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24 alternatives to Hacker News Launcher for Android

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

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 Launcher for Android launched in 2019; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

1. 1SH
   Show HN▲1,302

   2014 · news.ycombinator.com · its alternatives →

2. 2HN
   Hacker News Mobile - A fast and readable mobile HN website▲209

   2011 · hn.gethifi.com · its alternatives →

3. 3HN
   Hacker News Lock Screen features trending stories from HN front page▲17

   2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

4. 4HT
   HN Trends - like Google Trends, but for Hacker News▲355

   2011 · hntrends.jerodsanto.net · its alternatives →

5. 5
   Hazumi News 3.0▲99

   Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News

   2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

6. 6
   HackerNews reader on Android▲80

   HackerNews reader powered by Algolia's API

   2020 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

7. 7
   HN Search (Experimental)▲112

   A new experimental UI for Hacker News Search

   2015 · its alternatives →

8. 8ID
   I Designed this HN Mac App – Should I develop it?▲86

   2013 · hackernewstab.com · its alternatives →

9. 9HB
   HN Badges – Displays game-like badges for your HN profile▲242

   Get your public IP address instantly. Simple, fast, and reliable API for developers.

   2021 · hnbadges.netlify.app · its alternatives →

10. 10
    Login with HN (Unofficially)▲436

    (Unofficial) Login with HackerNews

    2022 · loginwithhn.com · its alternatives →

11. 11HN
    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 · market.android.com · its alternatives →

12. 12HC
    HN Chat – Minimal Hacker News Chat with User Verification▲180

    2016 · hnchat.com · its alternatives →

13. 13
    Hacker News desktop application in Kotlin/Swing▲141

    A Kotlin/Swing desktop application front-end for Hacker News - westoncb/HNDesktop

    2017 · github.com · its alternatives →

14. 14
    HN.watch – Videos of all Hacker News posts▲225

    The Hacker News front page, with a short video explainer for every story.

    25d ago · hn.watch · its alternatives →

15. 15
    hcker.news – an ergonomic, timeline-based Hacker News front page▲180

    Hi folks, I've built an alternative Hacker News front page. It is inspired by and meant to be a replacement for hckrnews.com. I built this because HN is woefully underfeatured, but most sites that try to improve it seem to assume that the visual design is the problem. hcker.news tries to maintain HN's familiarity while adding useful enhancements. There are three primary views: - Timeline View: Browse top stories by votes or comments grouped by day, week, or month (e.g., top 20 per day, top 100 per week). - Aggregate View: See top stories by votes or comments over custom time ranges. - Front…

    2025 · hcker.news · its alternatives →

16. 16HN
    Hacker News reader for Android▲45

    2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

17. 17AH
    A Hacker News Reader App with Tabs▲108

    2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

18. 18FH
    Find Hidden Gems on HN▲118

    Hey HN. I created this website. https://pj4533.com/hn-overlooked/ It's just a simple web app that discovers overlooked posts on Hacker News. I created it because I was often coming to Hacker News and realizing that I was missing a lot of stuff, and there just didn't seem to be an easy way to surface content that was interesting to me but just didn't bubble up to the top of the page. So I built this. I got the idea a while back, one night when I was recording (you can watch it here, it's pretty funny: https://youtu.be/FDyDb4sX30w?si=E3rby-DaGWA6gy0R ). But I…

    2025 · pj4533.com · its alternatives →

19. 19AH
    A HN desktop app for reading links and comments next to each other▲54

    2016 · florian.github.io · its alternatives →

20. 20
    hn.▲78

    Yet another client to browse Hacker News

    2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

21. 21HT
    HN Theater – Talks and Videos of Hacker News▲106

    HN Theater collects, ranks, and showcases the best talks and videos that have been recommended on Hacker News.

    2020 · yahnd.com · its alternatives →

22. 22HS
    HN Special – A visual theme and Chrome extension for Hacker News▲87

    2013 · gabrielecirulli.github.io · its alternatives →

23. 23AD
    A discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News▲193

    We (Nick, Dens, Denzell, Fede, Drew, Aaryan, and Daniel) have been building HN Discovery, a discovery-focused search engine for Hacker News, in our spare time for the past 6 months and are excited to show it! It adds the following features relative to the existing keyword search interface and preserves the existing ones: - no-JS version (hnnojs.trieve.ai) - site:{required_site} and site:{negated-site} filters - public analytics - LLM generated query suggestions based on random stories - recommendations - dense vector semantic search - SPLADE fulltext search - RAG AI chat - order by…

    2024 · hn.trieve.ai · its alternatives →

24. 24QA
    Q&A for HN users▲142

    2012 · askolo.com · its alternatives →

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