r/landerapp • • 10d ago

TestFlight Now Available Announcing the Lander Public Beta (TestFlight)

9 Upvotes

I decided to open a public beta channel for Lander. Join the TestFlight here: https://testflight.apple.com/join/mj9yJQuU

  • TestFlight builds are pre-release software. Set your expectations accordingly.

  • If you have feedback on a TestFlight build, please submit in-app feedback [and crash reports]. The logs/telemetry are extremely useful.


r/landerapp • • 14d ago

šŸ“¢šŸ“¢šŸ“¢ Dev Update - Nov 1

15 Upvotes

tldr;

  • Accessibility fixes and improvements remain a top priority. Your feedback here and in Discord is not ignored. Please keep it coming.

  • Duo support is not quite where I want it yet, expect more UI refinement.

  • I am sorry for lack of communication. Trust I read everything here and in Discord.

  • I am finalizing a new app icon/logo/Lander 'hero' visual. I've heard the feedback loud and clear since day 1 about the obviously AI-generated icon.

A clear statement on Lander/AI usage

I never hid my use of AI. I used it to generated graphics because Lander is a hobby and a passion project. As stated many times before, I have no monetization plans. Lander's code is not the foundation of some scalable business model nor is that anywhere close to a goal. The cost/benefit of using AI for the graphics, thus allowing me to spend my limited time available for the project on product, made the most sense to me. I did not expect some of the passionate feedback around the AI-generated graphics -- great lesson I learned as we're all adjusting to this brave new world.

I posted a serious/straight-forward offer here to pay $500 to any artist interested in designing the new graphics. I got zero responses across the ~2mo it was pinned here + in my profile. I took it down because of the lack of engagement. That offer remains open to anyone interested, though I would ask you to consider using what I have almost-finished as a 'starting point'. That is not a requirement.

All of this to say I am sincerely trying to compensate a human artist. It does not make sense for me to overindex my time on outreach to find a 'seller' in this scenario. I share this for you to consider my POV as, again, a 1-man team doing this in their free time, with no intent to profit on this. No profit plan doesn't mean I need to set money on fire.

So what does this all mean? The upcoming graphic refresh was also 99% created through a mix of AI tools. However I don't think most users would immediately know the graphics heavily leaned on AI had I not written out all of this. In other words, had I lied in this post and said "hey I found this artist from my offer and they made great stuff!" 99% of you would have been 'fooled'.

As a sneak peak, take a look at this icon using a similar 'design language' from a separate/unrelated project I'm working on. This is not a full-res image, intentionally, and the design language should be familiar. ;)


r/landerapp • • 1d ago

QUESTION App icons

2 Upvotes

Where’d the old app icons go?


r/landerapp • • 3d ago

FEATURE Community highlights

1 Upvotes

When I go into a subreddit on Lander, I don’t see the community highlights and stickied posts at the top carousel — any way to change that?


r/landerapp • • 10d ago

QUESTION Submitting feedback - where is best?

3 Upvotes

What is the best place to submit feedback / support requests? Through the app I have been submitting emails, but not sure if better to post here or in discord? Is there a best practice?


r/landerapp • • 11d ago

QUESTION Recents

2 Upvotes

How do I clear recently viewed subreddits? I’ve looked all over and don’t see anything. Unable to swipe or long press on them for additional options.


r/landerapp • • 12d ago

BUG Uploaded 8 photos via my iPhone 18 Pro Max to /r/Butterflies. Uploaded fine. When I see my post in Lander & I click on the image I get this error. If I uploaded them with the latest release of Lander, why can’t I see them in Lander? I can see them in the Reddit app. Something is amiss here. Yes?

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2 Upvotes

r/landerapp • • 13d ago

BUG Hidden chats on Reddit displaying in Lander & no way to hide them?

