HackerWeb - Hacker News client

🇺🇸 United States
Chee Aun Lim  | 
63
ASO score
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77/100
Reviews
50/100
Graphic
60/100
Other
0/100
rating
App Rating
5
rating
Votes
27
rating
App Age
9y 9m
rating
Last Update
Dec 02, 2025

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Current App
Category Top Average
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Rating
5
4.55
+10%
Number of Ratings (Voted)
23
1M
-100%
App Age
9y 9m
12y 11m
-24%
Price
$3
$0
In-app Purchases Price
$0
$92
Update Frequency
19d
36d
-47%
Title Length
30
22
+36%
Subtitle Length
28
22
+27%
Description Length
1 521
2 541
-40%
Number of Screenshots
666
1538
-57 %
Size
29MB
119MB
-76 %

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HackerWeb - Hacker News client
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Read-only Hacker News client
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HackerWeb is a super-clean Hacker News app built for maximum readability and has a lean set of features to optimize the reading experience. It’s created specifically with iOS design guidelines in mind, so it feels native and blends well with the operating system. It has a simple set of features that are usually invisible: - Dual Web and Comments tabs for easy switching between the story’s web page and the list of comments - Revolutionary comments thread UI for easy navigation, with smart collapsing to prevent being overwhelmed by too many comments - Automatic Dark mode, respecting the system’s appearance settings. - Smart indentations and formatting for comments, complementing the existing limited formatting from Hacker News. - Automatic syntax highlighting for code blocks in comments, with best-effort programming language detection. - Allow interactions like upvoting and replying, which opens up web view with login information and sessions stored in itself, instead of the app. - Comment’s “Thread view” to list all parent comments of a comment, on a flat list, for easy reading instead of manually drilling down the nested comments. - “Share as Image” for comments, which allows sharing of a specific comment, optionally including the parent comments and/or story, as an image. HackerWeb is an unofficial Hacker News client, built with React Native and Expo. This is a passion side project for learning and experimenting ideas. Since 2012. Open-sourced: https://github.com/cheeaun/hackerweb-native-2}
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Rating
5
27 voters

Some Latest Reviews

filipe.herculano
29 Mar, 2024
5
I’m an avid reader of HN, despite that I really dislike their UX for threading replies on their website. When I found the HackerWeb.App PWA I switched it and never came back. Recently I found you published an iOS Native one, I think I still like the PWA better but I love the cool threading style on this one. It also performs better than the PWA. The ability to switch between webview and comments view is phenomenal too — definitely a great feature add that lacks in the PWA version. When I saw this was open source, I considered building it myself and having it for free, but then I realized how I used the PWA for free for many years and how it would take me time to build and maintain the iOS one just to save a couple bucks. Shame on me, glad to purchase and finally give back to you who made my experience reading HN better. Thank you @cheeaun !

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Additional Information
Rating:
5
Voted: 27
App Store Link:
Price: 2.99 $
Website:
Email: -
Privacy Policy:
Categories: News
Size: 28MB
App Age: 9 years 9 months
Release Date: Mar 01, 2016
Last Update: Dec 02, 2025
Version: 3.0.1
Version history
3.0.1
Dec 02, 2025
Bug fixes
3.0.0
Nov 18, 2025
Updated for iOS 26

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