Panda for Hacker News was a social app developed by Elliot Murray. It was removed from Google Play Jan 18, 2025 and is no longer available for download.
Download Statistics
Panda for Hacker News had been downloaded 2.3 thousand times before it became unavailable.
User Ratings
Panda for Hacker News was rated 4.72 out of 5 stars, based on 53 ratings.
App Information
Panda for Hacker News was free to download. The APK download size was 14.27 MB. The last available version was 1.2.2. The last update was on July 13, 2020.
Technical Requirements
Panda for Hacker News required Android 5.0+ or higher. The app had a content rating of Medium Maturity. The app had been available on Google Play July 2020.
Description
Welcome to Panda, the new ad-free Android app for browsing hacker news on your phone. Panda allows you to enjoy all that Hacker News has to offer, with intuitive material design, slick animations and innovative gesture navigation.
Catch up on the top stories of today, with new features arriving soon.
Features ★ Browse all sections of Hacker News, from Top to Ask HN to Jobs ★ Gesture based navigation ★ Collapsible comments ★ Read articles in the inbuilt browser, or your own external browser ★ Ad Free!
Coming Soon ☆ Log in to your hacker news account to post articles, comment, or vote ☆ Reader mode ☆ Offline Support ☆ App Themes ☆ Search all of Hacker News history ☆ Save posts to read later
Recent changes: This version contains fixes for these bugs/crashes:
- Comments were sometimes blank when the app was resumed from the background - Articles would reload when resuming from the background - Crash on Android 5.1 when the share popup window was opened - Rare crash when resuming from the background
I'm still working on the next major version with full hn account support, although it's taking a tad longer than I'd hoped. Hopefully will have something to release soon!
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★★★★★
Great UX! It just works, which sadly enough can not be said about most of the other hacker news clients. Many of the other hn clients crash, comments sometimes fail to load, and the ease of switching between comments and the article is usually a couple buttons away. This app is so much more intuitive, and it works the way you expect it to. Even the animations for the article to move to the bottom make it obvious that you can scroll up for comments. Thank you for this!
★★★★★
I wish every app was as fast and responsive as this one. In the future I'd love to see a login feature and a light mode alternative theme.
★★★★★
My favorite Hacker news app at the moment. Actively updated. Clean, easy to use UI. Ability to change fonts/themes would be great to see in the future. Would be nice to be able to distinguish which articles I've already viewed also. 11/01/21 - Glad to see this back on the play store. Looking forward to updates.
★★☆☆☆
Really wanted to like - was looking for a HN client with a similar interface to Relay for Reddit, and this was the closest I found - but it kept crashing on me when I tried to swipe back to the main page.
★★☆☆☆
"Try swiping left on one of the stories below." aaaand it crashed. Seems unusable for me.
Technologies used by Panda for Hacker News
Panda for Hacker News is requesting 5 permissions and is using 32 libraries.
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