Hews for Hacker News

A Hacker News client provides great reading experience and unique features.

Total ratings

4.48 (Rating count: 368)

Review summary

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Pros
  • Great UI and experience
  • Efficient and simple to use
  • Nice dark theme
  • Ability to collapse sub-threads with a single tap
Cons
  • Issues with posting comments and losing input
  • App loses position when going to background
  • Lack of ability to access or edit user profile
  • Some features not persistent (e.g., collapsing comments)
  • Color contrast issues in the UI
Most mentioned
  • Need for user profile access
  • Issues with comment posting
  • Desire for a better dark mode
  • Persistent collapsing of comments
  • Concerns about UI colors and visibility
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Recent rating average: 3.60
All time rating average: 4.48
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Date Author Rating Comment
2023-09-22
Steven Reed		 I can browse articles fine enough, but I can't easily review comments I made or responses to them. There's also a decent chance that after I've typed out a comment, it just fails to post for no reason. I then copy the text, log directly into HN in my browser, and post it just fine.
2023-07-07
Kevin N.		 By far the best UI and experience to use of all HN apps I've tried. Great thing i use every single day!
2022-05-08
Levi		 Great app. One thing that should be fixed. When the ilapp no goes into the background and then comes back into the foreground, I lose where I was and goes back to the main news page. So if I'm reading a long comment thread, I lose it and have to find the story again and scroll back to where I was.
2021-05-19
Jeremy Shaw		 Good, simple app to read HN. Would be nice to see your own submissions in the left handed menu though.
2021-03-13
Aleksandar Bakic		 Very nice. I would like to be able to access my own profile like I can by long clicking other people's usernames.
2020-11-26
Kerim G.		 Good app. Being able to collapse single comments would be great, and maybe add the option to make collapsed comments take smaller screen space. Also, setting for tapping on post and going to comments directly would be nice.
2020-11-13
Eduardo Cavazos		 Consider adding an option to display a certain number of entries per page instead of continuous scrolling. The "Reddit Is Fun" client has a similar option.
2020-11-03
Jon L		 Efficient and simple but has kinks. What's with the Orange Dot story dragging? That thing flies everywhere and can be dragged out of the screen.
2020-09-16
Seb Gibson		 Only problem is the bottom home button menu bar is still white in dark theme. Otherwise 5 stars.
2020-07-12
Jason Knight		 The app is good but imo the "expanding white circle" animation is really annoying, especially on dark mode in a dark room. It's too bright and too flashy. I wish it could be disabled. Another feature id like is if you could scroll down to the next "top level comment". This is a feature Relay for Reddit had that is a great feature.
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