Everything Protego does

• Filter

  The master switch. Turns all filtering on or off without touching your lists.

• Filter Notifications

  A brief on-page notice when posts are actually hidden. Three choices: Off (none), Standard (at most one per page), and Live (also shows one whenever newly loaded posts are filtered as you scroll).

Filter lists

• Keywords

  Hide posts with certain words in their title or body.

• Communities

  Hide a community’s posts from your feeds and search results while staying joined.

• Users

  Hide posts and comments from specific accounts.

• Social Media

  Hide link posts pointing to social media sites, using a ready-made list of platforms you switch on individually.

• Domains

  Hide link posts pointing to a specific site.

How the lists work

• Wildcards

  * stands for any text, so politic* catches politics and political.

• Number pattern

  # matches any 1 to 3 digit number, so [#m] hides [30m] and [18m] alike.

• Groups

  Gather related filters under one name and switch the whole group off at once.

• Switch off without deleting

  Any single filter can be turned off and left in place, ready to turn back on.

• Not case sensitive

  spoiler also matches Spoiler and every other capitalization.

• Subdomains count separately

  news.example.com is its own entry.

• Bulk select

  Delete several filters at once, or add several to a group at once.

• Keyword suggestions

  When adding a keyword: pull terms trending in your region, describe a topic in your own words and get suggested keywords back, or add a ready-made Dating group (Men or Women) for dating posts. Suggestions your existing keywords already cover are flagged rather than duplicated.

Advanced

• List Management

  Export your filter lists to back them up or share them, import to merge a file’s items into your lists or replace the lists you pick, and erase lists you no longer want. Import reports the real number of items added.

Presets

Set up Protego in one tap, then fine-tune anything afterward. Each one builds on the one before it.

• Off

  All Transform settings are off.

• Minimal

  Hides ads, nudges, and signups.

• Balanced

  Also hides nags, awards, avatars, and flair.

• Focused

  Also hides scores and post thumbnails.

Nags & Promotions

Reddit pushes you toward its app, its accounts, and its advertisers.

• Reddit app nudges

  Reddit’s prompts to switch to its app: a banner, an Open App button in the top bar, and another in the sticky header on posts. Hiding them keeps your browsing in Safari.

• Promoted posts & ads

  Sponsored posts and ads mixed into feeds and comment pages. Protego hides them from view; it cannot stop Reddit from serving them.

• Games on Reddit

  Reddit’s built-in games and the prompts that point you to them.

• Login & signup nudges

  The sign-in popup, the Log In and Sign Up buttons, and the sidebar signup banner Reddit shows while you browse logged out. Hiding them also widens your feed.

• Recommendations

  Communities and posts Reddit suggests around your content: Popular Communities and Recent Posts in the sidebar, plus Related Posts and People Also Ask on a post. A community’s own About and Rules stay.

• Reddit Answers

  Reddit’s promotion of its AI answers: the glowing search bar with its Ask button, the answer block at the top of search results, and the sparkle Answers icon. Search keeps working.

• Join buttons

  The Join button on posts from communities you have not joined. Hiding it also removes the sign-in prompt it shows while you are logged out.

Votes, Awards & Badges

Reddit uses scores and rewards to keep you counting.

• Vote buttons

  The upvote and downvote arrows on posts and comments. Hiding them also removes the sign-in prompt they show while you are logged out.

• Vote count

  The score shown on posts and comments. Hide it for a feed that puts less weight on numbers.

• Award buttons

  The Award button in post and comment action rows.

• Achievement badges

  Reddit’s recognition pills, such as Top 1% Commenter, shown next to usernames, plus the Community Achievements section in a community’s sidebar.

Visual Clutter

Imagery and decoration compete with what you came to read.

• Post thumbnails

  The preview image on posts in your feeds. In card view, a post’s own photo or video stays. The post you open keeps its image.

• Community & author avatars

  The avatar beside a post’s community or author name, in feeds, page headers, and the sidebar’s community lists. Your own account avatar stays.

• Comment avatars

  Commenter avatars in threads, replaced with a plain gray circle so the reply lines stay easy to follow.

• Community status emoji

  The status emoji some communities set beside their name, shown on posts and community pages.

• Community banners

  The wide banner image across the top of a community’s page.

• User flair

  The tag beside a username: the poster’s on a post, the commenter’s in a thread.

• Post flair

  A post’s own category tag, shown under the title on new Reddit and in the title on old Reddit.

Comment Threads

Choose how Protego treats each comment type: visible, collapsed, or hidden.

