Hubly Reader vs EchoPie
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Hubly Reader
Stay informed with your preferred news sources through a clean and modern RSS reader. Organize articles by category, search quickly, and enjoy distraction-free reading. Upgrade for unlimited feeds, notifications, and read-later functionality.
- Personalized RSS feed following
- Clean and modern interface
- Article categorization and filtering
- Quick article search
- Distraction-free reader mode
- Unlimited feeds with Premium
- Read Later functionality
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All your news in one place and summarized for you. Hubly brings all your news sites into a single, clean feed designed like a magazine. Add any site: just paste its address and Hubly finds the feed for you. And every day, the AI on your device prepares a summary of the last 24 hours of news. Everything is computed on‑device — nothing leaves your phone. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Follow all your news sites in one feed, without intrusive ads • Add a source in one step — paste an address, Hubly detects the feed • Read in peace with Reader mode: a clean article, no ads or banners; tap once to return to the full page • Explore by topic: Hubly automatically sorts articles (Tech, AI, Science, Sports, Politics, Culture…) • Save articles to read later • A personalized feed that adapts to what you read YOUR DAILY AI SUMMARY A clear, journalist‑style synthesis of the day's important news, generated on your device with Apple Intelligence. Private, fast, no account. Get it every day at the time you choose. PRIVACY FIRST No account required. The summary is computed on‑device. Your reading stays yours. iCloud sync across your devices. HUBLY PREMIUM Go unlimited: unlimited sources, per‑source notifications, and zero ads.
EchoPie
Consolidate blogs, news, and publications into a single reading space. Translate foreign-language content, create highlights, and build a personal library of articles. Sync your reading across devices and choose your preferred cloud storage.
- RSS feed aggregation
- Article translation
- Offline reading
- Highlighting and note-taking
- AI-powered summaries
- Cross-device syncing
- OPML import/export
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Bring blogs, news sites, and independent publications into one calm reading space. EchoPie helps you understand foreign-language feeds and turn Read Later items, highlights, and notes into your own reading library. FOLLOW THE SOURCES THAT MATTER • Support for RSS 2.0, RSS 1.0 RDF, and Atom • Discover feeds from a website or import them with OPML • Organize subscriptions and quickly browse Today, Unread, and Bookmarks UNDERSTAND WITHOUT LEAVING THE ARTICLE • Translate article titles and full articles into your chosen language • Select text to highlight, add a note, translate, or explain • Generate concise overviews with compatible AI providers • Keep articles available offline and move smoothly through long reads KEEP WHAT IS WORTH RETURNING TO • Manage Bookmarks, Read Later, highlights, and notes in dedicated views • Search your library to find articles again • Review your feeds with word clouds and create shareable reading cards PICK UP ON ANOTHER DEVICE • Sync through iCloud, Google Drive, OneDrive, WebDAV, cloud files, or devices on the same Wi-Fi network • Keep subscriptions, reading state, settings, and notes together • Import and export OPML or EchoPie snapshots YOUR DATA, YOUR CHOICE No EchoPie account required. Data stays on your device by default. You choose whether to sync and which translation or AI provider to use. EchoPie does not decide what you should read. It helps you understand what matters, keep it, and find it again. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: EchoPie at none against Hubly Reader's shown. EchoPie also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 10 days). On price, rating, ratings volume and in-app purchases 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. Hubly Reader sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and EchoPie sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Hubly Reader against 5.0 for EchoPie. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
Hubly Reader ships an update every 10 days, EchoPie every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 13, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Hubly Reader | EchoPie |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Quentin Van Eylen | 振培 林 |
Customer experience
Hubly Reader
EchoPie
In-app purchases
Hubly Reader
- Hubly Premium$2.99
EchoPie
- EchoPie PRO Monthly7 Days trial$0.991 Month
- EchoPie PRO Yearly7 Days trial$9.991 Year
- EchoPie PRO Lifetime$14.99









