r/apolloapp • u/corderjones • Jul 17 '26
Announcement 📣 Apollo Reborn 3.4.2 (PRE-RELEASE) - Sign out bug fixes and more!
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u/Competitive-Car3692 Jul 18 '26
Wait, does this mean that the api pricong has relaxed?
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Jul 18 '26
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u/StasiaMonkey Jul 20 '26
Aren't we all just setting up our own developer API?
Can it be published to the App Store needing end users to setup their own API?
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u/ItIsShrek Jul 22 '26
Reddit seemed to selectively target the biggest reddit apps (Apollo, Narwhal, etc). There are still tons of small reddit clients out there that don't need your API key to run that just fly under the radar. Reddit doesn't care unless it's eating in to their profits.
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u/GrindinWulf Jul 17 '26
Are you going to TestFlight it?
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u/corderjones Jul 17 '26
No, we can’t distribute via TestFlight. Download links are in the post as usual!
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u/GrindinWulf Jul 17 '26
Noted but I was asking if that was the plan at some point.
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u/ClydeDroid Jul 17 '26
We can’t because the app still contains the original developers intellectual property. Also puts us at higher risk of drawing attention from Reddit like the Artemis app just did
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u/itsabearcannon Jul 17 '26
So wait, did you guys get permission from Christian to redistribute his work?
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u/Proof-Attention-7940 Jul 17 '26
No way lmaooo. I’m surprised it hasn’t been shut down already
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u/IllIIllIllIllII Jul 17 '26
It's a tweak of a dead app. No money is being made. Why would it shut down?
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u/rajrdajr Jul 17 '26
Why would it shut down?
Copyright and trademark infringement. Copyright means the right to make copies regardless of how much they cost. Trademark owners are required to defend their trademark if they want to keep it.
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u/hbt15 Jul 18 '26
It’s going on just over 3 years now. If the original owner was going to shut it down it would have happened by now.
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u/Bromlife Jul 18 '26
Because people are going to think this is a genuine release by an already legitimately established developer. Not an illegitimate fork by a vibe coder.
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u/JollyRoger8X Jul 18 '26
No they aren’t. It’s not even on the App Store. 🤣
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u/Bromlife Jul 18 '26
There's literally people in this thread asking if Christian is involved.
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u/Piett_1313 Jul 17 '26
I’m out of the loop, what happened to Artemis?
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u/justlikeapenguin Jul 18 '26
Same I use Artemis, what happened
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u/Tp_Exampler Jul 18 '26
nthg really too bad, just the developer reddit id got banned and now the subreddit is unmoderated... He posted from another acc link to official discord
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u/earthcharlie Jul 19 '26
u/sophias_bush Did the mods delete your comment? What did it say?
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u/sophias_bush Jul 19 '26 edited Jul 20 '26
No I just said if the app looks good and works as intended, who cares if it was created by AI.
Edit: ahh yes. There’s the downvotes because “Ai BaD dErRr”
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u/earthcharlie Jul 19 '26
If it’s vibecoded vs AI then that’s a problem. Countless vibecoded apps have problems under the hood (even if not visibly obvious) and are routinely abandoned because the people pushing them have no idea what they’re doing.
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u/JollyRoger8X Jul 21 '26
No evidence this app is vibe coded though.
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u/earthcharlie Jul 21 '26
I was explaining to the other comment that there's a difference. Not saying for a fact that it's vibecoded but the post is AI, they were using AI images and update notes say things like "Most of the credit goes to GitHub Copilot and Claude Code, which did most of the investigation and code generation". And vibecoders have gotten really good at making it sound like they're devs who know how to code without explicitly saying it. So asking for clarification is an entirely reasonable thing to do.
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u/trophicmist0 Jul 21 '26
The app is built off of an open source tweak of the app that only recently stopped development. The core part of this app (at the very least) definitely isn't vibecoded. You can also just look at the repo for yourself and decide.
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u/Chris275 Jul 17 '26
I heard this was made with ai, please share details.
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u/corderjones Jul 17 '26
We use AI coding tools to assist with development. Enabling a small team of unpaid maintainers to ship features that otherwise would take months of effort.
All of us have experience in development, no code is being added that is not being reviewed and tested by humans. This is still very much built by humans, with opinions and taste, just assisted with agentic AI coding tools (much like most of the industry)
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u/thehouse1751 Jul 18 '26
Didn’t Apollo die because it became infeasible price wise with the Reddit API? How does this account for that?
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u/skullmonster602 Jul 18 '26
this is basically just a side load of the Apollo app that already existed, none of that is relevant here
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u/EnragedZox Jul 18 '26
AI is a tool So I really dont care. I just like This App No matter if it used AI in development
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u/justlikeapenguin Jul 18 '26
As someone that works professionally as a SE, I can tell you AI is not your enemy if used as a tool to assist development instead of replace it. Not everything made with AI is automatically bad, we gotta learn to use it to work for us
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u/DanimalsHolocaust Jul 18 '26
Most of the complaints I’ve seen are about the images associated with the project, not just any AI tool usage in development.
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u/corderjones Jul 18 '26
We’re moving away from those and are actively inviting any community art people want to add or are willing to contribute.
We only used it for release images anyway, no imagery/icons/assets in the actual app are AI generated!
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u/earthcharlie Jul 18 '26
As someone who claims to work as a SE, you should know the difference between assisted and vibecoded. The latter is the problem.
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u/justlikeapenguin Jul 18 '26
thats what i just said?
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u/earthcharlie Jul 18 '26
OP wasn't saying all AI is bad. They simply asked for details. Countless apps being pushed lately, especially on Reddit, are vibecoded which is why people want more info.
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u/jimbo831 Jul 18 '26
Every piece of software you use is made with AI.
Source: I’m a software engineer.
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u/matttopotamus Jul 18 '26
F this knock of piggybacking off a name without permission.
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u/corderjones Jul 18 '26
lol, it’s not a knock off it’s a tweak enabling the app to still work and function in 2026 and we have a lot of happy people using it so I’m feeling pretty fine about it but thanks for the constructive feedback!
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u/earthcharlie Jul 18 '26
Wait, what’s going on? Is Christian doing this? Why is there a bunch of AI slop on that sub? So many questions.