Comet for reddit

Comet for reddit


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2.3.2for iPhone, iPad and more
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Aaron Kovacs
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Feb 10, 2021
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About Comet for reddit

Comet is the ultimate way to browse reddit. Fast, yet beautiful. Functionally robust, but remarkably intuitive. With a forward looking iOS-compliant design and navigation, zero corporate meddling, and advanced alien technology, it's the most sophisticated reddit app to date.

With hundreds of individually crafted features, no corner of Comet has been left unloved. Here are a few of the highlights:

DISCOVER NEW CONTENT:
- Beautiful post layouts bring content to life
- Autoplay gifs inline
- Infinitely scroll through subreddits

COUNTLESS COMMENTS:
- Collapse and expand comments with a tap or a slide
- Scroll infinitely without hiccup
- Full markdown support

SEAMLESS SEARCH:
- Search reddit posts and subreddits
- Intuitively filter search

THE MEDIAVIEWER:
- View pictures, loop gifs, and watch videos all without leaving the app
- Save and share quickly

READ AND REPLY:
- Keep your inbox in check with swipe actions
- Read and reply to comments and private messages

CREATE BEAUTY:
- Compose messages, comments, and posts with a remarkably robust markdown editor
- Upload images to imgur.com for use in posts and comments

SUBSCRIBE AND SITBACK:
- Manage all of your subreddit subscriptions with a single tap
- Maintain a list of favorite subreddits across devices
- Unified list of subreddits, multireddits, and users

THEME TO YOUR HEART'S CONTENT:
- Pick from five beautifully detailed themes (White, Dark, Black, Blue, and Sepia)
- Switch between four post layouts (Super Compact, Titles, Thumbnails, Previews)
- Customize over 60+ app settings

MORE ACCOUNTS LESS PROBLEMS:
- Add an unlimited amount of accounts
- View your upvoted, downvoted, gilded, and saved posts
- Manage hidden posts
- Tag users across reddit
- Subscribe to users

FEATURES FROM THE FUTURE:
- Timetravel by swiping on the bottom bar
- Quickly jump to any subreddit from anywhere by tapping the large title

New features are added all the time so make sure to stay updated by subscribing to r/Comet.

Happy redditing!
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What's New in the Latest Version 2.3.2

Last updated on Feb 10, 2021
Old Versions
Along with this update Comet for reddit is now available on the Mac App Store! Go check it out and let me know any feedback over on r/Comet

2.3.2:
- Replies to posts and comments now show up immediately after submission
- Redesigned subreddit search to show more information
- Fixed read links not staying read between app sessions
- Renamed ‘Activity’ tab to 'Inbox'
- 4 New App Icons! Heart, Mono, Short, and Flag
- Added tip jar


2.3.0:
- Support for GIFs in comments
- Support for reddit gallery captions
- Fixed a crash when using search filters
- Fixed text alignment on search filters
- Fixed albums having white background in light mode
- Fixed bug where album indicator would not show on large previews
- Fixed crash opening media viewer
- Fixed crash when using “Open in Comet”
- Fixed crash when opening post with blank album
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Version History
2.3.2
Feb 10, 2021
Along with this update Comet for reddit is now available on the Mac App Store! Go check it out and let me know any feedback over on r/Comet

2.3.2:
- Replies to posts and comments now show up immediately after submission
- Redesigned subreddit search to show more information
- Fixed read links not staying read between app sessions
- Renamed ‘Activity’ tab to 'Inbox'
- 4 New App Icons! Heart, Mono, Short, and Flag
- Added tip jar


2.3.0:
- Support for GIFs in comments
- Support for reddit gallery captions
- Fixed a crash when using search filters
- Fixed text alignment on search filters
- Fixed albums having white background in light mode
- Fixed bug where album indicator would not show on large previews
- Fixed crash opening media viewer
- Fixed crash when using “Open in Comet”
- Fixed crash when opening post with blank album
2.3.0
Feb 2, 2021
2.3.0:
- Support for GIFs in comments
- Support for reddit gallery captions
- Fixed a crash when using search filters
- Fixed text alignment on search filters
- Fixed albums having white background in light mode
- Fixed bug where album indicator would not show on large previews
- Fixed crash opening media viewer
- Fixed crash when using “Open in Comet”
- Fixed crash when opening post with blank album
2.2.4
Oct 28, 2020
2.2.4:
- Added support for reddit galleries
2.2.3
Sep 18, 2020
2.2.3:
- Fixed menus not opening on iOS 14
- Fixed app settings not working on iOS 14
- Fixed crash when uncollapsing comments on iOS 14