4 Upvotes

Hi! I just started using Lander and overall it looks great. Some bugs/questions:

  1. I have 7 old chat invites displaying in Lander even though I have no new chat invites in Reddit. If I select "decline" and confirm, I get a top bar error that says "couldn't decline chat request". If I try hitting "decline all" the error reads "declined 0 of 7. try again."
    a. How do I clear these?
    b. I notice the requests I do see include no intro message info. is this normal? I'm not sure if that's due to these being old invites I already responded to on Reddit or an issue with invite message details displaying overall.

  2. I hide chats when someone becomes inactive so I don't have to see old chats from people who have said nothing for a while. But, I have multiple chats in my list on Lander that I previously hid on Reddit. I have tried clearing all caches in the app and then force quitting the app, but they persist. I have also tried blocking one of the people on Reddit and then clearing the app cache and force quitting, and they're still in my chat list even after blocking them.

  3. I see no way to hide a chat in general. If I start a new chat with someone and don't want to see it anymore, what options are there to hide it?


r/landerapp • • 14d ago

BUG Replying Freezes Screen

2 Upvotes

Have had this issue on my last 2 replies. When I hit the submit button, no matter the length of the reply, the screen freezes. You can’t click or scroll the screen.

Don’t know if this is a random iOS 27.2 or Lander bug. Figured I’d report it anyway.

If you hard close Lander, you come back to the frozen reply. It can take a few minutes for the screen to return to the post you were replying to & actually post the reply.

Also on really long replies, moving the insertion point cursor gets janky. Either by long pressing the space bar, or using your finger, the cursor may turn invisible, and or turn up in a different location than where you KNOW you placed it. And you start typing mid-sentence in a different location than where you placed the cursor. Very odd.

Any ideas?


r/landerapp • • 14d ago

FEATURE Swipe to mark read & hide

1 Upvotes

Love the app and would appreciate having the ability to switch swiping from voting to mark as read & hiding so that I can control the feed better.


r/landerapp • • 16d ago

FEATURE Feature Request: Relay-style comment collapsing (keep parent visible)

2 Upvotes

Long-time ā€œRelayā€ and ā€œInfinityā€ user coming from Android. Lander is easily the best iOS client I’ve found, especially on the iPhone duo.

Is there any chance of adding an option to keep the parent comment visible when you collapse a thread (like Relay does)? I'd happily support the project financially as well if you guys can implement this.


r/landerapp • • 17d ago

QUESTION Collapsed comments size

0 Upvotes

Recently found Lander after having issues with Artemis and one thing I’m struggling with is the sizing of collapsed comments. Is there an option to make the row larger or more distinguishable? To me the collapsed username blurs into the comment below that’s open. In the settings related to comments there’s an example comment that is collapsible that is a perfect size.


r/landerapp • • 18d ago

QUESTION Lander Newbie: Why is Lander disregarding my Reddit account, NSFW settings?

6 Upvotes

I tried emailing support but never heard back. So I figured I’d ask here.

I realize that there’s no switch/button in Lander settings. And my Reddit account settings are set to show all NSFW content, but it seems Lander ignores that?

Am I missing something?

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks.


r/landerapp • • 21d ago

FEATURE Can we get the ability to sort our favorite subreddits?

1 Upvotes

Loving the app on iPhone Duo, but this is the one feature I’m missing from the other clients I’ve used in the past.

Having them sort alphabetically instead of the order I’ve always chosen is really throwing me off.

Great app though, thanks for your hard work!


r/landerapp • • 21d ago

QUESTION iPad Layout is awesome

6 Upvotes

I think the iPad layout for Lander is by far the best of any Reddit client I’ve tried. Being able to resize the sidebar is great! I was wondering if there’s a way to sort comments independently of the way that posts are sorted?


r/landerapp • • 23d ago

FEATURE Open links in default browser instead of webview?

1 Upvotes

When I open a link in Lander on iOS, it opens in the in-app webview. Is there a setting to open links directly in my default browser instead?

