Relay for reddit vs Google Play Books

A great feature of Relay is the UX for swiping between the post and the reddit comments. It's very fast to go back and forth between the views.

Relay uses screen space efficiently and can be navigated quickly. It is mostly designed for viewing a single subreddit at a time and making that experience as pleasurable as possible, with easy access to a subs from a dropdown menu at the top.

With support for multiple accounts, interface themes, and inline picture previews, Relay for reddit offers a large amount of features for any power reddit user.

There are also many unique functionalities that set Relay apart from the competition.

●It has a 'Remove unread' option to swipe away all read threads. This is especially useful when it's a large and busy subreddit with tons and tons of submissions, to the point where it can get overwhelming. This a convenient option for making your reddit-browsing experience a little easier.

●It offers compatability with the Multi-Window feature which is present on Samsung & L.G phones (soon to be present AndroidOS-wide). This greatly enhances multi-tasking.

●It offers an excellent Spoiler tag support and an AMA mode (conspicuously missing from its biggest competitor).

To keep a better context of the conversation, Relay doesn't hide the parent comment while browsing.

The abundant animations make browsing more enjoyable because it transitions so nicely.

GIFs are automatically converted to gfycat format; they therefore load much faster than on other apps.

The moment the user opens Relay for reddit and begins exploring all of its ins and outs, it becomes quite clear how wonderfully designed this app is. There is excellent UX for redditors who prefer discussions and news, rather than pictures, videos, and gifs.

● You can alternate between a cards and a lists UI with a compact list view optional.

● A drop-down menu of all your subreddits is present at the top for quick and easy access. If the user is adequately familiarized with the list, he/she can simply swipe on the banner so to quickly switch between subreddits.

●The comment format option is situated right next to the drop-down menu.

It's an all around wonderful application with many Material Design elements employed.

The app will automatically load a lower resolution image that is a closer match to your screen size to save bandwidth, with a button to load the original image if you need more detail.

The available night time theme allows the background to be dark with light colored text, which uses less battery on AMOLED screens.

Moderators on Reddit are allowed more functions over a normal user on Reddit, which is possible to be used in Pro for Relay. With these features included in the app it's possible to approve comments, check modque, and get specifically labelled moderator messages.

Opening links, animations, and transitions, as well as scrolling, all work well with no glitches or missed frames. The app feels extremely smooth thanks to the attention to detail in all of its inner workings.

Google Play Books offers many options while reading such as bookmarks, highlights and notes. Making for a good app to use for academic .pdfs and .epubs.

Users can use the Google Play Books webpage or app to upload their own .epubs or PDFs.

Google Play Books has an inbuilt dictionary for users to use to look up unfamiliar words.

Margins, text size, line spacing and color theme of the page can be changed to the users liking,.

No matter what device one is using the Google Play Books service on it will sync all eBooks and placement into the cloud.

Google Play Books has built in immersive mode when reading. This allows for the navigation and notification bars to be hidden, allowing the full screen to be used for the eBook.

Like the majority of Google's apps, Google Play Books has a slick interface that works quite smoothly.

Google Play Books offers a dark and a light theme to make it easier to read in dark or light rooms.

Google Play Books has an in built eBook store within the app, making for a convenient way to purchase titles.

Text to speech can be used to have an eBook read to the reader aloud.