HackerWeb Downloads & RevenueHackerWeb - Hacker News client · App Store
HackerWeb - Hacker News client is #41 in News Paid in United States and charting in 12 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 8 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperChee Aun Lim
CategoryNews
Price2.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 5.0 (10)
Version3.0.1
Age rating17+
First seen by us
24 Sep 2026
24 Sep 2026Installs (est.)1k+ worldwide
HackerWeb - Hacker News client update history & changes
Last change · 3 events since 29 Feb 2016Full timeline ↓Full timeline · 3 events
- 🆕HackerWeb - Hacker News client first spotted by AppInsider#31 in Top Paid · News · Canada
- 📦HackerWeb - Hacker News client version 3.0.1No release notes
- 🆕HackerWeb - Hacker News client 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
5.0 ★
10 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#41
News PaidMeasured
HackerWeb - Hacker News client on the App Store
App details
App ID
1084209377
Publisher
Chee Aun Lim
On the store since
Mar 2016
10 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 26.0+
iPhone 11 and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
17+
1 content note below
Languages
1
EN
Size
30 MB
Content notesUnrestricted Web Access
HackerWeb - Hacker News client 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 |
|---|---|---|
| United States | NewsPaid | #41 |
 Japan | NewsPaid | #33 |
 India | NewsPaid | #18 |
 United Kingdom | NewsPaid | #40 |
 Germany | NewsPaid | #42 |
| Canada | NewsPaid | #30 |
 France | NewsPaid | #38 |
 Indonesia | NewsPaid | #19 |
 Russia | NewsPaid | #27 |
 Australia | NewsPaid | #36 |
 Brazil | NewsPaid | #39 |
 Italy | NewsPaid | #34 |
Apps near HackerWeb - Hacker News client on the chart
News Paid, around #41.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
5.0 ★
10 ratings
Measured
Ratings
10
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
under 1
4-week average
Lifetime rating
5.0★
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 HackerWeb - Hacker News client
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
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
Latest updates
3.0.1
