Quickddit is a free and open source Reddit client for mobile phones. Quickddit is not an official client of Reddit and is not affiliated with Reddit in any way.
Quickddit is developed using Qt and currently available for MeeGo Harmattan (Qt 4.7.4), Sailfish OS (Qt 5.6) and Ubuntu-touch (Qt 5.9). The logic part is developed in C++ while the UI is developed in QML.
The Harmattan port has been left at 1.0.0 feature level, and will not receive new features.
Reddit no longer allows anonymous access, so you need to sign in to use Quickddit. On Sailfish OS, Quickddit opens the sign-in page at startup when no login is saved, with a banner explaining why.
| Feature | SailfishOS | Ubuntu Touch | Nokia Harmattan (N9) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sign into Reddit | Y | Y | Y |
| Multi account | Y | Y | Y |
| Compact and card post layouts | Y | ||
| Submit/edit new links and self-posts | Y | Y | Y |
| add, reply, edit, delete comments | Y | Y | Y |
| Browse your messages | Y | Y | Y |
| Send messages | Y | Y | Y |
| Vote on comments and posts | Y | Y | Y |
| Save comments and posts | Y | Y | Y |
| Multireddit support | partial | partial | partial |
| integrated image viewer | Y | Y | Y |
| integrated reddit gallery viewer | Y | Y | |
| integrated Imgur album viewer | Y | Y | Y |
| integrated video player | Y | Y | |
| Use independently updated youtube-dl or yt-dlp | Y | ||
| integrated webviewer | Y | Y | |
| search posts | Y | Y | |
| search subreddits | Y | Y | Y |
| inbox notifications | Y | Y | |
| share posts | Y | Y | |
| watch clipboard for reddit links | Y | Y | |
| TOR | Y | Y | |
| Post flair | partial | partial | |
| User flair | |||
| Friends | |||
| Moderator features |
If you want to build Quickddit with OAuth support, remember to get your own Reddit API client
id and secret and fill it up in
src/quickdditmanager.cpp or define REDDIT_CLIENT_ID,
REDDIT_CLIENT_SECRET and REDDIT_REDIRECT_URL in project file or QtCreator.
Optionally you can also define IMGUR_CLIENT_ID with your own Imgur API client id.
- MeeGo Harmattan (Nokia N9/N950): OpenRepos
- SailfishOS (Jolla): OpenRepos
- Ubuntu-touch: OpenStore or build with
clickable -c ubuntu-touch/clickable.json
In Settings → Post Layout, choose Compact (the default) or Card. Card layout shows larger previews, with a thumbnail or text fallback when a preview is unavailable. Tap a preview to open it, or tap a blurred preview to reveal it. Long-press a post, thumbnail or card preview to open the post menu.
In Settings → Media → Video downloader, choose how Quickddit finds video streams:
| Option | Uses |
|---|---|
| Bundled youtube-dl (default) | The copy included with Quickddit; no separate installation needed. |
| Installed youtube-dl | A separately installed youtube_dl Python package. |
| Installed yt-dlp | A separately installed yt_dlp Python package. |
| Executable | A youtube-dl-compatible command-line program at the path you enter, such as /usr/bin/yt-dlp. |
The installed Python packages must be compatible with the device's Python runtime. For Executable, enter just the executable path, without arguments or shell quoting. Quickddit requests JSON metadata without downloading the video, ignores downloader configuration files, and times out after two minutes. Sailjail permissions are unchanged: the user is responsible for making the executable, its interpreter (if needed), and other dependencies accessible inside Quickddit's sandbox. Quickddit does not install downloaders or alter sandbox configuration.
Downloaders can be updated independently of Quickddit. If the selected downloader is missing or incompatible, Quickddit reports an error instead of silently using its bundled copy.
You can help translation Quickddit into different languages here:
https://hosted.weblate.org/projects/Quickddit/
All files in this project are licensed under the GNU GPLv3+, unless otherwise stated.
Quickddit - Reddit client for mobile phones
Copyright (C) 2013-2014 Dickson Leong
Copyright (C) 2015-2020 Sander van Grieken
Copyright (C) 2025 Andrew Branson
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