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24 alternatives to Octal
Hacker News iOS and iPadOS
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Octal launched in 2020; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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If you use an iPhone, please give my Hacker News app a try. It is a full-featured app with login, posting, and upvoting capabilities. It's also free for the next 48 hours! Feedback is highly appreciated. Octal on the Apple App Store https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/id1308885491
2018 · its alternatives →
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Octolens▲354Hi Hacker News, Octolens is a social listening tool that helps early stage B2B software companies find social posts with buy signals. I use Octolens to grow our business daily, this is how: I track keywords related to our solved pain points, brand, and competitors. Octolens finds posts across sites like Reddit, X, LinkedIn, and more, then assesses them with AI for relevance and buying signals. I receive alerts about highly relevant posts in Slack. I then engage with these posts to connect and convert potential customers. As cold outbound becomes more challenging with AI automation and email…
Jul 2026 · octolens.com · its alternatives →
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The News (iOS)▲232Product Hunt, Designer News, & Hacker News on iOS
2014 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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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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- 9MI
2011 · hackernewspaper.com · its alternatives →
- 10BA
2015 · medium.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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2015 · news.ycombniator.com · its alternatives →
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octal.email▲134Scalable temp email for developers, marketers, and QA teams.
2025 · expireddomains.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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- 17RH
2017 · hnews.xyz · its alternatives →
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2013 · hackyapp.com · its alternatives →
- 19AH
2018 · play.google.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 →
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We at Emerge Tools (YC W21) recently released open source Hacker News apps for both iOS and Android. The apps use the latest SwiftUI and Compose frameworks and are entirely native. Our goal is to help dogfood our products, but more importantly our team just enjoys reading HN every day and wanted an app to hack on and call our own. :) We are still missing some features but should otherwise be pretty solid. And open to any contributions. iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-by-emerge/id674092... Android:…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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2014 · hnmobile.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →
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I literally type the headline into DALLE and pick the best image. Welcome to the future of news. Enjoy!
2022 · twitter.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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