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by skrowl 3725 days ago
The official Reddit app for Android is pretty feature poor so far. It only offers a default theme and a dark theme. It only offers a default layout and a compact layout. No customization beyond that. No option to always view links in external browser and Imgur links aren't opened in the Imgur app (etc for other sites).

It's nice that they've finally released an official app, but to use this instead of Bacon Reader / Relay / Slide / Reddit is Fun / etc would be a large step back in functionality.

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Not sure. Today, I was installing all your mentioned Reddit clients and deinstalling them right afterwards. While the first impression is good and they seem to offer lots of features they lack one important thing (at least the free versions)—to save a sub in a favorite list which is easy to access. Something which is essential and they don't offer it or hide it away in the paid version. Something btw which the Now Reddit client on Android does for free. I think another Reddit client is definitely no breaking news but that the existing ones are so much superior? Not really.
You should try Relay -- it's quite good, and even lets you manage multiple accounts.
I've never paid for Reddit is Fun, and I have easy access to subscribed subs and multireddits through the sidebar. Do these not do what you want?
Sync for reddit is very good! I have very few issues with it and it has the feature you mentioned out of the box.
Reddit Sync does this very well, it's accessible from the left sidebar.

http://i.imgur.com/GK5xBcA.png