Hacker News Reader Kuokka
HN client: alerts & summaries
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Now completely ad-free. Read Hacker News with keyword alerts, one-tap summaries, offline reading and widgets — sign in with your HN account to vote and reply.
A Hacker News client for people who read HN every day: keyword alerts, instant on-device summaries, a Who is hiring? job board, offline reading and widgets.
Set Radar to watch the keywords, domains and authors you care about, and Kuokka checks Hacker News around the clock so you do not have to. Summarize a long article in a tap. Save what matters and read it with no signal.
YOUR HN ACCOUNT, FREE
Sign in with your Hacker News account to upvote, comment, reply and submit stories — no Premium needed. Get notified when someone replies to you, and collapse any thread with a tap.
WHO IS HIRING?
The monthly “Ask HN: Who is hiring?” threads open as a board of postings you can search and filter by role, remote, technology, salary and visa sponsorship, with a switch back to the raw comments. Free.
RADAR WATCHLISTS
Monitor keywords, domains, authors and whole sections.
- Set up a watchlist in seconds with presets or your own filters
- Matched stories land in your Radar feed automatically
- Radar digests round up your top matches on a schedule (Free: evening. Premium: morning, lunch and evening)
- Share a Radar brief with a colleague — each share unlocks 2 bonus summaries
INSTANT SUMMARIES
Tap any story for the key points. Summaries run on your device: no account, no API key, nothing sent to a server. Free readers get 3 per session, Premium removes the cap.
Prefer a language model? Add your own Gemini or Claude key and Kuokka uses it instead. Comment digests, which pull the substance out of a 300-reply thread, are a Premium feature.
READER MODE
Distraction-free reading with clean typography, adjustable text size, and Light, Dark and Sepia themes. Word count and reading time up front.
OFFLINE READING
Save stories and read them with no connection — commutes, flights, dead zones. (Premium)
WIDGETS
Home screen and Lock Screen widgets put the top stories where you already look.
COMMENT TOOLS
Pick up a long thread where you left off, spot unread replies, search inside a discussion, and jump between top-level comments with one tap.
FOR YOU
Kuokka learns from what you read and surfaces stories to match — your topics, your authors, your domains. (Premium)
EVERY SECTION
Top, New, Best, Ask HN, Show HN and Jobs, with smooth infinite scrolling and advanced search by date, type and points.
BOOKMARKS, HISTORY AND STREAKS
Save stories for later, see which ones you have already opened, and build a daily reading streak with achievements along the way.
11 LANGUAGES
English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Turkish, Indonesian, German, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Italian.
PREMIUM
A single one-time purchase — no subscription, and no ads for anyone, free or paid. It lifts the summary cap, and unlocks full Radar, For You recommendations, offline reading and advanced search.
PRIVACY
Your reading history stays on your device. Summaries are generated locally unless you supply your own provider key. Anonymous analytics and crash diagnostics help fix what breaks.
Whether you are an engineer, a founder, or just here for the comments — Kuokka is the Hacker News app worth keeping on your Home Screen.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
• Comment counts now match the totals on Hacker News
• Rating requests are rarer and only appear after something goes well
• Bigger author and domain tap targets and clearer read stories
• Empty-feed message with Clear Filters; the next page loads earlier as you scroll
• iPad marks stories as read and shows a loading skeleton
• Each story reads as one item in VoiceOver, with actions for the link, author and upvote
• Settings: new Send feedback row
The developer, Manuel Lorenzo Parejo, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Other Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Manuel Lorenzo Parejo
- Size
- 46 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 10 more
- English, French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Turkish
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Premium Lifetime $4.99
- Copyright
- © Manuel Lorenzo, 2026