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r/mac vs r/apple

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Apple discussion room vs Mac room

r/apple is an unofficial community about Apple and all of its devices and software. r/mac is the community for everything related to Apple’s Mac computers.

In our directory, apple is larger (about 6.5M, rank #122) than mac (about 3.1M, rank #351); daily posting is nearly identical in our sample (~69 posts/day each). apple’s sample is mostly text and links, flaired iPhone, Mac, Discussion, iPad and AirPods; mac’s mixes text, links and images and is led by Question and My Mac flairs. Our directory lists each among the other’s related communities.

Rule titles: apple bans tech-support questions, memes and contextless images and wants posts that foster reasonable discussion; mac requires flairs and allows pictures of your Mac only on Fridays.

  • Choose r/mac to ask a Mac question — r/apple’s rules ban tech-support posts.
  • Choose r/apple for news and discussion across iPhone, iPad, Mac, AirPods and services.
  • apple has twice the members; both post at a similar daily pace in our sample.

Written comparison based on public descriptions and rule titles · updated 2026-11-07.

r/mac

Mac

The community for everything related to Apple's Mac computers!

Members
3.1M
7-day growth
+1.5K
Posts/day
69.3
Directory rank
#351
Created
Jan 25, 2008
Submissions
Text or links

Sample mix: text posts 41%, links 23%, images 22%

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • Be civil
  • Follow Reddiquette
  • No unrelated posts
  • Flair your posts
  • No self promotion or advertising
  • Only post pictures of your Macs on Fridays

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About this community: r/mac (#351, about 3.1 million) covers everything related to Apple’s Mac computers. Rules: be civil, Reddiquette, no unrelated posts, flair required, no self-promo/ads, and Mac photo posts only on Fridays. Text/Link (~69.3 ppd).

r/apple

r/Apple: Unofficial Apple Community

An unofficial community about Apple and all of its devices and software.

Members
6.5M
7-day growth
+3.6K
Posts/day
68.7
Directory rank
#122
Created
Jan 25, 2008
Submissions
Text or links

Sample mix: text posts 78%, links 18%, videos 4%

Topics: Apple

Rule titles (short names we collected)

  • No reposts, and/or rehosted content.
  • No memes, direct images or contextless image/video posts.
  • Posts must foster reasonable discussion.
  • No editorialized link titles.
  • No low-effort, rude/offensive, or hateful comments.
  • No posts that aren’t directly related to Apple.
  • No tech-support questions.
  • Self-promotion is allowed on Sundays, only for developers.
  • No content related to piracy or illegal activities.
  • No posts relating to buying, selling advice.
  • No posts about bugs in beta software.
  • No vaccine misinformation

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About this community: r/apple is an unofficial Apple products and software discussion community—not Apple Support. Rank #122 (about 6.5 million subscribers). Collected rules explicitly bar tech-support questions, buying/selling advice, beta-bug posts, memes/contextless media, and piracy talk, which pushes the feed toward discussion and news rather than helpdesk tickets.

Supported differences

Aspectr/macr/apple
Public focus (from each community’s public description) The community for everything related to Apple's Mac computers! An unofficial community about Apple and all of its devices and software.
Size
r/apple is larger in our directory (about 2.1×).
 3.1M members 6.5M members
Posting activity (our sample) 69.3/day 68.7/day
Common post types in our sample text posts 41%, links 23%, images 22% text posts 78%, links 18%, videos 4%
Topic tags on SubMouse n/a Apple
Selected rule titles (short names we collected) Be civil; Follow Reddiquette; No unrelated posts; Flair your posts; No self promotion or advertising No reposts, and/or rehosted content.; No memes, direct images or contextless image/video posts.; Posts must foster reasonable discussion.; No editorialized link titles.; No low-effort, rude/offensive, or hateful comments.

What they share

  • Our directory lists each of these communities on the other’s related list.

Rules and posting patterns we can verify

apple short titles include: No reposts or rehosted content; No memes, direct images or contextless image/video posts; Posts must foster reasonable discussion; No editorialized link titles; No posts not directly related to Apple; No tech-support questions; Self-promotion on Sundays only, for developers.

mac: Be civil; Follow Reddiquette; No unrelated posts; Flair your posts; No self promotion or advertising; Only post pictures of your Macs on Fridays.

Where this comparison comes from

Public descriptions and member counts from SubMouse’s safe-for-work directory. Short rule titles and activity samples SubMouse collected. Short titles only. Mutual related-list links. Related curated page: android-vs-iphone.

Members and public descriptions come from SubMouse's safe-for-work directory (as of 2026-11-02 UTC); 7-day growth measured from 2026-10-26. Posts/day and post-type mixes appear when we have an activity sample. Rule lines are short titles, not the full sidebar. Directory rank is listing order — communities outside the current Top 100 open in the info tool instead of a full community page.

Comparisons we prepared

Hand-written explanations for pairs where the public descriptions and rules support a real distinction: