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24 alternatives to ReadHNLater – A HN PWA with a “Read It Later” Feature

Just another HN PWA but with a "Read It Later" feature. https://brapifra.github.io/readhnlater-pwa/ - brapifra/readhnlater-pwa

ReadHNLater is a progressive web app for Hacker News that lets users save articles to read later. It pulls content from Hacker News and stores items for offline viewing, making it useful for people who want to catch up… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. ReadHNLater – A HN PWA with a “Read It Later” Feature launched in 2018; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hey HN, cofounder of Readwise here. We've been working on this cross-platform reader app for about 2 years, excited to finally share it in public beta. Probably the most notable thing that makes Reader unique is that it supports almost any content type you could want to save/read/highlight: * web pages * emails/newsletters * PDFs * ePubs * twitter threads * youtube videos (with transcripts) * RSS feeds With all of your knowledge content in one place, we built powerful reading and highlighting, as well as a bunch of novel triage/organization features, so you can actually…

    2022 · readwise.io · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I'm excited to share a tool I've been working on - a native Hacker News reader built with Rust and egui. Here's a screenshot: https://github.com/haojiang99/hacker_news_reader/blob/main/s.... As a daily HN reader, I've always struggled with keeping track of interesting posts I want to read later. Browser tabs pile up, bookmarks get forgotten, and I lose track of what I've already read. I needed a way to: 1. Browse HN efficiently (across all sections - hot, new, show, ask, jobs, best) 2. Quickly mark posts as "todo" for later reading 3. Mark posts as…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    HackerWeb▲189

    A simply readable Hacker News app

    2017 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    Converts some webnovels to epub format. Contribute to maoserr/epublifier development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Speed read articles w/o compromising your comprehension

    2019 · 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 →

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    It's been 2 years since the initial release [here](https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36102610). The initial version was a very basic prototype which was not available anywhere beyond the GitHub repo. You had to install it as a userscript or load the extension manually. Since then, it remained simple but better, new features include: - Improved accuracy by also using comments to help gauge the topic of discussion and the right keywords. - Published as plugin for more browsers: Chrome, Firefox (including android), and more recently Microsoft Edge. - Support for narrow screens…

    2025 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    I built a newspaper-style Hacker News reader where you can read articles and comments in one view. Sites that block iframes (Substack, Medium, BBC) get a clean reader mode automatically. It's a PWA, has dark mode, and there's a weekly newsletter. Open source: https://github.com/terryds/hackernewstimes

    Mar 2026 · hackernewstimes.com · its alternatives →

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    Read Hacker News right from Slack

    2015 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    HN is all about the rich discussions. We wanted to take the HN experience one step further - to bring the familiar keyboard-first navigation, find interesting viewpoints in the threads and get a gist of long threads so that we can decide which rabbit holes to explore. So we built HN Companion a year ago, and have been refining it ever since. Try it: https://app.hncompanion.com or available as an extension for Firefox / Chrome: [0]. Most AI summarization strips the voices from conversations by flattening threads into a wall of text. This kills the joy of reading HN discussions.…

    Feb 2026 · hncompanion.com · its alternatives →

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    Readstack▲145

    Zero-stress app to save the articles you want to read later

    2021 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →

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    HackerNews reader powered by Algolia's API

    2020 · play.google.com · its alternatives →

  17. 17RA

    A Hacker News client with a clean, mobile friendly UI. Features : - bookmark stories. follow discussions / read them later at your convenience. - quickly search for articles using keywords. No more scrolling through the website. - easily managable nested comments. I love the current Hacker News experience and I don't believe my client is in any way a substitute to the original website. Built it over a few days for fun and found myself coming back to it once in a while for some of the features. Wanted to share this with the community. Let me know what you folks think :)

    2022 · read-hn.herokuapp.com · its alternatives →

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    A reading list for top Hacker News posts grouped monthly. Shows top posts by month with read/unread tracking. Set a monthly goal (15, 25, 50), mark posts as you go, see your progress. Features: - Monthly view sorted by points (surfaces the best, not just the newest) - Mark as read/unread, or hide permanently - Syncs across browsers via your own private GitHub Gist - No server, no account, no tracking – just open the HTML file - Works offline, state persists in localStorage Try it out here: [https://www.readhn.top/]

    Dec 2025 · readhn.top · 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 read-it-later service where items disappear after 7 days.

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    I noticed I was getting side tracked reading Hacker News, checking back, reading articles, comments, etc. It felt like my productivity was being hampered so I created a simple web app to receive the most popular stories in a daily email. http://dailyhn.com

    2011 · dailyhn.com · its alternatives →

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    Hackable Hacker News Reader. Contribute to sorpaas/reread development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2014 · github.com · its alternatives →

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