• Pinned Moderator Comments

  The stickied moderator comment at the top of a thread, AutoModerator’s included.

• Comments with Media

  Comments carrying an image, GIF, or video.

Feed & Layout

Change the layout Reddit opens in and how its feeds behave.

• Show author on feeds

  Reddit hides who posted on the home, popular, and news feeds. Turn this on to show the author’s username next to the community name.

• Post sort order

  Reddit opens most feeds sorted by Best. Choose Hot, New, Top, Rising, or Controversial to open community, home, popular, and news feeds with it instead. Top and Controversial take a time window: Now, Today, This Week, This Month, This Year, or All Time. A sort you pick on Reddit itself still wins.

• Old Reddit

  Redirect to old.reddit.com

  Sends every Reddit link to the classic old.reddit.com layout.

• Create posts on new Reddit

  Creating a post opens new Reddit’s composer, which supports photos, videos, galleries, polls, and drafts, then returns you to old Reddit. Old Reddit’s own form only supports links and text.

• Never Ending Feed

  Loads the next page automatically as you reach the bottom of a feed, so you can keep scrolling without clicking next.

• Auto-expand images

  Expands image and gallery posts in old Reddit feeds without tapping the expand button.

• Experimental

  Disable For You feed

  Reddit is testing a For You home feed and makes it the default. Turn this on to switch home back to the Following feed of the communities you have joined, and keep it there.

The ladder

A single choice. Each level also blocks everything the levels above it block.

• Off

  Nothing is blocked.

• Block Home & Popular

  Everything else stays open.

• Block all main feeds

  Communities and posts stay open.

• Allow posts only

  Only direct links to posts are allowed.

• Block everything

  All of Reddit is blocked.

• Automate with a Focus

  A Focus like Sleep or Study can set its own Limits level while it is on, through a Focus Filter in the system Settings app. Your chosen level returns when the Focus ends, and the Limits screen shows a notice while an override is in force.

• Lifetime

  Total posts filtered.

• Highest Month

  Your biggest month, with its name.

• This Year

  With the percent change against last year.

• This Month

  With the percent change against last month.

• Activity chart

  Filtering over time.

• Share image

  The share button builds an image holding the same four stats and the activity chart, and hands it to the share sheet for Messages, Photos, or anywhere else.

• Counts add up across devices

  Each device keeps its own count and publishes it to iCloud, and the Stats screen sums them, so one device’s history never overwrites another’s. Not signed in to iCloud? Stats still record on that device and stay there.

• No account

  You never sign up for anything to use Protego.

• No tracking

  No browsing history is collected.

• Your filter lists stay yours

  They live on your devices and in your own iCloud, not on a server of mine. Syncing happens in the background, even with the app closed, and deletions stick across devices.

• Only error reports leave your device

  They go through Sentry so I can find and fix crashes and bugs. They carry a random ID generated on your device that identifies no person, and they never include what you browse, what you filter, or anything you type.

• Nothing is removed from Reddit

  Filtered posts are hidden from your view. Nobody is notified.

• iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision Pro

  All four on a single purchase.

• One-time price

  No subscription.

• Works on both new and old Reddit

  Filtering and the layout settings apply to either one.

• English, Spanish, and Brazilian Portuguese

  Across the app, the Safari popup, and the menus Protego adds on Reddit.

• Safari popup

  Add a keyword or flip a filter from the toolbar without leaving the page.

• Buttons on Reddit

  A shield button on posts, comments, community sidebars, and profiles lets you filter that community or author without opening the app. Each of the four surfaces can be switched off.

• Guides and a welcome tour

  Built into the app: what each filter type matches, the wildcard rules and per-keyword limits with worked examples, what the four stats mean and how they sync, and a replayable tour for getting set up.

• What’s New

  A screen listing what changed in each release.

• Built for VoiceOver

  Controls are announced properly, and contrast was raised throughout.

• Shortcuts and Focus support

  Through App Intents.

• Protego reads text: post titles, bodies, community and author names, and link addresses. It cannot read words inside an image or a video.

• A few settings are new Reddit only: Award buttons, Achievement badges, Community & author avatars, Comment avatars, Community status emoji, Community banners, Join buttons, and Reddit Answers.

• Achievement badge pills next to usernames are English-language Reddit only for now.

• If you have the official Reddit app installed, Safari draws its own Smart App Banner above Reddit pages. That is Safari chrome, outside the page, so no extension can hide it.

• Disable For You feed is experimental and depends on Reddit’s ongoing test.