HackerWeb vs LIVE CCTV Camera
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HackerWeb
A clean and readable client for Hacker News, designed with iOS guidelines in mind. It offers intuitive navigation for stories and comments, automatic dark mode, and code syntax highlighting.
- Dual Web and Comments tabs
- Revolutionary comments thread UI
- Automatic Dark mode
- Smart indentations and formatting
- Automatic syntax highlighting for code blocks
- Upvoting and replying
- Comment's 'Thread view'
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HackerWeb is a super-clean Hacker News app built for maximum readability and has a lean set of features to optimize the reading experience. It’s created specifically with iOS design guidelines in mind, so it feels native and blends well with the operating system. It has a simple set of features that are usually invisible: - Dual Web and Comments tabs for easy switching between the story’s web page and the list of comments - Revolutionary comments thread UI for easy navigation, with smart collapsing to prevent being overwhelmed by too many comments - Automatic Dark mode, respecting the system’s appearance settings. - Smart indentations and formatting for comments, complementing the existing limited formatting from Hacker News. - Automatic syntax highlighting for code blocks in comments, with best-effort programming language detection. - Allow interactions like upvoting and replying, which opens up web view with login information and sessions stored in itself, instead of the app. - Comment’s “Thread view” to list all parent comments of a comment, on a flat list, for easy reading instead of manually drilling down the nested comments. - “Share as Image” for comments, which allows sharing of a specific comment, optionally including the parent comments and/or story, as an image. HackerWeb is an unofficial Hacker News client, built with React Native and Expo. This is a passion side project for learning and experimenting ideas. Since 2012. Open-sourced: https://github.com/cheeaun/hackerweb-native-2
LIVE CCTV Camera
Explore live public camera feeds from around the world in a realistic CCTV control room environment. This app features real-time footage and a player supporting up to 8 cameras and any video format.
- Public LIVE camera footages
- Real-time footages
- Supports 8 cameras simultaneously
- Supports any video format
- CCTV control room environment
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FEATURES * Public LIVE Camera Footages. * Real time Footages. * CCTV player that supports 8 camera at once. * Stream player can support any video format. * CCTV Control room environment.
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Verdict
HackerWeb and LIVE CCTV Camera both sit at 5.0 stars, but that hides the real split: 86% of HackerWeb's written reviews are positive against 0% of LIVE CCTV Camera's. HackerWeb also leads on update cadence (every 5 months vs every 21 months) and ratings volume (10 vs 1). LIVE CCTV Camera's advantage is device support (4 vs 2) and price ($1.99 vs $2.99). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
HackerWeb costs $2.99 and LIVE CCTV Camera $1.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for HackerWeb against 5.0 for LIVE CCTV Camera. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: HackerWeb has 10 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of HackerWeb's written reviews are positive against 0% of LIVE CCTV Camera's.
HackerWeb ships an update every 5 months, LIVE CCTV Camera every 21 months. Both last shipped on September 10, 2026.
| Parameter | HackerWeb | LIVE CCTV Camera |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | $1.99 — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 21 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #39 — better | #43 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 11.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 64 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chee Aun Lim | Zaheer udeen Babar |
Customer experience
HackerWeb
LIVE CCTV Camera
In-app purchases
HackerWeb
No in-app purchases
LIVE CCTV Camera
No in-app purchases









