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Products that do what Hacker News Launcher for Android does

Easiest way to know what's trending on Hacker News.

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Hazumi News 3.0▲99
Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News
2025
2
HackerNews reader on Android▲80
HackerNews reader powered by Algolia's API
2020
3HN
Hacker News Mobile - A fast and readable mobile HN website▲209
2011 · hn.gethifi.com
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HN Search (Experimental)▲112
A new experimental UI for Hacker News Search
2015
5HN
Hacker News Android Application▲10
I was frustrated with current native HN Android apps so I created my own. Very clean. No ads or 'Hire Me' messages. Here's what it does: * Homepage news * Newest * Best * Ask HN * Comments * Home screen Widget * Saving news items for later reading Download here: https://market.android.com/details?id=com.glebpopov.hackernews
2011
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Hacker News for macOS▲149
A native macOS client for Hacker News, built with SwiftUI
Feb 2026
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Modern for Hacker News▲167
A beautiful, clean, modern web UI for Hacker News
2022
8HD
HN Deck – An alternative way to browse Hacker News▲115
2020 · hndeck.sagunshrestha.com
9HN
Hacker News desktop application in Kotlin/Swing▲141
2017 · github.com
10
Read.HN▲86
Read Hacker News with Instapaper
2018
11HB
Hackernews-Button – Bloom Filter-based, private HN browsing extension▲74
2021 · github.com
12HB
HN Browser, yet another Hacker News reader on iPhone▲10
I thought building something that I would use while learning iOS SDK was a good idea so I built HN Browser. https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hn-browser/id578535095?ls=1&mt=8 HN Browser is a simple app which lets you to read articles and comments on Hacker News. (no voting and writing comment yet) For the logo, I reached out to Joel Glovier(http://joelglovier.com) for his previous work on Hacker News logo(http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4731140) and he kindly granted the use of his work. It was really fun experience to collaborate and build a mobile app using iOS SDK. (although…
2012
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HNSlack▲135
Get the front page of Hacker News in your Slack, every day
2015
14
Hacker News Front Page Explorer▲150
A database of top ranking Hacker News front page posts
2020
15
HackerDaily▲87
A less addictive Hacker News
2020
16
Hacker News TV▲141
A 24/7 TV station made up from the best HN videos
2019
17HN
Hacker News desktop app made with Electron and Node▲167
2015 · github.com
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HNwatcher▲136
Track keywords and users on Hacker News
2014
19HN
Hacker News - Front Page Reader Android App▲7
Why another android HN app? I simply wasn't happy with the current solutions, I wanted something simple that I can read the news from the front page. The goal on this app is to improve the readability and ease the browsing of the links. Also readability.com web services are used like alternative for the external links. Here some screenshots: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2111778/HN-Front-Page-Reader1.jpg https://dl.dropbox.com/u/2111778/HN-Front-Page-Reader2.jpg You can download this app for free here: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=vladocar.hn Technical stuff: HTML, CSS,…
2012
20
Digest▲72
Hacker News client for Slack
2020
21HT
HN Text Analytics – Check what’s trending on Hacker News▲16
2018 · hn.textalytics.io
22
Hacker News for Messenger▲128
Interact, search and follow the latest HN posts on Messenger
2016
23AS
A 'swipe'able, minimal and installable Hacker News client for mobile▲6
Hey HN folks, I built a simple, minimal and 'swipe'able HN interface to glance through HN posts on mobile. It is a PWA, so feel free to install and use it. Any feedback is welcome! Cheers!
2025 · newz.dev
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Hekla for Hacker News▲79
Fast and customizable; an iOS client for Hacker News.
2018

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