# Hacker News — user reviews > 37 indexed App Store user reviews of Hacker News by Michael Grinich, rated 2.40/5 from 17 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hacker-news/id339408916/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hacker-news/id339408916.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 2 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 6 · 1★ 6 ## Newest reviews (14 of 37) ### 2/5 — A good effort *2012-08-03* Very good, if a little mediocre. Bravo. ### 3/5 — Slightly broken *2012-06-18* Usernames and karma have gone...and I can't login, but it's good for reading the latest and 'hot' news. I would also call the things that have broken a feature, no bias! ### 2/5 — Paid apps usually have more support... *2012-02-09* This app is still useable, however the login has been broken for months now and feel as if the developer(s) have abandoned it. At $3 and for being a relatively easy app to build I expected for it to at least work. Overall just disappointed in the support ### 2/5 — Needs an update. Badly! *2011-12-20* Used to be the best HN reader out there, but now login is completely broken. Avoid it until it gets an update. ### 2/5 — Needs an update *2011-08-17* A number of things are broken -- most annoyingly the commenter's name. This app badly needs an update. ### 2/5 — Don't buy, needs to be updated *2011-06-17* I've used this app daily for monthes. It is broken, and doesn't offer the features of the 'news:yc' app. This one is not worth the money, in my opinion. ### 3/5 — Works, but broken point display *2011-06-10* It's got a lot of features, but after logging in the point count doesn't display properly (displays zero for all stories). I'm going to try news:yc instead. ### 2/5 — It's been busted for awhile now. *2011-05-11* I keep waiting for an update in vain. This thing is broken. If it was free it'd be worth the cost. Save your $3 ### 3/5 — Best HN app, still needs work *2011-05-09* It's great for the most part. Best one in the App Store. Still could use some work, more frequent updates/bug fixes. Like, for example, ever since HN switched the scoring mechanism on posts + comments the usernames have been broken on this app. It would also be nice to be able to browse profiles and other streams like "new," etc. ### 3/5 — Not up to date *2011-04-29* Please incorporate the latest changes in vote counting! Otherwise: awesome! ### 2/5 — Needs an update *2011-04-26* A few weeks ago the app has started acting up. Possibly something YCombinator changed but you can't tell anyone's name in comments. Also if I login with my account and refresh the stories all comment counts drop to 0. If this were a free app I wouldn't have bothered to do a review but since it cost 2.99 I figured people should know before they drop their money on it. If all you do is read stories and read comments and don't care about 2.99 then the app is great, any other use, forget it. ### 3/5 — No OpenID login *2010-10-23* Otherwise nice ### 2/5 — Not great *2010-10-16* * Loses current page if you switch to another app or if you close the app (needs update for multi-tasking) * Doesn't cache article list * Doesn't deal well with patchy Internet access - seems to be loading a page when it's not etc... ### 3/5 — Works ok, but not great *2010-05-26* I really love hacker news so I was excited when I saw this app. Biggest drawback by far was the lacking of the ability to "go to the next page" or in other words, load more stories. You are limited to the 20 or so stories the app loads. This does not bold well for anyone who reads hacker news more than once a day. I wouldn't buy the app again if I had the choice. Everything else in the app works fine, loads fast, good display, never crashes. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Login doesn't work *2012-07-16* Just gives me a bunch of repeated popup msgs saying I can't log in with that username/pass combination. I've just used it successfully on the HN website, so this must be a bug in the app. Also, no feedback option. ### 1/5 — I can't believe I paid for this *2011-12-22* Crashes if you try to log in ### 1/5 — Couldnt even log in / No "New" feed *2011-11-20* Logging in won't work with correct credentials and there's no way to switch views to see what's new. ### 1/5 — No longer works *2011-07-11* Has gradually broken more and more over time. As of about a week ago, doesn't work at all. ### 1/5 — Broken on iPhone 3G *2011-06-07* Don't buy this app if you're on anything older than a 3GS. It only works occasionally - usually, it just hangs on startup and then crashes. The app itself is decent enough when it works, but probably not worth the price anyways given that it's just another feed scraper. The developer should either fix these issues or mark it as unavailable for older hardware/OS versions. ### 1/5 — Update required *2011-05-14* Changes to HN broke the app, so you can't see usernames on comments or the number of comments on posts ### 1/5 — No longer works correctly *2011-05-06* This app needs to be updated, comment count does not work, comment usernames don't show, and the orange bar is a tad too much. Michael: fix those things and I promise to revise my review. Please look at AlenBlue app for an elegant way to hide the "chrome" around the app. ### 1/5 — Does not really work *2011-04-28* Does not really work, tons of bugs. Needs to be updated by dev. ### 1/5 — Would love to love this app *2011-04-21* But it doesn't really work. The commenters' names aren't displayed, and I seem to be stuck in an endless "no Internet connection" loop. Pass for now. ### 1/5 — Lack essential feature *2010-12-04* I cannot browse after the 30th firsts top news. I cannot browse the new news. AND I CANNOT VOTE! Is that a joke? Without these feature, this app doesn't worth any buck. I am disappointed. Please change this. ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Love(d) this app *2011-05-05* I'm giving this app 5 stars in the hope that it will be fixed soon. ### 5/5 — Does exactly what I need *2011-02-15* Provides the exact amount of functionality I was looking for. ### 5/5 — Love it, especially new updates. *2010-11-15* This app is great for reading Hacker News on your iPhone -- much easier than browsing the website directly. Also lets you view the comment threads, which are often better than the articles themselves. I use this app every day, and would have rated this 4 stars before, but the most-recent update adds email and instapaper integration, along with iOS 4 multitasking (so leaving and returning to the app puts you back in the same place) -- which puts it at a solid 5 stars. ### 5/5 — Fast, Simple *2009-12-09* Works well. ### 4/5 — Simple and convenient *2011-02-24* Great app, does what you would expect. The ability to collapse comment (sub)trees would be really great though. ### 4/5 — Works great *2010-09-06* Great way to read HN on the iPhone. All it's missing is the ability to send to instapaper like NetNewsWire has. ### 4/5 — Just what you would have written *2010-06-02* Must be dogfood. Clean, iPhonic interface to HN. Inclusion of Readability a great help. If you've ever attempted to read HN in Safari, you'll easily find this app worth the price. ### 4/5 — Very nice, no problems. *2010-03-02* A little more than I'd like to pay for a basic reader but I know devs gotta eat too. ### 4/5 — Good app needs a few more features *2010-01-24* Good app, I read hacker news daily now with it. However I wish it let me log in to vote on stories. Also it doesn't seem to have a way to see posts older then today. ### 4/5 — Halfway there. *2010-01-18* Useful app. Comes in handy daily when I need my HN fix. However, an update with ability to comment and vote is needed. --- *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.*