Hacker News - Latest in Tech

Name: Hacker News - Latest in Tech
Rating: 4.7 (33 reviews)
Author: Snap Web Studios

By: Snap Web Studios

A powerful Hacker News reader.

Features & Capabilities

The Ultimate Hacker News App!

Dive into the latest startup, technology, programming, and science news with the ultimate app for browsing Y Combinator's Hacker News.

Built for Speed and Customizability

Designed from the ground up, this app offers a fast, seamless reading experience with extensive customizability.

Optimized for iPhone and iPad

Carefully crafted for both iPhone and iPad, the app is packed with features to enhance your reading experience:

Fast and Simple: Browse Hacker News feeds and threaded comments swiftly, ensuring you stay updated with everything happening.
Sync Across Devices: Favorite, read, or hide stories and keep your activity in sync across devices, thanks to iCloud. Your data stays private and secure.
Organize Your Way: Create custom groups to easily save stories by topic. Keep all your programming topics together, and all your science topics in one place, accessible on every device.
Lightning Fast Search: Quickly find any post, even those you mentioned to a friend days ago.
Highly Customizable: Choose between light and dark modes, select from eleven different color themes, and enjoy beautifully designed icons by Michael Flarup & Matthew Skiles. Customize your reading experience further by selecting your preferred browser, adjusting the appearance of read stories, and more.
AI-Powered Summaries: Get quick summaries of stories with AI powered by OpenAI. Perfect for when you only need the gist.
Ad-Free Reading: Skip the ads and read a clean, markdown-formatted version of articles.
Time-Saving Features: Know how long articles will take to read with time estimates.
Powerful Gestures: Use swipe gestures to quickly favorite, hide, and add stories to your groups.
iPad Keyboard Shortcuts: Easily manage favorites, hiding, and adding to groups with keyboard shortcuts.
Home Screen Widgets: Customize your Home Screen with widgets of all sizes, showing your favorite feeds and the latest stories at a glance.
Convenient Share Sheet Action: Open Hacker News links from any app with our share sheet action. Just tap “Open in Hacker News.”
Privacy Focused: No ads, no tracking, and no data storage. Your privacy is paramount.
Support the App: Keep the app alive with a tip or leave a review. Every bit helps!

Enjoy the best Hacker News experience on your Apple devices today!

User Growth & Download Statistics

App

By:

Snap Web Studios

Rating:

4.70

(33)

Version:

1.1.2 Last updated: 2024-05-28

Version code:

866286453

Creation date:

2021-09-20

Compatible devices:

Size:

19.54MB

URLs:

Full description:

Source:

Apple Apps Store

Data ingested on:

2026-06-30

Compare stats and ranking:

Ranking

# 230,061 ▼ 89

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Developed by:

Snap Web Studios

Apple Apps Store

https://apps.apple.com/us/app/hacker-news-latest-in-tech/id1573004386

User Reviews

Users consistently praise Hacker News - Latest in Tech for a polished, fast, feature-rich iOS experience. The app’s standout summarize/read features and strong customization help users skim and manage stories efficiently, earning it praise as one of the best HN clients. The primary recurring drawback is the absence of a user login, which prevents upvoting or commenting. A few reviewers also note minor UI quirks, but the overall sentiment is very positive and forward-looking.

Pros

Polished, fast, feature-rich iOS design and UX.
Excellent summarize/read features that help digest stories quickly.
Widely regarded as one of the best Hacker News iOS clients with a smooth UX.
Highly customizable with a lot of options.

Cons

Lacks a user login to upvote or comment (missing login).

Recent reviews

Just downloaded 6 HN apps and added a Safari link to Home Screen, and this is the “quick test” winner for all-around features and design. Impressive first reaction.

by Si*****, 2025-06-09

Almost perfect, but links that are too long get truncated, not only do they look shorter, the actual link is cut off as well. So, to open any long links you have to open the original HN link and find the comment from there.

by ko*****, 2024-12-21

The story detail bar takes up a ton of space pinned to the bottom of the screen while reading comments. Can you add an option to place that above the comments list so we can scroll down past it?