Harmonic for Hacker News

Simon Halvdansson

About this app

Harmonic is a fully-featured, open-source, mature Hacker News client with a focus on (material) design, polish, and customization.

Highlights
• Material 3 Expressive design with smooth animations
• Full login functionality (vote, comment, submit, favorite, etc.)
• Strong theming support
• Quality of life features such as reader mode, adblock, link previews
• Excellent performance
• A large collection of settings

Harmonic has been developed over a long time and its main feature is the relentless polish and feature completeness it has accumulated.

Harmonic for Hacker News is not affiliated with Y Combinator.

Ratings and reviews

I really enjoy the app so far, very clean and simple user interface. The dev seems to read comments, so hopefully this gets seen: the ">" character for block quotes in markdown does not seem to be correctly rendered in comments. It is italicized, but not formatted in any other way. Normally markdown renderers I see will parse out the character and put it in a box or similar.

As far as looks, this is the best HN client. It has a very clean minimal look. It does have some limitations though, some of them likely made to account for that fact. For instance, you cannot search and sort results by most recent - which reduces it's usefulness (especially when search returns results from 7~ years ago). Another is when writing very long comments, the end of the reply is behind the keyboard so you cannot see what you're typing. Still, this is my preferred client.

should be five stars as this is an app I enjoy using each day. however... is there any way to get rid of the multi colour cards and keep it the same colour for each news item. The new design is very distracting to scroll through.

What’s new

Version 3.0 is the most significant update to Harmonic ever. The headline feature is a new design (which can be toggled off for those that don't like change) but a lot of work has gone into stability, speed and general polish. Check the full changelog in the about section if you are interested in details.