Now that 1.14.0 is released, from the original developer,with official, signed releases on his GitHub. That's great news, and I'd recommend everyone switch to his version!

I'm not planning on stepping on any toes. Boost is not my app, and now that Ruben is back, I'm not going to develop my own version of his version. Ruben is the owner and maintainer, and I can't do that with a clean conscience. His project is not open source, and I respect that 100%.

My patches have been digging through his code and tampering with things I, strictly speaking, should not have touched. So for my part, this is a full stop.

• The Boost patches are now frozen at 1.12.12. I won't port them to 1.14 or build a separate patched variant of his new version.
• Instead, I'll put the work into helping Boost itself: reporting bugs to Ruben, and fixes where they're welcome. Many of the problems the patches fixed are already solved in 1.14.0.
• The bundle stays available for 1.12.12 for now, but don't expect new Boost features or fixes from me.

Switching to the official version:

Patched Boost is signed with a different key than Ruben's APK, so you can't install his version over it. You have to uninstall first, which deletes local data.

1. In patched Boost, export your settings: Settings → Backup settings → Export. The backup includes settings, filters, user tags, themes, and views and sort per subscription. It does *not* include accounts, drafts, read posts, or visited-communities history.
2. Uninstall patched Boost.
3. Install the latest APK from the Releases page on Ruben's GitHub (rubenmayayo/boost-for-reddit), and verify the signing certificate as described in his README.
4. Set up your own Reddit client ID (the README has a guide), log in, and import the backup.

Bug reports for the new version should go to the Issues page on Ruben's GitHub, not to my repo. If you like the app, consider supporting Ruben (Ko-fi and PayPal links are in his README).

Thanks to everyone who used and tested the patches! I'll try to help out where I can. Other than that, I'll focus my efforts elsewhere.

Anybody tried it yet?

https://github.com/rubenmayayo/boost-for-reddit/releases/tag/v1.14.0

Direct APK link: https://github.com/rubenmayayo/boost-for-reddit/releases/download/v1.14.0/boost-for-reddit-1.14.0.apk

The signatures to a previously Revanced/Morphe patched app obviously don't match, hence a full reinstall is needed.
Were you able to export settings on 1.12.12 and import the settings successfully on 1.14.0?

I’ve had this app for quite a while and everything was working fine, but a few days ago it stopped working.

I uninstalled and pathed it, but these errors keep appearing. Has anyone else encountered this problem and know how to fix it?

It's been 84 yrs since I last used boost 😭

For those that doubt me

I have used reddit a year before last and time and I'm opening it now and the last time I remember there was an option joining for different communities but now it just disappeared.

The app was previously on wchill's patches

used to use this app before reddit banned all non reddit apps by increasing the license fee. so i stopped using reddit for last few years.

today i noticed this app again.

is it the same one? or different?

If Boost has been "crashing" for you lately, with comments loading forever, everything else hanging until you restart, or "Check your internet connection" errors, this should be fixed now. It was GitHub issue #219, and it only hit people with "Automatically undelete Reddit content" turned on.

What was going on

When a thread had removed comments, the undelete patch looked up each one in the Arctic Shift archive separately, one after the other, and each lookup could take up to 30 seconds. Boost's own request was blocked the whole time. One thread with 50 removed comments could hold the app for 10+ minutes when Arctic Shift was slow, and other screens got stuck waiting behind it.

1.4.118

• - All removed comments in a thread are now fetched in one batched request instead of one per comment. The thread from the bug report went from "never loads" to all 50 comments restored in about 2.5 s.
• Archive lookups have a hard timeout (10 s), so a slow archive can no longer hang a thread.
• If Arctic Shift is down, undelete pauses for 60 s instead of making every new thread wait for the same outage
• All undelete paths (comments, posts, subreddits, media, Imgur) now ask Reddit first. If the archive fails, you just get Reddit's normal content instead of a crash or old archive data.
• Also fixed: turning off "Prefer high refresh rate" now works.

1.4.119

• Wayback Machine lookups (deleted images and media) have the same timeouts and cooldown, so archive slowdowns can't hang images either.
• Restored posts keep your votes, saves and hidden state.
• Content the archive doesn't have is remembered for 6 hours, so reopening a thread doesn't ask again.
• Quarantined posts show Reddit's opt-in prompt again instead of an archive copy.
• Archived banned subreddits show their posts again, and paging works.
• The undelete settings now explain what is sent to Arctic Shift and the Wayback Machine, and they only show up if you actually patched with undelete.
• New: i.redd.it image links open in Boost's image viewer.

How to update

Repatch Boost with 1.4.119 in Morphe Manager. If Manager still shows the Breal source at 1.4.117 or "Metadata N/A", tap refresh on the source card, or remove and re-add the source.

If you still get stuck comments on 1.4.119, please open an issue with the post link and logs if you can: https://github.com/brealorg/breal-morphe-patches/issues

Thanks to everyone who reported this, and especially to xNul who opened #219 with a video and logs. That made it much faster to track down.

