Hacked.It vs Focus for Reddit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hacked.It
A minimalist tech news reader offering a clean and simple interface to browse Hacker News and Reddit. Enjoy a dark mode experience with large, easy-to-read text.
- Reads Hacker News
- Reads Reddit
- Minimalist design
- Dark mode
- Clean UI
- Large text
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Read Hacker News & Reddit in one place! A minimalist dark mode tech news reader. Clean & simple UI with big text! *** Credits: github/RCiesielczuk/HackerBuzz-ReactNative
Focus for Reddit
An unofficial, open-source Reddit browser offering a unique, customizable interface. It supports offline browsing, multi-account access, and advanced content filtering. Enjoy a rich viewing experience with various layout options and powerful moderation tools.
- Multi-account and guest mode support
- Highly customizable themes and design
- Full offline capability with automatic syncing
- Advanced content filtering system
- Rich viewing modes (compact, card, gallery)
- Powerful moderation suite
- Ad-blocking for websites (Pro)
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Focus for Reddit is a feature-packed, open-source(Based on open source software Slide which is unavaliable and no longer maintained now), unofficial browser for Reddit. Focus has a unique and beautiful design that is easy to use and contains tons of customization options. Highlights: • Support multi-accounts and guest mode • Gorgeous and unique design that is both pleasing to the eye, extremely easy to use, and fully configurable with thousands of theme combinations • Fully offline-capable! Sync your subreddits and comments automatically, and enjoy Reddit where you don't have internet • Powerful gestures settings for submissions and comments • Support for many content sites, including Imgur albums, v.redd.it, Streamable.com • Most feature-rich and easy to use moderation suite on iOS • Many view types including compact mode for dense information display and beautiful card layout for enjoying photos • Gallery and shadowbox modes (pro) give you a new way to view your favorite subreddits • Sync your Focus settings between all your iCloud devices • Theme choices include a beautiful true black AMOLED theme, sepia theme, blue theme, and white theme • Powerful filter system to block out what you don’t want to see • View and delete your browsing history, or turn off history completely to go incognito • Ad-Block in websites (Pro) • Optimized for iPad viewing with configurable columns and popup comment views (Pro) -- Subscription Details -- • Monthly and annual subscriptions are available • Payment will be charged to your iTunes account at confirmation of purchase • Your subscription will automatically renew unless auto-renew is disabled at least 24 hours before the end of the current subscription period • Automatic renewals will be charged at the same price you were originally charged for the subscription • Subscriptions can be managed or cancelled by going to Account Settings on the App Store after purchase Terms: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/privacy-policy-focus-reddit/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Focus for Reddit at 3.3 against Hacked.It's 1.0. Focus for Reddit also leads on ratings volume (43 vs 1). Hacked.It's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Focus for Reddit sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Hacked.It asks for nothing beyond the download.
Focus for Reddit holds the better App Store score, 3.3 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Focus for Reddit has 43 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 50% of Hacked.It's written reviews are positive against 31% of Focus for Reddit's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Hacked.It ships an update weekly, Focus for Reddit fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hacked.It | Focus for Reddit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (1 ratings) | 3.3 (43 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better | 31.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 43 — better |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Subscription |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 51 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Long Sang Chan | 婉 万 |
Customer experience
Hacked.It
Focus for Reddit
In-app purchases
Hacked.It
No in-app purchases
Focus for Reddit
- Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Pro Yearly7 Days trial$6.991 Year
Questions
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