Comparison

REPS vs Hours

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

Head to head
About

REPS

This app helps you retain information by turning saved content into quick games and challenges. It uses spaced repetition to resurface knowledge just before you forget it, making learning feel effortless and enjoyable.

Highlights
  • Save content from anywhere
  • Turn saved items into games
  • Spaced repetition recall
  • Hands-free voice practice
  • Daily word games
  • Play with friends
Features
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You read, watch, and listen to brilliant things every day. By tonight, most of it is gone. REPS makes it stick, without the work. Save anything worth keeping and REPS does the rest: it turns what you save into quick games and challenges, then brings each one back right when you'd forget it. Bit by bit, you become the most knowledgeable person in the room. This is bloom scrolling: the calm alternative to doomscrolling. HOW IT WORKS You save. REPS does the rest. All your content, safe in one place. Save articles, videos, book pages, or quick notes into your Second Brain. It is your content, not someone else's course. REPS turns it into play. No setup, no busywork. What you save becomes quick games and challenges you can play solo or with friends. REPS brings it back at the right time. Powered by spaced repetition, the bits you are about to forget resurface right when you need them, a few minutes a day, no schedule to keep. WHAT YOU CAN DO Save from anywhere Paste a link or text, drop in a YouTube video, snap or upload a screenshot, highlight a page from a book, or import a PDF or document. Bloom, don't doom Find interesting things to read, watch, or listen to. A feed worth remembering, instead of doomscrolling. Quick rounds, not homework Play through what is due in a few quick rounds, seconds each. It never feels like studying. Out loud, hands-free Practice on a walk or between tasks with Echo, your voice partner. Your Second Brain See everything you save grow into a living map of what you know. Daily word games Sharpen your mind with Ladder and Crossword, fresh every day. Play with friends Add friends, go head-to-head, and see what the people around you are learning. WHY REPS Remembering used to mean work: building decks, organizing notes, nagging reminders. REPS turns it into a game instead. Most apps compete for your attention. REPS compounds it. You are what you remember. REPS makes the things you care about into knowledge you keep for life. Supercharge your memory.

About

Hours

Engage with daily ideas through reading or listening, exploring diverse topics like philosophy and science. The app helps you remember key takeaways with interactive questions and allows you to save and organize important passages.

Highlights
  • Daily curated ideas
  • Read or listen to content
  • Adjustable playback speed
  • Interactive recall questions
  • Save and organize passages
  • Progress tracking visualization
Features
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Read or listen to one idea a day. Follow where it leads. Remember what matters. Hours is a calm daily practice built around ideas worth understanding. Explore philosophy, cognitive science, history, art, culture, and how things get built. Each idea takes about 3 to 6 minutes to read, and every idea includes audio. Read when you want to linger over a passage. Listen when you’d rather give your eyes a break. READ OR LISTEN • Audio for every idea in the library • Adjustable playback speed • Continue listening from where you left off • Clear explanations, with their sources named FOLLOW CONNECTED IDEAS Paths bring three ideas together in a clear sequence. Each idea builds on the last, helping you see a larger pattern. Start with one. Read or listen, then continue at your own pace. REMEMBER WHAT MATTERS Hours brings back short questions to help you remember what you learned. Answer correctly and the next question comes later. Miss it and it comes back sooner. Questions due today collect in one place, ready for a few minutes of answering. KEEP YOUR OWN BOOK Press and hold a passage to save it. Your saved passages stay linked to their sources. Add your own notes, revisit what matters, or export your Book as a PDF. WATCH YOUR PRACTICE GROW Your tree grows with the ideas you’ve read and the questions you’ve answered. Saved passages become leaves. Your run tracks the weekdays when you read or answer a question. Weekends and one missed weekday each month won’t break it. Your tree, Book, and questions remain even if your run resets. EXPLORE THE LIBRARY Search the library, browse by field, revisit an idea, or follow a new path. Adjust text size, spacing, line length, and appearance for comfortable reading. MAKE ROOM FOR AN IDEA No feed. No endless scroll. No pressure to rush. Read or listen, understand, remember, and keep what matters. We add new ideas over time. Return whenever you’re ready. ACCESS Explore one free idea a day for five days and complete one full path. A subscription opens the full library and the complete Hours experience. Monthly, quarterly, and yearly plans offer a 3-day free trial for eligible subscribers. If your subscription includes a free trial, billing begins when the trial ends unless you cancel beforehand. Otherwise, payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current trial or subscription period. Manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Terms: https://gethours.space/#terms Privacy: https://gethours.space/#privacy

Screenshots

REPS4 screens
Hours4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: REPS at none against Hours's 3. REPS also leads on ratings volume (59 vs 1). Hours's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, review sentiment, update cadence 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Hours sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $5.99 per month. REPS asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hours holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: REPS has 59 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

REPS ships an update weekly, Hours every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
REPS versus Hours: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterREPSHours
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (59 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings59 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhoneiPhone
Requires iOS16.0 — better16.4
Further details — not scored
Size168 MB74 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperMICHAEL MCGRAWBeka Maisuradze

Customer experience

REPS

All ratings57 ratings
Positive96.5%
Neutral3.5%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Hours

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

REPS

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Hours

Subscriptions3
  • Hours Monthly3 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Hours Pro 3 Months3 Days trial$12.993 Months
  • Hours Yearly3 Days trial$39.991 Year

Questions

Is REPS free?
REPS is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Hours free?
Hours is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, REPS or Hours?
Hours is rated higher. REPS averages 4.7 out of 5 from 59 ratings, while Hours averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do REPS or Hours have ads?
Neither REPS nor Hours shows ads.
Which is updated more often, REPS or Hours?
REPS ships an update weekly, and Hours every 2 weeks. Most recently, REPS was updated on October 28, 2026 and Hours on October 24, 2026.

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