Starling for HN 4+
HackerNews | Read, Reply, Vote
Christopher Zelazo
Designed for iPad
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- Free
Screenshots
Description
Clean and powerful HackerNews client. Read, reply, vote, save, filter.
Welcome to the last HackerNews app you'll ever need. Starling has all of the features you need from the website with many new ones packed into give a mobile-first HackerNews experience.
Alongside voting, replying and deleting comments, and viewing profiles Starling also features:
- article summaries
- new comment updates
- collapsable comments
- dark theme
- Dynamic Type font scaling for Accessibility
- keyword filtering
- "Who is hiring?" job result filters (remote, visa, internship, etc.)
Ratings and Reviews
Comment crash
It crashes every time I post a comment, but the comment does submit successfully so it does “work”.
Crashes on each comment and lacks support
I have been using this app for a few months. In general it’s a good app and most stories from HN can be read. Some stories, however, never load the comments. The app also seems to crash every time I try to submit a comment. Whether the comment actually posts is hit or miss. I made the mistake of writing out a 4-5 paragraph comment, only to have it crash and all the text disappear into the ether. My fault for not selecting all and copying before each comment attempt I suppose. Prior to submitting this review, I clicked on the “App support” link so I could report it to the app author, but it just returned a 404 from GitHub. So it seems like this is just a side project with little active development.
Great app with great defaults
Only thing I would like to see is being able to make posts and upvote comments.
I did turn off the open links in reader view since I can use the amazing article summary tool when I want a glimpse and open the full link when I want to see it all but I understand wanting to avoid possible adds etc
App Privacy
The developer, Christopher Zelazo, has not provided details about its privacy practices and handling of data to Apple. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy.
No Details Provided
The developer will be required to provide privacy details when they submit their next app update.
Information
- Seller
- Christopher Zelazo
- Size
- 12.1 MB
- Category
- News
- Compatibility
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- iPhone
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- iPad
- Requires iPadOS 11.0 or later.
- iPod touch
- Requires iOS 11.0 or later.
- Mac
- Requires macOS 11.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later.
- Apple Vision
- Requires visionOS 1.0 or later.
- Languages
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English
- Age Rating
- 4+
- Copyright
- © Christopher Zelazo
- Price
- Free