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Best ios hackernews app

This app is the best app for hackernews that I’ve tried on iOS and I’ve tried a couple of them. It’s so good I paid for the pro version and it’s even better with the latest update. I really like all the settings/options.
One suggestion I would have though would be adding a right swipe to go back to the previous page(basically the opposite of the left swipe). Apollo has this enabled by default. Another suggestion would be adding the ability to swipe away the long press options or hiding those options behind an overflow menu because I always find myself accidentally long pressing comments and bringing up the menu.

개발자 답변 ,

Today's update adds a button to the posts and comments to show the overflow menu. There's also 2 settings which you can use to disable the long press menu.
As for right swipe to go back, I will add that in another update, need to do some research. Thanks.

Best app for Hacker News.

I continue to be impressed by this app. What started out as just a beautiful wrapper for HN has continued to evolve into easily one of the best experiences on iOS for consuming feeds, á la Apollo for Reddit. I have also had great success reaching out to the developer, as others mention.

I recently noticed that there is a Share as Image feature, which is one of my biggest uses in Apollo - wow! Works great in HACK too!

Easily worth the download and the purchase for premium. A+. Thanks Pranoy!

Best so far

No purchase needed, no ads. Probably will pay the $5 to support the dev, though, because this kind of functionality is rare for ios apps without either ads or in-app purchases. Quite the hidden gem. Lots of settings to choose from. I especially like being able to select the text of a comment to copy by long-pressing on a comment, and from there, there are a lot of options, including copying the text as a whole, or selecting a certain part of the text as it pops up with the options. Now will look for other apps made by this dev! Edit: decided to purchase, it’s worth it

개발자 답변 ,

Thank you for the kind feedback! Glad you are supporting me :) you can look at my other apps like MoodWell mood tracker which is also without any ads/trackers/subscription.

Probably the best for HN, still lacking

No doubt this is the best HN app I’ve used but it doesn’t hold a candle to something like Apollo which I consider(ed) the gold standard for a link aggregator client.

Tap targets are way too small, must but almost half of what the HIG recommends. I find it infuriating to try to tap the “…” or upvote button only to have it collapse the thread and rinse and repeat 3-10 times before it works.

Reply notifications and logged in status in general is extremely buggy. I randomly get logged out so I’ll be browsing, go to upvote, and get a generic error. It’s at this point I’ll notice the “Downvote” option is missing but the app will still show me logged in. Sometimes the only fix is to kill the app and/or log out/in again. Similarly, clicking on the bell/notification icon will randomly tell me “You haven’t enabled reply notifications” which is a setting I’ve never toggled off, yet it gets toggled off on me without any action on my part.

The app works well overall but interacting with posts and the inconsistent/buggy auth status drive me bonkers.

개발자 답변 ,

Regarding the buttons being too small, you can change that by increasing the “metadata font size” in the settings screen > “font sizes, compactness and padding”. Set it to something like 4 and I think it should be better.

Regarding being logged out and notifications getting disabled, that sounds like a keychain issue on the phone. Has your phone had a repair recently? Email me at pran@pranapps.com if you have questions.

Just made the switch to this and happy

I’ve been lurking HN for over a decade now and I’d been using one of the older iOS apps for it. It was simple enough. But this app is significantly better, it feels more like it’s “mine” because of the customisations. After lurking for so long, I find this app motivates me to contribute. Totally worth upgrading to pro, even if you don’t need the features. I appreciate the devs 🤓

개발자 답변 ,

Thank you!

The best iOS HN client

Only app I’ve reviewed. This one is good. It’s really clean, intuitive, & full featured, and it is ad free. Honestly this is how iOS apps should be. Absolutely an upgrade to the website on a mobile device. EDIT. I have been reading HN more lately, and I thought “this app is great, it feels wrong not to buy it considering how much I use it.” So I went to purchase it, and… I ALREADY BOUGHT IT some time ago. Yes people, it is that good.

개발자 답변 ,

Thank you, glad you like it!

The best HN reader for iOS

Hack is a featureful, intuitive, and fast HN reader that does everything I need and more.

The developer is super responsive to feedback and actually implemented a feature I requested (ability to change the default web browser) within a day or two. Amazing!

Highly recommended app, I suggest if you enjoy it to purchase the $4.99 in-app purchase to support further development. The app’s value far exceeds this cost.

Great support (follow up to previous review)

Updating to a newer version (87) fixed my issue! Thank you for the prompt response! Not sure why there was a delay in updating because I have automatic updates turned on but it’s fixed now. Much appreciated, this has become my goto app in the short time I’ve had it!

개발자 답변 ,

Your version number is 84 which suffers from a side effect bug as a result of changes to the website. Please update to version 86+ which will solve the issue.
Please email me at pran@pranapps.com if you have questions. Hope you update your review after trying the bug fix. Thanks. - Pran

Very nice reader!

It has all of the functionality I want (including customization options, like disabling favicons, which I find distacting). I'm very happy with this reader. The only thing keeping me from 5 stars is that the apps performance (scrolling, navigation) suffers greatly when the app is in macOS full screen mode. Hopefully this is something the developer will look into for a future update! Thanks again!

개발자 답변 ,

Thanks for the feedback. Can you email me at pran@pranapps.com with what MacOS version you are using along with what monitor and Mac device you are using?

Killer app

Very well done. Highly customizable, feature-filled, and rock solid functionality. The pro version doesn't add much, but I appreciate that about it (almost all features are free) - will definitely recommend to friends and encourage them to purchase the one-time premium upgrade.

개발자 답변 ,

Thank you for the kind words :)