appiconReddit today acquired Alien Blue, the popular iPhone and iPad app that many iOS users use to browse Reddit on their mobile devices, reports TechCrunch. According to Ellen Pao, Reddit's head of strategic partnerships, the company will keep the "Alien Blue" name and the app's developer, Jase Morrissey, will be joining the Reddit team.

"Our whole philosphy has been to give our users choice. We've got the reddit AMA app, and alienblue coming out... but we really want users to use whatever they want." says Ellen Pao, reddit's head of Strategic Partnerships. "We think Alienblue is great, and it's the most popular reddit app on iOS. We wanted to be able to offer it as a reddit app, and we wanted to help Jase with additional resources to do everything he wanted to do with it."

The app will, however, be gaining a new icon, and while Reddit focuses on merging the iPhone and iPad versions of the app into a single universal app, both versions are free. The iPad app normally costs $4 while the iPhone app is free with a $2 "Pro" in-app purchase.

Reddit has plans to get rid of the iPad app, so it is permanently free while work continues on a universal version, but the iPhone's "Pro" features will also be made available for free for the next week, as all Alien Blue users need to re-download the apps.

To celebrate and ease the move to reddit, everyone can get the Alien Blue Pro upgrade free for one week. The iPad app will also be free until we integrate it with the iPhone app and the two become one universal app.

The "Pro" features in the iPhone version of the app will extend to the iPad when it is transformed into a universal app, so all Alien Blue users should download the new version immediately while the upgraded features are available at no cost.

Reddit's new official Alien Blue app for the iPhone can be downloaded from the App Store for free. [Direct Link]

The Alien Blue app for the iPad can also be downloaded from the App Store for free until a universal version is available. [Direct Link]

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timshundo Avatar
timshundo
132 months ago
Awesome. Now fix the UI. The new charm/belt/ribbon menu is so backwards and unintuitive. Flashy for the sake of flashy.

In fact most of the app's UI is questionable and unfriendly.
Score: 12 Votes (Like | Disagree)
997.2 Avatar
997.2
132 months ago
Temporarily? But I payed $$$ to upgrade!!! Don't screw it up, their developer put a lot of time and hard work in it.

who cares? quit complaining.

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Pro feature is not free. Macrumors lied to us
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Paradoxally Avatar
Paradoxally
132 months ago
God that icon looks hideous.
Score: 7 Votes (Like | Disagree)
jclo Avatar
jclo
132 months ago
who cares? quit complaining.

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Pro feature is not free. Macrumors lied to us
It may not be propagated yet. Reddit's official post says it's free: http://www.redditblog.com/2014/10/the-alien-has-landed.html

Official comments say the same thing:
http://www.reddit.com/r/blog/comments/2jd7wa/the_alien_has_landed/

"All future updates will be in the new version only, and if you download now, you can get your pro upgrade in the new app."

Edit: I just downloaded the app. The Pro features cost "$0.00" in the app, so it is free.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Dekema2 Avatar
Dekema2
132 months ago
Don't screw it up, their developer put a lot of time and hard work in it.
Score: 5 Votes (Like | Disagree)
Nozuka Avatar
Nozuka
132 months ago
downloaded, upgraded, deleted.


you never know..
Score: 4 Votes (Like | Disagree)
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