lurkur for reddit

Name: lurkur for reddit
Rating: 3.9 (101 reviews)
Author: Lars van Houwelingen

By: Lars van Houwelingen

a new way to browse

Features & Capabilities

lurkur is an unofficial Reddit client designed for readers who want to browse without participating. It delivers an ad-free, minimalist reading experience with a clean interface, dark mode, and a media viewer for images, GIFs, and videos.

Tailored for reading and content discovery, lurkur offers customizable reader settings, a focus on content consumption over comments, and active development based on user feedback. Note: as an unofficial client, availability depends on Reddit's API policies. Community at r/lurkurapp.

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By:

Lars van Houwelingen

Rating:

3.90

(101) 0.10

Version:

1.11.0 Last updated: 2025-12-04

Version code:

879526011

Creation date:

2023-10-27

Compatible devices:

Size:

62.54MB

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-06

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 159,041 ▼ 638

Other rankings

#7 in reddit keyword 49 ▲ 5

For Developers

Monetize with App Pass Boost with Extension Booster

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Developed by:

Lars van Houwelingen

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/lurkur-for-reddit/id6470203216

User Reviews

Reviews praise lurkur for being ad-free, login-free, and beginner-friendly with a clean, minimalist interface and subreddit import. However, users repeatedly report crashes, hangs, slow loads, broken search/filters, and media playback problems, making reliability the major concern. Overall, it’s a promising lurking-focused Reddit reader that shines when it works but suffers from stability issues across updates.

Pros

Ad-free experience with no login, offering a privacy-friendly Reddit browsing
Lurk-friendly, minimalist UI that keeps the focus on content and allows subreddit import
Viewed as a good replacement for other Reddit apps (e.g., Apollo) with clean design and no ads
Tablet-optimized and generally stable when it works, with a responsive feel

Cons

Frequent crashes and instability; force quits are common
Performance issues like hangs, slow load times, and non-responsive behavior after backgrounding
Search and filtering features often broken; results not tappable and filters not functioning
Media playback issues: videos pause unexpectedly, audio problems, and inconsistent sound
Connection/undefined errors that disrupt usage and frustrate users

Recent reviews

I deleted my 12 year old Reddit account a while back, got tired of the “karma” and updooting and whatnot. Decided to give this a try, it’s a great concept and I like the ability to not comment and give out votes but this app has some things not great. Like it seems to stop responding if you go to another and come back it it, it won’t scroll or click or anything so you are forced to close it and reopen it. A lot of connection errors where it just shows some string or code. And they search feature is funny, Reddit was never known for having a great search engine so maybe that’s the issue

by My*****, 2026-01-13

seemed like it would be a nice reddit client to use until i found that i could not default comments to old. i mean who says which are best, hot, controversial? the users, of course. unfortunately, that's not how everyone consumes media. nobody goes to the best movie scene, hottest book chapter. you wouldn't know what's going on if you did. same with comments. i like to know what is being replied to. app deleted.