Version 10906 March 2024- Thanks to Moritz for this feature request: The "menu" list was getting way too long and crowded with so many options. Now you can customize it by disabling options which you don't need. Go to app's home page, then tap settings, then scroll all the way down to "Edit menu options".
- Likely fixed a crash issue on iOS 12 devices. If this issue persists, please email me as testing on older devices is limited and I need more details.
- Added a much requested feature of swiping on the right edge of the screen to bring back the last page. So, if you accidentally swipe left to go back, then you can now swipe from the right edge of screen to undo it. This can be done to undo multiple pages too.
- Swipe to favourite/vote now works even if you have full screen swipe to go back enabled.
- These 2 features took significant work, so supporting me with an in app purchase or tip is appreciated. Thanks.
- The app is supported on MacOS too.
- I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. So if you can help support the server costs, please buy the one time only in app purchase. This also unlocks custom fonts, colors and icons.
I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a positive rating on the app store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development and buy me a coffee, you can purchase the one time only in app purchase! No subscriptions! Thank you for your support!
This update wouldn't have been possible without the amazing feedback from HN and Reddit! If you have any feedback or feature requests or bug reports, please email Pran at:
[email protected]
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Previous update:
- Added 8 new sharing options for copying and sharing the title + link together and in markdown format.
- Fixed bugs for the URL scheme..
Version 10427 November 2023- Added a new "Highlights" endpoint to the home page
- Fixed a bug where links would open 2 tabs on macOS
- Fixed a bug for devices using Buddhist calendar.
- Fixed a bug where the send email subject line said "iOS" on "MacOS" devices.
- Fixed a bug on MacOS when opening links.
- Made the parsing logic more flexible and adaptable to website HTML changes. This uses additional backend server resources, so supporting me with an in app purchase or tip will help offset the costs. Thanks.
- The app is supported on MacOS too.
- I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. So if you can help support the server costs, please buy the one time only in app purchase. This also unlocks custom fonts, colors and icons.
I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a positive rating on the app store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development and buy me a coffee, you can purchase the one time only in app purchase! No subscriptions! Thank you for your support!
This update wouldn't have been possible without the amazing feedback from HN and Reddit! If you have any feedback or feature requests or bug reports, please email Pran at:
[email protected]
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Previous update:
- Added a new "Export history as CSV" option in the "History" page's "..." menu button. NOTE that the first 2 columns in the CSV will be empty for all rows which are read prior to this update.
- Fixed a bug where timestamps on posts and comments were inaccurate after the initial fetch. This will result in items in the history prior to this update to have an empty timestamp. Empty is better than inaccurate.
- Added a new "Hide scroll to next comment button" setting..
Version 10021 April 2023- This is the 100th update! YAY!
- Added a new "Export history as CSV" option in the "History" page's "..." menu button. NOTE that the first 2 columns in the CSV will be empty for all rows which are read prior to this update.
- Fixed a bug where timestamps on posts and comments were inaccurate after the initial fetch. This will result in items in the history prior to this update to have an empty timestamp. Empty is better than inaccurate.
- Added a new "Hide scroll to next comment button" setting.
- Made the parsing logic more flexible and adaptable to website HTML changes. This uses additional backend server resources, so supporting me with an in app purchase or tip will help offset the costs. Thanks.
- The app is supported on MacOS too.
- I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. So if you can help support the server costs, please buy the one time only in app purchase. This also unlocks custom fonts, colors and icons.
I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a positive rating on the app store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development and buy me a coffee, you can purchase the one time only in app purchase! No subscriptions! Thank you for your support!
This update wouldn't have been possible without the amazing feedback from HN and Reddit! If you have any feedback or feature requests or bug reports, please email Pran at:
[email protected]
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Previous update:
- Added "Scroll to parent" for comments
- Improved the link and email detection in comments and Ask HN posts
- Fixed a crash bug when changing the tint color of the app.
