Comparison

闻道HN vs JSON Master

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

Head to head
About

闻道HN

Features
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HNEveryDay is a high-performance, privacy-first, AI-enhanced Hacker News client , built specifically for Geekers who live in the terminal and dream in code.

About

JSON Master

Features
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JSON Master is a JSON viewer and editor for the things you actually do all day: find the value, copy its path, copy the branch, and work out what a field really contains. Every document is shown two ways, as a tree and as coloured source, and both are the same file. WHAT MAKES IT DIFFERENT - Every path is ready to paste, in whichever form you need it: dot, JSONPath, brackets, jq, Swift or JSON Pointer - The inspector explains what a value really is: Unix timestamps as dates, JWT tokens decoded, base64, ISO dates, string length, integers beyond 2^53, duplicate keys - Expand embedded JSON, the escaped string every webhook and log line contains, unwrapped in place - Syntax colour that holds even when the document does not parse, which is exactly when it helps - An untouched file is saved byte for byte as it arrived, and a broken one still opens with the line and column of the error ALSO INSIDE Format and minify, sort keys, remove empty values and duplicate keys, JSON Lines to array, JSONPath queries, document summary, structural compare, type generation for Swift, TypeScript and JSON Schema, JWT decoding, export to CSV. Designed like an amber monitor: warm near-black surfaces, phosphor text, monospaced throughout. Seven interface languages, switching without a restart. No account, no tracking, no analytics, no network access. Your documents never leave your device. Universal app for iPhone, iPad and Mac. LEGAL - Privacy Policy: https://vybgss.github.io/json-master-docs/privacy-policy.html - Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

闻道HN4 screens
JSON Master3 screens

Verdict

The call

闻道HN and JSON Master are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
闻道HN versus JSON Master: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter闻道HNJSON Master
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 5 months—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Mac — better
Requires iOS18.618.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer永林 陈Volodymyr Sichka

In-app purchases

None

闻道HN

No in-app purchases

None

JSON Master

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is 闻道HN free?
闻道HN is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is JSON Master free?
JSON Master is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do 闻道HN or JSON Master have ads?
Neither 闻道HN nor JSON Master shows ads.

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