Forum Runner for iPad app review

Forum Runner

Price: $1.99

Forum Runner by End of Time Studios, LLC brings you social networking in a fun and new way on your iPad.

The idea here is that the app allows you to browse through forums on your mobile device in the way they're meant to be browsed. What's different here is that you don't have to wait for the entire forum web page to actually load. Instead it only loads the forum information itself which cuts down on the time needed drastically. You'll be able to load and post just as you would in Safari.

While the app supports phpBB, vBulletin, XenForo, mmBB, and IP.Board new ones will be added in future updates.

Buy the app once and you'll be able to sync it to all your devices, even the enhanced version for the iPad.

Some of the many features you'll have here include push notifications, a customizable home screen, and the ability to save a thread to your library. As well you can view thumbnail attachments and an album of all the photos that are attached on a thread. All the sub-forums and forums are searchable and you'll have full posting abilities (start a new reply, quote posts, and start new topics).

Forum Runner was updated on Feb. 4, 2013 and currently has 58 customer ratings with an average rating of four out of five stars.

I liked being able to quickly scroll through forums and have full posting ability. There were some cool extra features here too like the ability to view thumbnails in a thread.

For: iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad with iOS 4.3 or later