Hacker News Clients

15 apps

Hacker News is a popular target for side projects because the API is public and simple. Hacki, built in Flutter, and Hackers, a native Swift app, are both on the App Store. Gem for Hacker News is a SwiftUI client, Emerge Tools Hacker News is a reference app from Emerge Tools, and Hacker News Multiplatform runs on iPhone and Mac.

There are React Native versions too, and older clients like HN Reader and News/YC are marked as unmaintained. Since the app idea is the same, comparing several clients is a good way to see how different stacks handle the same feed, comment trees and caching. The official Hacker News API is served from Firebase and needs no key, so most of these apps build and run without extra setup.

Emerge Tools Hacker News218SwiftMITupdated 8d agoGem for Hacker News89SwiftUIGPL-3.0App Store 1 shotupdated 1mo agoHacker News Multiplatform140SwiftMITMacupdated 6y agoHackerNews1.3kSwiftMIT1 shotupdated 2y agoHackers766SwiftMITApp Store 1 shotupdated 1d agoHackerWeb 275React Native1 shotupdated 3mo agoHacki for Hacker News1.6kFlutterGPL-3.0App Store 4 shotsupdated 3d agoReact Native Hacker News74React NativeMITupdated 8mo agoHacker News Client237MITfirebaseApp Store 4 shotsArchivedHackerNews (Y)30hn api, firebase, fabricApp Store 3 shotsArchivedHN NowSwiftMITiPadArchivedHN-App76SwiftMITArchivednews1.1kObjective-CBSD-2-ClauseycArchivedNews/YC826SwiftMITIncludes user management, commenting, submitting & themesApp Store 3 shotsArchivedSimple Reader258Objective-CApp Store 3 shotsArchived

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