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HACK for Hacker News YC Reader

Pranoy Chowdhury · News · Japan store
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Revenue a month, worldwide EST
$2.7K
Likely $895 to $8.1K
▼ 13.4% in 27 days
New ratings
Tracking
Daily counts start building from today
Rating
4.7 of 5
11 ratings in this store
Countries it ranks in
2
was 0 on Oct 15, 2026

Revenue

Estimated from the grossing charts of Oct 21, 2026 in the 53 countries we track, and ratings growth on the App Store.

EST. REVENUE / MONTH · WORLDWIDE · APP STORE
$2.7K
Range $895 to $8.1K
EST. REVENUE / YEAR · WORLDWIDE
$32.2K
No Google Play version found
EST. LIFETIME DOWNLOADS
385 to 1.1K
Estimated from ratings count
WHERE IT EARNS · EST. / MONTH
  • Brazil #69 News$2.7K · 100%
HOW SURE ARE WE
Small app: combines its grossing ranks with ratings growth (28 new ratings a month on average since launch). Tested on 418 apps with verified revenue: typically off by about 2.4 times, so the range is wide. Countries we don't track (and Google Play in China, which doesn't exist) aren't included, and neither are ads or web payments. Gross revenue before store fees.
RATINGS
11
AVG RATING
4.73
PRICE
無料
AGE
7.4y
LAST UPDATE
3d ago
VERSION
184
SIZE
28 MB
AGE RATING
9+

Last 29 days

From our daily snapshots of every grossing chart.

DAYS IN A GROSSING CHART
6 / 29
COUNTRIES NOW
2 (was 1)
EST. REVENUE A MONTH, DAILY · APP STORE EST
Show daily values
Sep 24, 2026$3.4K a month
Sep 25, 2026$3.2K a month
Sep 26, 2026$2.7K a month
Sep 27, 2026not in a grossing chart
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Oct 3, 2026$6.2K a month
Oct 4, 2026not in a grossing chart
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Oct 21, 2026$2.9K a month
Oct 22, 2026not in a grossing chart
The same estimate as the headline, saved every day. Best rank Sep 24, 2026: #77 News · IN. Now: #87 News · BR.

Money and momentum

Measured from the store, not estimated.

WHAT IT CHARGES
No in-app purchases
Earns from its upfront price, ads or payments outside the store.
REVIEW MOMENTUM
Too few reviews
Fewer than 3 recent written reviews in this country.
RELEASE CADENCE
13 updates in 90 days
  • Typical gap between releases5 days
From the last 25 versions listed on the App Store.
RATING BREAKDOWN
11 ratings
5★82%
4★9%
3★9%
2★0%
1★0%

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ASO keywords

Most repeated terms in the listing. Highlighted ones also appear in the title.

comments13stories comments11stories11comment10hacker news10news9story7algolia api6hacker6api6posts5tap5view5mode5split view5story comment5safari4search4algolia4archive4push notifications3comment post3submit posts3long press3

What's new in 184

- Updated to latest iOS 27 SDK. - Fixed a bug where replying to a comment would mess up the comment tree with random comment appearing below your reply. - Fixed bugs where the "Open in HACK" safari extension, URL scheme, and app icon shortcut weren't working. - HACK is supported on Mac, iPhone, iPad. I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. 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. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK and supporting me. If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at: pran@pranapps.com

Released May 26, 2019. Current version shipped Oct 18, 2026.

Store description

HACK for YC's Hacker News is the most beautiful and easy way to read about the latest tech, startup and STEM news. - No Ads. No subscriptions. - Login or Register your Hacker News account - PUSH NOTIFICATIONS for Hacker News replies to comment or post - Supported on iPhone, iPad, and Mac - Setting to block AI posts on HN. - Comments are presented in nested threads - Tap a comment to collapse that thread - Swipe left or right on stories and comments to upvote and favorite - Ability to submit new posts including drafts - Long press a story, link or comment to share - iPad supports split view - On iPads, you can drag a story / comment / story's image (link) to open it in safari in split view. This is useful for when you are viewing the app in split view / multitasking and like opening the link / story / comment in a browser side by side. - Landscape and Portrait support - 3D touch for peek, pop support - Home screen 3D touch shortcuts - Hide posts from the feed - Tap the bottom button to scroll to the next root comment in the thread. Long press it to go to the previous one - All known hacker news endpoints - News, front page, Ask HN, Show HN, Show HN Newest, classic, active, best stories, best comments, new stories, new comments, noob stories, noob comments, jobs, over 100-500 points - Submit posts, reply, comment using your HN account - Browse top 100 leader accounts - Browse stories from a specific site, user or date - Search in comments and usernames! Search is case and diacritic insensitive and ignores punctuations. Search uses an CONTAINS, OR operation if multiple words are typed. - Can select / highlight the comment/post title text for lookup/copy/translate etc iOS native operations. - Powerful search (powered by Algolia API) - use @date to sort by date, #story to filter for stories, #comments to filter for comments, #author_username to filter by user etc. These tags can be separated by commas. Refer to https://hn.algolia.com/api for more tags. - Dark mode - both pure black and gray mode - Low contrast text mode to make the text not be pure white - Many color choices & color picker for customization - App icons in variety of colours for light and dark mode - Font choices - Ability to change font sizes, padding etc to make the layout as compact as you like! - Threaded comments with color bar to maintain visual orientation - Articles open in Safari view with setting to automatically open in "readability" mode - Tap the domain in a story to see all stories from that site - Tap the username in a story or comment to go to the user profile - Browse your submitted stories and comments, favorited stories and comments, upvoted stories and comments - Archive: View an archive of the post website. archive.is, archive.org & google cache. - Share comment as image - Articles can be opened in built in safari or 3rd party browsers. Supports Brave, Firefox, Firefox Focus, Orion, Opera Touch, Dolphin, DuckDuckGo, iCab Mobile, Microsoft Edge and Chrome. Go to settings > Disable the "Use in-app Safari" setting > tap that row to change the default browser. All stories and comments are via Algolia API and Hacker News API: https://news.ycombinator.com/ https://hn.algolia.com/api https://github.com/HackerNews/API Profile picture robots lovingly delivered by Robohash.org I am a small indie developer and need your help keep the lights on. I offer an ad and analytics free and beautiful app for the absolute best experience for my users. 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. If you can afford it, please support me by purchasing the one-time-only in-app-purchase or giving me a tip. No subscriptions. You can also leave a review on the App Store as that really helps me get the word out. Thank you for choosing HACK. If you have a programming job or have feedback, contact me at: pran@pranapps.com

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