2.2.2:
- Fixed italic font bug on iOS 14
- Fixed Streamable videos not playing
2.2.2
Sep 17, 2020
2.2.2:
- Fixed italic font bug on iOS 14
- Fixed Streamable videos not playing
2.2.1
Aug 4, 2020
2.2.1:
- Fixed comments screen disappearing on iPadOS
- Made 'hide bars on scroll' more tolerant to scrolling up
- Added support for more image hosting sites

2.2.0:
- Multi-Window Support for iPadOS
- 2 new app icons “Wavy” and “Modern”
- Added ‘New Window’ button for iPad users when you hold down the tab bar
- Added option to mute videos by default
- Added option to disable compose confirmation when creating private messages
- Added option to include post title when sharing permalink
- Added options to reverse order of buttons on the post and comment toolbars
- Fixed crash when writing long comments and using QuickType
- Fixed potential nightmode issue
- Various minor fixes
2.2.0
Jul 8, 2020
- Multi-Window Support for iPadOS
- 2 new app icons “Wavy” and “Modern”
- Added ‘New Window’ button for iPad users when you hold down the tab bar
- Added option to mute videos by default
- Added option to disable compose confirmation when creating private messages
- Added option to include post title when sharing permalink
- Added options to reverse order of buttons on the post and comment toolbars
- Fixed crash when writing long comments and using QuickType
- Fixed potential nightmode issue
- Various minor fixes
2.1.0
Apr 21, 2020
- Fixes critical bug preventing reddit content from loading
2.0.9
Jan 21, 2020
2.0.9:
- Added option to prevent Comet from changing theme with the system
- Changed default font from SF UI Text to SF UI Display (You can change it back in settings if you like)
- Fixed crash when opening Streamable videos
2.0.8
Jan 7, 2020
- Updated the app to support iOS 13 features
- Dark mode now activates with the system dark mode
- Fixed bug causing app to freeze when returning from background
- Fixed stutter when scrolling through action sheet
- ‘Create’ Comment, Post, and Message views now appear on top of background
- Performance improvements
2.0.7
Sep 24, 2019
2.0.7:
- Fixed broken fonts on iOS 13

2.0.6:
- Fixed bug preventing users from posting

2.0.5:
- Custom Fonts
- Added option (Comet Settings -> General -> Font) to change the font used across the app
- Available Fonts: System (SF UI), Futura, Arial, Menlo, Georgia, Baskerville, Times New Roman
- Comet will now check for messages while you are using the app every 5 minutes
- Comet will also automatically check for messages when you reopen the app from the background
- Fixed bug when collapsing comments that could cause duplicates to not be removed
- ‘Open in Comet’ no longer makes host app show a black screen or crash it
- Fixed crash when opening the comments of a gif
- Added new app icon ‘Abnormal’
2.0.6
Aug 27, 2019
2.0.6:
- Fixed bug preventing users from posting

2.0.5:
- Custom Fonts
- Added option (Comet Settings -> General -> Font) to change the font used across the app
- Available Fonts: System (SF UI), Futura, Arial, Menlo, Georgia, Baskerville, Times New Roman
- Comet will now check for messages while you are using the app every 5 minutes
- Comet will also automatically check for messages when you reopen the app from the background
- Fixed bug when collapsing comments that could cause duplicates to not be removed
- ‘Open in Comet’ no longer makes host app show a black screen or crash it
- Fixed crash when opening the comments of a gif
- Added new app icon ‘Abnormal’
2.0.5
Aug 10, 2019
- Custom Fonts
- Added option (Comet Settings -> General -> Font) to change the font used across the app
- Available Fonts:
- System (SF UI)
- Futura
- Arial
- Menlo
- Georgia
- Baskerville
- Times New Roman
- Comet will now check for messages while you are using the app every 5 minutes
- Comet will also automatically check for messages when you reopen the app from the background
- Fixed bug when collapsing comments that could cause duplicates to not be removed
- ‘Open in Comet’ no longer makes host app show a black screen or crash it
- Fixed crash when opening the comments of a gif
- Added new app icon ‘Abnormal’
2.0.4
Jul 2, 2019
- New neon app icon
- Added Firefox Focus and Opera Touch as supported 3rd party browsers
- Added option to disable confirmation upon creating post
2.0.3
Jun 5, 2019
- You can now zoom in on gifs in the media player
- Added optional action bar for messages and notifications (On by default)
- New action sheet that allows scrolling
- Thumbnail cells that are self-posts no longer allow tapping of the thumbnail
- Vastly increased the size of the more button touch area
- Added “Homage” app icon by /u/iamwingyt thanks!
2.0.2
Apr 30, 2019
- New ‘Flowers’ App Icon
- Added comment vote bar (off by default): Now you can show upvote/downvote/reply/more buttons on each individual comment along with swipe gestures
- Fixed bug causing reddit videos/gifs to play in low quality
- Fixed bug causing favorites to disappear (Just refresh you subreddits view for them to reappear now)
- Bug fixes
2.0.1
Apr 1, 2019
2.0.1:
- Added brightness based theme change
- Added setting to respect suggested comment sort (On by default)
- Added 'share' swipe action to posts and comments
- Fixed ‘Respect subreddit settings’ not working
- Fixed profile images not appearing in account page or in profiles
- Removed theme change animation
- Renamed ‘Auto theme change’ to ‘Timed theme change’
- To prevent overflow on shorter devices, some of the comment post actions have been moved into a ‘more actions’ action
- Renamed ‘Permalink’ to ‘Share Permalink’
- Renamed ‘Add Tag’ to ‘Tag User’
- ‘Hiding all above’ now scrolls you to the top
- Fixed potential 'Hide all above' crash

