Hews

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

• This app will stop being maintained soon. Please try the updated version: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.leavjenn.Hews2

Hews is a Hacker News client focuses on reading experience with some unique features. And it's open source.

Basic features

• Clear nested comments with two-way collapsing

• Four themes: light, sepia, dark and AmoLED black

• Browse Top, New, Show HN and Ask HN stories

• Browse popular posts by any date range

• Login hacker news account, upvote and reply to post/comment

• Search by any date range, with popularity/date sorting

• Post bookmarking

• Open hacker news links by this app

• Open post in build-in or external browser

• Check User's HN profile (long press)

• Share comment link/content (long press)

• Material design

• Open source (https://github.com/leavjenn/Hews)

Unique features

* Highly customizable typography

10 distinct fonts, easy to fine-tune font size and line-height, for the best reading experience.

Video demo: https://youtu.be/gGyW0LxO9wg

* Two-way comments Collapsing

Not only collapsible children comments (press comment content), it can also collapse comments between itself and it's parent (press comment info bar).

Video demo: https://youtu.be/FT4aFFUzFIo

* Scroll-down floating button

Scroll down the page by pressing or draging the big floating button, swipe no more.

Video demo: https://youtu.be/kuffdR2GCqU

* Post summary (TL; DR)

Distill the summary (tl; dr) of a post from it's comments, save yourself from clickbait title. Notice that this feature is still in test.

Video demo: https://youtu.be/Yrr4OiqGf7U

DISCLAIMER

Hews is an unofficial Hacker News Android app, and it is neither affiliated with nor endorsed by Y Combinator.

What's New in the Latest Version 1.9.2