BaconReader patches for Morphe

How to install

Add the BaconReader patches to Morphe Manager, then let it patch your BaconReader 6.1.4 APK and install it.

• Install Morphe Manager, and have your BaconReader Premium (or BaconReader) 6.1.4 APK on the phone. Use an APK you trust: repackaged "Premium" APKs often carry malware.
• On the phone, open this repository on GitHub and tap ➕ Add to Morphe Manager, then Open in Morphe, then Add.
• In Morphe Manager, tap BaconReader Premium (or BaconReader, the one your APK is), then No, I already have it, and pick your APK: Morphe Manager patches it with the newest patches.
• Tap Install. The first time, Android says "Permission required": tap Settings and turn on Allow from this source; Android then asks "Install this app?": tap Install, then go back to Morphe Manager. If the original BaconReader is installed, uninstall it first: Android won't install the patched one over it.
• The bottom of BaconReader's left menu shows which patches are installed, such as "Patches 1.8.2 (Morphe)". Settings live in BaconReader → Settings → Patches.

How to update

When new patches come out, patch BaconReader again with Morphe Manager: Android updates the app and keeps your login and settings.

• Morphe Manager gets the new patches when it starts, or when you tap Update on the source in Sources.
• Then, on Apps, tap BaconReader Premium (or BaconReader), then Patch, then Install → Update. Not the install button next to Open: it installs the copy patched before, with the patches of then.
• The bottom of BaconReader's left menu shows which patches are installed, such as "Patches 1.8.2 (Morphe)".

Spoof client

You can log in to Reddit again, and BaconReader loads your feeds.

• Reddit stopped accepting BaconReader's own login when BaconReader shut down in 2023. The patch logs in as another Reddit app, RedReader by default: Reddit's login asks to connect "RedReader (Release)" with your account.
• Advanced: when patching, you can set the client ID of another Reddit app, such as an "Installed app" of your own from https://www.reddit.com/prefs/apps, with its redirect URI and user agent.

No settings.

Fix Redgifs API

RedGIFs videos play again.

• RedGIFs stopped accepting the way BaconReader signed in to it, so every RedGIFs video failed. The patch gets the short-lived pass RedGIFs now asks for instead.
• Videos keep playing after the phone joins another network, such as from Wi-Fi to mobile data: when RedGIFs refuses the old pass, the patch gets a new one and asks again.

No settings.

Fix Imgur API

Imgur albums and galleries open again, and images you attach to comments and posts upload again.

• Imgur albums and gallery posts load again. BaconReader asked Imgur through a service that now refuses every request; the patch asks Imgur itself.
• In an album, still images show as images and videos play as videos. BaconReader took each still image Imgur sends for a video it couldn't play.
• Images you attach or draw in a comment or a post upload to Imgur again: Imgur refused them as BaconReader sent them.

No settings.

Fix list thumbnails

The post list shows its thumbnails again, finds the missing ones, and blurs NSFW and spoiler thumbnails.

• Thumbnails that stayed empty load again: Reddit's address for them reached Reddit garbled, and Reddit refused it. A thumbnail that fails to load is asked for again.
• Posts that had no thumbnail get one: a link post from its preview, its embed or its YouTube video, a RedGIFs post from RedGIFs, and a crosspost of a gallery from the gallery's first image.
• A crosspost of a gallery shows BaconReader's gallery indicator, in the list and in the post's header.
• In the Card View, a gallery and its crossposts show the gallery's first image in their cards.
• Spoiler thumbnails are blurred, and so are NSFW ones while BaconReader's "Show NSFW images" (Settings → Filters) is off.

No settings.

Limits:

• The blur needs Android 12 or later. On older versions, NSFW and spoiler posts keep BaconReader's own icon.

Fix unread messages

The orange inbox envelope turns back to normal once every message is read.

• "Mark read" on a message checks with Reddit whether unread messages are left. When none is, the menu's button loses the orange envelope, and BaconReader's new messages notification goes away. Before, the envelope stayed orange.
• "Mark unread" is gone from a message's menu: Reddit no longer supports it, so it did nothing.
• With Reddit chat's "Chat messages apart from the inbox" on, unread chat messages don't keep the envelope orange.

