Popular Reddit app 'Readit' arrives on Windows 10 to ruin your productivity

On PC, most users access the social media aggregate via their web browser. Browser extensions like Reddit Enhancement Suite provide improvements to the site's functionality. Though, in general, Reddit.com is pretty out-dated and proves a nightmare if you're using a touchscreen.

Thankfully, the chaps at Message Beyond Studios have finished building Readit for Windows 10 - delivering a premium Reddit feel for PC and tablet users.

Feature rich without sacrificing performance

Merely put, Readit for Windows Phone is so fun to utilise that it'south been destroying my productivity for months now - and that tendency is set to continue with their Windows x app.

Readit for Windows 10 uses the new universal app SDK, bringing with it a whole host of fresh controls. Considering information technology's a completely new app and separate from the Windows Telephone version, some features are withal in development. You likely won't exist waiting long, though, every bit I've witnessed get-go mitt how fast these guys work.

Readit for Windows 10 sports a customizable columnar interface, assuasive you to hibernate and show elements with a elementary toggle. With a touch screen, scrolling is responsive as you'd expect from a quality app, and elements shift with pleasing animations. When using a mouse, the app detects where your cursor is hovering allowing to curl through dissimilar sections without selecting them.

I've been using Readit on an high-end Surface Pro three with a mouse and keyboard and on a budget HP Stream 7 with touch - it runs similar a dream on both. Windows viii.1 Reddit apps ofttimes struggle when displaying websites because of bug with the SDK, only Readit does so smoothly without a hitch. Readit is among the showtime high-quality third-party apps dedicated for Windows 10, and information technology gives me optimism for the future of the ecosystem.

The vast majority of Reddit's functionality is nowadays in Readit, including voting, upvoting, nested commenting, and so on. Readit goes a trivial further by incorporating DNLA/Miracasting into videos, allowing you to stream /r/documentary content directly to your Xbox One over your abode WiFi. You lot'll also get notifications for comment replies in the Windows 10 action center.

If you're a user of the Windows Phone app, Readit for Windows x will be welcomingly familiar. If y'all're new to Readit, you might observe yourself ditching Reddit.com for skilful.

Readit's future updates

Readit doesn't take complete parity with the Windows Telephone version as it's a completely new app. The developers take big plans for updates moving forrard, as they've detailed with me. This version focusses on standard functionality, power-user features and software optimisation, but future versions await fix to make Reddit Enhancement Suite obsolete.

The first update for Readit will include user tags, full messaging support, comment search, post filtering, comment formatting preview and expanded modernistic tools. Future updates will bring back customizable settings lite theming, multi-reddit back up, sharing from other apps (e.g. the Windows 10 Photos app), the addictive swipe view and much more.

As a universal app, Readit will eventually brand its way to Xbox I and HoloLens. A Windows 10 Mobile version will eventually replace the Windows Phone viii.one version once Message Beyond Studios can bring feature parity.

You can selection up Readit in the Windows 10 store using the link below. It's free with ads, merely y'all can remove them with a reasonably priced in-app purchase. If you've already paid for the Windows Phone version, you're all set to go as Readit supports purchasing across devices.

Update: We are seeing a download error through the Store right at present. Sit tight and give it some fourth dimension as the app should be downloadable soon.

Download Readit for Windows 10 / Windows Phone (Gratis)

Take you tried Readit for Windows 10? Get out a annotate beneath or get out a post for the devs straight on /r/readit!

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