Hacker News Tech Reader Downloads & RevenueHacker News Tech Reader - HACK · App Store
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Updated 3 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperPranoy Chowdhury
CategoryNews
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.9 (89)
Version185
Age rating9+
First seen by us
25 Sep 2026
25 Sep 2026Installs (est.)100k+ worldwide
Hacker News Tech Reader - HACK update history & changes
Last change · 13 events since 25 May 2019Full timeline ↓⭐Passed 100 ratings📈Charting in a new country✏️Description updated✏️Renamed📦Updated to version 185📈Entered the top 100📦Updated to version 184🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 13 events
- 📈Hacker News Tech Reader - HACK charting in a new countryUnited Arab Emirates
- ✏️Hacker News Tech Reader - HACK: description updated· IN
- ✏️Hacker News Tech Reader - HACK: renamedHACK for Hacker News YC Reader → Hacker News Tech Reader - HACK · IN
- 📦Hacker News Tech Reader - HACK updated to version 185- Crucial fix for a bug where scrolling up comments would sometimes flicker and get janky when many comments are collapsed. Due to the infrequent nature of this bug, I am hoping the changes I made in this update fixes it. If it persists, please email me.
- Fixed a bug where replying to a comment would mess up the comment tree with random comment appearing below your reply.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
There are ongoing costs of developing and maintaining HACK. I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. I offer a beautiful app for the absolute best user-experience. I don't use intrusive ads, trackers, third-party analytics, subscriptions, or other nonsense. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. It's a small and fair amount which helps cover development costs of future updates.
You can also write a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out.
Thank you for choosing HACK. If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
[email protected]… more - 📈Hacker News Tech Reader - HACK entered the top 100Top Grossing · News · BR
- 📈Hacker News Tech Reader - HACK charting in a new countryBrazil
- 📦Hacker News Tech Reader - HACK updated to version 184- Updated to latest iOS 27 SDK.
- Fixed a bug where replying to a comment would mess up the comment tree with random comment appearing below your reply.
- Fixed bugs where the "Open in HACK" safari extension, URL scheme, and app icon shortcut weren't working.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK and supporting me.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
[email protected]… more - 📈Hacker News Tech Reader - HACK entered the top 100Top Free · News · ID
- 📈Hacker News Tech Reader - HACK charting in a new countryIndonesia
- 🆕Hacker News Tech Reader - HACK first spotted by AppInsider#79 in Top Grossing · News · India
- 📦Hacker News Tech Reader - HACK version 183- Updated to the latest iOS 27 SDK. Fixed bugs where the "Open in HACK" safari extension, URL scheme, and app icon shortcut weren't working.
- This update hides the "time" icon on the story list. This helps reduce text wrapping and thus allows more stories to be shown. There are two new settings to toggle this behavior for stories and comments.
- When full screen swiping, the app will now try to prevent accidental swiping to upvote on a story due to conflicting gestures.
- Added a new "See Blocked Posts" option to menu. Useful if you have the "Reduce AI posts" setting on.
- Updated the UI for the pagination button to match with rest of the app. Previous update added a setting to disable infite scroll aka auto-paginate to load more content. When disabled, shows a "Load more" button when scrolled near the bottom. Reduces addictive doomscrolling behaviors.)
- Previous update also added another highly requested setting: "Reduce AI posts". This is OFF by default. When ON, it uses a regex to block any post titles matching a big list of AI related keywords. Fixed a typo in this setting name.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK and supporting me.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
[email protected]… more - 🆕Hacker News Tech Reader - HACK released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.9 ★
89 ratings
Measured
Hacker News Tech Reader - HACK on the App Store
App details
App ID
1464477788
Publisher
Pranoy Chowdhury
On the store since
May 2019
7 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 15.0+
iPhone 6s and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
9+
1 content note below
Languages
1
EN
Size
30 MB
Also listed in
Developer Tools
Content notesInfrequent/Mild Profanity or Crude Humour
Hacker News Tech Reader - HACK downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Not charting right now. | ||
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.9 ★
89 ratings
Measured
Ratings
89
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
4.9★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
20/100
faster than 0% of News apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
About Hacker News Tech Reader - HACK
HACK for YC's Hacker News is the most beautiful and easy way to read about the latest tech, startup and STEM news.
- No Ads. No subscriptions.
- Login or Register your Hacker News account
- PUSH NOTIFICATIONS for Hacker News replies to comment or post
- Supported on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
- Setting to block AI posts on HN.
- Comments are presented in nested threads
- Tap a comment to collapse that thread
- Swipe left or right on stories and comments to upvote and favorite
- Ability to submit new posts including drafts
- Long press a story, link or comment to share
- iPad supports split view
- On iPads, you can drag a story / comment / story's image (link) to open it in safari in split view. This is useful for when you are viewing the app in split view / multitasking and like opening the link / story / comment in a browser side by side.
- Landscape and Portrait support
- 3D touch for peek, pop support
- Home screen 3D touch shortcuts
- Hide posts from the feed
- Tap the bottom button to scroll to the next root comment in the thread. Long press it to go to the previous one
- All known hacker news endpoints - News, front page, Ask HN, Show HN, Show HN Newest, classic, active, best stories, best comments, new stories, new comments, noob stories, noob comments, jobs, over 100-500 points
- Submit posts, reply, comment using your HN account
- Browse top 100 leader accounts
- Browse stories from a specific site, user or date
- Search in comments and usernames! Search is case and diacritic insensitive and ignores punctuations. Search uses an CONTAINS, OR operation if multiple words are typed.
- Can select / highlight the comment/post title text for lookup/copy/translate etc iOS native operations.
