---
title: "Octal for Hacker News - Reviews, Revenue and Downloads in United States | Apple App Store"
description: "Octal is your go-to news feed for breaking tech news, putting the biggest stories of the day with engaging discussion right in the palm of your hand.  Beautifully designed for both iPhone and iPad, Oc"
---

# Octal for Hacker News — United States
> Social developer & tech news

![Octal for Hacker News App Icon](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Purple221/v4/26/99/31/2699312d-9074-0142-c15f-4ee8ce9bd3bb/AppIcon-0-0-1x_U007epad-0-1-0-85-220.png/434x0w.png)

**Developer:** [Daniel Wu](https://apptail.io/developer/daniel-wu-zjkb)
**Category:** News
**Rating:** 4.8/5 (2,849 ratings)
**Price:** Free
**Bundle ID:** com.danielwu.HackerNews
**Store:** Apple App Store
**Country:** United States
**Version:** 5.3.0 (released 2026-10-20)
**Original Release:** 2017-11-26
**Languages:** English

**App Store Link:** [Download on Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/app/id1308885491)
**AppTail Page:** [https://apptail.io/app/octal-for-hacker-news-zRZ/united-states](https://apptail.io/app/octal-for-hacker-news-zRZ/united-states)

## Octal for Hacker News Description
Octal is your go-to news feed for breaking tech news, putting the biggest stories of the day with engaging discussion right in the palm of your hand.

Beautifully designed for both iPhone and iPad, Octal focuses on what you care most about: native design, speed, and usability. It's the modern, full-featured Hacker News app you've been looking for.

You'll find an unparalleled, community-powered source of stories about anything ranging from self-driving cars to the latest Apple gadgets. Octal has all the features you need, including the ability to vote on stories, submit posts, add comments, and manage favorites. Best of all, it's free of all that annoying stuff, like ads, subscriptions, and tracking. If you want to keep up to date with the latest popular and trending tech headlines, Octal is made for you.

• NEWS FOR NERDS: Read and share the most important stories in the tech world, submitted and voted on by Hacker News users. Stories are constantly changing, and often focus on areas like programming, startups, technology industry and companies (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Uber, etc.), and key technology categories such as mobile, computers, internet, design, coding, and security.

• ENGAGE AND VOTE: Vote on stories and comments you like and dislike, and report stories with objectionable content. Found something you need to read later? Add it to your favorites!

• DISCUSS THE NEWS: Read and engage with stories by viewing their discussions with a fast, fully-threaded, collapsible, buttery smooth comments experience. Add your own comments. If you're a fast reader, you can instantly jump to the next top-level comment thread with a single tap.

• SUBMIT LINKS: Got a cool story or news link to share to Hacker News? Submit new posts directly in the app. You can also share links directly to Octal to quickly submit them.

• SEARCH STORIES: Search Hacker News stories and sort search results by relevance or date.

• JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Log in to Hacker News to easily track your karma, activity and favorites. Browse user profiles, including their karma, about, activity, and favorites.

• THEMEABLE: Total Dark Mode support. Turn on 'True Black' to use a pure RGB #000 background color - perfect for devices with OLED displays.

• CUSTOMIZE YOUR NEWS FEED: Tap or swipe between story feeds such as 'Top Stories', 'Threads', 'Ask HN', 'Show HN', 'Best Stories', 'New Stories', and 'Jobs'.

• ACCESSIBLE: Increase or decrease the text size to one that's comfortable for you, or enable 'Dynamic Type' to use the system's 'Larger Text' font size. And VoiceOver is fully supported!

• DEEP LINK SUPPORT: You can open Hacker News links in Octal by sharing them to Octal. You can also use apps like 'Opener'. Most Hacker News links starting with 'octal://' are supported!

• READY FOR ANY SCREEN: Octal looks great on iPads with an optional 2-pane interface. Say goodbye to wasted screen real estate.

• WEB BROWSER SUPPORT: Open links in your web browser of choice.

• AD-FREE, PRIVACY AWARE: No ads, no subscriptions, and no tracking.

ABOUT OCTAL PREMIUM:
To unlock advanced features, including the ability to submit posts, add comments, manage favorites, switch themes, change app icons, use custom gestures, and more, you can buy Octal Premium via an In-App Purchase. Octal Premium is a one-time payment and there is no subscription. Purchases support the development of Octal, which is developed solely by me!

ABOUT HACKER NEWS:
Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by Paul Graham's investment fund and startup incubator, Y Combinator. In general, its content can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". You can think of Hacker News as reddit for tech. It's the go-to news aggregator for tech.

