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24 alternatives to HackerNews YC Reader
An easy and beautiful way to read Hacker News on your phone.
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. HackerNews YC Reader launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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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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2013 · subvertapps.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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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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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 →
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2015 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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2018 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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2011 · hn.gethifi.com · its alternatives →
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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 →
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ReadByHumans▲126Top HackerNews articles in human-read podcast format
2017 · readbyhumans.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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A minimal Hacker News reader for Apple Watch built with SwiftUI. - wieslawsoltes/HackerNewsWatch
2025 · 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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2013 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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