Pixels for Reddit lets you browse images in style on Android
Pixels for Reddit is a free application for Android that provides you with an elegant user interface that has been optimized to browse images posted to Reddit by its userbase.
Update: The application is no longer available. I suggest you try Boost for Reddit instead which offers more features and an even better experience. End
If there is one thing that is hot on Reddit all the time it is images: from cute animals over the latest trending animated gifs to NSFW content that would many adult sites to shame.
The Reddit "all" frontpage is usually filed with images from all sorts of subreddits, with some more popular than others of course.
While there are dozens of apps for Android that let you browse Reddit, most are all-purpose applications that bring you all of Reddit in app-format.
Pixels for Reddit review
Pixel for Reddit is optimized for images on the other hand and it shows when you open the app. New pics are thrown at you right away, and they take up most of the screen as this is what this app is all about.
You can swipe down to browse the current selection of images, or bring up the navigation to browse a selection of popular image-focused subreddits, or use search to browse any other subreddit featuring images. And yes, that includes all NSFW subreddits but with the caveat that all NSFW images are blurred by default.
It is easy enough to change that in the settings the app makes available though. The blurring is not perfect though, as you can clearly see images flagged as NSFW for a brief moment before they are blurred by the app.
Images loaded very fast during tests even when using a mobile connection. The app loads them as soon as you start to swipe down and if your Internet connection is reasonably fast, you will notice no delay when you do so.
Pixels for Reddit is not just an image viewer though. You can tap on an image to bring up the post on Reddit. There you find options to vote, load the full image in an app of your choice, share it, or read comments posted on Reddit.
You may swipe left or right while a single post is open to go to the previous or next image in line which is quite handy.
The author of the application notes that some features are still missing, and that that's the main reason why the app is labeled as beta currently.
Plans include features such as a Night Mode, comment voting, and opening YouTube videos natively in the app.
Closing Words
Pixels for Reddit is one of the better image browsing applications for the site even though it is not feature complete yet. The browsing works really well already, and if the developer adds missing features to the app, it could very well become the best image browsing application for Reddit.
Thanks for the tip Martin.
It is for these kinds of posts that I follow GHacks.
What’s up with the generic comment, are you a bot?
2G?
Where on the planet is that still in use? I was forced to give up using my RAZRV3 years ago because 2G was phased out by AT&T.
Everywhere 3G has been turned off and you don’t have LTE coverage, and believe me there are many developed countries where this is the case and if it weren’t for 2G you wouldn’t even be able to make a phone call.
Maybe I missed it, but I don’t believe tha term “2G” is in the article. Perhaps you are referring to “AGM G2”??
@Martin
Your website has gone insane.
When I the post button I then saw my comment posted on a different article page. When I opened this article again, it is here.
@Tachy @Martin Brinkmann
” Your website has gone insane. ”
Same here. Has happened several times.
@Tachy,
@Martin P.,
For over two weeks now,
I’ve been seeing “Comments” posted by subscribers appearing in different, unrelated articles.
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572991
https://www.ghacks.net/windows-11-update-stuck-fixed-for-good/#comment-4572951
For the time being,
it would be better to specify the “article name and URL” at the beginning of the post.
@tachy a lot of non-phone devices with a sim in them rely on 2G, at least here in europe.
Usually things reporting usage or errors/alarms on something remote that does not get day to day inspection in person. They are out there in vast numbers doing important work. Reliable, good range. The low datarate is no problem at all in those cases.
3G is gone or on its last legs everywhere, but this stuff still has too much use to cancel.
Anyhow, interesting that they would put that in. I can see the point if you suspect a hostile 2G environment (amateur eavesdroppers with laptop, ranging up to professional grade MITM fake towers while “strangely” not getting the stronger crypto voip 4G because it is being jammed, and back down to something as old ‘stingray’ devices fallen into the wrong hands).
But does this also mean that they have handled and rolled out a fix for that nasty 4G ‘pwn by broadcast’ problem you reported earlier this year? I had 4G disabled due to that, on the off chance that some of the local criminals would buy some cheap chinese gear, download a working exploit and probe every phone in range all over town in the hope of getting into phones of the police.
>”While most may never be attacked in stingrays, it is still recommended to disable 2G cellular connections, especially since it does not have any downsides.”
The downside would be losing connectivity. I spend a lot of time way out in the countryside where there’s often no service or almost none. My network allows 2G, and I need it sometimes. I have an option on the phone to disable 2G, I may do that when I’m in the city and I have good 5G connectivity, but not out in the country.
I would imagine that the stingray exploits, like most of the bad things in this world, are probably things you will run into in the crowded big cities.
I stopped using it in a mobile (Wi-Fi line) environment, so I’m almost ignorant of the actual situation,
But the recent reality in Japan makes me realize that “the infrastructure of the web is nothing more than a papier-mâché fiction”.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/17/google-chrome-to-enable-https-first-by-default-for-all-users/#comment-4572402
It is already beyond the scope of what an individual can do.
What we should be aware of is the reality that “governments and those in power want to control the world through the Web”, and efforts to counter (resist and prevent) such ambitions are necessary.
Why do you want people to disable the privacy features? Hmmmmm?
Now You: do you plan to keep the Ads privacy features enabled?
I’d like to tell you, but apparently if you make a post critical of Google, you get censored. * [Editor: removed, just try to bring your opinion across without attacking anyone]
@Martin
You website is still psychotic. Comments attach to random stories.
@Martin please do fix the comments, it’s completely insane commenting here! :[
@Martin
The comments are seriously messed up on gHacks now. These comments are mixed with the article at the below URL.
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/18/android-how-to-disable-2g-cellular-connections-to-improve-security/
And comments on other articles are from as far back as 2010.
What does this article has anything to do with all the comments on this article? LOL I think this Websuite is ran by ChatGPT. every article is messed up. Some older comments from 2015 shown up in recant articles, LOL
The picture captioned “Clearing the Android Auto’s cache might resolve the issue” is from Apple Carplay ;)
How about other things that matter:
Drop survival?
Screen toughness?
Degree of water and dust protection?