Bacon solves most cooking emergencies.
BaconReader, a new mobile app, solves Reddit’s Android emergency.
Reddit launched an official iPhone app two years ago, but the social news site has mysteriously never done the same for Android. BaconReader, a third party app released by OneReader, fills that void.
Eschewing Reddit’s pastel blue stack of links, BaconReader greets you with shades of gray. It’s a softer, smoother look. “I feel bad using it without buying it dinner first, it’s that pretty,” wrote one reviewer on the Android Marketplace. And that’s fair. Reddit through BaconReader looks like an entirely new site.
It’s like you’re cheating on Reddit. And it feels good.
As one commenter on the Android Marketplace pointed out, the app won’t actually help you read your bacon (that technology doesn’t exist yet, sadly). But everything else works great. You can save and share threads, preview images, and peruse all your favorite subreddits. Reddit user pages are gorgeous, and conversations display in easy-to-follow stacks discussion trees, just like on Reddit itself.
Meanwhile, Chris Arvin, the app’s creator, is a big reddit user himself. And he’s putting on a clinic for managing a product launch on Reddit–something a lot of companies and developers could learn from. When one user raised concerns about the app’s privacy permissions, Arvin quickly jumped into the thread. “I know the permissions suck right now, but I’m pushing to get these removed as best I can,” Arvin wrote.
You can download BaconReader it for free at the Android Marketplace, or pay $1.99 to for an ad-free version.
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