No settings.

Fix lost post votes

A vote made on a post while its comments load stays on the post in the post list.

• Upvoting, downvoting or taking a vote back on a post whose comments are still loading now shows in the post list when you go back to it. BaconReader replaced the post with the copy that came with the comments, asked for before the vote, so the post showed as not voted. Reddit always got the vote.

No settings.

Fix load more comments

"load more comments" loads the hidden comments again.

• Since October 2026, Reddit refuses apps the request behind "load more comments", so the hidden replies and the comments at the end of a long post never loaded.
• When Reddit refuses it, the comments are loaded another way Reddit still allows: a comment's hidden replies, and the rest of a long post's comments, 50 at a time, with a new "load more comments" for the next ones.
• Comments Reddit no longer has, deleted or removed, drop out of the list.

No settings.

Fix meme templates

The drawing screen's meme templates load again, with Imgflip's 100 most used ones.

• In the drawing screen ("Attach media" → "Draw", then "Camera" → "Memes"), the template grid shows Imgflip's 100 most used meme templates. BaconReader's own templates were on its server, which no longer has them.
• A tapped template is downloaded at full size, up to 1440 pixels wide, while "Loading template…" shows, and becomes the drawing's background.
• When a template can't be downloaded, "Could not load the full template" shows and the grid stays open.

No settings.

Fix empty saved files

Saving a post's media to the device no longer leaves an empty file next to the saved one.

• "Save to device" saves only the media's own file, such as "dancing.gif". BaconReader first made an empty file named after the post with ".jpg", then saved the media in a second file, and left the empty one behind for every media that isn't a JPEG.

No settings.

Fix slide show

The Slide Show View fits the screen again, and a long post text scrolls.

• Each post fits between the toolbar and the bottom bar: its image, its text, a gallery's thumbnails and its border no longer hide behind the bottom bar. On newer Android versions (seen on 16 and 17), BaconReader sized each post as if the status and navigation bars weren't there.
• An image post's text, once expanded, scrolls inside the post instead of being cut off at its bottom.

No settings.

Fix Reddit links

Share links, video links and other Reddit links open in BaconReader instead of its browser.

• Share links (/r/<sub>/s/<code>, /u/<user>/s/<code>) open the post they lead to. A share link Reddit can't resolve opens in the browser, as before.
• Links to a post without its subreddit (/comments/<post>) and to a gallery (/gallery/<post>) open the post.
• A post on a user's profile (/user/<user>/comments/<post>) opens as the post, not as the profile.
• A video's link (v.redd.it/<video>) opens the post it was posted in, or plays the video when Reddit has no post for it. BaconReader looked the post up through an address Reddit now refuses.
• The gallery or video a post links to still opens in BaconReader's media viewer from the post's thumbnail, the link in its header or the Slide Show View.
• A Reddit link in a post, comment or message opens in BaconReader even with BaconReader's "Open links inside app" off.

No settings.

Save videos with sound

Reddit videos saved with "Save to device" keep their sound.

• Reddit keeps a video's sound in a separate file, and BaconReader saved only the picture. After the save, the patch downloads the sound and puts it in the saved file, without changing the picture's quality.
• A video without sound is saved as it is.

No settings.

Limits:

• Only Reddit's own videos (v.redd.it). GIFs and videos from other sites are saved as before.

Show request errors

A failed Reddit request shows its real error instead of BaconReader's message that it stopped working in July 2023.

• The error says what went wrong, such as "reddit: 500 Internal Server Error", or Reddit's own explanation when it sends one, such as "reddit: You need to be a moderator to do that".
• When the connection drops, the error is "The target server failed to respond".
• BaconReader's Reddit requests have no timeout: a slow answer keeps the feed loading.

No settings.

Reddit chat

Reddit's chat inside BaconReader, with its unread messages counted and notified.

