Reddit’s API changes kill Android’s best third-party apps, including RIF and Sync

On July 1, Reddit will enact a brand new API coverage that expenses exorbitant charges to builders of third-party apps for the web site, which is having the impact of shutting down these common apps, including Reddit is Fun, Sync for Reddit, and extra.

As confirmed right now, each Sync for Reddit and Reddit is Fun (RIF) will probably be shutting down on June 30. The common third-party Reddit apps for Android have amassed thousands and thousands upon thousands and thousands of downloads and are particularly common amongst Reddit’s most energetic customers.

Reddit is Fun (RIF) has been an particularly common selection for Android customers, because the app has at all times been unique to the Android platform. It has over 5 million downloads from the Play Store. Meanwhile, Sync for Reddit can be shutting down each its Android and iOS apps.

Reddit’s new paid API, introduced final month, has been a dying knell to many third-party apps because of the intense prices related to the API, in addition to the changes the API imposed. Under the brand new guidelines, third-party Reddit apps can’t run advertisements, can’t present specific (NSFW) content material, and are hit with different restrictions.

The common third-party Reddit consumer Apollo, completely accessible on iOS, has helped to shine a highlight on Reddit’s harsh phrases. That consumer, which can be shutting down, would have needed to pay upwards of $20 million per yr, making the app drastically dearer for customers.

• Apollo shutting down on account of Reddit’s unaffordable API

In a submit, the developer of RIF explains that the prices to maintain the app working would mirror that of Apollo, regardless of RIF producing earnings “remotely near this number.”

What about different common third-party Reddit purchasers on Android? The developer of Boost for Reddit has recommended {that a} shutdown could also be within the playing cards, but it surely hasn’t been explicitly confirmed but. There’s additionally no affirmation on BaconReader simply but. The developer of Infinity for Reddit has recommended the concept of particular person cost for every consumer’s API use.

RIP third-party Reddit apps. You have been all fantastic in your individual distinctive methods.

On a associated observe, the r/Android subreddit, the preferred Android group on Reddit, will go darkish for 48 hours on June 12 in protest of the API changes.