Comparison

Readbase vs Cubby

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Readbase

Features
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Readbase is a calm, focused home for newsletters, without inbox noise. Read newsletters from Substack and other platforms in one place, built for reading, not email. Subscribe once using your Readbase inbox and keep newsletters completely separate from your personal and professional email. Everything arrives neatly in the app, ready to read. Start your day with clarity • Daily Recap: every morning, Readbase creates a personalised AI summary of your unread newsletters - now surfaced directly inside your inbox, alongside your newsletters. • Per-newsletter summaries: get the key takeaways from any individual newsletter without reading the full issue. Read anywhere • Offline Mode: keep newsletters available on flights, trains, or anywhere without signal. Stay in control • 1-Click Unsubscribe: instantly stop newsletters you don’t read anymore. • Bookmarks: save issues you want to come back to. • Reading Stats: see what you actually read and build better habits. Built for newsletters • Works with newsletters from Substack, Beehiiv, Medium, ConvertKit, and any provider that sends emails. Privacy-first • Your newsletters are yours. Readbase doesn’t sell your data, and content is only used to power features like summaries and offline reading. If your inbox feels noisy, Readbase is the clean alternative: just newsletters, in a space designed for reading. Terms of use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Cubby

Organize your open browser tabs and bookmarks with AI-powered filing. Automatically generates titles, tags, and smart groups for related content, making it easy to find what you need. Offers a clean interface designed for focus and personalization options.

Highlights
  • AI-powered tab filing
  • Automatic title generation
  • Smart grouping of related saves
  • Search across titles, tags, and content
  • Clean interface for focus
  • Save from any browser via share sheet
  • Personalize with pinned favorites and edits
Features
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“It's like Marie Kondo for your tabs” Cubby is your new calm home for the tabs you want to come back to. Send tabs from any browser and Cubby's AI reads the page, writes a clean title, tags it, and groups it with related saves so your tabs stop piling up and start making sense. • Save from anywhere, use the share sheet in Safari, Chrome, or any app to send links straight to Cubby. • AI that does the filing, automatic titles, tags, and smart groups, so you never stare at a messy list again. • Find it fast, search across titles, tags, and page content to resurface anything in seconds. • Built for focus, a clean, quiet interface and no noise. • Your library, your way: pin favorites, edit titles, and organize on your terms. Stop getting lost in a sea of open tabs. Save it to Cubby and find it the moment you need it. Terms: https://cubbytheapp.com/terms Privacy: https://cubbytheapp.com/privacy

Screenshots

Readbase4 screens
Cubby4 screens

Verdict

The call

Readbase and Cubby are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Readbase sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Cubby sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Readbase ships an update fortnightly, Cubby every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 7, 2026.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
Readbase versus Cubby: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterReadbaseCubby
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—5 — better
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 9 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS18.018.0
Further details — not scored
Size20 MB41 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperLlingas LTDOff Foundry

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Readbase

Subscriptions2
  • Readbase Premium - Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Readbase Premium - Annual7 Days trial$39.991 Year
2 purchases

Cubby

Subscriptions2
  • Cubby Club Monthly3 Months trial$4.991 Month
  • Cubby Club Annual3 Months trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is Readbase free?
Readbase is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cubby free?
Cubby is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Readbase or Cubby have ads?
Neither Readbase nor Cubby shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Readbase or Cubby?
Readbase ships an update fortnightly, and Cubby every 9 days. Most recently, Readbase was updated on October 7, 2026 and Cubby on October 7, 2026.

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