Discourse Hub User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience26.1% of reviews
Neutral13.8% of reviews
Negative experience60.1% of reviews

~ Based on 138 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

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Is Discourse Hub Legit?

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Top reviews

Nope.

I was given the impression that this would be a good alternative to discord.
It is in fact very much not.
Trying to just get set up to search for communities to join it’s trying to get me to set up my own community. Not something I’m interested in. Just want to set up my own community “profile” and find like minded people.
Though the fact that it does come out and say that they want everything to be searchable gives the impression that conversations wouldn’t be able to be deleted.
It does make me question the reality of the intent behind this community…
Will keep on looking.
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Notifications

Good app and prefer it to the browser but it won’t clear notifications and it’s driving me nuts as can’t get rid of the red number no matter what I do. I’ve deleted apps for that very reason before and hoping I don’t have to do that for this app.

Not native but pretty good

Its not a real app, but I still prefer it over the browser. Notifications also work better and it’s handy for those who use multiple forums. Seems like most bad reviews are years old; a lot has changed since then. Also world class support!

Blinding white refresh and slow, draft didn’t work

I have the app in dark mode. But when I to go back to my feed after trading a thread, I get a full white page that blinds me in the dark before it goes back.

Also, in my home network, where I have tracking protection enabled , loading of threads is very slow.

Lastly, I can no longer edit and write posts in iOS 26.1. Selection and buttons are not in the same place as they are shown on the screen.
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Blinding white refresh and slow

I have the app in dark mode. But when I to go back to my feed after trading a thread, I get a full white page that blinds me in the dark before it goes back.

Also, in my home network, where I have tracking protection enabled , loading of threads is very slow.

Not great

Web version much better. Tbh it’s pretty much web scrape anyway except the app hangs on login and doesn’t stay signed in. Not useful.

Now broken on iPadOS 17.7.10

I have been using this app quite happily on an older iPad tablet. Now the app seizes to function - it opens, connects to the forum, but the view then presented is not an interface that works in any way at all. What were clickable links are now all just plain text. I see I can report to “support” if I sign up to their forum, but frankly, I cba. Good luck!

Edit: now un-broken.
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Keeps forums out of my browser

I like to separate my concerns so value that this keeps the vast majority of my forum browsing self-contained.

There's one bug that has presisted for years, where editing a post jumps you somewhere up the thread. Super annoying.

Well, it does work some again

Update: since the release today, 4Oct2025, it works again. Wasn’t working at all for about a week.

This has been working reasonably well up until 26.0.1 & this release came out. It opens and then freezes. Does nothing, have to force quit.

NO longer works since latest release/26.0.1 release

This has been working reasonably well up until 26.0.1 & this release came out. It opens and then freezes. Does nothing, have to force quit.

Useful but a pain to use

The app is clearly useful to get notified, grouping discourse in a single place. However, writing posts is a difficult experience.

Also, since it's mainly a web view, there are issues with the css of some hubs worsening the experience. The app should take example of what slack is doing.

Normally good but not now

This is badly broken with iOS 26. Near impossible to write forum posts at the moment. Very fragile taking several attempts to write a simple post.

On my iPhone’s Home Screen

I’m a member of several Discourse communities, and this app allows me to easily keep abreast of all of them (or even just one, if that were the case).

I can easily see what’s New and Unread, I get notifications for all Discourse communities I’m signed up to, and the excellent interface for (quickly) entering and interacting with a Discourse community help make this one of my most commonly used apps.

Highly recommended if you use Discourse.
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Großartig

Ideal, um unterwegs oder gemütlich auf der Couch aktuellen Diskussionen zu folgen. Insbesondere die neue Top Threads Funktion ist perfekt geeignet, mal eben zwischendurch zu schauen was es Neues gibt.

How

APP occupies more and more storage space; how to deal with the accumulated cache space?

Response from developer

Thanks for the report, I can reproduce the same issue, we will work on a fix.

very useful

i use it daily to follow 9 communities. it’s good to receive a notification when someone cites me. or to write something on the road.

Does the trick!

This app lets you hook up multiple Discourse sites, so that you can use them all in a single app. There are some bugs but it absolutely works.

Does the job perfectly

I love the new swipe to enter chat feature a lot!

Most recent update broke the connections

I have reported this on the Discourse meta, but I figured I would report it here. Since the latest update it appears to have broken the connection to the forum accounts, they will not connect

Navigation is terrible

While the option to structure and create the topics is amazing, the overall navigation is just a nightmare. The menu is absolutely confusing and you end up giving up in finding the required information.