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Boreal VS MackerNews

Compare Boreal VS MackerNews and see what are their differences

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Boreal logo Boreal

A Hacker News iOS app

MackerNews logo MackerNews

Beautiful Readable Hacker News Articles
  • Boreal Landing page
    Landing page //
    2020-06-16
  • MackerNews Landing page
    Landing page //
    2019-07-24

Category Popularity

0-100% (relative to Boreal and MackerNews)

Boreal

MackerNews

Hacker News UI
53 53%
Hacker News UI
47% 47
News
61 61%
News
39% 39
Hacker News
53 53%
Hacker News
47% 47
Hacker News Reader
53 53%
Hacker News Reader
47% 47

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Social recommendations and mentions

Based on our record, MackerNews seems to be more popular. It has been mentiond 1 time since March 2021. We are tracking product recommendations and mentions on various public social media platforms and blogs. They can help you identify which product is more popular and what people think of it.

Boreal mentions (0)

We have not tracked any mentions of Boreal yet. Tracking of Boreal recommendations started around Mar 2021.

MackerNews mentions (1)

  • Show HN: I developed a native macOS Hacker News client
    This is great! I built a native. Macos client that I actually sold in the AppStore a while ago. It did everything was native except rendering of the article but I was just using plain web view for that part. The pain was keeping but synced with changes on HN. I still have a personal build that I use on a daily basis. I still have the landing page up which warning, looks awful on mobile https://mackernews.com/ But... - Source: Hacker News / almost 3 years ago

What are some alternatives?

When comparing Boreal and MackerNews, you can also consider the following products

HackerWeb - A simple and readable Hacker News app

HNDigest - Top Hacker News stories in your inbox

HackerScroll - Read top articles from HackerNews in a clean, simple and minimal interface without ads or any other distractions.

Newscombinator - Like Google-News, but for hackers

daily.dev - Programming news ranked by developers for developers 👩‍💻

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