Habr: iPhone vs Android
Habr gets 100+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Habr by Habr is on both the App Store and Google Play. Here are both versions together: downloads, users, revenue, ratings and chart positions, store by store with totals.
News & Magazines FreeApp Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Habr’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 6 linked to your identity and 0 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Google Play
App details
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v7.2.1, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
Habr downloads & installs
Both stores, worldwide. Bands are open; exact numbers are free with an account.
| Store | Downloads / day | Lifetime installs |
|---|---|---|
| iPhone | 100+ | 100k+ |
| Google Play | 100+ | 500k+ Measured |
| Total | 100+ Confidence | 500k+ Confidence |
How this is calculated
Where Habr's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
Business model: Ad-led
How Habr makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Where it ranks now
Both stores, across every country we track.
Ratings
Both stores. Store data, measured.
| Store | Rating | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| App Store | 5.0 ★ | 3 |
| Google Play | 3.8 ★ | 43k 227 written reviews |
| Both stores | 3.8 ★ weighted by ratings | 43k |
What users say about Habr
From the 50 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users report severe technical instability, including broken authentication, expired security certificates, and aggressive ad redirects that crash the app or hijack browsing sessions. While some praise the content quality and speed when it works, the majority of recent feedback highlights critical bugs in offline reading, code display, and deep linking.
Mixed but leaning positive (62% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being useful. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Useful: “Great app with lots of useful information”
About Habr
Хабр основан в 2006-м году. Проект одинаково интересен программистам и разработчикам, администраторам и тестировщикам, дизайнерам и технологам, аналитикам и копирайтерам, владельцам крупных компаний и стартапов, менеджерам, а также всем тем, для кого IT - это не просто две буквы алфавита.
Приложение обладает следующей функциональностью:
> поиск по публикациям
> просмотр ленты лучших публикаций (за сутки, за неделю и т.п.)
> просмотр публикаций по подписке
> добавление публикаций в закладки
> работа с хабами
> работа с профилем
> настройки оформления публикаций и алгоритмов загрузки контента
> виджет с кармой и рейтингом
> поддержка Safari iCloud Keychain и Handoff
Habr iPhone
Habr gets 100+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Habr is #7 in News Free in Russia and charting in 1 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
24 Sep 2026 News FreeHabr on the App Store
App details
App privacy Measured
Habr’s App Store privacy label declares 0 data categories used to track you across other companies’ apps and websites, 6 linked to your identity and 0 collected anonymously.
As declared by the developer on the App Store — Apple requires every app to publish this label. We track changes over time.
Habr downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Habr's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
Business model: Ad-led
How Habr makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Russia | NewsFree | #7 |
Apps near Habr on the chart
News Free, around #7.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
What users say about Habr
From the 50 most recent App Store reviews in the US.
Users report severe technical instability, including broken authentication, expired security certificates, and aggressive ad redirects that crash the app or hijack browsing sessions. While some praise the content quality and speed when it works, the majority of recent feedback highlights critical bugs in offline reading, code display, and deep linking.
Mixed but leaning positive (62% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). People like it for being useful. Recent reviews are more negative than earlier ones.
What people like
- Useful: “Great app with lots of useful information”
About Habr
Хабр основан в 2006-м году. Проект одинаково интересен программистам и разработчикам, администраторам и тестировщикам, дизайнерам и технологам, аналитикам и копирайтерам, владельцам крупных компаний и стартапов, менеджерам, а также всем тем, для кого IT - это не просто две буквы алфавита.
Приложение обладает следующей функциональностью:
> поиск по публикациям
> просмотр ленты лучших публикаций (за сутки, за неделю и т.п.)
> просмотр публикаций по подписке
> добавление публикаций в закладки
> работа с хабами
> работа с профилем
> настройки оформления публикаций и алгоритмов загрузки контента
> виджет с кармой и рейтингом
> поддержка Safari iCloud Keychain и Handoff
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Habr Android
Habr gets 100+ downloads a day worldwide (AppInsider estimate, October 2026, rounded down to a band).
Habr is #6 in News & Magazines Free on Google Play in Russia and charting in 1 of 23 countries we track.
Updated 25 Oct 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
News & Magazines FreeHabr on Google Play
App details
Tech stack
Trackers and permissions of build v7.2.1, from the εxodus privacy report (CC BY-SA).
Habr downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Where Habr's downloads come from Modelled
Last 30 days: organic search, browsing the store, features and paid ads.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Retention · share of new users still active
Time spent · per daily user
How this is calculated
Business model: Ad-led
How Habr makes money: subscriptions, one-off purchases and ads.
Where it ranks on Google Play
Every top 200 chart it appears in across 23 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| Russia | News & MagazinesFree | #6 |
Apps near Habr on the chart
News & Magazines Free, around #6.
Ratings
Google Play, worldwide.
What users say about Habr
From the 60 most recent Google Play reviews in the US.
Users overwhelmingly criticize the app's navigation logic, specifically noting that the system back button closes the application instead of returning to previous screens. Significant complaints also focus on broken login functionality and the lack of a dark mode, with many users preferring the web version or older apps.
Mostly negative (12% of recent reviews give 4–5 stars). The main complaints are about login and account problems, and crashes and bugs.
Common complaints
- Login & account: “How to use Google sign in?”
- Crashes & bugs: “It's just web view with lags and bugs”
- Features & content: “content jumping every time”
About Habr
Habr (Habrakhabr) was founded in 2006. The project is equally interesting for programmers and developers, administrators and testers, designers and technologists, analysts and copywriters, owners of large companies and startups, managers, as well as all those for whom IT is not just two letters of the alphabet.
The application has the following functionality:
> search by publications
> view the feed of the best publications (per day, per week, etc.)
> view publications by subscription
> adding publications to bookmarks
> working with hubs
> work with profile
> work with comments