Opener ‒ open links in apps

This app has been incredibly useful for opening web links in apps, especially when I want to use an unofficial app as opposed to the often terrible first-party version. For example, I use Tweetbot rather than the official Twitter client and was unable to open links directly in Tweetbot until I started using Opener. Even after Twitter’s disastrous API changes last summer, Tweetbot is still head and shoulders above the official app, and I found it annoying that I couldn’t just open links there. The functionality Opener provides is really something that Apple should have included in iOS itself, but in the meantime, I’ll keep using and recommending Opener.

I really like being able to easily open Twitter links in Tweetbot, Reddit links in Apollo, and so forth. The only thing missing is being able to easily pick from a list of browsers the same way you can pick other apps. Opener makes you choose a browser as default. To select another browser, you have to tap on the current default browser, tap on the browser you want, and then tap on it again. This will open a URL in the selected browser, but it’ll also set it as default. It’s not ideal, but no app is perfect.

THEY ADDED MUSI SUPPORT! I can't say enough positive things about the quality of customer service and support offered by this apps developer Tim. Tim not only promptly responded to my email asking for the app Musi to be added as an option in Opener but even after informing me that my request would not function if added because of an issue on Musi's side. He still went above and beyond by getting in contact with the other developers until he was able to make my request happen. If that's not awesome developer support I don't know what is.

I’ve honestly grown so use to having this app. It is so well implemented it only takes a few steps to open in my favorite apps. If I could give any feedback then I would suggest to allow us to select a default app to launch then automatically load that app. I would say something similar to the way the Siri shortcuts app opens then launches an application the shortcut is set to. If you could remove one of the two clicks it takes to open the application it would make Opener even more amazing.

I’m going on 3 years or so using this application, and I don’t ever see myself stopping unless similar functionality is added to iOS out of the box. The gap that this application fills for iOS functionality is an absolute necessity in how I use my phone. Not only does this perform flawlessly in its given task, Tim takes feedback and implements feature requests if he can. Love this application, will continue to be a long time user! Awesome!