YEN 1.9 vs Hiddify Proxy & VPN
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
YEN 1.9
Manage and access your documents, books, and files on your iPhone. Import, save, and categorize content for easy viewing and annotation.
- Read documents
- Listen to content
- View files
- Annotate content
- Import files
- Categorize files
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Read, listen, view, annotate almost anything you want on your iPhone. Files, documents, books, any content Import and Save File Categorize File
Hiddify Proxy & VPN
This open-source application acts as a secure and efficient tunneling client, allowing you to route all your internet traffic to a remote server of your choice. It supports various server configurations and offers features like automatic server selection and user-friendly profile imports.
- User-friendly interface
- Optimized and fast performance
- Automatic lowest ping and load balancing
- User usage information display
- One-click sublink import
- Supports multiple server protocols
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Hiddify is an open source software available in https://github.com/hiddify/Hiddify-app with more than 26K stars in Github. The key goal of Hiddify is to provide a secure, user-friendly and efficient tunnelling client. It enables you to route all traffic to a remote server of your choose, utilising VPN-Service permission. Note: We do not provide any server; users are required to ensure their online activities stay private by using use their own self-hosted server or trusted servers. We support servers with: - Hiddify Profile - Normal V2ray/Xray Connection Profile Link - Clash Connection Profile Link - Sing-Box Connection Profile Link What is our unique features? - User Friendly - Optimized and Fast - Automatically select LowestPing , LoadBalance - Show user usage information - Easily import sublink by one click using deeplinking - Free and No ADS - Easily switch user sublinks - more and more Support: - XHTTP, Mieru, Naive, Wireguard - All Protocols supported by Sing-Box - VLESS + xtls reality, vision - VMESS - Trojan - ShoadowSocks - Reality - V2ray - Hystria2 - TUIC - SSH - ShadowTLS
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Hiddify Proxy & VPN at 844 against YEN 1.9's 6. YEN 1.9's advantage is update cadence (every 7 months vs every 16 months). On price, rating, review sentiment and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.3 for YEN 1.9 against 4.4 for Hiddify Proxy & VPN. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Hiddify Proxy & VPN has 844 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 67% of YEN 1.9's written reviews are positive against 70% of Hiddify Proxy & VPN's.
YEN 1.9 ships an update every 7 months, Hiddify Proxy & VPN every 16 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | YEN 1.9 | Hiddify Proxy & VPN |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.3 (6 ratings) | 4.4 (844 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 70.1% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 6 | 844 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 7 months — better | Every 16 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 26 MB | 166 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ramin Akbari | Holistic Resilience |
Customer experience
YEN 1.9
Hiddify Proxy & VPN
Bugs and requests
YEN 1.9
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Hiddify Proxy & VPN
Reported bugs
2 issues- Crashes on certain iOS versions
- Connectivity issues on some devices
Requested features
2 requests- Control center integration
- Background running mode
In-app purchases
YEN 1.9
No in-app purchases
Hiddify Proxy & VPN
No in-app purchases
