HN Reader User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience46.7% of reviews
Neutral6.7% of reviews
Negative experience46.7% of reviews

~ Based on 15 written reviews from the US App Store.

Is HN Reader Safe?

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Is HN Reader Legit?

HN Reader - Hacker News Reader appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for HN Reader is 80/100.

Based on 80 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Nice Open Source project - HN Reader does what it says on the tin!

Well done to the developer. This is a well-written Open Source project which does a good job of rendering the content from YCombinator Hacker News on iOS platforms.

Can't view comments

Everything is listed as having 0 comments.

Good app but no comments

I've never been able to see comments with this app. Latest iOS using 6s+

Comments don't work

The app can't show comments

Good app, works well on watch, but comments bug!

The names of the commenters appear, but there is never any text under any of them. Please fix! :(

No comments

Looks promising but all the comments are blank in this version. Would love pinboard.in integration too.

Doesn't show comments

Seems to be broken, comments aren't loading in this version

worse with each version

totally broken, displays just empty list

When it works, the app has some serious omissions: there are no back/forward buttons in the in-app web-browser. It also doesn't allow you to visually distinguish between new, read and old articles.

It doesn't allow you to open a page in Safari before it's fully loaded
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Broken

The article list loads but it doesn't display number of votes, number of comments or how long ago the link was posted. Hitting the comments button loads a empty screen instead of comments. Presumably needs an update to match HN's current API

Cool

Great so far, nice UX. The app icon could look nicer :)

no ads, n widget are good, but crashes on tapping "more"

itd also be nice if one could start new posts or get mobilized versions of the page.

Nearly good

When opening a story and then going back to the list, it scrolls up so that you miss your place. If this bug were to be fixed, it would be really good. But it's a big bug that makes it unusable. iPhone 6+. Doesn't seem to be anywhere else to leave bug reports...

Love the read later feature

Just needs log in but great for when I just need to read

Best HN App

This is definitely the top Hacker News app on the store now. Nice layout. Works great!

Awesome

Awesome initial app. I'd love to see logging in and being able to comment / at least up vote.