Ask HN: What's the state of current HN iOS clients?
I've downloaded and tried probably every single HN app from the store over the past 4 or so years, at the start I'd flip between using two or three of the more common ones until the one at the time annoyed me enough that I moved on / back to another client.
I've found myself pretty much exclusively using MiniHack for the past year now, but I'm sure there must be better out there.
The key criteria as to what I look for in a HN iPhone app is probably (in nonpaticular order):
- Fast, 'native' feel, if it feels like javascript it bugs me very quickly.
- Ability to easily comment, reply and submit.
- Stability.
- Decent reader like view for articles that has to be fast.
- Evernote integration would be fantastic.
- The ability to save draft comments or submissions would be fantastic.
- Being able to efficiently use screen realestate to get as much info onto a page as possible.
- I really value being able to select a font of my choosing and to be able to set the font size very, very small and preferably with a lite typeface as my eyesight is quite good up close and I find large typefaces annoy me to no end.
- Light and Dark mode interfaces.
- Some form of formatting helper or even a comment preview would be great!
- It would be fantastic if you could view the comment / post you're responding to while your writing your comment.
- Reliable editing of your comments and voting.
- I'm absolutely happy to pay for a good client as long as you can preview it first either a 'lite' read only version or even just a really good description of the features provided and good screenshots.
Over all, as of Feb 2017 - MiniHack is (for me) still the best native app to experience and interact with HN, but I feel someone could do so much more!
Am I asking too much of such an app? Does something out there already exist and I've missed it somehow?
*Link to MiniHack: https://appsto.re/au/UtFNL.i