2.0.0:
- Favorites can now be reordered, use the ‘Edit’ button in the top right of the subreddit controller
- The first 2 favorites will now be used as 3D Touch Quick Actions for the home screen
- 3 new app icons - Rainbow, Beyond, and Blue
- Added ‘Open in Comet’ share extension
- Added the ‘Original Content’ subreddit to Comet - This is a new curated subreddit in the redesign akin to something like r/All but with only OC content
- New image for ‘Hide all above’ and ‘Collapse root’ swipe actions
- Added new Youtube and Twitter link overlays, so you know if the url will kick you into their respective apps (If you have that enabled)
- Added more button to subreddit info view
- Added ‘View Banner Image’ option
- Added Message Moderators
- Added ‘View Icon Image’ option
- Added ‘portrait lock’ setting to disable rotation on iPhone disregarding Control Center setting (Off by default)
- Rounded the eyeglass icon for 3D Touch
- Added ‘Default Sort’ to subreddit settings
- Added option to always show comment count
- Added ‘Friending’ users if profile doesn’t support subscribing
- Added ‘Reverse preview layout’ puts title & info on bottom of posts instead of top
- User profile content now respects selected post layout
- Added option to disable tap on collapse
- Fixed ‘Other Discussions’ not showing all articles
- Renamed notification settings, ‘Message’ settings to avoid confusion
- Added swipe to save action
- Added swipe to comment as an action on posts
- When ‘Hide status bar with collapse bars’ is off the status bar will no longer be transparent
- My username’s color is now changed to avoid confusion
- Default color scheme for new users is now colorful
2.0
Mar 18, 2019
- Favorites can now be reordered, use the ‘Edit’ button in the top right of the subreddit controller
- The first 2 favorites will now be used as 3D Touch Quick Actions for the home screen
- 3 new app icons - Rainbow, Beyond, and Blue
- Added ‘Open in Comet’ share extension
- Added the ‘Original Content’ subreddit to Comet - This is a new curated subreddit in the redesign akin to something like r/All but with only OC content
- New image for ‘Hide all above’ and ‘Collapse root’ swipe actions
- Added new Youtube and Twitter link overlays, so you know if the url will kick you into their respective apps (If you have that enabled)
- Added more button to subreddit info view
- Added ‘View Banner Image’ option
- Added Message Moderators
- Added ‘View Icon Image’ option
- Added ‘portrait lock’ setting to disable rotation on iPhone disregarding Control Center setting (Off by default)
- Rounded the eyeglass icon for 3D Touch
- Added ‘Default Sort’ to subreddit settings
- Added option to always show comment count
- Added ‘Friending’ users if profile doesn’t support subscribing
- Added ‘Reverse preview layout’ puts title & info on bottom of posts instead of top
- User profile content now respects selected post layout
- Added option to disable tap on collapse
- Fixed ‘Other Discussions’ not showing all articles
- Renamed notification settings, ‘Message’ settings to avoid confusion
- Added swipe to save action
- Added swipe to comment as an action on posts
- When ‘Hide status bar with collapse bars’ is off the status bar will no longer be transparent
- My username’s color is now changed to avoid confusion
- Default color scheme for new users is now colorful
1.9
Mar 4, 2019
- Added custom App Icons - To start their are 6 icons for you to take a look at (VHS is by far my favorite), also I’m open to suggestions!
- Added repost finder, titled ‘Other Discussions’ it is inside the more menu when viewing comments. Quickly allows you to find where on reddit the same link was posted
- Added 3D Touch Peek and Pop preview for links in comments - Supports previewing Imgur links in mediaviewer!
- Added reporting posts/comments - Encompasses a new UI that provides all of a subreddit’s rules with their descriptions. Also supports reporting custom reasons.
- On devices without a notch default separator size is 0.5px instead of 0.25px
- Messages/replies now use the new markdown parser and layout (less wrongly sized cell and better formatting)
- Fixed gifs playing in low quality!
- Keyboard no longer opens after changing the filter when searching
- If you have text selected that contains http:// or https:// and you create a link the url side of the link editor is filled automatically instead of the title side
- Duplicate results no longer show in search results
- Added confirmation to report dialogue
- Option to hide status bar with collapsed bars on scroll -> on by default
- Height of footer separator of the ‘No More Posts’ was 0.25px to thick
- Reddit post permalinks now include https://
- Added option to collapse all comments by default when entering a thread
- Added option to automatically collapse AutoModerator (off by default)
- Bandaid fix for favorite subreddits duplicating
- Added ‘Mute with ringer’ setting, when on (off by default) audio doesn’t play unless ringer is on. In previous versions of the app this would have technically been turned on (If that’s what you dig), its more intuitive to do it the other way though.
- Fixed typo in settings, ‘crashes’ -> ‘crash’
- Fullscreen swipe back is now available on iPad
- Moved r/All Filters and User tags to new section in settings controller
- Added ‘App Icon’ section to Comet settings
- Settings icon changes with custom app icon
- Fixed account logout bug - I remade the system without all the bad bits
- Fixed notifications not refreshing upon account switch
- Added ‘Hide NSFW Posts’, when enabled NSFW posts won’t appear in feed
- Fixed bug that caused subreddit settings to not work if subreddit named contained capital
- The icons in the markdown composer are now slightly bolder
1.8
Feb 18, 2019
- Large link previews - Reddit only recently (Last year or so) started providing these nice previews for links, so older content probably won’t support it to and Comet will default to the old style
- Large crosspost previews - Nice and large previews that support gifs and images all while making sure you know it's a crosspost. Content without a proper preview will default to old style
- Added flair support - on by default
- Added option to enable colorful comments
- Added option to opt-out of anonymous crash reporting
- New ‘Fixed Image Width’ setting, is on by default
- Added 'Switch Accounts' to tabbar quick actions (access by 3D touching/ long press bottom bar)
- Added ‘Hide All Posts Above’ on post more menu
- Added ‘Hide’ and ‘Hide All Above’ to post swipe actions
- Add ‘Subreddit Settings’ for customizing individual subreddits, can be found in subreddit more menu
- Currently available settings include:
- Subreddit specific layout
- Subreddit specific media respect
- Removed ‘Respect Subreddit Media’ in favor of per subreddit setting
- Added proxy support (Allows setting port/IP address to your favor proxy, testers needed!)
- Added ‘Toggle Theme’ button to theme page in settings, also included description of ways to change theme in footer
- Changing theme style in settings while that type of theme is currently on will now automatically switch your theme to the new style (If that makes sense, haha)
- Renamed ‘Filters’ to ‘r/All Filters’ in preparation for things to come
- Mark post read on 3D Touch (Can be turned off)
- Added copy image to more menu in media viewer
- Added 3D Touch actions when previewing media viewer (Save Image, Copy Image, Share)
- If user owns comment, long pressing will edit comment instead of reply
- Manually fixed duplicating posts in feed
- Increased tap area of more button on posts
- When submitting comment/post/message confirmation dialogue now contains the username for which comment will be posted under
- When submitting comment edit confirmation dialogue no longer says ‘reply’
- Comet no longer prompts fresh user installs for notification access, access will be asked for once user logs in (Better UX!)
- Added period to popup when editing post
- Better memory handling
- Fixed an occasional comment crash
- Fixed an occasional startup crash
- Fixed replying to notification title being wrong shade of grey
- Fixed two major crashes! Occurred when autoplay videos was enabled, then app returned from the background, then user scrolled to the top of view. These have eluded me for weeks so happy to finally catch them!
- Fixed animation bug when upvoting very tall cells
- Fixed previewing empty comment showing popup that ‘Spoiler’
- Fixed comment text getting pushed off side of screen
- Fixed subreddit online users count being 0 due to API change
- Crash fixes
1.7
Feb 4, 2019
Such a big changelog that I hit the character cap. Thanks for all the feedback! Also, join the beta over on r/Comet!

