'Apollo' Reddit App Donating All of Today's Purchase Proceeds to Animal Shelter

What a generous donation to Apple. Or did he somehow get Apple to agree to give their 30% cut to the SPCA Animal Shelter as well?

There's always that guy that can find the negative in something that is nothing but positive.

Christian is one of those developers that I love supporting. Embodies so much of what makes the App Store great. He's the Loren Brichter of our time. Independent, reads all user feedback and builds features people want, improvements month over month, huge beta program and twice a year does some fund raiser for charity.

Okay I literally emailed Loren Brichter for tips when I was in high school and wanted to get into app development so this comparison might actually make me cry and I'm nowhere near that yet, but I want to be. Thank you so much.

I took up this deal last year and got both Pro and Ultra. Had it for a year and enjoyed it. It was renewed today so I guess I am going for a donation this time.

Haha! I didn't even think that if I do this every year the renewal will get donated as well, that's so awesome.

Christian is a good developer. I can’t wait until the Apollo app comes to the Macbook thanks to Apple Silicon in the near future! ?

My goal is for it to be a lot more than just the iPhone version running on Apple Silicon. I have an Apple Silicon Developer Transition Kit sitting beside me and hope to have a very nice Mac app. :)

After years and years of loving every second on narwhal, it has fallen behind in features and keeping up with modern interface design language. Switched to Apollo about a month ago and WOW I was holding myself back, this app is so well made and the dev has obviously put a lot of care and attention to it. I will never switch back!

Just like a lot of the things apple makes, they may not have done it first but they def did it right.

So awesome to have you aboard! For what it's worth I think the Narwhal developer does this in his spare time, I'm quite fortunate to be able to do it full time so it's probably a lot trickier for him doing it beside a full time job. But I heard he's working on Narwhal 2! But regardless I'm really happy you like Apollo!

What a generous donation to Apple. Or did he somehow get Apple to agree to give their 30% cut to the SPCA Animal Shelter as well?

I totally see where you're coming from, but the 30% is a small price to pay given that there's no way to do this kind of event otherwise. And in Apple's defense, it would be quite an undertaking to develop some kind of system where developers could give to charities on certain days, because otherwise if the devs didn't post proof like I did, they could just run off with the money. Don't get me wrong, I absolutely think they should, but it's probably not easy.

Of course this would pop up when Apple has my iPhone for repair. :(

Tell you what, if you can't figure out how to do it, just donate the same price of whatever you were going to unlock directly to the SPCA here https://www.canadahelps.org/en/pages/apollo-app-2020-spca-fundraiser/ then just DM me on Twitter (@ChristianSelig) with a picture and I'll generate a promo code for that for you to use whenever you want. We're not supposed to "sell" promo codes on the side, but I don't think this qualifies because I'm not making any money off it.

Christian is one of those developers that I love supporting. Embodies so much of what makes the App Store great. He's the Loren Brichter of our time. Independent, reads all user feedback and builds features people want, improvements month over month, huge beta program and twice a year does some fund raiser for charity.

Christian is a good developer. I can’t wait until the Apollo app comes to the Macbook thanks to Apple Silicon in the near future! ?

Why would you get a neutered read-only reddit app, or a paid for full reddit app, when you can have the full thing for free on your web browser???

Because Reddit on the web sucks, and I am willing to pay for nice things so as to encourage not developers to create apps for the ios platform.

(Not sure if double-posting is allowed on forums so mods please delete/merge if not)

Just wanted to update all you beautiful people and say thank you so much, because of your generosity we managed to raise $42,749.29 for the SPCA!!!