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24 alternatives to Hardbound 2.0
Introducing The Nightcap, a quick visual summary of the news
Hardbound 2.0 is an iOS app that delivers news summaries through visual storytelling. Called The Nightcap, it provides quick overviews of daily news stories in an illustrated format designed for fast consumption. The… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Hardbound 2.0 launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Read objective news summaries on a refreshing UI
2019 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Inside 3.0▲292Real-time mobile news app, entirely redesigned
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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TheNews▲339The latest designer, developer, and tech news in one place.
2020 · thenews.im · its alternatives →
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Day One 2.0▲266Ground-up rewrite of the best journal for Mac and iPhone
2016 · dayoneapp.com · its alternatives →
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Wildcard 2.0▲239Beautifully designed and curated news
2015 · forsale.godaddy.com · its alternatives →
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Tinyclouds▲217An adorable new weather app for iPhone and iPad
2018 · tinyclouds.co · its alternatives →
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Open-source client for Designer News
2015 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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I was struggling with navigating HN discussions using existing solutions, so I decided to implement a completely different approach, think of it as depth-first reading vs breadth-first reading. Visually it looks like swipeable stacks of comments and it offers several advantages over traditional interfaces: - Comment width doesn't get narrower no matter how deep in the comment tree you are - You always see the parent of the comment you're currently reading - Swiping allows you to move in and out of subtrees with animated transitions that you fully control - You can easily skip subtrees that…
2023 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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