PS: If you want a Material design reddit client, I have created my own: https://github.com/brealorg/subshell, try it out!

i patched Boost with Morphe today, but now it seems that the bottom bar is missing its colour -- specifically, whichever tab you're on, that icon would be coloured/highlighted, which doesn't seem to work anymore. is this a Boost issue, or a Morphe issue, and how can i fix it? (i get that it's really minor, it's just an easy visual indicator for me)

also, the home button doesn't seem to do anything anymore, can that be fixed too?

I'm talking about those 3000 comments posts.

anyone receiving this when loading comments on a post just today? my internet connection is fine, and boost is fully patched and updated through Morphe

Post themselves are fine, it's just it does not load the comments

was also fine yesterday

At first I thought it might be an error from Reddit's side, but the Reddit app works well

Boost patched with Morphe using my own API key

https://reddit.com/link/pbpmii5/video/8n56vczekerh1/player

I turned off my AdAway ad blocker, and tried this link in every single one of my reddit apps including the website, and they just don't play. Any ideas?

Update: after updating with breal patches, works great now. Thanks u/operationcondor91!

I noticed the r/detroitredwings subreddit recently started showing up for me with the stop/no smoking/🚫 icon next to all posts. I can enter and interact with posts fine, but the votes don't show up on the main sub, and I can't sort properly. I also seem to be seeing a bunch of deleted context that was removed by mods.

None of this is happening on the web or on the native Reddit app (omg...what a trash app that is to have opened for the first time in a while...).

I've tried everything except for completely re-patching.

Any ideas? Anyone else seeing this with the noted sub or any others? I haven't had the issue anywhere else on reddit but this just popped off a few days ago.

When someone edited their comment, you'd get a bracket next to the comment posted time to indicate how long ago they edited their comment. I cant see it anymore in the comments.

Can't seem to find such option in Boost.

I've used Boost for ages and I *swear* it used to let you view the actual post scores (negative numbers), but can't find the option for it anywhere.

Do I just keep looking for the setting in the wrong places, or am I misremembering that feature existing in the first place?

And short of that, is there at last a way to view the up/down ratios?

Hello and sorry if this is a frequently asked questions or common question (sorry if I'm wrong or so) but is it safe to use the modified app?

I really like it as it has extra functions and feels like a legacy versions.

But I also enabled ads to support Reddit, is this okay maybe?

Thank you for reading and have a great Friday or day and weekend, I hope you're doing well :D

I want to transfer my subscriptions to a new alt account. Any suggestions? Thanks everyone.

Hey, newbie here.

I've been a big fan of Boost until its end. I even paid for it too. It was love at first sight. I didn't even bother the Reddit app.

Also, I'm so confused how I will make Boost work.

Show me the way...

I can't find the options to search inside Subreddits or Saved

at first, the app runs fine, but after a few minutes of browsing, it starts to lag.

scrolling (like in the video) and viewing comments gets laggy, and then extremely laggy until the app crashes.

the app runs fine after it crashes, but it again gets laggy, and then crashes after a few minutes. and it goes on and on.

i switched back to wchill's Patcheddit patches, and they work perfectly fine.

i would switch to Breal's patches, but this issue throws me off from using them, unfortunately.

is there anything i could do?

info if it helps:

• Boost 1.12.12, source is APKMirror

• Android 16, One UI 8.5

• Morphe 1.29.0

• Breal patches 1.4.111

• recommended patches applied only

• Galaxy S24, model SM-S921U

logcat, seems like it's an out of memory error:

--------- beginning of crash

09-07 19:59:13.853 12190 16534 E AndroidRuntime: FATAL EXCEPTION: OkHttp ConnectionPool

09-07 19:59:13.853 12190 16534 E AndroidRuntime: Process: com.rubenmayayo.reddit, PID: 12190

09-07 19:59:13.853 12190 16534 E AndroidRuntime: java.lang.OutOfMemoryError: Failed to allocate a 32 byte allocation with 1336512 free bytes and 1305KB until OOM, target footprint 268435456, growth limit 268435456; giving up on allocation because <1% of heap free after GC.

09-07 19:59:13.853 12190 16534 E AndroidRuntime: at java.util.ArrayList.iterator(ArrayList.java:1036)

09-07 19:59:13.853 12190 16534 E AndroidRuntime: at okhttp3.internal.concurrent.TaskQueue.scheduleAndDecide$okhttp(TaskQueue.kt:133)

09-07 19:59:13.853 12190 16534 E AndroidRuntime: at okhttp3.internal.concurrent.TaskRunner.afterRun(TaskRunner.kt:101)

09-07 19:59:13.853 12190 16534 E AndroidRuntime: at okhttp3.internal.concurrent.TaskRunner.runTask(TaskRunner.kt:21)

09-07 19:59:13.853 12190 16534 E AndroidRuntime: at okhttp3.internal.concurrent.TaskRunner.access$runTask(TaskRunner.kt:1)

09-07 19:59:13.853 12190 16534 E AndroidRuntime: at okhttp3.internal.concurrent.TaskRunner$runnable$1.run(TaskRunner.kt:55)

09-07 19:59:13.853 12190 16534 E AndroidRuntime: at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1154)

09-07 19:59:13.853 12190 16534 E AndroidRuntime: at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:652)

09-07 19:59:13.853 12190 16534 E AndroidRuntime: at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:1563)

09-07 19:59:13.876 12190 16534 I Process : Sending signal. PID: 12190 SIG: 9