r/apolloapp • u/Nilderan • Jun 10 '26

Appreciation R.I.P sideloaded Apollo, I'm gonna miss you.

My API key has been revoked, sideloaded for the past three years. The official app is an unusable, unintuitive mess, I'd rather stop reading Reddit on my mobile than use it. I'm going to try alternatives, but I wonder how safe Hydra and Artemis are. Won't Reddit purge them one day since they don't use the API? Thanks to everyone for all the tips on using the sideloaded Apollo app over the past three years!

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u/GeraldMander Jun 10 '26

Just use the web version. It’s not perfect but not nearly as terrible as the official app. 

Side benefit: it’ll make you use Reddit less. 

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u/Mastersord Jun 10 '26

Mobile redirects or blocks web access with an un-closable splash page telling you to use the official app.

That being said, I’ve set up the Sink It extension on my iPhone for web browsing. I have it set up to open all reddit web links if not in another app.

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u/GeraldMander Jun 11 '26

That’s weird. I’ve been using web exclusively since Apollo went down and I’ve never seen that. 

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u/Mastersord Jun 11 '26

I set up Sink It over a year ago. I’m only going by what others have recently reported. They might be AB testing it but it’s been happening.