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How to Follow a Subreddit Without the Reddit App

Follow public subreddits in NewsNinja, watch videos, open links, browse images and galleries, and read comments alongside your other sources.

NewsNinja on iPad and iPhone showing subreddit feeds, videos, and comments. Your subreddits. One calm feed. Videos, links, images & galleries.

You can keep up with supported public subreddits in NewsNinja without installing the Reddit app. Posts appear in your feed collection alongside websites, videos, podcasts, and other sources.

Add a subreddit

  1. Open Feeds → + to open Add Source.
  2. Choose Reddit and enter a subreddit URL or r/subreddit.
  3. Review the source preview.
  4. Choose a category and whether to Show in Home, then save.

You can also search Discover for a subreddit, open its preview, and tap Add.

Open the subreddit in Feeds to read its posts. Use available Reddit sorting choices such as Hot, New, or Top, and open a post to read available comments. A category can combine subreddits with RSS publications, YouTube channels, and podcasts.

The r/EarthPorn subreddit in NewsNinja, with landscape photo thumbnails, post titles, scores, and comment counts.
A subreddit becomes a feed you can browse alongside your other sources.

NewsNinja supports more than text posts. Open a post to view its content and follow the discussion in the same place:

  • Videos: Watch video posts with playback controls directly in NewsNinja.
  • Links: View the shared link preview and open the linked page.
  • Images: View image posts and read the comments beneath them.
  • Galleries: Browse multiple images in a gallery post.
A video post in r/movies playing in NewsNinja, with playback controls and comments below.
Video posts with playback controls.
A shared Formula 1 article in NewsNinja with a link preview and a Reddit comments summary.
Shared links with a preview of the article.
An image post in r/OldSchoolCool displayed in NewsNinja, with an image in the comments below.
Image posts with the discussion underneath.

Read subreddits on iPad

On iPad, the larger layout gives your sources, subreddit posts, and the selected discussion room side by side. You can browse the post list while keeping a post and its comments open.

NewsNinja on iPad showing the source sidebar, r/movies post list, and a selected link post with nested comments.

Reddit access and the future of RSS

Following a subreddit in NewsNinja organizes your reading locally; it doesn’t subscribe your Reddit account or provide voting and posting. Access depends on Reddit and the community: private, restricted, or login-gated content may not be available through public access.

Reddit is changing how feed readers can access its content. Read Reddit is ending RSS feeds: what it means for NewsNinja for the announcement, how NewsNinja accesses Reddit, and what could change for subreddit support.

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