I'm not sure why but over the last 2 hrs the install rate jumped and hit the 300 limit. I raised the limit to 1000 to unblock folks finding Lander.

When we approach the 1000 limit, I'll add a new ring for the next wave of users. Those currently enrolled in the TestFlight will continue getting the newest builds, with the to-be-added/future rings receiving builds that are more stable. This will be the basis for building out a long-term release model.

Lander 2.0[.3] is on the App Store, and it brought Columbia with it

Apollo 11 split into two craft over the Moon. Eagle went down and did the walking. Columbia held its orbit and, for most of a day, had no way to know what was happening below.

Lander is named for the one that descends. It is a Reddit app. It runs in your hands, and it sees what you do because it is you. As of today it is on the App Store.

It no longer flies alone. Columbia is built in.

You may have read the shape of it before. One machine learns your address and nothing else. Another learns your request and nothing else. In separate hands, neither can say who asked for what. Not a promise to look away. A system where looking returns nothing.

There is one I run, and Lander points at it out of the box, so you get it without assembling anything. But a proxy you do not run yourself is still a proxy you are trusting, and I would rather earn that than assume it.

So the other path stays open. Stand your own up, on any machine you trust, any hardware, anywhere. Put the two halves in separate hands that do not answer to each other, and the trust stops being a promise and becomes the shape of the thing. Same repository as before. Still small enough to read in one sitting. Still almost no dependencies.

The rest of it has arrived.

Lander on the App Store: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lander-app/id6747955211

Columbia, and how to run your own: https://github.com/wbsmolen/columbia

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?

tldr; title. Reply here with watermarked entries. The offer is straight forward: if the community likes your icon, I will pay you $500 for the rights.

and it brings a LOT of improvements.

Version 2.2 Changelog:

• Refined glass navigation and post controls, with clearer scores, balanced spacing and improved theme contrast.

• Feeds, profiles, search results and chats remember where you left off.

• Fixed missing or duplicate comment images, GIFs and videos, including playback after closing the full-screen viewer.

• Added controls for spacing, margins, profile layout and animation speed.

• Improved Search and menus at larger text sizes, and made settings easier to find.

• Improved message and chat reliability, including retries and account switching.

• Fixed modmail status updates and improved Mod Queue support for comments and removal messages.

• Corrected hidden-post syncing, theme restoration and settings resets.

• Preparations for iPhone Duo day 1 support.

• And many under-the-hood improvements.

...very soon.

EDIT: Lander v2.2 now available.

2.1.6 is now live on the App Store (iPhone + Apple Vision Pro).

New in 2.1.6:

• 🧭 Open in Lander — a Safari extension that opens reddit.com links straight in the app. Enable it once in Settings → Apps → Safari → Extensions.

• Fixed: the first swipes after opening a subreddit sometimes didn't register

• Fixed: opening from a widget or link could land on Home, or open twice

• Fixed: invisible confirmation toasts when Settings was opened from the Profile gear

• Fixed: "Reset All Settings" no longer changes your frame-rate / Translate defaults

Recently (also in this version): left/right Handedness setting, comment votes & saves survive collapsing threads, smarter galleries, Streamable/RedGifs playback.

Update — 2.1.7 is submitted to Apple with the two big asks from this sub:

• 💾 Saving videos & GIFs to your library — from the viewer, comments, DMs, and straight from the feed's long-press menu (Reddit videos in full quality, with audio)

• 🖼️ Buttery-smooth zoomed panning — native scrolling with momentum (thanks u/rjwinks for the clip)

• 👉 Swipe between posts in the post view (Settings › Gestures to turn it off)

Working on next:

• 🔎 Investigating the "crash when opening a subreddit from search" reports — actively on it

• ⏭️ Jump-to-next-comment button (requested in the Jump Button thread)

• More from your feedback — keep it coming

This subreddit is the fastest way to reach me. Thanks for using Lander. 🚀

First off, congrats on getting the app in the app store. Really hoping this continues to develop and improve!

Are you aware of the app generally, universally looking soft or blurry? I have an older iPhone 13 Pro Max and the whole app is soft looking, text and UI elements are not sharp/crisp.

I don't recall that being an issue in the early Test light versions.. But I'll admit, it has been a while since I used it.

Videos now play, so that's a big plus! They never worked for me before, glad you got that fixed!

Do you need to update your copyright to 2026?! 😬

A number of things seem to not work though for navigation, for instance if you're looking at a post and try to tap on the subreddit name that it was made in, nothing happens. It should just go directly to that subreddit. I ran into a few other issues like that where tapping screen elements had no effect.

Anyhow, just wanted to leave some feedback and encourage you to keep up the good work!

I can’t seem to expand a long text post. It cuts it off at a certain point and I don’t see a way to click or long press into it to see more.

Thread for discussing latest build.

I’ve done this a few times now. Can’t it just remember? Easy to do when I have a desktop/laptop computer handy, not so much on the phone.

Hey all, not sure if it’s just me that has this issue however whenever I use Lander and scroll, sometimes I get no response from the app when I move around the main feed.

It’s random as fuck and just as irritating - I thought it might have been my screen protector however I never have this issue with other apps and scrolling.

Is it just me or is anyone else suffering….

iPhone 17 Pro, iOS 26.6

Cheers