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Products that do what News/YC - HN Reader for iOS does

1. 1TI
   the iPhone version of News/YC, a Hacker News reader▲110

   2013 · github.com

2. 2YA
   Yoleo – A Beautiful RSS Reader▲269

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3. 3HA
   HNBuddy – A fast and elegant HN client for iOS▲127

   2018 · hnbuddy.io

4. 4
   Inside 3.0▲292

   Real-time mobile news app, entirely redesigned

   2015

5. 5FO
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   2023 · apps.apple.com

6. 6AH
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   2018 · play.google.com

7. 7AH
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8. 8
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9. 9HN
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10. 10HR
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11. 11HN
    Hacker News Reader for the iPad▲17

    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

12. 12HA
    Hyphen – A beautiful, powerful, and robust eBook Reader for iOS▲34

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13. 13HL
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    2015 · 2ton.com.au

14. 14
    Newsify▲72

    Great, visual iOS RSS feed reader (syncs with Feedly)

    2014

15. 15HN
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    2015 · play.google.com

16. 16SS
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    2020 · storystreamer.live

17. 17PN
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18. 18AH
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19. 19NA
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    2021 · getnewsstand.com

20. 20HN
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21. 21BA
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22. 22VH
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23. 23HN
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24. 24HF
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