r/apple vs r/mac
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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/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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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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Supported differences
| Aspect | r/apple | r/mac |
|---|
| Public focus (from each community’s public description) |
An unofficial community about Apple and all of its devices and software. |
The community for everything related to Apple's Mac computers! |
| Size r/apple is larger in our directory (about 2.1×). |
6.5M members |
3.1M members |
| Posting activity (our sample) |
68.7/day |
69.3/day |
| Common post types in our sample |
text posts 78%, links 18%, videos 4% |
text posts 41%, links 23%, images 22% |
| Topic tags on SubMouse |
Apple |
n/a |
| Selected 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. |
Be civil; Follow Reddiquette; No unrelated posts; Flair your posts; No self promotion or advertising |
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.