Sink It for Reddit 4+
Upgrade Your Reddit Experience
Tony Sundharam
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
Upgrade your Reddit experience with color coded comments, easier nav, sub-reddit blocking, gestures for upvoting, ad+nag blocking, and more. It's like RES, for mobile!
Sink It for Reddit is a hyper focused Safari extension that makes Reddit's web version usable. Features multiple quality of life improvements including color coded comments, easier comments navigation, and upvoting mechanisms. Tired of seeing tons of banners and buttons asking you to use the app or login? Sink It silently, and safely, removes all of them too. Removes most of the "promotional" content too!
Supercharge your Reddit experience with improved comments navigation, adaptive dark mode, easier upvoting, and more. It also removes the use our app banners, buttons, and ads. Yeah, we loathe them too!
Privacy First
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Sink It has been built with a privacy first approach.
- All the blocking happens on your device with literally ZERO data being recorded or sent back to be data mined.
- We don't keep usage data like the count of how many popups and banners it has blocked or links it has redirected.
- We don't even come with basic app analytics or telemetry to keep track of how many times you've opened or use the app.
- It does check whether you have dark mode on or not so it can show you the correct tutorial video. (I hate opening a bright video on dark mode as much as you.)
If you're a security researcher, feel free to poke around to make sure the app isn't up to anything funky.
Make the "MODERN" Reddit Experience Usable
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Sink It for Reddit de-clutters and removes most “omfg please use our app” banners and buttons as well as the annoying login popups from Reddit in addition to removing advertisements.
Reddit, wants me, and by extension you, to use their apps to consume content. The recent pricing changes to their API is an obvious sign of that.
Harder for us to block ads and much easier for them to scoop up your data, right? To further that agenda, simply browsing their sites on Safari now means we’re inundated with, well, waves of crap.
It might be a modal covering half the screen with links to the App Store, an immediate popup asking you to login, or a header screaming “the app is 10x better”. Bottomline: it has to go. All of it.
What’s New
Version 7.17.1
- Handle new format for nags.
Ratings and Reviews
A big thumbs up for the developer!
A big thank you to the dev for working hard to give back some power to those of us who dislike Reddit’s app and can’t stand the invasive ads and annoying “sign up for the app!!” popups every time you load a page on the mobile site. This app effectively gets rid of the pop up and also eliminates the promoted ads that invade the main Reddit feed like weeds giving the user a cleaner less frustrating experience; it also gives a bit of power back to the user so that you aren’t being railroaded into a one size fits all experience.
Thanks again dev. Also if you ever redesign the app’s logo maybe use a stylized anchor with a Reddit-like alien or robot face on top (not too similar though for obvious reasons).
Developer Response ,
Hey there! I've just pushed a version (1.1.4) that fixes the issues with promoted content. Do check it out in a day or so. Cheers!
Apollo is dead, long live sink it
I left Reddit when Apollo shut down. I won’t use their app. I know it’s nothing more than advertising and tracking. I check the website every month or two but it’s horrible. Ads everywhere. I had no clue something like this existed. This of amazing. I’ll be subscribing to premium if only to support the dev. I don’t know what the premium features are and I don’t care. The first time I saw the Reddit website without all the promoted posts, it was like a warm hug. Like being back with Apollo again. I love this.
I don’t know how to subscribe to premium. That page has no payment buttons. I’ll just donate.
Phenomenal alternative to the standard Reddit app
Instead of a standard app, the functionality of SinkIt is integrated to work with Safari. Some setup is needed, but it explains the process very well with a video guide included.
The interface takes some getting used to, but its absolutely seamless in my opinion. There are no ads or junk on the page. Actions like Upvoting, downvoting, comments, settings, favorites, custom subreddits; etc are all easily accessible.
I suggest users add an “Open URL” shortcut to their Home Screen to make Reddit more easily accessible. Steps are listed below:
1) Go to shortcuts, click on + in top right corner.
2) click add action > web > Open URL (under safari)
3) click “share” icon at bottom. Set custom name and icon if needed, then click “add”.
In conclusion, this is a clever and innovative solution for a smooth Reddit experience in comparison to other apps. Definitely recommend!
App Privacy
The developer, Tony Sundharam, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Privacy practices may vary, for example, based on the features you use or your age. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Tony Sundharam
- Size
- 3 MB
- Category
- Utilities
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 16.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 16.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 13.0 or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Tony Sundharam
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Sink It Max $4.99
- Micro Tip $0.99
- Mega Tip $4.99
- Thoughtful Tip $2.99