Reader mode
Clean typography, generous measure, and the reading time up front. Text size and theme follow your preference, not the publisher's.
Android · iOS · Kotlin Multiplatform
Hacker News, worth keeping on your home screen.
Kuokka watches the keywords you care about, pulls the key points out of a long article without sending it anywhere, and keeps what you saved readable with no signal.
Top features
Everything a daily reader asks for, ranked.
Kuokka covers the whole of Hacker News — Top, New, Best, Ask HN, Show HN and Jobs — and adds the parts the site leaves to you.
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Radar watchlists
Name the keywords, domains, authors and sections you want to follow. Matching stories collect in a Radar feed, and a digest rounds up the best of them so you can stop refreshing the front page.
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Summaries that stay on your phone
Tap a story for its key points. The summary is extracted on the device — no account, no API key, nothing sent to a server. Prefer a language model? Add your own Gemini, Claude or OpenAI key and Kuokka uses that instead.
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Reader mode
Articles open stripped of the clutter, with adjustable text size and light, dark and sepia themes. Word count and reading time sit at the top, so you know what you are committing to.
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Offline reading
PremiumSave stories before you leave and read them on the train, on a flight, or anywhere the signal drops out.
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Comment tools
Pick a long thread up where you left off, spot the replies you have not read, search inside a discussion, and jump between top-level comments with one tap. Comment digests pull the substance out of a 300-reply thread.
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For You
PremiumRecommendations built from what you actually open — your topics, your authors, your domains — rather than what is loudest today.
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Home screen widgets
Top stories on the home screen, in four responsive sizes on Android and three widget families on iOS. See what is breaking without opening the app.
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Bookmarks, history and streaks
Save stories for later, see at a glance which ones you have already opened, and build a reading streak with achievements along the way.
- Sections
- Top, New, Best, Ask HN, Show HN and Jobs, with infinite scroll and search by date, type and points.
- Languages
- English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Turkish, Indonesian, German, Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Italian.
Day and night
Made to be read, not scrolled past.
A dark mode that is actually dark
Material 3 on Android and native SwiftUI on iOS, so the app follows the system theme and the platform's own conventions instead of imitating them.
How it is built
One Kotlin codebase, two native apps.
The logic lives once in a Kotlin Multiplatform module. Each platform keeps its own UI, so neither app pays for the other's compromises.
Shared
Kotlin Multiplatform
Models, repositories, view models, the Hacker News API client and the rules that decide what a free and a Premium reader see — written once, compiled for both.
- Kotlin
- Coroutines
- Flow / StateFlow
- Ktor
- Koin
Android
Compose and Material 3
A Compose Multiplatform UI, Glance widgets in four sizes, and background work that keeps Radar digests arriving on schedule.
- Jetpack Compose
- Material 3
- Glance
- WorkManager
- DataStore
iOS
SwiftUI, all the way down
A hand-written SwiftUI app that consumes the shared module through SKIE, so Kotlin flows arrive in Swift as async sequences and sealed types as real enums.
- SwiftUI
- SKIE
- WidgetKit
- Swift Concurrency
Both clients read the same entitlement rules, so a feature cannot quietly behave one way on Android and another on iOS. Purchases go through RevenueCat, and analytics and crash reporting through Firebase.
Privacy
There is no account, and no server.
Kuokka talks to the public Hacker News API. What you read is your business.
Your history stays put
Reading history, bookmarks and watchlists are stored on the device. There is nothing to sign in to.
Summaries run locally
Article text is summarized on the phone unless you choose to add your own provider key.
Analytics you switch off
Anonymous usage and crash diagnostics are asked for, not assumed, and you can turn them off in Account at any time.
The free app shows ads through Google AdMob, and they are never personalized. Premium removes them entirely. The privacy policy sets out every service involved.
Put Hacker News on your home screen.
Free to download on both stores. Premium is a one-time purchase, not a subscription.