World Newspapers vs HackerWeb
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
World Newspapers
Access newspapers from 200 countries worldwide. Automatically translate articles into your preferred language. Organize your favorite sources and add custom news feeds for a personalized reading experience.
- Read newspapers from 200 countries
- Automatic translation
- Create favorites list
- Add custom news sources
- Translate to preferred language
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Read newspapers from 200 countries and territories around the world. • Automatically translate into your language or your preferred language. • Make a favorites list of your most used sources or add custom news sources. This application is great for the world travelers, language learners, politicians and students. — How do I add my own news source? — In the main country list, press the plus sign in the top right hand corner. Write the news source name, its web address, and pick the country it belongs to. — How do I delete all the news sources that I've added? — Go the the Settings Screen (from the main list, tap the top left button "Settings"), and tap the button "Reset". This will return the news source database to its original state when you downloaded/updated the application. — How do I read the news in my own language or a language of my choosing? — Touch the translate button on the toolbar while viewing any website not in your own language to immediately translate it. On the settings screen, you can enable automatic translation from the settings screen or change your preferred target language. — I have a suggestion or comment for the app. — Write us at support@bocosoft.net
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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: HackerWeb at 86% against World Newspapers's 33%. HackerWeb also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.8). World Newspapers's advantage is price ($0.99 vs $2.99) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 26.0). On ratings volume, 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
World Newspapers costs $0.99 and HackerWeb $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
HackerWeb holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.8. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 4 and 10 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 33% of World Newspapers's written reviews are positive against 86% of HackerWeb's.
World Newspapers ships an update every 3 months, HackerWeb every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 2, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | World Newspapers | HackerWeb |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 — better | $2.99 |
| Rating | 2.8 (4 ratings) | 5.0 (10 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 33.3% of reviews | 85.7% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 | 10 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #20 — better | #37 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 19 MB | 29 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | BoCoSoft,Inc. | Chee Aun Lim |
Customer experience
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In-app purchases
World Newspapers
No in-app purchases
HackerWeb
No in-app purchases
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