What it is

Infinity For Reddit is an open-source Reddit client for Android, written in Java and distributed under the AGPL-3.0 license. It lives in the Android application ecosystem and talks to Reddit as its backend service, presenting posts, comments, messages and notifications through a native mobile interface. The project has been on GitHub for eight years, carries 5,483 stars and 520 forks, and its most recent push was on 15 September 2026. Topics attached to the repository are android, java, reddit and reddit-client.

The concrete problem it solves is the experience of reading Reddit on a phone without advertising and without the interface clutter that accompanies the official application. The README states plainly that the client has no ads and offers a clean UI with smooth browsing. It also addresses a second, narrower problem: users who do not run Google Play Services. A Patreon build is published on the GitHub releases page, identified by an APK filename containing Infinity-Patreon, and it works without those services. A separate iOS client exists in its own repository.

Key capabilities

• Lazy mode automatically scrolls posts so the reader does not have to move a thumb.
• Browsing posts and viewing comments, with comment sections that expand and collapse.
• Voting on posts and comments, and saving posts for later.
• Writing, editing and deleting comments.
• Submitting posts in text, link, image and video formats.
• Editing posts, including marking and unmarking NSFW and spoiler status and editing flair, plus deleting posts.
• Viewing subscribed subreddits and followed users, reading messages, and receiving notifications of unread messages.

Who uses it and how

• Android users who want to browse Reddit without advertising install the app from Google Play.
• Users without Google Play Services install the Patreon APK from the GitHub releases page instead.
• Readers who prefer passive consumption enable Lazy mode and let posts scroll automatically.
• Active participants use the client to vote, comment, submit text, link, image and video posts, and manage flair and NSFW or spoiler flags.
• Contributors fork the repository, branch from master, commit, push and open a pull request against master; translation work is coordinated through POEditor.

Getting started

Install from Google Play using the package ml.docilealligator.infinityforreddit.plus, or download an APK from the GitHub releases page, choosing the file whose name contains Infinity-Patreon if Google Play Services are unavailable. The README also documents prerequisites and a manual setup path for building from source.

When to use it — and when not to

This is a client application rather than a server, so a self-hoster operates nothing beyond the app itself; there is no database, storage layer or SMTP service to run. The trade-off is that the client depends on Reddit's own service and, for the