Free, no ads, open source
Hacker News, like it deserves.
A calm, native Hacker News reader for iPhone. Clean white cards by day, warm charcoal at night, serif story pages and widgets that keep the front page on your Home Screen.
Tour
Take a look around.
The front page, story pages, comment threads, search, bookmarks and widgets, in Light and Dark Mode.
Features
Everything you open Hacker News for.
Five feeds
Top, New, Ask, Show and Jobs. Numbered cards with the site's icon, a thumbnail when the page has one, points and comments.
Stories, typeset
Story pages open with a serif headline, a large link preview and the byline. Tap the points to upvote.
Threads you can follow
Nested comments with quiet orange depth rails. Tap a comment's header to collapse its replies.
Home and Lock Screen widgets
Small, Medium, Large and Lock Screen widgets that refresh themselves when stories go stale, even with the app closed.
Search and bookmarks
Search Hacker News stories by keyword, and save any story for later. No account needed for either.
Your HN account
Sign in with a native form to upvote, comment and reply. Your password goes straight to Hacker News and is never stored.
What's new in 1.4
Freshly redesigned.
- A complete redesign: white cards on warm grey in Light Mode, warm charcoal in Dark Mode
- Numbered story cards with square thumbnails and site icons
- Serif story pages with large link previews
- Comment threads with orange depth rails, much faster on 1,000+ comment stories
- Rebuilt Home Screen widgets and a new Lock Screen widget
- A launch screen that matches Light and Dark Mode
Open source
Built in the open.
Hacker Reader is an indie app, and all of its code is on GitHub: React Native and Expo for the app, SwiftUI for the widgets. Read it, file an issue or send a pull request.
Read Hacker News the calm way.
Free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad.