If not, I'd love to see a toggle added to choose between the webview and the default browser.


r/landerapp • • 25d ago

QUESTION Updates not working

4 Upvotes

All these updates to the app and it's still not working for me. Keep getting the Couldn't load posts / don't have permission message


r/landerapp • • 28d ago

BUG Just installed today and I’m getting bugs

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3 Upvotes

So I just installed the app today. I was trying to sort by ā€œnewā€ in a sub and I get hit with ā€œno permissionsā€. Then I tried to search for a sub and I get ā€œsearch couldn’t loadā€. Is there something going on? Or is it just user error?

I’ve tried logging out and back in. I’ve also reinstalled the app.


r/landerapp • • Oct 14 '26

BUG ā€œYou don’t have permission to access this contentā€ on every thread when I click to view comments.

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13 Upvotes

I’m on iOS. Force closed the app and re-opened. Logged out and back in, and tried the reset authentication button. Behavior still persists. What else can I do to repair this?


r/landerapp • • Oct 06 '26

BUG Bug? Read posts not dimming or being visibly different from unread in compact layout

4 Upvotes

Hi, when using any of the compact views if I read a post and go back to my feed it still appears to be unread. There’s no dimming or color change to indicate you’ve read it. If I select to hide read posts then it disappears. Sometimes with a card layout I noticed a read post would be dimmer. I’ve gone through about all of the themes and tried setting custom colors but the same thing happens.


r/landerapp • • Sep 29 '26

BUG Sync Error: record too large

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2 Upvotes

Recently downloaded the Lander App to replace the official Reddit app. Love the interface and privacy point of view. I used the app in both iPhone and Mac (using the iPad app option). I found out that adding a sub in the iPhone doesn't reflect in the Mac. Adding favorites in one device also doesn't sync to another one.

Checked the preferences in Settings > Account and tried to press the "Sync Now" results in a sync error, record too large (see attached screenshot). I got the same error in both iPhone and Mac (with the different CKRecordID, but same error message otherwise).

Not sure if I hit some kind of limit or it's some kind of bug. So want to post here and see if anyone have a solution for it.

Thanks very much!


r/landerapp • • Sep 27 '26

QUESTION Is there a way to not have the fade on the last line of the post on the feed?

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5 Upvotes

r/landerapp • • Sep 27 '26

FEATURE Suggestions / requests

4 Upvotes

I've been using Lander for a couple of weeks and really like a lot of it. The recent updates improved the biggest breaker I had, the stuttering in scrolling, thank you for that. But I’d like to request a couple of things I feel would help:

  1. Can there be a setting to reduce the area of the Sidebar scroll? It seems like currently it's around 30% of the screen, which makes the gestures on that side have to be done in the middle of the screen. I like the sidebar itself, reminds me of the one from Narwhal, but I don't think it needs such a big trigger area. Maybe others do though, so it'd be better to have a setting for it so the user can choose.

  2. Could we get more theming options? I've been using the True Black theme because I couldn't make one to my liking (which would be close to that theme anyway), but I find some of the details a little too soft. For example, the shades of orange/blue to indicate your vote on a post are too muted.

  3. Any chance of getting an option to upvote a post or comment on save? Meaning we'd need only one action to get both things done.

Thank you.


r/landerapp • • Sep 21 '26

QUESTION Follow button

3 Upvotes

Does Lander have a Follow function? I don’t see it.


r/landerapp • • Sep 21 '26

QUESTION Feeds don't match reddit app behavior

2 Upvotes

Downloaded Lander yesterday and have been using it a bit during the day. I am very confused to how the feed behaves in comparison to what the Reddit app is showing. I seemingly have the same settings - show the home feed, sorted by best. But I fundamentally see different posts, and Lander seems to be stuck in older posts. Is there some refresh/cache setting I should take a closer look at to get parity with how the feed shows up on the Reddit app? It's a little frustrating to see the same content, even if 30+ minutes have passed. Thanks for the great work otherwise, I like the vibe of this app!