Life & fun · alternatives · 2026
24 alternatives to RF – a portable Reddit browser in the style of HN that still works
RF is client meant for browsing Reddit in the same fashion as HN. Features: - Bundled as a single HTML file - Text-first - Performant (optinally pre-caches text posts for near-instant loading) - No infinite scroll - Rich media previews, but only at the post level - Multireddit support - PWA support Give it a shot at https://rf.alexkoen.com or download the index.html to your computer. All feedback and contributions welcome.
Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. RF – a portable Reddit browser in the style of HN that still works launched in 2023; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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I built this last year but never posted it anywhere, but now with Reddit hiatus it seems like the right time to give it a shot. The main goal of zsync is to foster high quality content and discussion. That's it. If it can't accomplish that, then to me it is a failure. I watched Reddit go from having high quality discussion in 2008-9 to devolving into the PC meme dumpster it is today [1]. HN still has the highest discussion quality of any "forum" I know of, but (1) it can sometimes randomly be very hostile/toxic to new tech, the most glaring example being crypto. (2) HN is basically a…
2023 · zsync.xyz · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! We're a bootstrapped team of 4 and have been building Radiopaper for around 16 months alongside other full-time, part-time, and consulting jobs. I wanted to highlight a couple of the unique characteristics of Radiopaper that may not be immediately apparent when browsing https://radiopaper.com/explore * It's possible to interact with Radiopaper entirely by email, and never log-in interactively. The notification emails contain context that explains that if you reply to the email, your message will be published on https://radiopaper.com * The key mechanism that…
2022 · radiopaper.com · its alternatives →
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2016 · timqian.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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reddit shell▲182Web-based shell for browsing reddit (pretend you're working)
2015 · its alternatives →
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I've been frustrated with Reddit's recent API turn, and am also not the biggest fan of HN on mobile. I used to take part in discussion years ago on both sites, but have slowly turned into a lurker. As such, I need a slick client that works on both desktop and mobile, that let's me merely consume content, both media and comments, on both sites. I build ledit over the past few nights for exactly that purpose. I gather others might also have a similar need that's not yet filled by other options out there. https://github.com/badlogic/ledit How does it work? * As a default,…
2023 · marioslab.io · its alternatives →
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SHINE for reddit▲105Experience reddit in a whole new way (chrome extension)
2015 · chromewebstore.google.com · its alternatives →
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A Hacker News client built with Angular CLI, RxJS and Webpack
2016 · angular2-hn.firebaseapp.com · its alternatives →
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React-powered Hacker News client. Contribute to insin/react-hn development by creating an account on GitHub.
2014 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Primarily built this to learn how NextJS works and also a bit about Tailwind CSS. Also has request caching using the WebCache API + expiration which is quite a hacky implementation. Let me know what you think! Source is at https://github.com/say4n/hn, pull requests welcome!
2023 · hn.sayan.page · 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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I figured, "what better way to look at a list of (hopefully) inspiring projects?" The upvotes work and are globally synced.
2024 · guycombinator.net · its alternatives →
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When Reddit killed 3rd party apps, I uploaded a web viewer I have been using for myself to access Reddit (without 99 popups) to Github pages for everyone to use. I posted about it on Lemmy and it shot to the front page. Since then I have made multiple updates to RDX including themes, infinite scrolling, compact mode, bookmarks, import/export subs, faster GIF loading etc. If you do find this useful please add it to home screen for n app-like experience. Please let me know if you have any feedback, including issues or feature requests. Github link:…
2024 · rdx.overdevs.com · its alternatives →
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Since the HN devs seem to be in dev-mode, I thought I'd put in one more little request. :) This one line of code, added to the head of HN's html, will make the site actually usable on mobile devices: Here are the before and after pics of the front page: http://imgur.com/rMYfqwN,mwPDMvB#0
2014 · 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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A web-extension that takes the URL you're visiting and searches submissions on other websites. - viorelsfetea/commenter
2020 · github.com · its alternatives →
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A terminal browser for reddit. I've spent the last few months learning golang and stumbled across the bubbletea libraries. I enjoyed playing around with it so much that I decided to create a reddit terminal applicaiton. Let me know what you think. Thanks!
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Any suggestions are appreciated, stack utilizes Gluestack UI ,Expo, React Native, and Cloudflare Pages. There is a known bug via touch scroll ability on Android, external keyboard's spacebar or mouse works correctly though, currently. If you know about a solution, let me know. Please note, this is just a prototype, it still has a lot of features to be included. I'd like to learn more about how people use HN and how Hacked could help, where other HN clients failed.
2025 · hacked.unlace.app · its alternatives →
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2011 · chrome.google.com · its alternatives →
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Built this to give AI assistants native Reddit access. No more copy-pasting links. You can ask things like "what's the sentiment on TypeScript vs JavaScript in r/webdev" or "analyze the top posts about GPT-5 today" and get instant analysis. Technical: TypeScript, 3-tier rate limiting (anonymous works fine for most), LRU cache under 50MB. Works with any MCP client, not just Claude. Someone used it to track reactions to H-1B changes across different country subreddits in real-time - that was pretty cool to see. Open to feature requests and contributions welcome! Would love to hear how you…
2025 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN folks, I built a simple, minimal and 'swipe'able HN interface to glance through HN posts on mobile. It is a PWA, so feel free to install and use it. Any feedback is welcome! Cheers!
2025 · newz.dev · its alternatives →
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A browser extension to read medium.com articles for free without membership. - manojVivek/medium-unlimited
2018 · github.com · its alternatives →
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