SUPPORT:
Found a bug or have a feature request? Create an Issue on Github, or e-mail me: 

## Octal for Hacker News Screenshots
- [Screenshot 1](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/0c/e3/ce/0ce3ce73-63ce-871e-fcd5-f0c15d7da7a5/458acd97-9070-46ac-b2a7-e3d60f66862e_image1.jpeg/392x696bb.jpg)
- [Screenshot 2](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/33/ef/b5/33efb5d8-ce26-a836-bbff-763c00eeb85b/e07a9f4c-5dc2-45e9-a44e-05857b38e8f0_image2.jpeg/392x696bb.jpg)
- [Screenshot 3](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource221/v4/1e/d7/bf/1ed7bfc1-3b42-5c3e-0f23-f0b00b1fcdd2/ed195623-a72e-4717-aa48-3f57b553a8e0_image3.jpeg/392x696bb.jpg)
- [Screenshot 4](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/8d/2b/1e/8d2b1ed0-d772-2495-8fae-9d4e21c5b514/69f2830e-59d5-41c8-8c48-7bb51429b220_image4.jpeg/392x696bb.jpg)
- [Screenshot 5](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/PurpleSource211/v4/63/b2/5d/63b25d19-9b6e-7b16-fbef-6602cba94eaa/48c75465-fec7-4306-8b56-89aa55e912d2_image5.jpeg/392x696bb.jpg)

## Octal for Hacker News Rating Breakdown in United States
- 5 stars: 2,517 (89%)
- 4 stars: 205 (7%)
- 3 stars: 43 (2%)
- 2 stars: 19 (1%)
- 1 stars: 59 (2%)

## Octal for Hacker News Reviews in United States

### ***-- "Unreliable"
It’s good when it works. But it keeps saying “no connection” and won’t load stories or comments. The dev has attempted fixes, but the problem remains. I hope it gets fixed cos I like it when it works.
-- kahwhanji))72828, 2024-11-06

### ***** "Great app"
Thanks for the fixes
-- Mmjjgfdss, 2024-10-13

### ***** "App is one of my most used"
Developer is awesome and responsive. Happy to support him.
-- envoy510, 2024-10-13

### ***-- "X-Callback-URL not working"
With the latest update, the Opener app can only invoke this app but not able to redirect to the post anymore
-- jostyee, 2024-09-23

### ***** "Great app"
Best HN reader app there is!
-- zrreed, 2024-09-19

### ***** "I have started actually reading HN because of this app"
I always loved HN but it was annoying to use the website, this app does what it supposed to do :) no bloatware nothing absolute game changer 👌
-- rushi47, 2024-06-26

### *---- "Nothing loads"
Stuck on loading indicator
-- scranton boi, 2024-06-02

### ***-- "Apple Store Stuff w Octal"
I think this is a good little app. Sadly though it highlighted the individuals using App Store analytics as a day job being involved in a very serious stalking campaign. Have three identified- one uses identity at Facebook PickleRick and targeting a woman I do not know on OpieAnthony forums. Google, Apple, Facebook insiders confirmed. Even a Shell guy. Gettting paid to harass people while doing their day job. Physically violent in numerous cases. 

 Once app was installed they started changing user names on their ycombinator comments. What would appear to be a bit of fun gaslighting is actually quite serious with some human casualties. At least it is fundamentally clear the individuals involved have Apple Store install tracking and cross platform tracking ability. 

This really needs to be looked into architecturally and procedurally by Apple. Nestled in this group of folks changing names for comments is someone doing quite a lot of physical harm. Apple product security email has done no response on existing reported issues trying to get traceability for a police report as most of the situation is so odd it is hard to believe without facts and logs. Yet it is happening. I really need to identify the parties tracking my app installs. Like a lineup. I would surely be able to identify them if I had their true identity, I know enough about them. They really need to be incorporated into a law enforcement report. Reporting “anonymous” goes nowhere. It is a pretty horrifying drugging and violence case in my case, citing disinformation as motive. The app itself was decent. I like aggregated tech and security news.
-- DoesNotLikeFinn, 2024-03-11

### ****- "Good app with refresh issues"
This app is very well made with one issue: when refreshing the feed, the refresh indicator stops immediately, but the feed itself doesn’t refresh until seconds later. The indicator should be active during the full refresh time.
-- D R ez, 2024-01-13

### ***** "Works very well"
This app was one of my best purchases, I use it every day without issue. Would recommend.
-- ThisIsReallyDumb7400, 2023-12-16

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## Octal for Hacker News In-App Purchases
| Item | Price |
|------|-------|
| Premium | $5.99 |
| Kind Tip | $1.99 |
| Generous Tip | $4.99 |
| Extraordinary Tip | $9.99 |

## Octal for Hacker News Store Rankings
| Chart | Country | Category | Rank |
|-------|---------|----------|------|
| Top Free | Poland | News | #190 |
| Top Free | Austria | News | #230 |

## Octal for Hacker News Discovered Keywords
- hacker news
- science tech
- hackers for hacker news
- ycombinator
- octal
- hacker news client
- rss newsfeed
- hack the news

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