• Chat in the menu, after the Inbox, shows the chat of Reddit's mobile website, www.reddit.com/chat, in place of the post list, under the toolbar titled "Chat". The menu still opens, and Refresh reloads the chat.
• Back goes back in the chat's pages, then to the post list. Choosing a feed leaves the chat.
• In the chat, other Reddit links open in BaconReader and other sites in the browser. Reddit chat links you tap elsewhere open the chat.
• The attach button opens Android's file picker. On Android 10 and later, the chat is dark with BaconReader's dark themes.
• Reddit also sends each chat message to the inbox, titled "[direct chat room]". They're left out of the inbox and of its orange envelope, counted next to Chat, such as "Chat (2)", and notified as chat messages, such as "2 new chat messages", while BaconReader's "Notify on messages" is on. Tap the notification to open the chat.
• Opening the chat marks them as read on Reddit and clears the count and the notification.

Settings (BaconReader → Settings → Patches, under "Chat"):

• Chat messages apart from the inbox (on by default): handles the chat messages Reddit sends to the inbox as above. Off, they stay in the inbox as before.

Limits:

• BaconReader's own login doesn't work on Reddit's website: log in once in the chat, with your user name and password. Google sign-in may not work inside the app; then set a password for your Reddit account on Reddit's website and use it. Each BaconReader account keeps its own chat login.
• Reddit has no app interface for its chat, so the chat is Reddit's website, and the unread count comes from BaconReader's own message check, when the app opens and at its update interval.

Embed comment images

Comments and post texts show their images, GIFs, emotes, Imgur albums and videos, and what YouTube, X and Bluesky

links point to.

• Images, GIFs and image links show as images, instead of a "GIF" link or the link's address. A bare image link is replaced by its image. Reddit's emotes show in the text, instead of their raw code.
• An Imgur album shows its images, one at a time: swipe to the next one, with a counter such as "1 / 3".
• Tap an image to switch between full width and 200×200, double tap it to open it in full screen, where you can pinch to zoom, and long press it to save it to Downloads/BaconReader.
• Videos uploaded in comments, which BaconReader couldn't play, and links to video files play in the comment. A video grows to the comment's full width when it plays. While its controls show, a "<" button shrinks it to 200×200 and a ">" button enlarges it again, and a full screen button shows it over the whole screen, turned sideways when it's wider than high. Back or the button closes the full screen, and the video plays on in the comment.
• A bare YouTube link shows the channel and the video's title, such as "@e2ekitchen - Cooking pasta at home". A bare X or Bluesky link shows the post: its author, date, text and picture. A link written with its own words keeps them.
• In a post's text, images start at full width. Image, GIF and video posts show their text under the media.

Settings (BaconReader → Settings → Patches, under "Images and videos"):

• Show images (on by default): shows GIFs, image links and Imgur albums as images. Emotes show either way.
• Full width by default (off by default): images in comments start at full width instead of up to 200×200.
• Long press to download (on by default): a long press on an image saves it to Downloads/BaconReader.
• Load images only on Wi-Fi (off by default): on mobile data, images and video previews wait for a tap.
• Load images only when tapped (off by default): images and video previews wait for a tap on every network, with "Tap to load image".
• Play videos in comments (on by default): plays videos uploaded in comments and video links in the comment.

Settings (BaconReader → Settings → Patches, under "Links"):

• Show YouTube video titles (on by default): bare YouTube links show the channel and the video's title.
• Show YouTube thumbnails (off by default): shows a preview under each YouTube link.
• Show X posts (on by default): bare X (Twitter) links show the post.
• Show Bluesky posts (on by default): bare Bluesky links show the post.

Improve post media loading

Post media shows how far its download is, galleries open faster, and you choose which link post pages run JavaScript.

• While a post's image, GIF or video loads, a progress bar shows over a dimmed preview of it, in place of BaconReader's spinner. A GIF also shows its size, such as "GIF · 0.4 MB", and how much of it has arrived.
• When the media fails to load, the bar stops and turns red, instead of a spinner that never ends.
• A gallery's thumbnail strip loads small previews, not every full image, and the image shown loads with a progress bar over its preview.
• A RedGIFs video that is gone shows "This RedGIFs video was deleted" or "This RedGIFs video was not found", instead of RedGIFs' broken web page.
• The page of a link post, in its Slide Show View, runs JavaScript by the settings below. BaconReader allowed it only on a short, old list of sites, so many pages showed nothing. BaconReader's own browser always runs it.

