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24 alternatives to Hacker News iOS client using the new official API
This is probably the first Hacker News client on AppStore that uses the newly introduced official Firebase HN API. One of the cool features of the new API are updates pushed in real time. There’s...
This iOS app provides access to Hacker News through the official Firebase API. It delivers real-time updates of stories and comments as they happen, rather than requiring manual refreshes. The app is designed for… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hacker News iOS client using the new official API launched in 2014; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Hacker News API▲317Hacker News now has an API. Awesome. :)
2014 · ycombinator.com · its alternatives →
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macOS HackerNews client that aims to be a Mac-assed Mac app. Written in Swift + AppKit. - goranmoomin/HackerNews
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Native mobile experience forged for Hacker News. Journey through stories, delve into comments, vote, post and more.
Jul 2026 · hackernows.app · its alternatives →
- 4HN
2014 · realtimehackernews.firebaseapp.com · its alternatives →
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A Hacker News client made with React Native and Redux. Consumes HN's public API located at Firebase. - abhishekbhardwaj/Yet-Another-Hacker-News-Client
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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iOS Hacker News client to not get lost in big discussions
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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We at Emerge Tools (YC W21) recently released open source Hacker News apps for both iOS and Android. The apps use the latest SwiftUI and Compose frameworks and are entirely native. Our goal is to help dogfood our products, but more importantly our team just enjoys reading HN every day and wanted an app to hack on and call our own. :) We are still missing some features but should otherwise be pretty solid. And open to any contributions. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-by-emerge/id674092... Android:…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I made a Hacker News reader for iOS with React Native and Redux. It was mostly for me to learn more about React Native, but I'm really happy with the result. Let me know what you think! I'm hoping to add a lot more features, the first being a settings page with some color settings and dark mode. App: https://appsto.re/us/czg7hb.i Code: https://github.com/seanyesmunt/hackernews
2017 · its alternatives →
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Download HACK for Hacker News YC Reader by Pranoy Chowdhury on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips and more apps like HACK for Hacker…
2020 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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HackerNews reader powered by Algolia's API
2020 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Download HACK for Hacker News YC Reader by Pranoy Chowdhury on the App Store. See screenshots, ratings and reviews, user tips, and more apps like HACK for…
2019 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
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I finally released my first iOS app following the excellent tips give on https://designcode.io/.I have open sourced the app https://github.com/NikantVohra/HackerNewsClient-iOS. I know there are lots of Hacker News Clients on App Store but I made this app just to learn something new and not with the motive of competing with anyone.I would love to get the feedback of the HN community on this app. The App store link for the app is https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hn-app/id983203003?ls=1&mt=8.
2015 · its alternatives →
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2018 · hnbuddy.io · its alternatives →
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Hey HN! I built a native macOS desktop client for Hacker News and I'm open-sourcing it under the MIT license. GitHub: https://github.com/IronsideXXVI/Hacker-News Download (signed & notarized DMG, macOS 14.0+): https://github.com/IronsideXXVI/Hacker-News/releases Screenshots: https://github.com/IronsideXXVI/Hacker-News#screenshots I spend a lot of time reading HN — I wanted something that felt like a proper Mac app: a sidebar for browsing stories, an integrated reader for articles, and comment threading — all in one window.…
Feb 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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The iPhone version of News/YC, a Hacker News reader and interactive iOS application. - bennyguitar/News-YC---iPhone
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
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I read HN on my phone every day and never really settled on a reader, so I wrote my own and finally tidied it up enough to put out there. It's plain SwiftUI with no third-party dependencies. A few things I spent the most time on: Comments are parsed and drawn as native text instead of being dumped into a web view. Links, italics, quotes and code blocks behave like the rest of the OS, text selection works, and threads collapse instantly. The whole comment tree comes back from the Algolia API in a single request, which felt a lot nicer than walking the Firebase API node by node. Accessibility.…
Jun 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Since I got an iPad I was looking for a better Hacker News reading experience than the one you can get using the web version. On the iPhone I use the ihackernews.com web app (and soon going to try news.yc). It's decent for the iPhone, but it doesn't scale good on the iPad. To my surprise, when I checked there was no decent iPad app for HN (i.e. lacking ability to comment or vote, no readability support and more). I anyway wanted to give a try to iPad development, and was looking for an interesting project to work on. Making HN reader app seemed as a good candidate. Over the last weekend I…
2011 · bit.ly · its alternatives →
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:boom: Progressive Hacker News client built with Angular - housseindjirdeh/angular2-hn
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 21NH
2014 · hack.ernews.info · its alternatives →
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SimpleHN - iOS client or Hacker News Firebase API. Contribute to jameseunson/SimpleHN development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 23ID
2013 · hackernewstab.com · its alternatives →
- 24MI
2011 · hackernewspaper.com · its alternatives →
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