- Powerful search (powered by Algolia API) - use @date to sort by date, #story to filter for stories, #comments to filter for comments, #author_username to filter by user etc. These tags can be separated by commas. Refer to https://hn.algolia.com/api for more tags.
- Dark mode - both pure black and gray mode
- Low contrast text mode to make the text not be pure white
- Many color choices & color picker for customization
- App icons in variety of colours for light and dark mode
- Font choices
- Ability to change font sizes, padding etc to make the layout as compact as you like!
- Threaded comments with color bar to maintain visual orientation
- Articles open in Safari view with setting to automatically open in "readability" mode
- Tap the domain in a story to see all stories from that site
- Tap the username in a story or comment to go to the user profile
- Browse your submitted stories and comments, favorited stories and comments, upvoted stories and comments
- Archive: View an archive of the post website. archive.is, archive.org & google cache.
- Share comment as image
- Articles can be opened in built in safari or 3rd party browsers. Supports Brave, Firefox, Firefox Focus, Orion, Opera Touch, Dolphin, DuckDuckGo, iCab Mobile, Microsoft Edge and Chrome. Go to
- No Ads. No subscriptions.
- Login or Register your Hacker News account
- PUSH NOTIFICATIONS for Hacker News replies to comment or post
- Supported on iPhone, iPad, and Mac
- Setting to block AI posts on HN.
- Comments are presented in nested threads
- Tap a comment to collapse that thread
- Swipe left or right on stories and comments to upvote and favorite
- Ability to submit new posts including drafts
- Long press a story, link or comment to share
- iPad supports split view
- On iPads, you can drag a story / comment / story's image (link) to open it in safari in split view. This is useful for when you are viewing the app in split view / multitasking and like opening the link / story / comment in a browser side by side.
- Landscape and Portrait support
- 3D touch for peek, pop support
- Home screen 3D touch shortcuts
- Hide posts from the feed
- Tap the bottom button to scroll to the next root comment in the thread. Long press it to go to the previous one
- All known hacker news endpoints - News, front page, Ask HN, Show HN, Show HN Newest, classic, active, best stories, best comments, new stories, new comments, noob stories, noob comments, jobs, over 100-500 points
- Submit posts, reply, comment using your HN account
- Browse top 100 leader accounts
- Browse stories from a specific site, user or date
- Search in comments and usernames! Search is case and diacritic insensitive and ignores punctuations. Search uses an CONTAINS, OR operation if multiple words are typed.
- Can select / highlight the comment/post title text for lookup/copy/translate etc iOS native operations.
- Powerful search (powered by Algolia API) - use @date to sort by date, #story to filter for stories, #comments to filter for comments, #author_username to filter by user etc. These tags can be separated by commas. Refer to https://hn.algolia.com/api for more tags.
- Dark mode - both pure black and gray mode
- Low contrast text mode to make the text not be pure white
- Many color choices & color picker for customization
- App icons in variety of colours for light and dark mode
- Font choices
- Ability to change font sizes, padding etc to make the layout as compact as you like!
- Threaded comments with color bar to maintain visual orientation
- Articles open in Safari view with setting to automatically open in "readability" mode
- Tap the domain in a story to see all stories from that site
- Tap the username in a story or comment to go to the user profile
- Browse your submitted stories and comments, favorited stories and comments, upvoted stories and comments
- Archive: View an archive of the post website. archive.is, archive.org & google cache.
- Share comment as image
- Articles can be opened in built in safari or 3rd party browsers. Supports Brave, Firefox, Firefox Focus, Orion, Opera Touch, Dolphin, DuckDuckGo, iCab Mobile, Microsoft Edge and Chrome. Go to
Latest updates
185
- Crucial fix for a bug where scrolling up comments would sometimes flicker and get janky when many comments are collapsed. Due to the infrequent nature of this bug, I am hoping the changes I made in this update fixes it. If it persists, please email me.
- Fixed a bug where replying to a comment would mess up the comment tree with random comment appearing below your reply.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
There are ongoing costs of developing and maintaining HACK. I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. I offer a beautiful app for the absolute best user-experience. I don't use intrusive ads, trackers, third-party analytics, subscriptions, or other nonsense. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. It's a small and fair amount which helps cover development costs of future updates.
You can also write a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out.
Thank you for choosing HACK. If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
[email protected]
184
- Updated to latest iOS 27 SDK.
- Fixed a bug where replying to a comment would mess up the comment tree with random comment appearing below your reply.
- Fixed bugs where the "Open in HACK" safari extension, URL scheme, and app icon shortcut weren't working.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK and supporting me.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
[email protected]
183
- Updated to the latest iOS 27 SDK. Fixed bugs where the "Open in HACK" safari extension, URL scheme, and app icon shortcut weren't working.
- This update hides the "time" icon on the story list. This helps reduce text wrapping and thus allows more stories to be shown. There are two new settings to toggle this behavior for stories and comments.
- When full screen swiping, the app will now try to prevent accidental swiping to upvote on a story due to conflicting gestures.
- Added a new "See Blocked Posts" option to menu. Useful if you have the "Reduce AI posts" setting on.
- Updated the UI for the pagination button to match with rest of the app. Previous update added a setting to disable infite scroll aka auto-paginate to load more content. When disabled, shows a "Load more" button when scrolled near the bottom. Reduces addictive doomscrolling behaviors.)
- Previous update also added another highly requested setting: "Reduce AI posts". This is OFF by default. When ON, it uses a regex to block any post titles matching a big list of AI related keywords. Fixed a typo in this setting name.
- HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad.
I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK and supporting me.
If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at:
[email protected]
Store changes
What Hacker News Tech Reader - HACK changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Description updated
Renamed
HACK for Hacker News YC Reader → Hacker News Tech Reader - HACK
