Hackers for Hacker News User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience62.5% of reviews
Neutral19.3% of reviews
Negative experience18.2% of reviews

~ Based on 88 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is Hackers for Hacker News Safe?

Hackers for Hacker News appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for Hackers for Hacker News is 91/100.

This assessment is based on 427 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

90.9% of ratings point to a safe experience
4.2% of ratings suggest some concerns
4.9% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 427 App Store ratings for Hackers for Hacker News.

Is Hackers for Hacker News Legit?

Hackers for Hacker News appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Hackers for Hacker News is 85/100.

Based on 85 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Doesn’t work on iPad

Not able to see the comments on iPad.. mobile is perfect but wish iPad worked well

A decent reader for HN

This has been a great daily reader for HN. I’ve never logged in through it, but the read only experience is excellent. The design is clean and highly readable, looks great on my OLED screen.

Good reader

Can’t seem to login to my account even after resetting my password. No VPN on either. Otherwise, it’s a good app.

new ui sucks

Please revert it back, the new UI is really ugly. Components are too spaced, cant find a good font size; too much empty space everywhere. Appreciate the attempt, but it's really bad. Makes me want to look for other options.

Latest update sucks

The app's latest update sucks. I only want to copy the link but it keeps copying the thread title alongside the URL which is so frickin annoying. Please remove this and return it to the way it was. I only want to copy the URL, not the superfluous text. I’ll change my review to 5 stars otherwise.

Cool app

It is a nice looking app, pretty simple.
One request I have is if it’s possible to show the actual post instead of just the title

Weird redesign

App was great, before this unnecessary redesign which now makes every news too big. We can only reduce the font size, but the padding is way too big, and the buttons for upvotes/downvotes ate taking way too much space.

Beautiful UI

This app looks absolutely gorgeous and so native in iOS 26, could’ve fooled me that Apple made it. Huge props to the dev!

The perfect iOS app for hackernews

GOTO Title

Broke a few months back

This app no longer loads comments and just says can’t connect to hackers news. Been going on for months. I’ve moved on.

Reliable

Simple and reliable. Thank you for no ads.

Unnecessary permissions

Recently it requested permission to connect to other devices on my network, this is completely unacceptable for an app like this.

I can only assume this is for invasive and intrusive analytics and telemetry gathering, which is very gross. This app would otherwise get a five star.

Honey I swear, it’s not Hinge!

Great app. Just be careful using it late at night!

Almost perfect

Missing feature: replies!

Nice overall with small complaint

Very nice app, looks very polished with black mode. One problem — the app is too sensitive to sideways movements when scrolling up or down. This results in either the left or night options being pulled from the side rather than actually scrolling. I’ve never experienced this on another app so don’t feel it’s just the way I scroll? It enough creates minor friction with enough frequency to move to another app unfortunately.
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Nice UI, but hugely frustrating scroll

When you’re scrolling comments it keeps opening the swipe left/right menu, meaning you need to be very careful with how you scroll thereby removing the focus from actually reading

cozy app to browse hacker news

W updates keep it going man thank you.

Marche pas

Pas de chargement des articles

Literally the best Hacker News app

It’s not even a contest. This is it.

Used to be good, lately very buggy!

This app was almost perfect, and a great way to read and interact with hacker news..

However lately it’s been a mess. The share link it’s getting duplicated and finicky. The recent issues loading post and the bug “fixes” don’t seem to be working (it’s still not loading for me) has sent me off to find something else.
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