# HACK for Hacker News YC Reader — user reviews > 163 indexed App Store user reviews of HACK for Hacker News YC Reader by Pranoy Chowdhury, rated 4.70/5 from 1,568 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hack-for-hacker-news-yc-reader/id1464477788/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hack-for-hacker-news-yc-reader/id1464477788.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 1,331 · 4★ 104 · 3★ 40 · 2★ 24 · 1★ 69 ## Newest reviews (17 of 163) ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2026-03-25, version 151* This is the best HN app I’ve found. The developer is super responsive, the app is very well designed, and even the non-premium app is very full featured. I of course recommend going premium to support amazing people like Pran! ### 5/5 — The best HN client *2026-03-24, version 150* After spending years with a now unmaintained app I tried out several clients for Hacker News, this came out on top. It's highly customisable, quick to load and the dev is very helpful. ### 5/5 — Great platform *2026-02-16, version 146* Always impressed by the new information ### 5/5 — Greatness *2025-12-29, version 146* Thanks y’all ### 5/5 — Simple & Effective HN reader *2025-12-01, version 146* Many thoughtful features. ### 5/5 — The best HN client *2025-11-28, version 146* I’ve used many hacker news clients in my 15 years as a user and HACK is by far the best one. It’s feature rich, stable and allows you to post, comment and vote. ### 5/5 — So nice!! *2025-11-04, version 146* Clean! ### 5/5 — Great reader and responsive developer *2025-10-21, version 146* This is a well designed reader, and I love that it runs on all of the major Apple platforms. I recently reported a bug in the Mac app and the developer fixed it promptly. I highly recommend this app. ### 4/5 — Great app on iOS, but macOS app is lacking *2025-10-19, version 145* I was happy to purchase premium for this because I use it nearly daily, but was sad to see the macOS version is just the iOS version ported over. It’s not particularly good UX. ### 5/5 — Great iPad app for hacker news *2025-10-14, version 145* Really well done, lots of options, dev still updating regularly. ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2025-10-13, version 145* This is the best HN app I’ve found. The developer is super responsive, the app is very well designed, and even the non-premium app is very full featured. I of course recommend going premium to support amazing people like Pran! ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2025-09-01, version 141* This is the best HN app I’ve found. The developer is super responsive, the app is very well designed, and even the non-premium app is very full featured. I of course recommend going premium to support amazing people like Pran! ### 5/5 — Best reader for HN *2025-08-28, version 141* Perfect balance of features and simplicity! ### 5/5 — Temu *2025-08-24, version 140* I’m selling gold cash treasure etc have an honest gander ### 5/5 — Best in class *2025-08-18, version 140* Great app and the developer is super responsive. ### 4/5 — Nice reader *2025-08-12, version 140* 👍 ### 5/5 — I love it *2025-08-03, version 140* I love it ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — The worst iOS app *2026-03-25, version 150* The irony of being the worst iOS app while being targeted at developers. ### 1/5 — Hack me bro *2026-01-04, version 146* BRO I SAID MY PASS IN THE APP AND THEY HACKED ME ### 1/5 — Horrible *2023-03-10, version 94* Horrible people ### 1/5 — update broke everything *2022-10-01, version 87* the new update broke the home screen of the app. It says I’m in the home section but it’s a blank page with no feed. Terrible app. ### 1/5 — App is breaking too often *2022-09-29, version 86* Very unreliable. Often loads with a blank page or loads all the links as posted “just now” with no comments and no ability to open comments ### 1/5 — Awful *2021-02-08* To use dark mode you should buy premium, seriously? In 2021? **Developer response:** My app gives dark mode for free on a per launch basis. So as long as you don’t force quit the app, dark mode should continue working. And even after a force quit and launch, you can simply switch is on again. This way I am able to provide all features for free including important features like commenting and voting and making new posts. If you have questions, you can email me at pran@pranapps.com ### 3/5 — La version française ! *2025-10-12* Il faut une version fR **Developer response:** Thank you for the feedback. I will work on localizing the app to French language. ### 3/5 — Probably the best for HN, still lacking *2023-06-18, version 100* No doubt this is the best HN app I’ve used but it doesn’t hold a candle to something like Apollo which I consider(ed) the gold standard for a link aggregator client. Tap targets are way too small, must but almost half of what the HIG recommends. I find it infuriating to try to tap the “…” or upvote button only to have it collapse the thread and rinse and repeat 3-10 times before it works. Reply notifications and logged in status in general is extremely buggy. I randomly get logged out so I’ll be browsing, go to upvote, and get a generic error. It’s at this point I’ll notice the “Downvote” option is missing but the app will still show me logged in. Sometimes the only fix is to kill the app and/or log out/in again. Similarly, clicking on the bell/notification icon will randomly tell me “You haven’t enabled reply notifications” which is a setting I’ve never toggled off, yet it gets toggled off on me without any action on my part. The app works well overall but interacting with posts and the inconsistent/buggy auth status drive me bonkers. ### 3/5 — It's ok *2022-03-26, version 69* It's ok. Does literally what it's supposed to, though I'm spoiled by all of the amazing UX of Apollo. But! It hard freezes ALL. THE. TIME. In a short session I have to kill the app three or four times. Boooooo. ### 3/5 — 5 stars until the app froze *2021-02-07, version 30.0* Tried a few hacker news clients, this one was most intuitive to use. Gave it 5 stars until the app froze after sending a few links to the browser. Hopefully the problem will get resolved soon. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Good but *2026-08-07, version 163* Can u guys pls add a tutorial and I need to get help but it kinda ez ### 5/5 — Solid App- across the board! *2026-07-26, version 163* This is my favorite app and is constantly improving. Great work, buddy! ### 5/5 — much more pleasant interaction *2026-07-06, version 156* I only wish it would sync read articles and comment branches between devices ### 5/5 — The best *2026-06-23, version 156* This is the best Hacker News reader there is. Smooth, powerful, and complete. ### 5/5 — Best so far *2026-06-20, version 156* No purchase needed, no ads. Probably will pay the $5 to support the dev, though, because this kind of functionality is rare for ios apps without either ads or in-app purchases. Quite the hidden gem. Lots of settings to choose from. I especially like being able to select the text of a comment to copy by long-pressing on a comment, and from there, there are a lot of options, including copying the text as a whole, or selecting a certain part of the text as it pops up with the options. Now will look for other apps made by this dev! Edit: decided to purchase, it’s worth it ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2026-06-19, version 156* This is the best HN app I’ve found. The developer is super responsive, the app is very well designed, and even the non-premium app is very full featured. I of course recommend going premium to support amazing people like Pran! ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2026-05-27, version 154* This is the best HN app I’ve found. The developer is super responsive, the app is very well designed, and even the non-premium app is very full featured. I of course recommend going premium to support amazing people like Pran! ### 5/5 — Awesome app *2026-05-19, version 153* This is the best HN app I’ve found. The developer is super responsive, the app is very well designed, and even the non-premium app is very full featured. I of course recommend going premium to support amazing people like Pran! ### 5/5 — Dev is S Tier *2026-04-16, version 151* Plain and simple, this guys is insane. Insanely good, answers to all feature requests, etc. App itself is solid, just like hn crowd ### 5/5 — A+++ *2026-04-14, version 151* amazing site|app|dev --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-08-27.*