Octal Overview
What is Octal? Octal is a news feed app that provides breaking tech news and engaging discussions. It is designed for both iPhone and iPad, focusing on design, speed, and usability. Octal is a full-featured Hacker News app that offers a community-powered source of stories about anything ranging from self-driving cars to the latest Apple gadgets. The app is free of ads, subscriptions, and tracking.
Features
- News for Nerds: Read and share the most important stories in the tech world, submitted and voted on by Hacker News users.
- Engage and Vote: Vote on stories and comments, report stories with objectionable content, and add stories to your favorites.
- Discuss the News: View discussions with a fast, fully-threaded, collapsible, buttery smooth comments experience. Add your own comments.
- Submit Links: Submit new posts directly in the app.
- Search Stories: Search Hacker News stories and sort search results by relevance or date.
- Join the Community: Log in or register to Hacker News to easily track your karma, activity, and favorites. Browse user profiles.
- Themeable: Total Dark Mode support. Turn on 'True Black' to use a pure RGB #000 background color.
- Customize Your News Feed: Tap or swipe between story filters and rearrange them to your desire.
- Accessible: Increase or decrease the text size or enable 'Dynamic Type' to use the system's 'Larger Text' font size.
- Deep Link Support: Open Hacker News web links in Octal using other apps such as 'Opener'.
- Ready for Any Screen: Octal looks great on iPads with an optional 2-pane interface.
- Web Browser Support: Open links in your web browser of choice.
- Ad-Free: No ads, no subscriptions, and no tracking.
- Octal Premium: Unlock advanced features via an In-App Purchase, including the ability to submit posts, add comments, manage favorites, switch themes, change app icons, use custom gestures, and more.
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Product Details and Description of
this app is your go-to news feed for breaking tech news, putting the biggest stories of the day with engaging discussion right in the palm of your hand. Beautifully designed for both iPhone and iPad, this app focuses on what you care most about: design, speed, and usability. It's the modern, full-featured Hacker News app you've been looking for. You'll find an unparalleled, community-powered source of stories about anything ranging from self-driving cars to the latest Apple gadgets. this app has all the features you need, including the ability to vote on stories, submit posts, add comments, and manage favorites. Best of all, it's free of all that annoying stuff, like ads, subscriptions, and tracking. If you want to keep up to date with the latest popular and trending tech headlines, this app is made for you. • NEWS FOR NERDS: Read and share the most important stories in the tech world, submitted and voted on by Hacker News users. Stories are constantly changing, and often focus on areas like programming, startups, technology industry and companies (Apple, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, Uber, etc.), and key technology categories such as mobile, computers, internet, design, coding, and security. • ENGAGE AND VOTE: Vote on stories and comments you like and dislike, and report stories with objectionable content. Found something you need to read later? Add it to your favorites! • DISCUSS THE NEWS: Read and engage with stories by viewing their discussions with a fast, fully-threaded, collapsible, buttery smooth comments experience. Add your own comments. If you're a fast reader, you can instantly jump to the next top-level comment thread with a single tap. • SUBMIT LINKS: Got a cool story or news link to share to Hacker News? Submit new posts directly in the app. • SEARCH STORIES: Search Hacker News stories and sort search results by relevance or date. • JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Log in or register to Hacker News to easily track your karma, activity and favorites. Browse user profiles, including their karma, about, activity, and favorites. • THEMEABLE: Total Dark Mode support. Turn on 'True Black' to use a pure RGB #000 background color - perfect for devices with OLED displays. • CUSTOMIZE YOUR NEWS FEED: Tap or swipe between story filters such as 'Top Stories', 'Ask HN', 'Show HN', 'Best Stories', 'New Stories', and 'Jobs'. Rearrange them to your desire. • ACCESSIBLE: Increase or decrease the text size to one that's comfortable for you, or enable 'Dynamic Type' to use the system's 'Larger Text' font size. • DEEP LINK SUPPORT: You can open Hacker News web links in this app using other apps such as 'Opener'. Most Hacker News deep links starting with 'this app://' can open with this app! • READY FOR ANY SCREEN: this app looks great on iPads with an optional 2-pane interface. Say goodbye to wasted screen real estate. • WEB BROWSER SUPPORT: Open links in your web browser of choice. • AD-FREE: No ads, no subscriptions, and no tracking. ABOUT this app PREMIUM: To unlock advanced features, including the ability to submit posts, add comments, manage favorites, switch themes, change app icons, use custom gestures, and more, you can buy this app Premium via an In-App Purchase. this app Premium is a one-time payment and there is no subscription. Purchases support the development of this app, which is developed solely by me! ABOUT HACKER NEWS: Hacker News is a social news website focusing on computer science and entrepreneurship. It is run by Paul Graham's investment fund and startup incubator, Y Combinator. In general, its content can be submitted is defined as "anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity". You can think of Hacker News as reddit for tech. It's the go-to news aggregator for tech. SUPPORT: Found a bug or have a feature request? Create an Issue on Github, or e-mail me: https://github.com/dangwu/this app/issues
Top Reviews
By AnthOlei
Great app, daily user
Bought premium not because I like to comment but that the app is so great I felt like not paying was a crime. One feature request - please add a “swipe left to dismiss” when I click on a post. I click on a post and the post comes in from the right - after I am done reading my finger needs to go to the top of the screen to click the back button. I’d like to be able to just swipe LTR to go back to the posts list. Thanks!
By connormulcahey
Best HN client
Tried all the other HN clients on the App Store I can find and this is the only one that’s been good enough to not go back to bookmarking the website to my home screen. Was even thinking of making my own! Essentially all I want the same behavior / UI / features as Apollo for Reddit. HN is a lot like a subreddit so I prefer not to have rewrite my brain to use it. The tap to collapse comments and true dark mode are the two biggest things thing that were missing on others. Only thing I can think of adding: dark background or more-orange-less-white icon so it looks good in iOS 13 dark mode, and Apollo style swipe to upvote / downvote comments. Worth the $2.99 for sure if the developer can continue to support it. 👍
By rxsel
Better Than the Actual Site
With the absolute BARGAIN 1 time premium purchase this app becomes the best way to consume HackerNews PERIOD. Better than both the mobile and desktop sites with AMAZING, yet minimal and not feature crazy, ways to customize the experience (font size, tweaking how compact the lists are, dark mode, etc). One of the best app downloads, if not THE BEST I’ve ever made.
