Work · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to Hacker News Reader for the iPad
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…
Hacker News Reader for the iPad is a native application that brings Hacker News to iPad with features tailored for the larger screen. Unlike existing web versions and iPhone apps, it supports commenting and voting… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Prices are shown for the 1 we have checked on their own sites, 1 of them free or with a free tier. Hacker News Reader for the iPad launched in 2011; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1
- 2
I actually started it June 2011 to learn iOS, launched it in September, and have been steadily adding features and making improvements. It's something I use every day and I hope other people find it useful. Enjoy!
2012 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
- 3
Alerts, AI summaries, and easy search for Hacker News
2025 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
- 4
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 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
- 5
- 6
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 →
- 7
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 →
- 8
I create a free HackerNews reader App for iPhone/iPod touch. I have worked really hard 2 months. You can vote / reply the news. I appreciate any feedback, any reviews to me. Thanks very very much. You can download it from: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hackernews+-free/id490595576?mt=8 You can download it from: http://itunes.apple.com/us/app/hackernews+-free/id490595576?mt=8
2012 · itunes.apple.com · its alternatives →
- 9HN
2011 · hn.gethifi.com · its alternatives →
- 10
The iPhone version of News/YC, a Hacker News reader and interactive iOS application. - bennyguitar/News-YC---iPhone
2013 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 11MI
2011 · hackernewspaper.com · its alternatives →
- 12
- 13ID
2013 · hackernewstab.com · its alternatives →
- 14
Hacker News, without AIfree▲207A better Hacker News reader for following stories, filtering noise, and keeping up with discussions.
Sep 2026 · hcker.news · its alternatives →
- 15
- 16
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 →
- 17
- 18
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...
2014 · hnclient.weebly.com · its alternatives →
- 19NY
2013 · subvertapps.com · its alternatives →
- 20
Hi! I’m Julien and I built a recommendation engine for Hacker News. I feel like this website is a gold mine. Every day, I find some very interesting stories about a topic. And sometimes, I want to find other stories covering that same topic but I can’t. Hacker News has years of history of awesome discussion and ressources. Unfortunately, I think HN Algolia isn’t helpful in searching these old threads. As a student, I want to learn a lot from this website. This is why I created HN Recommend. Input a sentence or the URL of an article, and get the most popular and similar posts from Hacker…
2023 · hn-recommend.julienc.me · its alternatives →
- 21
- 22
Native mobile experience forged for Hacker News. Journey through stories, delve into comments, vote, post and more.
Jul 2026 · hackernows.app · its alternatives →
- 23HN
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 →
- 24
Also compare
Ranked by how close each launch is in meaning, then by votes. Prices were read from each product’s own site when checked and can change. Refine with your own description →