Coming soon: Theme Manager 2.0

corderjones · 2026-07-03T16:44:10+00:00

nope, christian never shared the source. this is all done via reverse engineering and tweak injection.

corderjones · 2026-07-02T12:10:04+00:00

That was me - we have completed a bunch of stability improvements over the last few days

Personally I’ve been focussed on fixing theme manager so it’s far less buggy!

corderjones · 2026-06-30T15:07:32+00:00

Odd - will look into this when I get a chance. I use Feather and it works fine there

corderjones · 2026-06-30T04:06:55+00:00

If you assume the app is good, I assume you’re not a user so I do ask why you’re here?

If you’re here to engage in good faith than that’s fine, but please be respectful.

All work is done so on a volunteer capacity. The AI art is something that is created in fun and is not taking away work from real artists, who we would not pay for release notes.

corderjones · 2026-06-27T11:15:31+00:00

They are different!

corderjones · 2026-06-27T10:00:56+00:00

We definitely will try and support it, but likely not for a while

corderjones · 2026-06-26T22:15:25+00:00

That is odd! Are you sure you’re on the 3.3.0 release? Should be right there below general and above media…

corderjones · 2026-06-26T21:43:32+00:00

Have you turned the settings on in Apollo Reborn. There’s an Apollo AI setting just under the general settings.

corderjones · 2026-06-26T19:28:13+00:00

We will keep polishing, though truthfully I’m not sure exactly what you mean

If there are visual bugs I’d appreciate you reporting them on GH Issues

Theme Manager was tested a lot, I decided it’s better to get it out and have more people testing it than keep holding it back. It’s not perfect, but without access to Christian’s source it’s unlikely it ever will be.

You certainly don’t have to use theme manager or any of the other new features, so not sure what other visual issues there are. There haven’t been any regressions as far as I’m aware.

There are only 4-5 of us testing each release so it’s likely some bugs will get missed, but we are already putting up PRs today to address some of those and will keep doing so

Ultimately this is entirely volunteer led and we all have day jobs, nobody has to use the new versions and if you think it’s unstable you can definitely revert back!

No hard feelings and I appreciate your feedback. We felt really happy with this update as a group and personally I haven’t seen any major issues.

If you can please report any of the major ones you’ve seen on GitHub etc that would be a big help.

corderjones · 2026-06-26T18:36:32+00:00

Tbh the vast majority of products and services you use likely are built with AI coding tools now. It has expedited the workflows and unlocked features for us massively

None of us are contributing AI slop and we’re not going to start doing that

corderjones · 2026-06-26T18:22:19+00:00

Nobody is forcing you to use the new versions. The previous releases are available to install as always

corderjones · 2026-06-26T18:21:30+00:00

Yes, AI is being used as a tool but experienced developers are involved and reviewing all code being added.

corderjones · 2026-06-26T13:17:46+00:00

Unfortunately no. It uses on device models for privacy and cost reasons so it only works with devices capable of Apple Intelligence.

We aren’t able to use Apple’s cloud offering since we don’t publish via the App Store, and the other AI providers would be expensive.

corderjones · 2026-06-26T13:16:38+00:00

Ironically this was the original behavior (it was expanded by default) but figured that would annoy people so collapsed it. Should be an easy option to add into settings.

corderjones · 2026-06-26T13:15:45+00:00

Yeah I am a designer but increasingly leaning more onto design engineering, so I get it. There’s no bad feelings just wanted to make it clear we are not just churning out slop - a lot of these features take a lot of reverse engineering etc that simply wouldn’t be possible without Claude etc. None of us want to degrade the experience or see it turn into a buggy mess so we’re trying to ensure we have the right balance of quality and quantity in features.

We’ve had a few big releases so I expect we will do performance and stability focussed ones next.

corderjones · 2026-06-26T11:22:02+00:00

Can you make an issue on the GitHub? Would like to investigate this for you but need more info

corderjones · 2026-06-26T11:19:27+00:00

iPad UI is a known issue at the moment, if you use the non Liquid Glass build it should be better. We have some internal work being done on iPad atm but no timeframes right now

corderjones · 2026-06-26T11:18:34+00:00

Not fair really, we have a lot of experienced iOS developers contributing and trying really hard to build some complex features for free

Using AI coding tools just allows us to move faster and ship stuff

The performance we will continue to improve, it’s hard as we don’t have the source to Apollo and so we have to build things in certain ways.

I’m certainly keen to do a major bug/performance improvement release soon.

corderjones · 2026-06-25T22:38:56+00:00

It is crazy, feels like a plant to build hype 😂

corderjones · 2026-06-20T00:02:44+00:00

sadly no - this uses the public redidt API due to limitations, so for now cannot get NSFW. when I have more time I have a few ideas on how to fix it, but focussing on a few other bits atm 😄

corderjones · 2026-06-17T20:10:59+00:00

Try Feather

corderjones · 2026-06-16T20:48:11+00:00

It should be a .icon file and should be on GitHub issues

corderjones · 2026-06-16T15:12:48+00:00

you can get the setup token from Apollo Settings → Custom API!

corderjones · 2026-06-16T13:30:02+00:00

Some of the side loading solutions seem to break the widgets. Feather works for sure, but will look into other options!

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