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24 alternatives to HNBuddy
An elegant iOS client for 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. HNBuddy launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
- 1HA
2018 · hnbuddy.io · its alternatives →
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A different way to browse the discussions on hackernews. Control everything intuitively with your keyboard.
2021 · haxplore.pabue.co · its alternatives →
- 4HH
2013 · hackyapp.com · its alternatives →
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macOS HackerNews client that aims to be a Mac-assed Mac app. Written in Swift + AppKit. - goranmoomin/HackerNews
2021 · github.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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Native mobile experience forged for Hacker News. Journey through stories, delve into comments, vote, post and more.
Jul 2026 · hackernows.app · its alternatives →
- 9HD
2015 · hnbuzz.com · its alternatives →
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:boom: Progressive Hacker News client built with Angular - housseindjirdeh/angular2-hn
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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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 →
- 12HN
2011 · hn.gethifi.com · its alternatives →
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Hacker News client for macOS. Contribute to mattrighetti/HNReaderApp development by creating an account on GitHub.
2021 · github.com · its alternatives →
- 14ID
2013 · hackernewstab.com · its alternatives →
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- 16HG
2018 · hnnotify.xyz · 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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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 →
- 19NH
2014 · hack.ernews.info · its alternatives →
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A Gnus backend for Hacker News. Contribute to dickmao/nnhackernews development by creating an account on GitHub.
2019 · github.com · its alternatives →
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As an avid HN user I wanted to have a simple widget showing me the top links shared on here, I also wanted to experiment for the first time with WidgetKit, this is what I came up with. HNWidgets is open source and offers a simple widget in three different sizes (medium, large, extra-large). You can choose between different HN lists to fetch links from and how frequently the widget should refresh its content. It's currently being rolled out on the App Store so the link in the README might still not work for some people. Hope you find it useful!
2023 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hello! I’ve been reading Hacker News for years and have a bad habit of favoriting articles but never actually going back to read them. I finally built hnbuffer to scratch my own itch and help me work through that backlog. I also mainly built this as an excuse to learn/use some of the languages/frameworks/tools since I have another backlog of things I wanted to try too. It syncs your favorites into a queue with a reader mode and swipe gestures. The streak tracking is something I'm still experimenting with. Note: It requires an HN login to scrape the favorites list (credentials…
2013 · hnbuffer.com · its alternatives →
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There are many like it but this one is mine: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/pivit/id705715915?mt=8 Seriously, though, this Hacker News reader is better than what's out there, or I wouldn't have spent time on it. How? Most importantly, it utilizes the background refresh APIs, so content is always up to date. Pull to refresh is there, but you probably won't need it. The more addicted you are, the more often it updates. So if you check every few hours, you'll always get the current front page. Complementing this, it helps you see not only what you've read but what…
2013 · its alternatives →
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