# Hazumi for Hacker News — user reviews

> 6 indexed App Store user reviews of Hazumi for Hacker News by James O'Reilly, rated 3.80/5 from 5 ratings.

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hazumi-for-hacker-news/id1670237209/reviews
- App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/hazumi-for-hacker-news/id1670237209.md
- Rating breakdown: 5★ 3 · 4★ 0 · 3★ 0 · 2★ 2 · 1★ 0

## Most critical reviews (6 lowest-rated)

### 2/5 — Sure, it’s cute..

*2025-04-19*

There’s no sorting, no comment management, no custom views, just the handful of views the devs think you want. No tracking of your location in the feed, no tracking of what’s been read. I’m not impressed.

**Developer response:** Thank you for the feedback! Hazumi is far from "finished", and I’d be happy to add these features in. I always welcome feature requests because I want to build the best Hacker News reader 🙏

### 2/5 — AI feature disappointing and slow animations

*2023-10-02*

The AI feature doesn’t summarize the article; it only summarizes the comments.
The animation of the navbar at the button isn’t at native framerate; it is slower.

**Developer response:** Update: Article summaries are now included in the latest update for all users for free!Thank you for the feedback! I’m constantly exploring new AI features to add and article summarisation sounds great so this is now on the roadmap. 
I already have some ideas as to what’s causing animations to have that 30fps effect in the navbar on ProMotion screens.
I hope you look forward to the next update!

### 5/5 — Best Hacker News App

*2026-02-24*

The UI is beautiful and smooth. The dev responds to feedback like lightning and it’s just a brilliant app. Bosh 👊🏼

**Developer response:** Hey, yeah agree that’s a nice idea. I've just added this to the next update, thank you for the review and feedback!

### 5/5 — Excellent HN experience

*2025-04-20*

AI summaries of news stories and comments. Better user interface.

**Developer response:** Thank you so much! I’m thrilled to hear you’re enjoying Hazumi. I’m open to feedback and feature requests too. Let’s build the best Hacker News reader 🙏

### 5/5 — Best dev! Hidden Gem

*2025-03-24*

I bought this sure unseen based off the dev response….i just typed out a huge review and the App Store crashed so I’m going to come back and restore it later.

**Developer response:** Thank you so much! I’d love to hear what you think of Hazumi and if you have any feature requests. Super happy to see this review though

### 5/5 — Happy pro user here! 🙋🏻‍♀️

*2023-10-11*

I’m really really happy with the app, it has a beautiful and intuitive interface, and the widget is hands down the best feature. Before using it I’d rarely gravitate towards opening the app and checking articles, but seeing an interesting headline while browsing my phone gets me curious and reading. The other features like the summaries and built-in simple reader are awesome. Thanks for making a (no joke) life changing app!

**Developer response:** Thank you so much for the kind review and being a Pro subscriber! I'm super happy you're enjoying the widget too. It's also available on the Lock Screen and I'm putting the final touches on an update to add support for iOS 17's StandBy mode. I hope you look forward to even more features coming your way soon 🙏

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*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 2026-08-18.*