Settings (BaconReader → Settings → Patches):

• Preview while loading (on by default, under "Images and videos"): shows the dimmed preview behind the progress bar. Off, only the progress bar shows.
• JavaScript in link posts (on by default, under "Links"): every site runs JavaScript, except the blocked sites. Off, only the allowed sites do.
• Blocked sites (empty by default, under "Links"): sites that never run JavaScript while JavaScript in link posts is on. One per line, subdomains included.
• Allowed sites (under "Links"): sites that run JavaScript while JavaScript in link posts is off. One per line, subdomains included. It starts with BaconReader's own list, without the sites that shut down, plus Bluesky and x.com.

Show tables

Tables in comments and posts show as a grid of rows and columns.

• BaconReader turned each table into "header: value" lines, which lost its rows and columns.
• A table too wide for the text wraps its cells to fit, and gets an "↔ Expand" button: expanded, it scrolls sideways, and "Fit to screen" fits it again.
• Links in cells open with a tap, as anywhere else in the text.
• Screen readers such as TalkBack read each cell and the button.

No settings.

Markdown editor

A big text box with Reddit's formats above it and a character counter, for comments, replies, edits, messages and

text posts.

• The text box takes the screen, instead of a few lines. On the reply screen, the comment you reply to keeps at most a third of it.
• A bar of Reddit's formats replaces BaconReader's "A" button: "Bold", "Italic", "Strikethrough", "Superscript", "Spoiler", "Inline code", "Link", "Heading", "Bulleted list", "Numbered list", "Quote", "Code block", "Table" and "Horizontal line". They format the selected text, or the text at the cursor.
• The text shows formatted while you type. The markdown marks stay, dimmed, and the text sent is the same.
• A counter shows the characters against Reddit's limit, such as "0 / 10,000" for comments and messages and "0 / 40,000" for posts. It changes color near the limit, and turns red past it.
• For a text post, the counter follows the subreddit's own rules once you type it: "5 / 100 (min. 10)", or "No text in r/linksonly" when the subreddit takes no text.

No settings.

Search comments

A search button on posts finds the comments with a text or a user name.

• "Search comments" sits right before "COLLAPSE ALL". Type a text or a user name: the matches are highlighted, and the search shows which match is on screen, such as "1/3".
• "Previous match" and "Next match" jump between them, also into collapsed comments.
• "Show only matching comments" lists only the comments that match; tap it again to see all of them.
• While some comments are still behind "load more comments", "SEARCH ALL" loads them first, then searches them too.

No settings.

Load more comments

Posts open with up to 500 comments, and fewer "load more comments" to tap.

• BaconReader got Reddit's default of about 200 comments, and the rest hid behind "load more comments", often for one or two replies.
• A post now asks for up to 500 comments, and the "load more comments" with few replies load on their own, right after the post's comments.

Settings (BaconReader → Settings → Patches, under "Comments"):

• Comments to load (500 by default): how many comments a post asks for when it opens, from 200 to 500. Fewer load faster on slow connections.
• Auto-load "load more comments" (Up to 2 replies by default): loads the "load more comments" with up to this many replies on their own: "Off", "1 reply", or "Up to 2 replies" to "Up to 5 replies".

Show user avatars

The author's avatar shows before the name, as on Reddit's website.

• With the setting on, avatars show in comments, on the reply screen ("Reply to … in r/… as …") and in the inbox.
• The left menu always shows each account's avatar before its name: the account in use, and the accounts in its list.

Settings (BaconReader → Settings → Patches, under "Comments"):

• Show user avatars (off by default): shows the author's avatar before the name in comments, on the reply screen and in the inbox.
• Avatar size (Normal by default): "Normal", as tall as the text, "Medium", "Large", as on Reddit's website, or "Extra large".
• Avatar background (on by default): a faint disc behind avatars, as on Reddit's website.

Avatar size and Avatar background also apply to the avatars in the left menu.

Flair filter

A "Flair" button in a subreddit's sort bar shows only the posts with the flairs you pick.

