Octal for Hacker News5.2.1 - App Store

Octal 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, Octal focuses on what you care most about: native 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. Octal 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, Octal 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. You can also share links directly to Octal to quickly submit them.

. SEARCH STORIES: Search Hacker News stories and sort search results by relevance or date.

. JOIN THE COMMUNITY: Log in 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 feeds such as 'Top Stories', 'Threads', 'Ask HN', 'Show HN', 'Best Stories', 'New Stories', and 'Jobs'.

. 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. And VoiceOver is fully supported!

. DEEP LINK SUPPORT: You can open Hacker News links in Octal by sharing them to Octal. You can also use apps like 'Opener'. Most Hacker News links starting with 'octal://' are supported!

. READY FOR ANY SCREEN: Octal 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, PRIVACY AWARE: No ads, no subscriptions, and no tracking.

ABOUT OCTAL 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 Octal Premium via an In-App Purchase. Octal Premium is a one-time payment and there is no subscription. Purchases support the development of Octal, 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/Octal/issues

Version History • You can now hide the primary pane in split-screen layouts on iPad.
• Fixed an issue where comment scrolling could stutter or rubber-band after collapsing many comment threads.
• 'Help and Feedback' now opens in your external browser. 5.2.1 Oct 2 • Added 'Collapse Thread' option on comments — quickly collapse an entire thread from any reply within it.
• Collapsed comments now stay collapsed when you come back to a post.
• Smoother swiping between story feeds. 5.2.0 Sep 9 • Added 'Split View' setting on iPad – toggle the two-pane interface on or off based on your preference.
• Added tab tap behavior – tapping a tab scrolls to top at the root, refreshes if already at the top, and pops back when nested.
• Fixed bug where opening the story URL from the comments view did not respect the Web Browser setting. 5.1.0 Jul 3 Redesigned for iOS 26 with full support for Liquid Glass
• Added a new 'Threads' view to see your recent comments and their replies in one place.
• Refreshed iPad interface that utilizes an optional sidebar.
• Refreshed Filters interface for a cleaner, faster experience.
• Bug fixes and performance improvements. 5.0.0 Jun 30 Fixed the tab bar not always respecting the appearance setting on pre-iOS 26 devices. 4.17.2 Jun 19 Fixed issue with comments on iPads in landscape orientation. 4.17.1 Jun 16 Added support for Liquid Glass. 4.17.0 Jun 12 Fixed issue where operations appeared to error and favorites failed to load. 4.16.6 07/08/2025 Fixed issue where login was not persisted across sessions. 4.16.5 07/01/2025 Fixed issue where favorites failed to load. 4.16.4 11/21/2024 Fixed issue where "No network connection" error could be incorrectly displayed. 4.16.3 10/12/2024 Fixed issue where "No network connection" error could be incorrectly displayed. 4.16.2 10/01/2024 Fixed issue where opening deep links would not navigate to the proper screen. 4.16.1 09/24/2024 Updated app icon to support light, dark, and tinted appearances in iOS 18. 4.16.0 09/19/2024 • Updated 'Share HN link' option to share the URL only.
• Restored story ranks when using the 'Compact' story layout. 4.15.1 10/15/2023 Increased the touch target area for the upvote button and comments button in the stories view. 4.15.0 09/27/2023 Prefer not to see the comment jumper button? You can now hide it in settings. 4.14.0 07/11/2023 • Slightly refreshed story layout.
• VoiceOver label for comments now includes the comment's thread level.
• VoiceOver label for stories now includes the story's URL.
• Custom accessibility actions for comments now includes the 'Collapse' action. 4.13.0 07/10/2023 • Share a HN link to Octal to open it in Octal.
• Share a web link to Octal submit it to Hacker News.
• Vastly improved accessibility (VoiceOver) support.
• Long press the story link from the comments view to copy it to your clipboard.
* Added 'Copy Text' action to the comment overflow menu.
• Fixed a bug where the comments view dismisses when a device rotation causes the split view to collapse.
• Fixed a bug where the comments header content could be hidden behind the Dynamic Island. 4.12.0 07/06/2023 • Added a new setting for enabling/disabling the 'Comment Jump' button.
• Updated comment overflow options menu.
• Updated story layouts with larger tap areas.
• Fixed an issue where story 'Limit' filters were not immediately respected. 4.11.0 10/17/2022 Users are now prevented from adding comments to submissions that are too old. 4.10.9 08/24/2022 Fixed a minor layout issue where submission text could be covered by the notch in landscape mode. 4.10.8 08/22/2022 Fixed an issue where favorite comments were not loading. 4.10.7 05/18/2022 Fixed minor background color issue for devices in 2-column view. 4.10.6 03/25/2022 Fixed a minor favicon display issue. 4.10.5 03/23/2022