HackerWeb vs Lenovo Pulse
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
Lenovo Pulse
Stay informed with global news and event updates. This application delivers timely information from around the world, keeping you connected to current affairs.
- Global news updates
- Event information
- Timely delivery
- World events
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Lenovo Pulse keeps you up to date with all of the news and events from around the World.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Lenovo Pulse at Free against HackerWeb's $2.99. Lenovo Pulse also leads on iOS requirement (9.0 vs 26.0). HackerWeb's advantage is ratings volume (10 vs 1) and chart position (#36 vs unranked). On rating, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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
Lenovo Pulse is free to download; HackerWeb costs $2.99 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 Lenovo Pulse. 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.
| Parameter | HackerWeb | Lenovo Pulse |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 85.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 10 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | #36 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 29 MB | 42 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Chee Aun Lim | Lenovo(Beijing) Limited |
Customer experience
HackerWeb
Lenovo Pulse
In-app purchases
HackerWeb
No in-app purchases
Lenovo Pulse
No in-app purchases