• On a subreddit, the sort bar shows "Flair". Front Page, All, Popular, Friends and multireddits don't have it.
• Tapping it opens "Show posts with flair": tick one or more flairs and tap "APPLY" to show only the posts with any of them. The sort bar then shows the chosen flairs, such as "Discussion, News".
• The list holds the subreddit's flairs as Reddit lists them. When a subreddit keeps its flairs private, it holds the flairs of the posts loaded so far, so scrolling the subreddit adds more.
• "CLEAR" shows all the posts again.

No settings.

Limits:

• The filter is a Reddit search in the subreddit, so it shows what Reddit's search finds. Search has no "Best" sort: with "Best", the filtered posts are sorted as "Hot".

Inbox comment reply screen

"Reply" in the inbox opens the full comment reply screen, with the message you're replying to.

• Replies to comment replies, mentions and private messages open the comment reply screen, as replies in a post do, instead of the plain "Send message" form. The reply is posted the same way.
• The screen shows who you reply to and the text you reply to, such as "Reply to other_user in r/e2e as e2e_user".
• A private message shows as a comment of the other person, without "in r/null": "Reply to e2e_sender as e2e_user".

No settings.

Hide formatted spoilers

Every spoiler in comments and posts stays hidden until you tap it.

• BaconReader only hid spoilers of plain text: a spoiler with bold or italic text, a link or code showed in plain sight. Now it hides behind the spoiler box too, and a tap shows it.
• A tap on a link in a hidden spoiler shows the spoiler; the next tap opens the link.
• Screen readers such as TalkBack read a hidden spoiler as "spoiler", not its text.

No settings.

Text post icon

Text posts in the post list get a page icon instead of a button that looks like a video's play button.

• The button that opens a text post's text under its title shows a page with a chevron, in the list and card views. BaconReader drew it as a triangle in a circle, which looked like a video that didn't load.
• The chevron flips when the text opens, and flips back when it closes.
• Screen readers call the button "Show post text", or "Hide post text" while the text is open.

No settings.

Prompt to open Reddit links

BaconReader asks once to set up Reddit links to open in it, which Android doesn't let an app do by itself.

• Since Android 12, Android opens Reddit links only in the apps you select for them: reddit.com verifies only Reddit's own app.
• While no Reddit link opens in BaconReader, the main screen asks "Open Reddit links with BaconReader?", with "Not now" and "Set up".
• "Set up" opens Android's "Open by default" screen for BaconReader: tap "Add link", tick the Reddit links and tap "Add".
• Either answer, or closing the question, stops it: it isn't asked again. The links can be set up later in Android's settings: App info → Open by default.

No settings.

Open web pages in the browser

Links to web pages open in your browser, while images, galleries and videos keep opening in BaconReader.

• A link to a web page opens in your browser instead of BaconReader's own browser: a post's link, the site next to the post's title, and a link in a post's text or a comment.
• Images, GIFs, galleries, Imgur albums and Reddit videos keep opening in BaconReader, also with BaconReader's "Open links inside app" off, which otherwise opens them in your browser.
• Links to Reddit open in BaconReader as before.
• The link icon in a post's bar gets the label "Open link", which screen readers read.

Settings (BaconReader → Settings → Patches, under "Links"):

• Open web pages in the browser (off by default): links to web pages open in your browser. Images, GIFs, galleries and videos still open in BaconReader, whether or not "Open links inside app" is on.

Limits:

• A link to Imgur or RedGIFs opens in BaconReader, even when it leads to a web page there.

Video autoplay in detail view

A setting to stop videos from loading and playing by themselves when you open a post.

• With the setting off, a video post's detail view shows the post's preview image with a play button, and doesn't download the video. Tap it to play the video.
• GIFs play as before, and so do videos in the full-screen viewer and the browser.

Settings (BaconReader → Settings → Patches, under "Images and videos"):

• Autoplay videos in Detail View (on by default): videos, such as v.redd.it videos, start playing when the post opens. Off, the post shows its preview with a play button.