New Features:
- New punctual swipe gestures
- Customizable swipe actions for both comments and posts
- Long press comments to open reply composer
- Fullscreen swipe back setting for iPhone users
- Preview markdown in editor
- Added ‘Hide all read’
- Retry mechanism for logging in (Attempts 3 times)
- View all of your Comet favorites in a single multireddit title 'Favorites'
- Added option to clear history in settings, so that users who are not logged in can clear their history
- Multireddits now appear in the own section at the top of regular subreddits (Refresh required)
- Added ‘Go To Multireddit’ in search in the more menu
- Added gilded, silver, and platinum to both comments and post headers
- Added original content marker on posts
- Added option to reverse iPad columns (Absolutely amazing for iPad right handed iPad users)
- Added overview section to profile page
- Added iPad Keyboard Commands:
1. Up and Down Arrow Keys: Scroll through views/posts/comments
2. Left and Right Arrow Keys: Select left or right pane
3. Enter Key: Select row
4. Command + (1,2,3,4,5): Select tab
5. Command + S: Open new search
6. Command + N: New post/comment (Depends on selected pane)
- Much better url scheme support replace https:// or http:// in reddit urls with comet:// to open it in comet (Supports links, permalinks, subreddits, multireddits, and users)


New Settings:
- Added option to open tweets in twitter app of choice (Twitter, Tweetbot, and Twitterrific supported)
- Added option to disable Comet from checking copied text for openable reddit links (On by default)
- Choose between 4 different separator thicknesses
- Added option to make images a fixed height
- Added option to prevent Comet from respecting Media settings on subreddits
- Added option to make long press on comments open more menu


Minor Changes:
- Renamed SVC to ‘In-App Safari’ for all visible cases
- Added a ‘d’ to the end of ‘saved’ in the dismiss confirmation for creators
- Added cancel button to ‘Go to Profile’ and ‘Go to Multireddit’
- Added haptic feedback to jump button
- Default browser for iPad is now regular safari, because on iPad safari presents as popover which is much cleaner than taking over the screen
- Enter now commences search for keyboard users
- Keyboard now hides after pressing reply
- Share menu in mediaviewer, now immediately shares content
- Removed ‘Swipe collapse root’ setting in favor of customizable swipe actions (One of which is swipe collapses root)
- Renamed “Show Vote Bar on Posts” to “Swipe Actions on Posts” to be more clear in its purpose
- Comet will no longer maintain a history if no user is logged in
- Removed the image from the HUD, now looks much more streamlined


New Comet Related Links in Settings:
- To Subreddit
- To Privacy Policy (Updated)
- To Comet's Website
- to Share Comet


Fixes:
- Fixed multireddits not appearing if user has no favorites (Appears after refresh)
- Fixed crash when going to profile with blank name
- Possible fix for jump button reversing triggering twice
- Fixed streamable videos not playing
- Editing long texts no longer gets cut off
- Self text preview font now scales with user font
- Fixed single comment thread bug that hid single comment
- Fixed bug when viewing context causing header to not refresh
- Collapsed comments now update with theme
- Fixed copied url being recognized twice by Comet on open
- Fixed vote disappearing after collapsing then uncollapsing comment
- Fixed missing separator on iPad when using reversed columns
- Fixed viewing context of selftext being blank
- Fixed inopenable medium.com links
- Fixed layout bug with comments
- Multireddits now appear in selected layout
- Fixed some crashes for which their origins are difficult to explain (Some really icky zombies)
1.6
Jan 23, 2019

Comet for reddit FAQ

Click here to learn how to download Comet for reddit in restricted country or region.
Check the following list to see the minimum requirements of Comet for reddit.
iPhone
Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
iPad
Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
Mac
Requires macOS 11.0 or later.
iPod touch
Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
Comet for reddit supports English
Comet for reddit contains in-app purchases. Please check the pricing plan as below:
Super Tip
$4.99
Generous Tip
$0.99
Awesome Tip
$2.99
Fantastic Tip
$9.99

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