- Fixed search related bugs.
- Added a new setting for the search to use OR instead of AND.
- Added 2 new settings: "Tapping domain on posts list opens the link instead of list of posts from that domain" and "Tapping domain on actual post opens the link instead of list of posts from that domain"..
Version 9607 April 2023- Fixed a crash bug when changing the tint color of the app.
- Fixed search related bugs.
- Added a new setting for the search to use OR instead of AND.
- Made the parsing logic more flexible and adaptable to website HTML changes. This uses additional backend server resources, so supporting me with an in app purchase or tip will help offset the costs. Thanks.
- The app is supported on MacOS too.
- I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. So if you can help support the server costs, please buy the one time only in app purchase. This also unlocks custom fonts, colors and icons.
I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a positive rating on the app store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development and buy me a coffee, you can purchase the one time only in app purchase! No subscriptions! Thank you for your support!
This update wouldn't have been possible without the amazing feedback from HN and Reddit! If you have any feedback or feature requests or bug reports, please email Pran at:
[email protected]
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Previous update:
- Added 2 new settings: "Tapping domain on posts list opens the link instead of list of posts from that domain" and "Tapping domain on actual post opens the link instead of list of posts from that domain"..
Version 9210 January 2023- Fixed a bug where url parameters were not being sent to Firefox Focus browser.
- Made the parsing logic more flexible and adaptable to website HTML changes. This uses additional backend server resources, so supporting me with an in app purchase or tip will help offset the costs. Thanks.
- The app is supported on MacOS too.
- I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. So if you can help support the server costs, please buy the one time only in app purchase. This also unlocks custom fonts, colors and icons.
I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a positive rating on the app store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development and buy me a coffee, you can purchase the one time only in app purchase! No subscriptions! Thank you for your support!
This update wouldn't have been possible without the amazing feedback from HN and Reddit! If you have any feedback or feature requests or bug reports, please email Pran at:
[email protected]
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Previous update:
- Added support for the "black bar" on HN site for when someone prominent dies. In the app, this is denoted by grayscaling the favicons. This can be disabled in settings.
- Added 2 new settings to grayscale favicons.
- When submitting a link which is already shared on HN, the app will now redirect to the correct link instead of silently failing.
- Fixed a crash bug when scrolling the chronological feed..
Version 9018 October 2022- Optimized the parsing logic.
- Made the parsing logic more flexible and adaptable to website HTML changes. This uses additional backend server resources, so supporting me with an in app purchase or tip will help offset the costs. Thanks.
- The app is supported on MacOS too.
- I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. So if you can help support the server costs, please buy the one time only in app purchase. This also unlocks custom fonts, colors and icons.
I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a positive rating on the app store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development and buy me a coffee, you can purchase the one time only in app purchase! No subscriptions! Thank you for your support!
This update wouldn't have been possible without the amazing feedback from HN and Reddit! If you have any feedback or feature requests or bug reports, please email Pran at:
[email protected]
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Previous update:
- Added 2 new settings: "Disable username tap in feed and comments" and "Disable domain tap in feed and comments" which prevents you from tapping on a username/domain to go to the user/domain page. You can still access those pages via long press or tapping the ellipsis "..." button.
- Tapping on a username, domain or link now highlights it with the theme color
- Fixed a crucial bug due to HN website changes which was causing stories to not load, tapping on the stories to take to the link instead of the comments, and comment collapse wasn't working for children comments.
- Now you can select text on the Reply window..
Version 8128 August 2022- App now supports displaying poll type posts. Already voted options are visible too. However, voting on polls is currently not possible.
- By default, poll options are sorted randomly until the poll ends. You can change the new setting "Sort polls by points" to always sort by most voted at the top.
- Fixed a bug in search for poll type posts
- Added 2 app icons with just "HN" text
- Added a tipping option on the settings page as few users requested. If you would like to buy me a drink, you can give me a tip :)
- The app is supported on MacOS too.
