HACK for Hacker News Reader - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads - Apple App Store

Description

HACK for YC's Hacker News is the most beautiful and easy way to read about the latest tech, startup and STEM news.

- No Ads. No subscriptions.
- Login or Register your Hacker News account
- Supported on MacOS
- PUSH NOTIFICATIONS for Hacker News replies to comment or post
- Comments are presented in nested threads
- Tap a comment to collapse that thread
- Swipe left or right on stories and comments to upvote and favorite
- Ability to submit new posts including drafts
- Long press a story, link or comment to share
- iPad supports split view
- On iPads, you can drag a story / comment / story's image (link) to open it in safari in split view. This is useful for when you are viewing the app in split view / multitasking and like opening the link / story / comment in a browser side by side.
- Landscape and Portrait support
- 3D touch for peek, pop support
- Home screen 3D touch shortcuts
- Hide posts from the feed
- Tap the bottom button to scroll to the next root comment in the thread. Long press it to go to the previous one
- All known hacker news endpoints - News, front page, Ask HN, Show HN, Show HN Newest, classic, active, best stories, best comments, new stories, new comments, noob stories, noob comments, jobs, over 100-500 points
- Submit posts, reply, comment using your HN account
- Browse top 100 leader accounts
- Browse stories from a specific site, user or date
- Search in comments and usernames! Search is case and diacritic insensitive and ignores punctuations. Search uses an CONTAINS, OR operation if multiple words are typed.
- Can select / highlight the comment/post title text for lookup/copy/translate etc iOS native operations.
- Powerful search (powered by Algolia API) - use @date to sort by date, #story to filter for stories, #comments to filter for comments, #author_username to filter by user etc. These tags can be separated by commas. Refer to https://hn.algolia.com/api for more tags.
- Dark mode - both pure black and gray mode
- Low contrast text mode to make the text not be pure white #FFFFFF
- Many color choices & color picker for customization
- App icons in variety of colours for light and dark mode
- Font choices
- Ability to change font sizes, padding etc to make the layout as compact as you like!
- Threaded comments with color bar to maintain visual orientation
- Articles open in Safari view with setting to automatically open in "readability" mode
- Tap the domain in a story to see all stories from that site
- Tap the username in a story or comment to go to the user profile
- Browse your submitted stories and comments, favorited stories and comments, upvoted stories and comments
- Archive: View an archive of the post website. archive.is, archive.org & google cache.
- Share comment as image
- Articles can be opened in built in safari or 3rd party browsers. Supports Brave, Firefox, Firefox Focus, Orion, Opera Touch, Dolphin, DuckDuckGo, iCab Mobile, Microsoft Edge and Chrome. Go to settings > Disable the "Use in-app Safari" setting > tap that row to change the default browser.
- I run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies. So if you can help support the server costs, please buy the one time only in app purchase. This also unlocks custom fonts, colors & icons.

All stories and comments are via Algolia API and Hacker News API:
https://news.ycombinator.com/
https://hn.algolia.com/api
https://github.com/HackerNews/API

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I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a positive rating on the app store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development and buy me a coffee, you can purchase the one time in app purchase! No subscriptions! Thank you for your support!

If you have any feedback or feature requests, please email Pran at:
[email protected]

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User Rating

4.59 out of 5

161 ratings in Canada

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Reviews

Excellent

By far the best, and it’s not even close.

This app just keeps getting better and better

I’ve used Hack from the beginning and its progress to being the best Hacker News client has been impressive.

Very happy

Best HN client I’ve used. I was happy to pay for the upgrade.

Great app.

The app itself is really well designed. Great ergonomics and has a tendency to “stay out of your way”— it just does what you need it to do. Shows a great deal of attention to detail by the dev. Furthermore— the dev; I wrote an email to him with some feedback asking for a feature to be added. He got back to me day-of, agreed that the feature sounded good, and told me that he would add it in a future update. Less than a week later, he sent me another email letting me know that the feature was finished and would be released in the next update the app receives. I can’t help but give five stars with that sort of customer service. Really phenomenal. When was the last time you remember recommending a feature to some company and having it finished and implemented (in staging) by the end of the work week? Really awesome. Also, I tried all the other HN apps out there, this one beats all the others in terms of design ergonomics and overall quality. Great work Pran! Thanks :)

Phenomenal

Not only is this the best iOS HN client, it is significantly better than the default HN experience - using a web browser on a desktop. This app adds SO MUCH functionality, which makes it much easier to surface and consume good content. I’ve tried 5-6 other HN iOS clients and hack is far and away the best.

Excellent work on this app!

Getting to test dark mode and custom fonts on first launch of the free version is super smart. Played with the fonts, sounds, and logged in to read a bunch of stories and comment pages. Realized a half hour later that I hadn’t left the app and bought the IAP. I like low contrast titles on, and swipe to vote off for back-swipe functionality. Customizable title text sizes on the Home etc view would be great, they can be a little large. Thanks for this great app!

Ideal HN app

Very slick and usable app. Developer has done this right for sure.

Great app

I suggested a change to the developer of the app and they put out a new release with said change in less than 24 hours - a great app with a great person behind the wheel!

Best HackerNews app!

Believe me when I say I have used every HN app on the App Store and this one is the best, by a landslide!

Excellent app!

One of the best hackernews app for iOS. Bought premium in support of future development! Much appreciated ❤️

Store Rankings

Ranking History

Category Rankings

Chart	Category	Rank
Top Free	Nigeria News	30
Top Free	Kuwait News	53
Top Grossing	Austria News	64
Top Free	Peru News	82
Top Free	Russia News	83

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