dev.to

Name: dev.to
Rating: 3.8 (32 reviews)
Author: DEV Community

By: DEV Community

Code Creators Coming Together

Features & Capabilities

The best way to navigate DEV and the rest of the Forem ecosystem on your iPhone!

The Forem app allows you to follow all your dev.to tags and members while also discovering what the evolving Forem ecosystem has to offer.

Read, write and stay up-to-date in our blogging-forward social network.

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

DEV Community

Rating:

3.80

(32)

Version:

3.0.2 Last updated: 2026-04-10

Version code:

884378470

Creation date:

2021-05-07

Compatible devices:

Size:

47.27MB

URLs:

Website ,Privacy policy

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-07-11

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 253,155 ▲ 4,067

For Developers

Monetize with App Pass Boost with Extension Booster

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Developed by:

DEV Community

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/dev-to/id1536933197

Website:

https://dev.to

User Reviews

Users praise the app for consolidating multiple Forem communities and enabling easy participation on the go, but repeatedly report critical usability flaws: overly sensitive navigation gestures and back swipes that interrupt reading, poor or absent dark mode, onboarding/signup confusion, and stability crashes. The strongest positives center on centralized access and community engagement, while the most common negatives concern UX/navigation and visual accessibility.

Pros

Centralized access to Dev and Forem communities within a single app with easy switching between communities.
Easy to contribute and stay engaged in conversations across multiple communities.
Convenient for use on the go, unifying platforms and communities in one app.

Cons

Navigation and back/swipe gestures are overly sensitive, causing accidental page exits and reading interruptions.
Dark mode is missing or poorly implemented, making reading uncomfortable for many users.
Onboarding and signup flow is confusing or unfriendly, hindering first-time users.
Stability issues, including crashes when opening profiles or articles.

Recent reviews

The content is good, but the UI is way too touchy with swiping/scrolling. I can’t make it through a single paragraph of an article if I dare scroll downward in not a perfectly straight line and it takes me to the previous page. I’ve stopped using DEV/Forem all together because it’s absolutely impossible to read anything when you have to go back to the email you opened the article from every 5 seconds to get back to reading because you were swiped back to the homepage