- I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. So if you can help support the server costs, please buy the one time only in app purchase. This also unlocks custom fonts, colors and icons.
I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a positive rating on the app store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development and buy me a coffee, you can purchase the one time only in app purchase! No subscriptions! Thank you for your support!
This update wouldn't have been possible without the amazing feedback from HN and Reddit! If you have any feedback or feature requests or bug reports, please email Pran at:
[email protected]
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Previous update:
- Fixed a possible bug where sometimes using the full screen swiping to go back feature would also swipe on the screen underneath and cause weird jumpy animations. This was a very hard to reproduce bug. If this bug still persists, please email me..
Version 7712 July 2022- Fixed a bug where the menu button was visible on the reply page
- Added a tipping option on the settings page as few users requested. If you would like to buy me a drink, you can give me a tip :)
- The app is supported on MacOS too.
- I need to run my own server for caching high quality favicons shown in the app plus for push notifications for replies to hacker news posts. So if you can help support the server costs, please buy the one time only in app purchase. This also unlocks custom fonts, colors and icons.
I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a positive rating on the app store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development and buy me a coffee, you can purchase the one time only in app purchase! No subscriptions! Thank you for your support!
This update wouldn't have been possible without the amazing feedback from HN and Reddit! If you have any feedback or feature requests or bug reports, please email Pran at:
[email protected]
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Previous update:
- Added a menu button on stories and comments to show the long press menu.
- Long press to show menu can now be disabled in settings with 2 new settings: "Long press story to show context menu" and "Long press comment to show context menu"
- Fixed a bug which was causing app launch to be slower. This was due to the 10000 posts being stored in history. I have now limited it to 500 as that seems reasonable without slowing the launch.
- New icon
- on iOS 14+, you can select a custom color theme using a color picker
- Added support for italic text in comments
- Made the font size on home page match the font size for story titles
- Made title fonts a bit thinner
- Added a new setting "Use thick font for story titles"
- Child comment seperators are now indented
- Added a new setting "Use tint color for comment indentation lines"
- Fixed a bug with font weight in settings.
Version 6916 January 2022- Fixed a bug where searching for "C#" would only return results for "C"
- Added support for Orion browser. If this doesn't work, please report the bug to me.
- Added a new setting which lets you disable swipe actions on posts and comments: "Swipe to vote/favorite (disabled if full screen swiping enabled)"
- The app is supported on MacOS too.
- My app displays high quality favicons instead of the pixelated ones. Had to set up my own server for caching this plus push notifications also require running my own server. So if you can help support it, please buy the one time only in app purchase. This also unlocks custom fonts and colors.
I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a positive rating on the app store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development and buy me a coffee, you can purchase the one time in app purchase! No subscriptions! Thank you for your support!
This update wouldn't have been possible without the amazing feedback from HN and Reddit! If you have any feedback or feature requests or bug reports, please email Pran at:
[email protected].
Version 6819 November 2021- Fixed upvote bug introduced due to HN website's HTML layout change.
- Fixed parent comment bug introduced due to HN website's HTML layout change.
- Fixed comment collapse introduced due to HN website's HTML layout change.
- Added 2 new fonts.
- Added new endpoint: asknew
- The app is supported on MacOS too.
- My app displays high quality favicons instead of the pixelated ones. Had to set up my own server for caching this plus push notifications also require running my own server. So if you can help support it, please buy the one time only in app purchase. This also unlocks custom fonts and colors.
I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a positive rating on the app store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development and buy me a coffee, you can purchase the one time in app purchase! No subscriptions! Thank you for your support!
This update wouldn't have been possible without the amazing feedback from HN and Reddit! If you have any feedback or feature requests or bug reports, please email Pran at:
[email protected].
Version 6524 October 2021- Fixed bugs caused due to HN website changing some HTML classes.
- The app is supported on MacOS too.
