Alien Blue is the third-party application that acts as a client of Reddit for iOS that has become more popular, for this reason, the Reddit has decided to buy it. To celebrate this acquisition the update «Pro" will be available free for one week on in-app purchases of the app.
The iPad app can also be downloaded for free, but they are still working on integrating the iPhone and iPad apps to make both of them unique. Developer Jason Morrissey has also joined Reddit, and he will be in charge of continuing to develop Alien Blue and add new features.
"NOTur philosophy has been to offer our selection to users. We have the AMA reddit app, and Alíen Blue… but we really want you to users use whatever they want.Reddit's head of strategic partnerships said in a statement to TechCrunch. «We think Alien Blue is great, and being the most popular app on reddit iOS, we wanted to be able to offer it as a own reddit app, and also help Jason with additional resources to do everything I wanted to do with her «.
Recently updated for iOS 8 and the new iPhone screen sizes, Alien Blue now has a new icon and new home on the App Store. That means that even existing users will have to download it again on the iPhone and iPad.
The list of Alien Blue features includes:
- Explore all reddit, including funny photos, original stories and news.
- View images and video seamlessly from preview.
- Vote the best content to help you rise to the top.
- Subscription and participation in subreddit communities focused on your interests.
- Shipping of comments, links, and stories for others to view and discuss.
- Directly charge the images to Imgur when posting or commenting.
- Use the Night Mode for easy reading in the dark.
- Notifications of new messages from your reddit inbox.
- View websites that use the «readability»Integrated of Arc90.
The list of Alien Blue PRO features includes:
- Switch between multiple accounts reddit easily
- Home in Gallery mode (formerly canvas)
- Discover subreddits by topic or interest
- Enlarge all images of comments with a tap
- Quote comments.
- Exclude messages keyword-based
- «Hide All / Hide Readon comments With a touch
