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Reddit

The front page of the internet

Overview

What Reddit does

Reddit is a social news aggregation and discussion platform organized into communities called subreddits. Users can post content, comment, and vote on submissions, with the most popular content rising to the top. Reddit covers virtually every topic imaginable across its thousands of active communities.

What people use it for

  • Following topic-based communities and discussion threads
  • Posting questions and getting answers from a subreddit
  • Ad-free browsing and community perks through Reddit Premium

The honest half

Where it falls short

Concrete and checkable, so you can decide whether any of them matter to you. This is the half of a review a vendor will not write about Reddit.

  • An ads-free experience requires the paid Reddit Premium upgrade
  • Premium avatar gear, r/lounge access and custom app icons are locked to Reddit Premium
  • Some communities require a minimum amount of karma before you can post or comment
  • Premium subscriptions renew automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the subscription ends
  • The iOS app requires iOS 16.0 or later

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Each pairing was judged by two reviewers asking whether a buyer would genuinely weigh the two against each other. The ones that failed were deleted rather than published.

Pricing

What Reddit costs

Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.

Free

Free

  • Browsing
  • Posting
  • Commenting

Reddit Premium

$5.99 /mo

  • No Ads
  • Premium Awards
  • Exclusive Subreddit

Capabilities

Features

  • Subreddits

    Subreddits capability

  • Upvoting/Downvoting

    Upvoting/Downvoting capability

  • Comments

    Comments capability

  • Awards

    Awards capability

  • AMAs

    AMAs capability

  • Reddit Talk

    Reddit Talk capability

  • Ios support

    Available on ios

  • Android support

    Available on android

  • Web support

    Available on web

Behind it

Who makes Reddit

Company
Reddit Inc.
Based in
San Francisco, California

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Softwr does not host reviews and shows no star rating for Reddit, because a rating we did not collect is not ours to publish. What is here is the pricing and platform detail from the vendor’s own pages, limitations we could state concretely, and alternatives a reviewer confirmed people weigh against it. Tell us if any of it is wrong.

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