Comparison

HackerWeb vs Legipoint

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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'
Features
Currently charting
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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

About

Legipoint

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Monitor congressional activity throughout the day. Search our extensive bill, member, and roll call vote data. Get push notifications for congressional activity and tracked bills. This is a simple, intuitive, and easy to use app which lets you: - Keep track of recent bill activity and roll call votes - Find current and historical congressional bills with unmatched precision and granularity - Read bill texts and Congressional Research Service (CRS) bill summaries - View member info such as sponsored bills and voting history - Track bills to keep an eye on them - Receive alerts on roll call votes, bill actions, and tracked bill progress A simple and intuitive platform for your team and organization!

Screenshots

HackerWeb2 screens
Legipoint4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Legipoint at Free against HackerWeb's $2.99. Legipoint also leads on iOS requirement (12.0 vs 26.0). HackerWeb's advantage is chart position (#40 vs unranked). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Legipoint is free to download; HackerWeb costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard3 real differences · 8 level
HackerWeb versus Legipoint: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHackerWebLegipoint
Price$2.99Free — better
Rating5.0 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews85.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 5 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
Best chart rank#40 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS26.012.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size29 MB59 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperChee Aun LimPrimepoint Systems LLC

In-app purchases

None

HackerWeb

No in-app purchases

None

Legipoint

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is HackerWeb free?
HackerWeb costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is Legipoint free?
Legipoint is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do HackerWeb or Legipoint have ads?
Neither HackerWeb nor Legipoint shows ads.

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