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A powerful Hacker News reader.
Snap Web Studios
Designed for iPad
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- Free
- Offers In-App Purchases
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Description
The Ultimate Hacker News App!
Dive into the latest startup, technology, programming, and science news with the ultimate app for browsing Y Combinator's Hacker News.
Built for Speed and Customizability
Designed from the ground up, this app offers a fast, seamless reading experience with extensive customizability.
Optimized for iPhone and iPad
Carefully crafted for both iPhone and iPad, the app is packed with features to enhance your reading experience:
- Fast and Simple: Browse Hacker News feeds and threaded comments swiftly, ensuring you stay updated with everything happening.
- Sync Across Devices: Favorite, read, or hide stories and keep your activity in sync across devices, thanks to iCloud. Your data stays private and secure.
- Organize Your Way: Create custom groups to easily save stories by topic. Keep all your programming topics together, and all your science topics in one place, accessible on every device.
- Lightning Fast Search: Quickly find any post, even those you mentioned to a friend days ago.
- Highly Customizable: Choose between light and dark modes, select from eleven different color themes, and enjoy beautifully designed icons by Michael Flarup & Matthew Skiles. Customize your reading experience further by selecting your preferred browser, adjusting the appearance of read stories, and more.
- AI-Powered Summaries: Get quick summaries of stories with AI powered by OpenAI. Perfect for when you only need the gist.
- Ad-Free Reading: Skip the ads and read a clean, markdown-formatted version of articles.
- Time-Saving Features: Know how long articles will take to read with time estimates.
- Powerful Gestures: Use swipe gestures to quickly favorite, hide, and add stories to your groups.
- iPad Keyboard Shortcuts: Easily manage favorites, hiding, and adding to groups with keyboard shortcuts.
- Home Screen Widgets: Customize your Home Screen with widgets of all sizes, showing your favorite feeds and the latest stories at a glance.
- Convenient Share Sheet Action: Open Hacker News links from any app with our share sheet action. Just tap “Open in Hacker News.”
- Privacy Focused: No ads, no tracking, and no data storage. Your privacy is paramount.
- Support the App: Keep the app alive with a tip or leave a review. Every bit helps!
Enjoy the best Hacker News experience on your Apple devices today!
What’s New
Version 1.1.2
Fix local list load times.
Ratings and Reviews
Amazing app. 1 catch
If there were a way to upvote/ comment within the app itself - that’d be amazing. I’m not sure if HN exposes these APIs though.
Sleek design and nice customizations, but missing an important feature.
This is one of the very few good looking, smooth and customisable Hacker news apps. The icon options are great too. I like that it’s developed on SwiftUI. The text and comments are nicely formatted. It has the convenient swipe gestures throughout. One complaint with the design is that the pinned story comes in the way while browsing the comments. I wish it had a collapse button. Another minor gripe is that it takes 2 taps and a gesture to start searching. And, the search itself is very limited. It’s missing comments search, filters (date) and sorting. The Summarize, Read time estimate, Groups and Read history are great features to have. However, the big miss is the HN account integration and hence the ability to comment, upvote, etc. Hope a future update to the app brings this feature. I’m more than happy to pay a reasonable price if these features are implemented.
App Privacy
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Data Not Collected
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Information
- Provider
- Eric Lewis
- Size
- 20.5 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 17.4 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 17.4 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 14.4 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.1 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 12+ Infrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References
- Copyright
- © 2021 Eric Lewis
- Price
- Free
- In-App Purchases
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- Extra Large Tip ₹ 1,999
- Large Tip ₹ 499
- Medium Tip ₹ 299
- Small Tip ₹ 99