I thought it would be more painful to abandon reddit but jerboa and the explosion of content today has me less worried. I think reddit is now in serious trouble.
I see people mention mlem a lot, but I don't see it in the App Store. Is it only for jailbroken devices? Not willing to jailbreak my daily driver, though I do have a jailbroken testing phone
I think its just best to add it to the home screen as a bookmark. The apps are not the best so far( for example links to other servers crash the app). Im sure theyll get better with time.
One option you could consider is to use Hermit - it's just a wrapper for websites, but it allows a fair bit of customisation, and gives you a site-specific icon to tap instead of having to go into your browser and enter the URL or open a bookmark.
I'm happy in Jerboa, but if you want something different Hermit is worth a look.
EDIT - crap, sorry, I didn't notice you were on iOS, I think Hermit is Android only. I'll leave the comment in case it helps anyone else though.
My only issue with it is that I can't directly reply to replies in my inbox and have to go to the replying person's comments to respond. Tedious but I assume it'll be fixed.