Orion is an opinionated Reddit client built for iOS. It is also, for me, personally, the culmination of the last year and a half of effort I’ve put into really stepping up my capabilities as a developer. But most of all, it is an app built with respect - for you and for the iPhone.

Because Orion is a labor of love.

Orion is built natively, to a fault. It’s built by me and it’s built without AI. It is built largely with SwiftUI and boy have I paid dearly for that.

It does everything you’d expect a native app to do and a non-native app to not do.

• Context menu + preview + peak-and-pop on posts

• Liquid Glass ui

• native built-in video player

• native built-in image viewer (UIScrollView with the right settings, for anyone questioning what the native image viewer is)

• semantic colors, nothing wacky or custom except when Reddit specifies a color to use

• dynamic type (accessibility sizes aren’t quite supported yet though, and by that I mean I want the app to be nice to use at those sizes)

• swipe to upvote

• tap or swipe to collapse comment

  • swipe to collapse the entire thread or tap to collapse this comment and its children

• the gestures are nice

• state restoration

• good design

  • subreddit banner images visible in the navigation bar

    • that’s a signature design of mine

  • upvote buttons are Liquid Glass

  • all icons are SF Symbols

  • soft animations

Orion does some things you might not even expect from a Reddit client:

• vote on polls!

• uploading media to Reddit instead of Imgur

• viewing comment inline media

  • soon: upload inline comment media

  • maybe: view it inline, I’m not too confident in my ability to do this though

• soon: rtjson support, which will mean perfect formatting

• notifications within 15 minutes of one arriving

• account switching

• Reddit chat, kinda sorta (it’s a web view okay but I can at least have the little badge telling you the number of notifications, that’s unique to this app!)

• wiki browsing

Orion will release later this fall. The major things remaining are:

• comment editing: add media

• submit polls

• post editing: make editing body text a separate screen

• moderation tools

• more testing in general!

Getting this error message even though I’m signed into the app.

Hi Ethan, LOVE the app!

When I try to change sorting, subreddit or home page, says I’m not logged in and to contact you. Sort stays with default, best.

Thanks!

I just noticed that the status bar battery background color is different from the background color of every other icon

Hello all!

I had drafted a long-winded post about my difficulties with NavigationSplitView when I stumbled upon an answer from the iPhone Duo Q&A where an Apple engineer suggested using HStack(spacing: 0) in lieu of a NavigationSplitView.

Duh!!!!

Well…! Duo support might not be so hard after all.

Any Split View ideas?

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Thank you Ethan for the work you are doing, love the app more than the Reddit app.

Im having an issue with authentication while logged in.

Orion was designed around iOS 26. I did what I could to embrace that style and got pretty dang good at it.

Now, it seems, it’s changed again.

With some pretty nasty bugs to boot.

Orion may need an extra month to bake…

Jesus what an api

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Hi Ethan, LOVE the app!

When I try to change sorting, subreddit or home page, says I’m not logged in and to contact you. Sort stays with default, best.

Thanks!

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Hello! Finally! The day has come!

If you’re running into any issues with Orion that aren’t:

• Posts and comments technically submitting, but failing to do so UI-wise

• Oauth logins not working

Then let me know here! If there’s an example of a post in which the bug occurs, please include a link to it as well.

I’m also taking feedback and feature requests!

when the app review takes a month

uh oh