- My app displays high quality favicons instead of the pixelated ones. Had to set up my own server for caching this plus push notifications also require running my own server. So if you can help support it, please buy the one time only in app purchase. This also unlocks custom fonts and colors.
I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a positive rating on the app store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development and buy me a coffee, you can purchase the one time in app purchase! No subscriptions! Thank you for your support!
This update wouldn't have been possible without the amazing feedback from HN and Reddit! If you have any feedback or feature requests or bug reports, please email Pran at:
[email protected]
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Previous:
- A lot of users found the slider in chronological view distracting and wasteful. This update gets rid of the slider and replaces it with a stepper in the options menu.
- In "Chronological", you can now tap the option button on top right to select the period for top posts - Daily / Weekly / Monthly / Yearly. This setting is saved for future launches.
- Bug fix for certain URLs which were already encoded and weren't working in the app.
- Now you can "Disable/Enable Notifications" for replies to post/comments by long pressing the item.
- Now you can change notification sound.
- New "Hide in-app Safari toolbar on scroll" setting. Default is ON.
- Now you can long swipe from right to hide a post (the feature also exists on long press menu). Hidden posts can be seen by visiting your profile and can be unhidden from there. There's an added setting to disable this long swipe to hide feature too.
- Fixed a bug where URLs with anchor # characters would not work.
- Fixed a bug where "Specific User" and "Specific Site" would open twice.
- MacOS back gesture / mouse side key should now work.
- Added the new "second chance pool" endpoint as explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
- Added the "whoishiring" endpoint: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring PUSH NOTIFICATIONS!!! Yep, PRO users can now receive push notifications when someone on Hacker News replies to their comment or post. This took quite a lot of work and it requires running my own server. So if you can help support it, please buy the one time only in app purchase. This also unlocks custom fonts and colors. The privacy policy has been updated to explain the 2 items which my server stores to get push notifications to work. The 2 items are your HN username you are logged in to the app with and a notification device token which iOS generates when you enable it. This is strictly used for push notifications and this is not used for any nefarious purposes. It's not used for tracking, ads and other nonsense (my app doesn't have any ads/trackers etc). The privacy policy change does not impact users who keep push notifications off. If you have questions about this, please email me at [email protected]
The privacy policy is available at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cb282k7rrSi4awr0HizuRciX-nIYpympfrxGLEt9cgc/edit
- Added a new switch above the "Comment Search" view which allows the search to be "exact phrase". When OFF, the search is done on a per word basis. If on, it will match exact phrases. This setting is OFF by default.
- Added a new font: Montserrat
- Long press menu now has "Go to user", "Copy HN link to clipboard" and "Copy article link to clipboard" options
- Fixed a few bugs including one where tapping the comment search field would freeze the app.
Version 6318 June 2021- Fixed a potential random crash bug when opening a story. If the crash still occurs, please reach out to me.
- The app is supported on MacOS too.
- My app displays high quality favicons instead of the pixelated ones. Had to set up my own server for caching this plus push notifications also require running my own server. So if you can help support it, please buy the one time only in app purchase. This also unlocks custom fonts and colors.
I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a positive rating on the app store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development and buy me a coffee, you can purchase the one time in app purchase! No subscriptions! Thank you for your support!
This update wouldn't have been possible without the amazing feedback from HN and Reddit! If you have any feedback or feature requests or bug reports, please email Pran at:
[email protected]
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Previous:
- A lot of users found the slider in chronological view distracting and wasteful. This update gets rid of the slider and replaces it with a stepper in the options menu.
- In "Chronological", you can now tap the option button on top right to select the period for top posts - Daily / Weekly / Monthly / Yearly. This setting is saved for future launches.
- Bug fix for certain URLs which were already encoded and weren't working in the app.
- Now you can "Disable/Enable Notifications" for replies to post/comments by long pressing the item.
- Now you can change notification sound.
