BookWyrm vs Hacki for Hacker News
Side-by-side comparison of two open source alternatives
BookWyrm
This is an Android client for BookWyrm – a federated social network for tracking your reading, talking about books, writing reviews, and discovering what to read next. It is just BookWyrm put into a webview element, nothing special – but it adds some convenience on top: * bookwyrm links can be made to open with the app (e.g. clicking on the link to someone's userprofile will open that from your own bookwyrm instance) * thanks to that, you can immediately follow them easily if you want. * it lets you easily return to your own home timeline when viewing something like posts, on another bookwyrm instance, because the 'back' button is then modified for that. * You can also search for books by scanning the ISBN, no matter what instance of Bookwyrm you use. This application is not an official client! (An official client does not exist yet, as far as I know) The ISBN scanning feature is created with the zxing-android-embedded library.
Hacki for Hacker News
Features: - Log in using your Hacker News account. - Browse stories from various categories. - Search for stories. - Submit stories. - Pin stories. - Mark stories as favorite. - Leave comments. - Collapse comments. - View parent comments without scrolling up. - View and participate in polls. - Browse comments and stories you have posted. - Vote on comments or stories. - Get in-app notification when there is new reply to your stories or comments. - Download stories and comments for offline reading. - Pick up where you left off. - Launch from system share sheet. - And more...
| Feature | BookWyrm | Hacki for Hacker News |
|---|---|---|
| License | BSD-3-Clause | GPL-3.0-only |
| Install sources | F-DroidGitHubIzzyOnDroid | F-DroidGitHub |
| Categories | NotesSocial | NotesNewsBrowserSocial |
| Features | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking | Ad-FreeOpen SourceNo Tracking |
| Platforms | Android | Android |
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