Limits:

• BaconReader shows a post's media in its detail view only with its own "Show large image" on (Settings → Detail View).
• A post without a preview image shows a black page with the play button.

Account colors

A color for each account, shown as a line under the toolbars, so you see which account is in use.

• In the menu's list of accounts, a circle sits between each account's name and its ✕. Tap it to pick one of 12 colors, from "Red" to "Brown", or "No color".
• The color of the account in use shows as a thin line along the bottom of the toolbar of every screen that has one, and follows the account when you switch to another.
• An account without a color shows an outlined circle and no line. Removing an account forgets its color.

Settings (BaconReader → Settings → Patches, under "Account colors"):

• Account colors (on by default): shows the circles in the menu and the line under the toolbars.

Select text

"Select text" in the menus of posts and comments lets you select and copy any part of their text.

• "Select text" shows right after "Copy" in a post's menu, and in "More options" of a post's or a comment's action bar. BaconReader's "Copy" only copies the whole text.
• It opens a dialog with the post's title and text, or the comment's text, as BaconReader shows them. Long press to select any part and copy it; "CLOSE" closes the dialog.
• Spoilers show in plain sight, and links open with a tap.
• A table drawn by Show tables shows as text, one line a row, its cells separated by " | ".

No settings.

Swipe through albums

Swipe left or right on a Reddit gallery or an Imgur album to go to its next or previous image.

• Swipe left anywhere on the image for the next one, and right for the previous one, as the arrows at the screen's sides do. The arrows and the thumbnail strip keep working.
• At the first image a swipe right does nothing, and at the last a swipe left.
• Zoomed in, a swipe moves around the image, as before. A pinch never changes image.
• In an Imgur album, a swipe on a video or a GIF goes to the next or previous item too, and a tap still pauses and plays it.

No settings.

Patches entry in settings

BaconReader's settings get a "Patches" entry, and the left menu tells which build of the patches is installed.

• Settings → Patches, the last entry, opens the patches' own settings.
• The bottom of the left menu shows the patches' version and the patcher, such as "Patches 1.8.2 (Morphe)" or "Patches 0.1.18 (Reseam 0.39.1)": tell it when reporting a problem.

No settings.

Remove awards

Award icons and award actions, which no longer work, are gone.

• Posts and comments show no award icons, in the post list and on the post screen. Reddit no longer reports awards.
• "Give Award" and "View Award Details" are gone from the post menu and from the action bars of posts and comments. Giving awards used Reddit's coins, which are discontinued.
• The two "Hide Reddit Awards" settings, in List View and Detail View, are gone: they no longer changed anything.
• Screen readers name the action bars' buttons after their actions ("Upvote", "Save", "More options"…).

No settings.

Remove Random feeds

Random and My Random, which no longer load, are gone from the feed list.

• The feed list goes from Popular straight to Friends. Reddit removed r/random and r/myrandom in December 2024.

No settings.

Remove Log out

"Log out" is gone from the menu's accounts, so you can't log out of every account at once by mistake.

• BaconReader's "Log out" logs out of every account at once and keeps them listed, each to be logged in to again. It sits right above the accounts.
• Each account's ✕ still removes that account, and "Add account" stays.

No settings.

Disable unavailable sidebar

"View Sidebar" is greyed out on feeds that have no sidebar.

• In the post list's "More options" menu, "View Sidebar" is greyed out on Front Page, All, Popular, Friends, multireddits and Random. Only subreddits have a sidebar: on the other feeds it only showed "This subreddit does not have a sidebar".
• On a subreddit, "View Sidebar" works as before.

No settings.

Disable feedback popup

The popup asking for feedback about BaconReader no longer shows.

• "Please take a few moments to provide feedback about BaconReader" no longer pops up after you've spent a while in the app. The app no longer tracks the time you spend in it for this popup.

No settings.

No recording: this patch has no e2e test yet.

Disable final release announcement

The "FINAL RELEASE ANNOUNCEMENT!" popup no longer shows when the app starts.

• BaconReader's last release opens, after a new install, with a goodbye popup saying the app stops working on July 1, 2023. The patched app keeps working, so the popup is gone and the app opens straight on its feed.

No settings.