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title: "Hacker News - Latest in Tech - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "The Ultimate Hacker News App!  Dive into the latest startup, technology, programming, and science news with the ultimate app for browsing Y Combinator's Hacker News.  Built for Speed and Customizabili"
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# Hacker News - Latest in Tech — United States
> A powerful Hacker News reader.

![Hacker News App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/1f/bb/8c/1fbb8c96-e419-495a-481c-34bb708ebba2/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007emarketing-0-7-0-85-220.png/400x400bb.png)

**Developer:** [Snap Web Studios](https://apptail.io/developer/snap-web-studios-kayd)
**Category:** News
**Rating:** 4.7/5 (35 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** com.ericlewis.Hacker
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 1.1.2 (released 2024-05-28)
**Original Release:** 2021-09-20

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id1573004386)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/hacker-news-latest-in-tech-WLI/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/hacker-news-latest-in-tech-WLI/united-states)

## Hacker News Description
The Ultimate Hacker News App!

Dive into the latest startup, technology, programming, and science news with the ultimate app for browsing Y Combinator's Hacker News.

Built for Speed and Customizability

Designed from the ground up, this app offers a fast, seamless reading experience with extensive customizability.

Optimized for iPhone and iPad

Carefully crafted for both iPhone and iPad, the app is packed with features to enhance your reading experience:

- Fast and Simple: Browse Hacker News feeds and threaded comments swiftly, ensuring you stay updated with everything happening.
- Sync Across Devices: Favorite, read, or hide stories and keep your activity in sync across devices, thanks to iCloud. Your data stays private and secure.
- Organize Your Way: Create custom groups to easily save stories by topic. Keep all your programming topics together, and all your science topics in one place, accessible on every device.
- Lightning Fast Search: Quickly find any post, even those you mentioned to a friend days ago.
- Highly Customizable: Choose between light and dark modes, select from eleven different color themes, and enjoy beautifully designed icons by Michael Flarup & Matthew Skiles. Customize your reading experience further by selecting your preferred browser, adjusting the appearance of read stories, and more.
- AI-Powered Summaries: Get quick summaries of stories with AI powered by OpenAI. Perfect for when you only need the gist.
- Ad-Free Reading: Skip the ads and read a clean, markdown-formatted version of articles.
- Time-Saving Features: Know how long articles will take to read with time estimates.
- Powerful Gestures: Use swipe gestures to quickly favorite, hide, and add stories to your groups.
- iPad Keyboard Shortcuts: Easily manage favorites, hiding, and adding to groups with keyboard shortcuts.
- Home Screen Widgets: Customize your Home Screen with widgets of all sizes, showing your favorite feeds and the latest stories at a glance.
- Convenient Share Sheet Action: Open Hacker News links from any app with our share sheet action. Just tap “Open in Hacker News.”
- Privacy Focused: No ads, no tracking, and no data storage. Your privacy is paramount.
- Support the App: Keep the app alive with a tip or leave a review. Every bit helps!

Enjoy the best Hacker News experience on your Apple devices today!

## Hacker News Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource115/v4/8d/c9/6b/8dc96b35-5584-8f22-45c3-9c66fb35ac29/0a58b5fe-8edc-48cf-871f-86bc5b96fa80_image1.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource115/v4/04/9a/7d/049a7ddc-9369-b3bf-b486-c1efcb40efe6/55bc583b-c31d-4911-8e4c-cb970fec75d9_image2.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource125/v4/91/f5/4e/91f54e20-57b7-e8fa-3d6c-cca8bc5b0bb7/563d2a7f-7c01-4d46-a8d8-ad53b6a82092_image3.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource115/v4/c3/6b/42/c36b42cb-62c3-ca4e-416f-34c60080fb2d/3d936335-7249-4a90-955b-dffc05a0cb1f_image4.png/1242x2688.png)
- [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource115/v4/d8/a0/43/d8a043aa-e680-6a55-64d8-b072f2851a36/b3f312df-e75b-45b9-a4c9-88fa71ee834d_image5.png/1242x2688.png)

## Hacker News Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 29 (83%)
- 4 stars: 3 (9%)
- 3 stars: 2 (6%)
- 2 stars: 0 (0%)
- 1 stars: 1 (3%)

## Hacker News Reviews in United States

### ***-- "Broken links"
Almost perfect, but links that are too long get truncated, not only do they look shorter, the actual link is cut off as well. So, to open any long links you have to open the original HN link and find the comment from there.
-- kothavade, 2024-12-21

### ****- "Great start, one suggestion"
The story detail bar takes up a ton of space pinned to the bottom of the screen while reading comments. Can you add an option to place that above the comments list so we can scroll down past it?
-- CheapeOne, 2024-07-31

### ****- "Quick feedback / suggestion"
Great app, I use it all the time, but I do have a suggestion - under groups, the “read” section takes too long to load, particularly if you have over 1000 to 2000 previously read articles. It’ll be nice if this section could only load the last 10 to 20 articles that have been read, with a button to load more if necessary.

When you open and switch to another app, the Hacker News will reset, and sometimes you lose track of where you were you were. The “read” section is a good way to quickly get back to what you were looking at, but again the issue is that it will take at times 30 seconds to a minute to load.
-- Ludditemanxcv, 2023-10-20

### ***-- "Well-made app but doesn’t respect browser choice"
Regardless whether this app is set to use Safari or In-App Safari it opens articles in In-App Safari, which is a bit annoying since In-App Safari doesn’t allow certain extensions nor does it add to my browser history. Would also be nice if it supported other browsers. I’m posting here because support is through Twitter which I don’t use.
-- Bioluminous, 2023-07-17

### ***** "Great HN reader"
The best HN ever used. Would be nice to be able to export saved items
-- Zealottz, 2023-06-07

### ***** "Using it everyday"
Very delightful using it!
-- Haoya Li, 2022-11-29

### ****- "Polished HN Client Missing Login"
This is probably the most polished HN client for iOS but it’s missing user login so you can’t upvote or comment. If it has that it would be the best in the App Store.
-- teeny tiny sloth, 2022-08-17

### ***** "By far the best HN app."
By far the best hacker news app. The summary feature is amazing. 

BUT it lacks login. I still need a second HN app where Iogin and posts from. 

Really wish login would be supported.
-- Drudois, 2022-03-01

### ***** "The best HN client for free"
So this client has all the features paid HN clients have with snappier design and functionality. Thanks developer!
-- alexandr1us, 2021-09-25

### ***** "Simply love it"
I have used a lot of HN apps and I feel like this one might stick .. it has all the things I look for - no ads - fast read/ summarize options .. only thing that lacks is login option
-- viveksivai7, 2021-09-20

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## Hacker News In-App Purchases
| Item | Price |
|------|-------|
| Large Tip | $4.99 |
| Small Tip | $0.99 |
| Medium Tip | $2.99 |
| Extra Large Tip | $19.99 |

## Hacker News Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Free | Algeria | News | #118 |
| Top Free | India | News | #134 |
| Top Free | Hong Kong SAR China | News | #199 |
| Top Free | New Zealand | News | #200 |
| Top Free | Hungary | News | #206 |
| Top Free | Nigeria | News | #232 |
| Top Free | Taiwan | News | #240 |

## Hacker News Discovered Keywords
- science news
- hacker news reader
- hacker news
- hack the news
- latest tech news
- hacker news app

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