# Hacker News - Latest in Tech — A powerful Hacker News reader.

> Fast, customizable Hacker News reader with AI summaries and iCloud sync. (iPhone/iPad app by Snap Web Studios.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hacker-news-latest-in-tech/id1573004386 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Snap Web Studios](https://appshunter.io/developer/496259214)
- Category: News, Business
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.70/5 from 35 App Store ratings · 24 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 12+
- Requires: iOS 17.4 · 20 MB
- Languages: American English
- Released: 2021-09-20
- Data updated: 2026-08-25
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hacker-news-latest-in-tech/id1573004386/reviews.md

## What is Hacker News?

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!

## Key features

- Fast browsing of feeds and comments
- iCloud sync for favorites and read status
- Customizable story groups by topic
- Lightning-fast search
- AI-powered story summaries
- Ad-free reading experience
- Home screen widgets

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Small Tip | $0.99 | one-time |
| Medium Tip | $2.99 | one-time |
| Large Tip | $4.99 | one-time |
| Extra Large Tip | $19.99 | one-time |


## Recent user reviews (10 of 24)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hacker-news-latest-in-tech/id1573004386/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Top HN App at a glance

*2025-06-09*

Just downloaded 6 HN apps and added a Safari link to Home Screen, and this is the “quick test” winner for all-around features and design.

Impressive first reaction.

### 4/5 — Good bug needs love

*2025-04-29, version 1.1.2*

Links in comments don’t work, they’re truncated with  …

### 5/5 — Copy Comments

*2025-04-18*

Awesome app! Thank you! 
Please add “copy comment” action. I want to copy it as text and send to translator.

### 5/5 — The

*2025-03-26, version 1.1.2*

App

### 3/5 — Broken links

*2024-12-21*

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.

### 4/5 — Great start, one suggestion

*2024-07-31*

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?

### 2/5 — Good app ruined by poor UI changes

*2024-06-08, version 1.1.2*

Recently the story details have moved to the bottom. This is not a great change. I wish it was optional and was a preference. Would be 4 stars otherwise.

### 4/5 — Great, with one new issue

*2024-05-28, version 1.1.1*

A great app, but the story summary bar has moved from the top to the bottom in the most recent update. Please make this a preference, rather than forcing this quite major change!

Another issue is that URLs that are abbreviated/elided now do not work - the underlying hyperlink has been shortened as well as the displayed text. This was not previously an issue.

### 5/5 — Amazing app. 1 catch

*2024-03-21*

If there were a way to upvote/ comment within the app itself - that’d be amazing. I’m not sure if HN exposes these APIs though.

### 4/5 — Quick feedback / suggestion

*2023-10-20*

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.

## Frequently asked questions about Hacker News

### What does this Hacker News app do?

This app provides a fast and highly customizable way to browse Y Combinator's Hacker News. It allows you to read the latest startup, technology, programming, and science news, view threaded comments, and utilize features like AI-powered summaries and time estimates for articles.

### What are the key features of this app?

Key features include fast browsing, iCloud synchronization for your reading activity across devices, the ability to create custom groups for saving stories by topic, lightning-fast search, AI-powered summaries, an ad-free reading experience, and customizable themes and icons.

### Is this app free to use?

The app is free to download and use, offering a complete Hacker News reading experience. While the core functionality is free, users can support the app's development through optional tips, which are considered in-app purchases.

### What devices is this app compatible with?

This app is optimized for Apple devices, specifically designed for both iPhone and iPad. It offers features like iPad keyboard shortcuts and Home Screen widgets to enhance the user experience on these platforms.

### How can I organize my news with this app?

You can organize your news by creating custom groups based on topics. This allows you to easily save and access stories related to programming, science, or any other subject you choose, keeping them neatly organized and accessible across all your devices.

## Version history (last 4 releases)

### 1.1.2 — 2024-05-28

Fix local list load times.

### 1.1.1 — 2024-05-24

Fix open in external browser preference.

### 1.1 — 2024-05-24

Fix double labels in settings and more.

### 1.0 — 2021-09-20

No release notes.

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