- New "Hide in-app Safari toolbar on scroll" setting. Default is ON.
- Now you can long swipe from right to hide a post (the feature also exists on long press menu). Hidden posts can be seen by visiting your profile and can be unhidden from there. There's an added setting to disable this long swipe to hide feature too.
- Fixed a bug where URLs with anchor # characters would not work.
- Fixed a bug where "Specific User" and "Specific Site" would open twice.
- MacOS back gesture / mouse side key should now work.
- Added the new "second chance pool" endpoint as explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26998308
- Added the "whoishiring" endpoint: https://news.ycombinator.com/submitted?id=whoishiring PUSH NOTIFICATIONS!!! Yep, PRO users can now receive push notifications when someone on Hacker News replies to their comment or post. This took quite a lot of work and it requires running my own server. So if you can help support it, please buy the one time only in app purchase. This also unlocks custom fonts and colors. The privacy policy has been updated to explain the 2 items which my server stores to get push notifications to work. The 2 items are your HN username you are logged in to the app with and a notification device token which iOS generates when you enable it. This is strictly used for push notifications and this is not used for any nefarious purposes. It's not used for tracking, ads and other nonsense (my app doesn't have any ads/trackers etc). The privacy policy change does not impact users who keep push notifications off. If you have questions about this, please email me at [email protected]
The privacy policy is available at:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cb282k7rrSi4awr0HizuRciX-nIYpympfrxGLEt9cgc/edit
- Added a new switch above the "Comment Search" view which allows the search to be "exact phrase". When OFF, the search is done on a per word basis. If on, it will match exact phrases. This setting is OFF by default.
- Added a new font: Montserrat
- Long press menu now has "Go to user", "Copy HN link to clipboard" and "Copy article link to clipboard" options
- Fixed a few bugs including one where tapping the comment search field would freeze the app.
Version 5016 April 2021- Added a new setting which shows the story number before story title in the list. This setting is OFF by default.
- Fixed a bug where the cursor caret color was invisible with light mode on.
- The app is now supported on MacOS too.
- My app displays high quality favicons instead of the pixelated ones. Had to set up my own server for caching this so if you can help support it, please buy the one time only in app purchase. This also unlocks custom fonts and colors.
I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a positive rating on the app store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development and buy me a coffee, you can purchase the one time in app purchase! No subscriptions! Thank you for your support!
This update wouldn't have been possible without the amazing feedback from HN and Reddit! If you have any feedback or feature requests or bug reports, please email Pran at:
[email protected]
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Previous:
- Added a new setting to disable the downvote on swipe option.
- Added 2 settings to disable scroll bars on the list and post.
- Added a new "Advanced share as image" option which lets you share posts and comments including the parent post, parent comments, hide usernames when sharing etc. This was inspired by Apollo app as recommended by a user. The "Remove watermark" option is available for non-paid free users too, though if you don't mind it, please include it to help me spread the word about my app.
- UI updates to the reply, new post screens..
Version 30.008 December 2020- Now you can view your read posts history in the app.
- Post list now shows the end point in the title. This can be disabled in settings.
- Added a new setting to use large favicon in the post list
- My app displays high quality favicons (when available) instead of the pixelated ones. Had to set up my own server for caching this so if you can help support it, please buy the one time only in app purchase. This also unlocks custom fonts and colors.
I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. If you are enjoying the app, please leave me a positive rating on the app store as that helps get the word out to others. If you would like to support development and buy me a coffee, you can purchase the one time in app purchase! No subscriptions! Thank you for your support!
This update wouldn't have been possible without the amazing feedback from HN and Reddit! If you have any feedback or feature requests, please email Pran at:
[email protected]
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Previous:
- Added a new "Authenticate via HN" option for login. This lets you login/register using HN in the browser.
- The app now properly handles and shows "anti-procrastination" message if it's set in your HN profile. This must be configured in HN's website..
