HN Pro vs Weave (for Typefully)
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HN Pro
This app provides a streamlined and efficient way to access Hacker News content. It allows users to browse stories, comment, upvote, and manage threads directly from their mobile device, mirroring the functionality of the web application.
- Browse Hacker News stories
- Reply to comments
- Upvote and hide stories
- Collapse comment threads
- Dark mode support
- Access to all HN lists
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HN Pro shows you Hacker News the way it was meant to be. If you want splashy animations and an unnecessary coat of paint, HN Pro may not be for you. But, if you've learned to love that classic orange and beige and want everything to just "work" like the web app, you've come to the right place. Browse your stories, reply to comments, upvote, hide, collapse threads, the list goes on. Do everything that you might want to do using your web browser, right in the palm of your hand. If you login with your account, any threads you collapse or stories you hide carry over to your web browser (and vice versa). Dark mode? Check. Comment replies? Check. Flagging, hiding, upvoting (and "unvoting"?)? Check. Access to all of the lists? Check (including /news, /show, /shownew, /ask, /best, /active, /newest, /classic, and /noobstories). Other features I probably forgot about? Check. Many other improvements are in the pipeline. Have an idea? Shoot me an email at dan@lionheartsw.com. Coming soon: push notifications for comment replies. Stay tuned.
Weave (for Typefully)
Write, schedule, and publish content to multiple social platforms from a single, intuitive interface. Seamlessly manage posts for Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, X, and LinkedIn with platform-specific character counts and easy thread creation. Schedule posts using natural language commands.
- Publish to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, X, LinkedIn
- Platform-specific character counters
- Easy thread creation with visual connectors
- Natural language scheduling
- Plain English scheduling options
- Write once, publish everywhere
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Weave is a native iOS app for Typefully users A proper native iOS app for Typefully. Write, schedule, and publish to all your social platforms from one beautiful interface built specifically for iPhone and iPad. ## Write once, publish everywhere Publish to Mastodon, Threads, Bluesky, X, and LinkedIn simultaneously. The platform picker shows your actual @username for each connected account ## Threads that just work Triple-newline to split a post into a new thread item. Each post gets its own character counter that's aware of which platform has the tightest limit. A visual thread connector between posts makes the structure obvious at a glance. ## Schedule in plain English "Tomorrow at 3pm", "in 2 hours", "next Tuesday at 9am" all work! Type it in plain English and it'll just work. Of course, there's also a classic date picker or you can use Typefully queue system. ## Completely free No ads. No in-app purchases. No subscriptions. You do, obvs, need a Typefully account. Requires iOS 26 or later and a Typefully account. Privacy Policy: https://birchtree.productions/apps/weave/privacy.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Weave (for Typefully) at 100% against HN Pro's 40%. Weave (for Typefully) also leads on rating (5.0 vs 3.5). HN Pro's advantage is ratings volume (8 vs 2) and iOS requirement (17.6 vs 26.0). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Weave (for Typefully) holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 8 and 2 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of HN Pro's written reviews are positive against 100% of Weave (for Typefully)'s.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 29, 2026 and July 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HN Pro | Weave (for Typefully) |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.5 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 5 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Lionheart Software LLC | Matt Birchler |
Customer experience
HN Pro
Weave (for Typefully)
In-app purchases
HN Pro
No in-app purchases
Weave (for Typefully)
No in-app purchases
