image galleries with ease. Browse photos, view comments, and share your favorites directly from the app. Customize your experience with color themes and secure your app with a passcode.
- Imgur galleries and tags
- Subreddit galleries
- Share images via Messages
- Browse image comments
- Customizable color themes
- App passcode lock
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ImgGallery gives you quick and easy access to Imgur® and Reddit photo galleries. - Imgur galleries and tags - Subreddit galleries - Messages app for sharing your favorites - Browse image comments - Choose your own color theme - Lock the app with a passcode Questions? Comments? Contact me! feedback@imggalleryapp.com
Alien Reader
This app offers a streamlined mobile browsing experience for Reddit, inspired by browser extensions. It features full-size image previews and intuitive swipe gestures for voting, aiming to enhance user interaction.
- Reddit browsing
- Full-size image previews
- Swipe to vote gestures
- Mobile enhancement suite
- Simplified interface
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This brand new Reddit client combines the convenience of Reddit Enhancement Suite on the browser and the simplicity of mobile browsing. With full sized image previews and swipe to vote gestures, you'll never use another client again!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ImgGallery at 3.4 against Alien Reader's 2.2. ImgGallery also leads on review sentiment (52% vs 33%) and ratings volume (63 vs 6). Alien Reader's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 1) and ads (none vs shown). On price and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. ImgGallery sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Alien Reader asks for nothing beyond the download.
ImgGallery holds the better App Store score, 3.4 against 2.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: ImgGallery has 63 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 52% of ImgGallery's written reviews are positive against 33% of Alien Reader's.
ImgGallery ships an update every 4 months, Alien Reader every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and September 16, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ImgGallery | Alien Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.4 (63 ratings) — better | 2.2 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 51.8% of reviews — better | 33.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 7.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 15 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Michael DeCaro | Kesav Mulakaluri |
Customer experience
ImgGallery
Alien Reader
Bugs and requests
ImgGallery
Reported bugs
34 issues- Constant crashes
- App freezes
- Reddit not available message
- Auto launch of takeover ads
- Ads appearing after paying to remove
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- Ads return after putting app to background
- Interface goes blank
- Favorite button doesn't work
- GIFs play at 10x speed with adaptive refresh rate
- Cannot upload photos
- Ads take up entire bottom half of screen
- Cannot bulk save favorites to Photo library
- In-app purchase doesn't work
- Latest version hardly loads content
- App freezes when sharing
- Content not loading
- Gifs/videos are blurry
- No barriers to inappropriate content
- Forced ads (bug?)
- Autoplay video takes over screen every 30 seconds
- Removed save button
- GIF saving saves as single frame image
- Comments rendering big
- Cannot favorite posts
- Subreddits don't work
- Last update not working
- Doesn't load subreddits
- New version does not work
- Something went wrong message
- Gifs don't play in a loop
- App stores all images in documents and data, cannot clear
- App crashes viewing gifs and large images
- App crashes immediately on opening
- App crashes when trying to share
Requested features
15 requests- Way to sort by video, picture, gif
- Export list of subreddits
- Alphabetizing option under subreddit management
- Offline support (fetch & cache images)
- Fix GIF saving to save as GIF
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- Fix comments rendering
- Fix subreddits not working
- Fix last update issues
- Fix new version not working
- Fix ads after payment
- Allow deleting subreddits
- Fix GIFs not playing in loop
- Fix app storage issues
- Fix app not staying in newly submitted area
- Fix GIF loading time
Alien Reader
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
ImgGallery
- ImgGallery Plus$0.99
Alien Reader
No in-app purchases
